Hmm... That lasagna sounds like it might be kind of greasy if the meat isn't rendered down before it's added to the dish.Originally Posted by Nominal Animal
Wait, are you talking about the baked dish or the actual pasta itself? Because I was referring to the baked dish.
I use a very spicy Calabrese with not much fat; you don't want to use too much or it'll overpower everything else, therefore not too much added fat either.
I do two sauces, a Béchamel one, and a Bolognese-kinda-like using 10% beef mince. I'm on the fence on whether the onions need sautéing or whether to just add them very late in small bits. Sun-dried tomato puree works much better than chopped tomatoes. Need to experiment with jalopeños (pickled mild ones). The cheese and the salami bits (thin slices diced, maybe like small cornflakes) form a third type of layer, and the pasta forms the fourth type of layer. The cheeses I've tried go wonky if you put them next to the pasta (gritty? grated too small? too large? pasta overcooks the cheese? dunno), so at this point I think bolognese, pasta, béchamel, salami'n'cheese, bolognese, pasta, béchamel, salami'n'cheese, bolognese, pasta, béchamel, salami'n'cheese works best (counting from bottom to top). It's kinda traditional, except for the extra salami'n'cheese parts, so not too creative.
The trick (in my befuddled mind) is to have the salami bits as separate surprise nuggets from the bolognese, and use the cheese and pasta layers to keep the béchamel well separated from the bolognese and salami. Probably should try sprinkling the salami on top of the cheese.
Gimme three decades to work on it, and it might be good enough to serve.
Fortunately, my family shares the opinion that any food made with love is good food.
Last centuary, when I lived in England, I had seven aquariums, I kept, and bred tropical fish, had been doing that since the 1960´s. I also was a keen traveller, the only continent I have not travelled on is Antarctica. Since my illness, I have not been outside western Europe.
That's one awesome hobby. Everytime I see an aquarium on someone's house I get a strong desire to do it myself. But for some reason I never get to it. I need to write it down somewhere as one of the things I must do before I die. I can stand looking at fish in an aquarium for hours. It's incredibly soothing, for some reason.
I still do extensive travelling. Like you, I've been a little everywhere. What was the country/region that left the strongest mark on you? For me, two experiences will forever be imprinted in my mind. I was in Sierra Leona during the civil war and saw many of the kid soldiers in Bombali. The other was Australia. The outback region gave me the most amazing sight of my life. During a trip at night through the Australian Desert, we stopped for an hour to get some rest of driving and the sky... the sky of the Australian Desert is the most beautiful and humiliating thing you will see in your entire life. It's cramped with so many stars, so many different colors. The Milky Way can be seen so clearly it is breathtaking. The whole universe is right there looking at you.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Damn, that sounds really nice. I'd love to go to Australia but isn't full of poisonous animals?
No, I think some of the kangaroos ain't that poisonous.
I believe the kangaroos are still deadly though.
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Indeed. The red kangaroos. Taller than a grown man and will kill one in no time.
Not entirely a myth, but I know where you are coming from. The idea that Australia harbors the most poisonous animals in the world is what people like to oversell. Some Australians particularly, who relish on the idea. But it is completely untrue. No Australian snake, for instance, can match the Indian naja, the Asian saw-scale viper or the African black mamba, both in number of human deaths as in the potency of their poisons. The funnel web spider and the red back are the Australian most dangerous spiders. But the South American wandering spider and the African sand spider have more potent and dangerous venoms. Lionfish, stonefish and scorpion fish are the most dangerous fish in the oceans (and together, the most venomous animals in the world). They all exist in coastal Australia, but alas, also coastal Philippines, Timor, Indonesia, New Guinea, even Madagascar. The most venomous bee, the honey bee, is endemic to the whole world, the most venomous ant is the maricopa harvester and lives in North America. I mean... we could go on and on.That's an old myth. I recommend the documentary "Crocodile Dundee" for education. '
But what is true about Australia is that it has the largest density of venomous and poisonous species in the world. Unfortunately this is often sold as having the largest quantity of venomous and poisonous animals in the world, or having the most venomous and poisonous animals in the world.
I was once bitten by a Red Back spider. I lived briefly in Port Pirie, South Australia, a small farmers town, before moving to Adelaide. The back yard was unattended and full of weeds when I moved in. I was inexperienced about some of the dangers and precautions you must take in some regions of Australia. I was told that in the shed there was tools and stuff. I found a pair of working gloves on top of a box too and wore them. It turns out a Red Back was living inside one of the gloves. Fortunately, Red Back antivenom in Australia hospitals is more common than ethanol. I was promptly treated and other than major pain, I never got to developed of the other symptoms.
Three days later Port Power won the premiership and was the team that broke Brisbane Lions 3 consecutive runs on an epic final. I felt good!
Last edited by Mario F.; 05-07-2015 at 08:36 PM.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
But if Australia has the largest density, that implies the highest number of collisions. I don't know, something about the mean free path being smaller for higher density regions.
You are thinking in terms of physical space. But species density measures a group of species against the total number of species. Not physical space. Incidentally, this misconception is probably behind the reason why people think the above means Australia has the most poisonous animals in the world.
But even if Australia had the highest density of poisonous animals per square meter, that wouldn't necessarily mean it had the highest number of related accidents or deaths. Other factors play a role, like human population living conditions, education and the animals own habits. Most animals stay away from cities, for instance (or don't have a chance to breed and see their population grow). So a country with a small rural population can experience less encounters with poisonous animals, even if it has a larger density of poisonous animals per square meter. And higher living conditions tend also to come with increase security mechanisms against dangerous animals.
Meanwhile, by far, the largest number of incidents with snakes occur in India and this is caused by actual human density and general poor living conditions, not poisonous snakes density. So animal density alone can't be thought as a good way to measure these things.
Last edited by Mario F.; 05-08-2015 at 06:41 AM.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
I've been in the outback, northeast corner of SA and southeast corner of QLD. Just don't go during summer, the flies will eat you alive.
http://i.imgur.com/Ty0dW0K.jpg
Oh poop, you're totally right, Mario. You should species density. Ha. That'll teach me to skim.
That's exactly what one looks like in the Arctic summer, too. Netting shields against culicidae (mosquitoes), but simuliidae (black flies or midges) crawl through and bite a tiny chunk out of you -- they prefer tight spaces like just under your belt; and the ceratopogonidae (biting midges) are too small to see unless you look very closely; you just feel a hot sting when they take their mouthful. In July, the mosquitoes form literal clouds.
You want 50% DEET (the normal 10%-20% only works on mosquitoes), and clear double-sided tape at the bottom edge of each window -- works really well in a car, too. A bug catcher is worth it only with a lure emitting octenol and carbon dioxide, but if it has those, especially heated a bit, it really clears the bloodsuckers out. Little birds are your best friend, of course. A rankinen (mosquito netting with a top like a lamp shade, so you can hang it off from one hook, anywhere) is an absolute must for getting any sleep.
Assuming you can get some sleep. Where I grew up, sun does not set at all between end of May and mid-July. It just rotates through the sky.. Makes for tasty veggies, though.
Nominal, what do you do for a living? You seem to know a lot about everything.
