Heat oven to 350 degrees

Rub butter or oil over the skin of the turkey until it is completely coated.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper and any other seasonings you prefer.

Take a knife and gently separate the skin from the breast meat;
slide lemon halves under the skin with the peel side up, one on
each side. This way the juice from the lemon will release into the breasts.

Cover and bake for 30-45 minutes. Remove cover and continue
to roast until juices run clear, basting every 15-20 minutes.

If you've followed these steps correctly, your turkey should
look like the one in this picture [link].

Bon Appetit!

Jalapenos 15-20(Depending how full you stuff them)

2 pair of RUBBER GLOVES!!!!! AGAIN I SAY RUBBER GLOVES!!! Made the mistake the first time after I finished mixing, cutting and stuffing the Jalapenos. I washed my hands and had to use the restroom.... you fill in the rest.

1.) Set cream cheese out to get to room temp.

2.)Brown Sausage drain well let cool. Bacon same deal. IF THE MEAT IS HOT THE CREAM CHEESE GETS TO RUNNY AND MAKES A MESS.While they are cooling I cut my Jalapenos and de-seed them. Depending on how hot you want your peppers, I usually leave some of the veins in.

3.) Once meat is cool, chop the bacon up fine.

4.) large bowl add the sausage and bacon. Pour the Parm. Cheese and mix well. Add the cream cheese and with rubber gloves on mix well.

5.) Preheat oven to about 375.

6.) stuff your half peppers in the amount you want. The more you stuff the softer and greasier the peppers will be. If you want them hot leave some ribbing in the jalapeno halves.

7.) I bake mine until the top of the cheese mixture gets the little brown crust forming, take out of oven and sprinkle shredded cheese over each one.

Scarabs retell memories from previous games.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and get a shallow square baking dish.

Square top and bottom of onion (so it sits flat and has a flat top) and peel skin.

Taking a large knife, flower the onion by making four cuts that don't quite go all the way through the onion.

Spread the onion open, and push the chicken bullion cube down into the middle of the onion. Season with garlic salt to taste - if you like garlic, add a bunch, otherwise just a dash.

Press the butter down over the cube, then set the prepared onion on top of a single sheet of aluminum foil.

Wrap the foil up so the ends all come together at the top - this is critical! The foil will be containing all the liquids from the butter and onion and must have no rips or holes below the top. Twist the foil together at the top, enclosing the onion inside.

Bake at 350 for 60 minutes. Remove and enjoy.

Note: All measurements are guesses, I am the zen master of sloppy joes (probably the only cooking thing I have really mastered) and just add "enough" of each at each appropriate phase. My measurement guesses should be close and you can go conservative on certain parts until you get more experience. This is really a classic, delicious recipe that is worth mastering.

Brown the hamburger, breaking it up with a spatula into small pieces, drain the grease, then immediately after draining, turn down the heat a bit and squirt in a lot of Heinz ketchup. You CAN use too much, but squirt a bunch in, stir it up and then add a fair bit of water, maybe 2/3 cup. Stir it around and see if it looks too brown or red. If it looks mostly brown and hamburger colored, you need more ketchup. If it looks RED, you have gone crazy and put in too much ketchup, you suck. It should look orangeish-brown. Until you master the recipe you can go light on the ketchup and dip the sloppy joes in ketchup, but optimally you should cook it for best flavor with just the right amount of ketchup. Don't worry, this just takes experimentation and experience.

Add 3-4 healthy dashes of worcestershire sauce and the brown sugar. Both are critical for flavor and you may want slightly less or more brown sugar. You can add more brown sugar, but be careful, its easy too go to far and end up with overly sweet sloppy joes. Its really just an accent flavor and a counterbalance to the mustard and worcs sauce. On the other hand, its hard to overdo the worcs sauce, lots of it usually works very well Add a little squirt of mustard, not very much at all really.

Mix it all in and add more water, it should look way too watery at this phase. If it looks like just enough water, you don't have nearly enough; be bold and add more. The reason for this is that you are going to simmer it for about 15 minutes, and the water will cook in and help give the hamburger the wonderful texture it needs for optimal sloppyness. Lower the heat a bit and simmer.

After its simmered a while, sprinkle in the cornstarch and mix that in thoroughly (also possibly add a little more water at this point), lower the heat a bit more and simmer for another 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. The cornstarch helps it all solidify up into an awesome texture that is properly gooey but still sloppy. You can add more/less cornstarch per your preferred texture. Toast the hamburger buns lightly in a toaster oven @350 degrees. Now for you sloppy joe challeneged folks, the last step is to put the sloppy joe material in the toasted buns and start eating them

I bought a lot of these corn tostadas lately and experimented until I got a recipe for tostada sandwiches just right. The tostadas are also great to heat, break up, and eat just with salsa. I got the corn tostadas in the international section of the grocery, where they are more authentic and tastier than the bland American mass market brands. The brand I bought was "Charras."

Anyway, brown the hamburger in a skillet, breaking it up with a spatula. Drain the grease, then mix in the taco seasoning and water, simmer for 10 min or so until the water is cooked in, then throw the hamburger on a big plate and dump the cheese over the hamburger and microwave for about 3 minutes, or until the cheese is fully melted. I used a store brand of mixed mexican cheeses and it was quite tasty.

While the hamburger and cheese is in the microwave, get out your stack of delicious, crunchy yellow corn tostadas. Turn on your oven (I used a toaster oven) to 350 degrees and put the tostadas in there. If you stack them up, after a few minutes flip the stack over so they cook evenly. You just want to crisp them up and get em nice and hot, don't get them brown or that ruins the flavor.

