Update

A month has gone by and I am sure many are wondering ‘what has happened to this blog?’
Well nothing to be exact, I have posted some cool links and videos mainly on my facebook page since it is so much easier to link to that page. However this I can access from work thus it does also have some advantages when I just absolutely must publish something no matter the price.

In culinary news:
Made ‘pašticada’ with the dad two weekends ago, and it is an amazingly delicious dish, here is how we prepped and then made it.
First you buy a giant piece of beef (not baby beef, but older) about 2 kg (4-5 lbs) because when you make this it is for a lot of people or you want to eat it for a few days. Slice and dice any fat of the edges, now what we did next was amazing, get a blub of garlic, peel all the cloves, and start making small but deep cuts into the meat and stick the garlic cloves into the meat, do this all over the meat, from all sides. Next get some pieces of bacon, and now this is not the kind of bacon that is soft, you want the cured bacon, the one that you cut with a knife that is hard and not the soft stuff that you fry in the pan with eggs. Slice the bacon into pieces about a 2 cm (1 inch) in length and roughly the thickness of an iPod nano, and proceed to stuff them into the meat in the same manner as the garlic cloves.

Dump the meat into a giant pot, and I cannot stress enough how giant the pot should be, freaking huge, and also cut up a celery root into fairly large chunks, toss into the same pot, along with what I believe was some vine vinegar and a bit of water. (I will double check the amounts tonight, as I am making this again, and then update the post) and let it sit marinating overnight. (Again if I have missed anything this will be appended tonight to let you know)

We resume this recipe tomorrow when we begin the 2nd half  so you have something to wait for!

In upcoming trip news:
Its Easter soon which means that I am off to the bundesrepublik! To visit a lil burek eater that is demanding I bring her at least 2, but I know that she would prefer a minimum of 3!
It is going to be exciting as I am also tasked with brining back some hardware for my dad, and more than that, jenny will have loads of Easter chocolates and eggs and various things to make me get fat  which I love oh so very much.
And lets not forget that I am also going to get too see my burek eater! This is the whole point of the trip.

In sports news:
Liverpool is playing the best football I have seen a team play in a while, to beat Real Madrid in Madrid 1-0, then a week later trash them 4-0 at home, and a mere 4 days later go to Old Trafford and destroy Man United 4-1 speaks volumes! The club is on a roll, I can only hope that Arsenal gets their act together and makes some noise in the champions league as it is clear that domestically they are no match for Man U and Liverpool. DaSilva is back, which is great news for Croatia too, we really missed dudu, he is the spear of our team as we do not have anyone as capable of unlocking the game with some wizardry. Milan is getting older and older and one can only hope they reinforce their defense and attack with some fresh faces this summer, but somehow I doubt it will happen.
Lakers are doing great in the NBA, and D-Wade is tearing it up lately, though it seems as if LeBron got a bit annoyed at all the attention Wade was getting, so he went out and had 3 triple doubles in a row…BEAST!

In I am a working man news:
IM GETTTTTING PAID!!!!!!!
Yeah that’s all im going to say about that

In economic crisis news:
Some good news, some bad news, some interesting ideas, but really does anyone at all have a clear picture of what is going on? And has anyone give a good reason as to why we should or should not be bailing out corporations all across the world? It seems as if there is so much posturing on all sides and the media is loving it, especially as they were so disappointed that the election was over, they are loving this crisis, they can print print print about it day in day out. However they are adding nothing to the debate, and are actually taking away from what is important and focusing on issues that in the grand scheme of things do not matter that much. Most notably Rush Limbaugh, as if anyone really cares what twiddle dum has to say? Does it matter? And who gives a rats ass if he wants anyone to fail, hell I want him to fail, but I do not assume that I will be getting thousands of stories written about it, that all just repeat the same one quote and add nothing to any debate.
AIG, has managed to usurp Rush as the story, they paid out bonuses of 165 million $ to the same traders that almost collapsed the firm so that they can retain them. First off, this is about .1% of the total amount they have received from the government (170 BILLION $) THAT’S RIGHT 1 TENTH OF 1 PERCENT! Instead of focusing on the rest, and why should we sink even more money in a company that until 2 days ago was trading at 40 cents with 2.69 billion shares outstanding, that means you could own the whole company for 1.076.000.000 . This is roughly 1% of the amount of money the government has subsidized AIG with so far… chew on that for a minute
And all anyone can talk about is 165 million in bonuses, how about the fact that AIG is unlikely to be able to repay the 170 billion anytime in the next 2 decades….
Magicians everywhere know the tactic, show a shiny object in the left hand, while you pick pocket with the right hand, this is essentially what people in power do every day, and the media are such tools they fall for it every time.