Chock Full.

DRIES VAN NOTEN FALL/WINTER 2012

Eggplant & Black Eyed Pea Curry
by IsaChandra

Serves 6 to 8
Total time: 1 hour || Active time: 20 minutes

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, diced medium
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 heaping tablespoon minced fresh ginger
1 1/2 lbs eggplant, peeled and cut into 3/4 inch chunks
1 1/2 tablespoons mild curry powder (more to taste)
1/2 teaspoon ground fennel seed or chopped fennel seed
1 teaspoon salt
Fresh black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne powder (leave out if you don’t like spicy, increase if you do)
1/2 cup red lentils
1/2 cup brown or green lentils
1/2 cup lightly packed fresh cilantro, chopped (extra for garnish)
5 cups vegetable broth
3 cups cooked black eyed peas, rinsed and drained (about 2 16 oz cans)
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons tomato paste

Preheat a 4-quart soup pot over medium high heat. Saute onions in oil until translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Add garlic and ginger and saute for another minute.

Add the eggplant, curry powder, fennel seed, salt, pepper and cayenne along with a 1/2 cup of the vegetable broth to cook the eggplant down for a minute or two.

Add lentils, cilantro and remaining vegetable broth. Cover pot and bring to a boil, keeping a close eye. Once it’s boiling, lower heat to a simmer and cook for about 40 minutes, until lentils are tender and eggplant is soft. Add black eyed peas to heat through, and stir in the tomato paste and lemon juice. If you’d like a thicker curry, then leave the lid off for the last 10 minutes. For thinner then just add a little extra broth. Taste for salt and seasoning.

Let sit for 10 minutes or so for maximum flavor. Serve garnished with cilantro if you like.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street NYC
Projects 97: Mark Boulos
March 19–July 16, 2012
Projects Gallery, second floor

I really wanted to go Italian on you today and stuff the shit out of you culturally for all your worth. It's a period day even if you're not on one or possess one and some indulgences are definitely merited. Watch a Fellini film today, read Life by Keith Richards in it's entirety, call that romp in the hay back finally and bluntly explain to them that a vast collection of paper mache spectacles on Joan Rivers dolls is a deal breaker for you, however, you thoroughly enjoyed their Sake motivated performance of "Beaches" and hope their cat recovers. Whatever. Being held hostage to a painstaking breakfast doesn't have to be in anyone's future, savvy?Point being, make the best of today, whatever you do. Moving on..

No update on Hacker today other than I have calmed down about the whole shananagan considerably. I m glad it wasn't more than what it turned out to be and can sleep easy knowing that MY torture tactics would be more than effective, given the opportunity and that may have to be good enough until the fuzz manages to catch this tasteless fool. (Yesterday I received Smart for Life diet hot cocoa?! What is wrong with this slag? Now I KNOW you're a heifer as well as dumb as old toothpaste.) Stay tuned.XO

Carven & The Digs you wish You had.

CARVEN RTW 2012

Spaces I adore.....

Hacker Update:
Police Report acquired.
Fate of said South Jersey Douche still in my hands....(although I am chilling out ever so slightly.)
Investigation proceeding.
Still would love to insert sewing needles underneath perp's nail beds....too far? Maybe...
Maybe just a gentle tossing over the Niagara or maybe get my fantasies in check and let the appointed people do their job and I can stop micro managing the legal system and the bank? There's an idea Cagney.
OX

Mini Choc Loaves, NYFW & Hacker Update.

Cherry Chocolate Chunk Mini Loaves
by IsaChandra via Post Punk Kitchen

Makes 8 mini loaves

1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup natural almond butter
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/3 cup almond milk (or your preferred vegan milk), at room temp
1/3 cup + 2 tablespoons boiling water, divided
3/4 cup dry sweetener (any type of sugar or evaporated cane juice)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon chocolate extract (optional – you can use another t vanilla)
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (or whole wheat pastry flour)
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
4 oz chocolate bar, chopped into 1/2 inch or so chunks
1 cup chopped sweet cherries (thawed if using frozen)

Preheat oven to 350 F and lightly spray a mini loaf pan with cooking spray. Also, boil some water in a tea kettle (no need to measure yet.)

