Recipe: Veal in Cream Sauce

One thing i have never mentioned on this blog is how much i love to cook. As of recent (for the past 4 months or so) i’ve been adding new recipes to my personal menu, and last night tried a new one that came out fantastic. It’s based off of an austrian recipe for “Rahmgeschnetzeltes”. It is basically Veal in cream sauce, which i served over fusilli noodles.

I’ll start posting more of my versions of recipes, i hope you enjoy them.

Ingredients:

1-1.5 lbs of veal (chopped for stew, easier to cut)
9 oz sour cream (small container)
1 small onion
5-6 mushrooms (can be varied)
3/4 cup beef broth (or clear soup)
2 teaspoons of flour
half a lemon
white pepper
salt
some olive oil (or regular cooking oil)
1 bag of fusilli noodles

Instructions:

Start by cutting the veal into thin strips or bite sized cubes. Veal is not the easiest meat to cut, so i went with bite size cubes / chunks. Cut up the onion, put it into the pan with some olive oil (a few splashes or 3 table spoons), on high heat, let the onion sizzle and then toss in the veal. You want the meat to cook rather quickly but then simmer to soak up the juices, which will make the veal very tender. Dice the mushrooms and add to the mix. Add the broth / soup and let it stew, almost boil.

When there is still liquid left but not too much (think stew-ish rahter than soupy), mix the flour with the sour cream and add it to the pan. The point is to bind it all together into a nice creamy sauce. Put the heat to a simmer and keep stirring. Then cut a lemon in half, and squeeze some dashes of juice into the sauce (i squeezed a half lemon completely and it was right on the border, so i recommend a little less than half) and season with salt and white pepper (to keep the nice color). Let it sit for a bit on no heat or very little heat (you don’t want the sauce to burn or lose it’s viscosity), while you make the fusilli. Serve in a noodle dish or bowl.

I recommend a dry white wine with this, such as a toscana. I don’t really drink white wine, but it really compliments the slight tanginess of the sauce.

Voila!

Enjoy

Google’s Data Fetish Drives Away Its Top Designer

Source:

http://gawker.com/5177144/googles-data-fetish-drives-away-its-top-designer

By Owen Thomas

As we reported last week, Doug Bowman, Google’s top designer, has confirmed that he’s leaving (we hear to Twitter). Bowman’s reasons for quitting are fascinating — and they show why Google’s losing its cool.

Bowman joined Google three years ago — too late, he now says. The company’s engineers-first culture was firmly in place, meaning every decision had to be proven through exhaustive testing, rather than a reliance on a clear vision of Google’s design. And in a backhanded slam at Google VP Marissa Mayer, the head of “user experience,” he notes that top management in charge of design had not background in the field:

When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data. Data in your favor? Ok, launch it. Data shows negative effects? Back to the drawing board. And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions.

Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such miniscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.

Exciting design problems, like those at Twitter? A source tells us that’s where he’s going, but Bowman hasn’t confirmed that yet. (He promises to disclose his new employer in a followup blog post.)

Bowman adds that he “can’t fault Google for this reliance on data,” but “won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.” It’s a microcosm of what’s going wrong at Google: The rigorous culture of making every decision quantitative, every process algorithmic, results in a coldly efficient experience, with no room for the human quirkiness that makes sites like Flickr so appealing. It’s hard to argue with Google’s financial results. But who wants to work inside the bowels of a perfectly tuned machine? If Google runs by the numbers, it hardly needs humans. And that’s why people like Bowman are leaving.

The Obama Deception

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