Put applesauce, almond butter, milk and cocoa powder in a mixing bowl. Measure out 1/3 cup boiling water and pour into the bowl with the chocolate mixture, mixing quickly with a fork to make a thick chocolate sauce. Add sugar and extracts and mix well.

Sift about half of the flour, along with the baking soda and salt, into the chocolate mixture, and gently stir just to incorporate, then measure out 1 tablespoon of boiling water and stir again. Now add the rest of the flour mixture and another tablespoon of boiling water and stir just until smooth. Take care not to overmix. Fold in the chocolate chunks and the cherries.

Spoon the batter into the prepared loaf pans, about 3/4 of the way.

Bake for 26 to 28 minutes. The tops should be puffy and firm. Stick a steak knife into the center of the loaf to check for doneness. A little bit of wetness is okay since it could be from a chocolate chunk or a cherry, but the knife should come out mostly dry.

Let cool for 10 minutes, then invert pan and place loaves on a cooling rack to cool some of the way. It’s yummy when still a bit warm, with the chocolate chunks oozy and melty. Wrap extra loaves in plastic wrap to keep from drying out. If not using within a day, refrigerate wrapped loaves.

UNIQUE 2012

Credit card hacker update: I have a cell number, friends that are computer savvy and filing a police report. It's a fucking white trash chick. I came to this conclusion after receiving her pink peace room border in the mail for her illegitimate kid, disgusting payless esque shoe purchases, infomercial make up buys and I won't even mention the rest. Oh, and a Harry Potter costume! WTF? It went to MY address you dumb cunt.....please be dumb enough to stake out my house in attempts to claim your crap....PLEASE. I will be waiting with a proper southern arsenal. Bring it on you fucking bowling league drop out.
XO

N21 & the Fate of Hackers.

N21 2012

Granted, it is very possible, likely even; that I have perhaps jumped the gun by posting a "hate/warning" post on Facebook about the less than desirable circumstances of my recent bank account hack.
True, it is slightly more than a bummer, I will most likely NOT get to whoop said ass, in addition to most likely not get to sue them in court. As painful and disappointing as both of these prospects are, the bank is claiming to do dutifully do their their job and the money will be replaced and I will most likely not catch a case. In the end, my biggest struggle will be with my own ego, pride and not allowing this particular invasion of privacy kick up old shit.
Unbeknownst to me, my subconscious loves these kinds of life out takes. Normal life on life's terms occurrences that happen to everyone suddenly become only about me; special needs me, woe is me, why me etc.. The pristine opportunity for me to act out on prosaic behaviors due to an isolated, (in my head anyway) situation that has happened and even worse, my head uses it as an excuse to bring up and if it's successful, wallow in old issues, hurts ad haunts.
I say piss off to the entire head committee and the local incestuous relationship occurring in Egg Harbor/ PA amongst the hackers who nailed me. Who the fuck spends $80 at a fucking Spirit Halloween unless their 15, are looking to consume Mad Dog Banana Red 20/20 and attending "Bobbi Lee's" party while his Nana is away? I won't even mention the other charges. Assfucks.
As much as I would love to perform Asian war torture tactics on these fucks, admittedly, I have already spent WAY too much time devising fantasy plans and is keeping me from, oh I don't know, acting like a human being? So I am going to attempt to put it down for now, but who knows.......

Project Deux.

HELMUT LANG 2012

Here's a boat.

An island in and of yourself

you would like to fancy that as truth, although seemingly so

we both know, at best, it's rhetoric you read in the back of a magazine you happen to come upon by chance while waiting for your shrink appointment.

I appreciate your valiant efforts to remain sick and implementing a never ending system of foraging for sympathy in the most obvious of ways to everyone but you.
You don't need it...................
it's already there.