While the tostadas are cooking (doesn't take long, maybe only 5 min or so, dont let em burn), get out plates and the salsa. Get the hamburger/cheese out and grab the tostadas out of the oven. Spread some hamburger/melted cheese and some salsa on a tortilla/tostada, and then put another tostada on top of it, pick it up and eat it like a sandwich (dipping in ketchup if you are a true chef ). Sounds weird, but trust me, they are awesome

I have some business to do up in Detroit the weekend of July 25th (www.VectorMotorsports.com related business ). Anyone know what's cool to do in Detroit? So far all I have in mind is a Detroit Tigers game and maybe the Henry Ford Museum. Might have time to do that and more depending on how long I stay.

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl Spray Bundt (poundcake?) pan well with cook spray, Cook on 350 for 30-40 minutes

Scarabfest 2009, Houston, Texas. Booyah!

Rest assured that although the sidebar says the service is temporarily unavailable, it is in fact running. What isn't working is the web status widget we used, apparently. Typefrag recently updated their control panel and apparently this feature is either taken away or not finished. As soon as I know more I will let you all know.

Sorry for the confusion...

Maska

In the email I received, the address to send your votes to got garbled. The correct address is

(shown correct in the version Maska posted). I think you can just hit reply to the email ballot and get this address.

Also, for those that mainly know me recently from WoW, I am listed as Dinaden on the ballot. Used to be my main char in EQ See my avatar, license plate from when I lived in VA ---->

The insanity continues on Memorial Day 2008.

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(Does anyone know why my Blog posts don't show up on the main page anymore?)

Anyway, here are a couple that I figured you wouldn't mind seeing here...

The sketchbook entry was done when I was happy to be speaking with Shieldhaven on the phone, post-GenCon-- it is something of a smoke screen for what's going on in my head right now.

Essentially, whenever the baser and worst in people comes out despite my hopes to the contrary, it gets me pretty down. The short version of the story is that I got cheated, called a liar, and am now stuck with an item that I don't want-- and of course I don't feel like dragging this through Paypal mediation. Anyway, if any of you know of someone who'd like a Slytherin robe (NOT made by me) never worn, from a non-smoking home-- drop me a line. At least maybe someone will derive some enjoyment out of the thing. (It was simply too big. I tried to return it, was called a cheat and a liar, and am now stuck with it.) The lesson I've learned? When in doubt, don't try to cut corners. Don't think that throwing money at a problem will solve it. Don't expect people to be decent human beings when there's money involved. Meh. Sometimes people suck.

As for me and my own costuming: I recognize now that I should just stick to making my own, and have done so at this point. On the vaguely good side: I found out that a custom BSG Duty Blues uniform (which I've gotten pretty good at making, having made a total of 3 complete from last year and working on three more for this year) sell for upwards of $400.00 USD. Maybe I should quit my day job.

Slowly but surely I'm pulling together costuming for D*C. This year will be the year of BSG as well as the year of the Hogwarts.

I am a Slytherin, and proud of it! So absolutely I will be there in my Hogwarts school uniform, complete with 3-and-a-half-inch-heel Mary Janes. (I'm in Slytherin. What?)

Of course there'll be photos.

Andy and I had the opportunity to spend last Saturday at Sea World with his folks - his parents, and his brother, sister-in-law, and their two kids. We weren't about to pass it up, so we got up nice and early and headed down to San Antonio with his parents in their car.

I was wondering at first if they'd take it badly if Andy and I slipped away to wander around by ourselves, but apparently not; the second we walked into the gates and the family started to debate what they wanted to see first, we slithered out of the way and headed over to the Clydesdale exhibit to see the horsies.

After that we checked out the dolphins, which you can apparently feed yourself at certain times during the day. We didn't get to, but we noted the feeding times for later. Then we headed toward the rides... because while I have a deep and abiding fear of roller coasters, I did tell Andy that if was going to try to get me on one, it had better be in the morning before lunch.

Sorry I haven't been online lately folks. Thanks to all your well-wishes (and hopefully my own expertise) I successfully landed the job at Turbine Games. I've been offline in preparation for the move, and will still probably be offline for a bit longer. My first day of work is September 10th, so hopefully I should have internet again at that point and will be able to login and say howdy.

In the mean time, I've got *lots* of packing to do and crazy amounts of work to do. I'll see you all after the dust settles.

Are Americans willfully ignorant or stupid?

this is from here -> http://www.brainphreak.net/theblackpacket/main.html and fellow member of the Silicon Valley 9-11 truth group

also I think the spelling errors are intention but I'll ask him next time I see him

Yes, it is an addiction. It took me many years to realize it. People would say it’s an addiction. I’d deny it. People would say I spent to much time gaming. I would make up excuses. I would play it off like I didn’t play too much. Deep down I knew I did though.

Did it control my life? No, I wouldn’t say that. Through my addiction I managed to get through school with a 3.75 GPA. I received a dual bachelors, got a good job, a new house and prospered. So what’s the problem then? I had no life! Gaming was my life. It was all I did with my free time. I told myself, “It’s what I enjoy doing, so why not do it all the time?” The problem was I didn’t realize there was so much more out there.

Hey gang, its been a while since I've managed to get onto the site or wow during this summer and the fall isn't looking any better. I've been accepted to the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco to study 3d animation and video game design, so I've decided I'm selling my wow account (for a pretty decent $128). Its been fun questing with you all and although I'm no longer playing WoW this is not good bye, because school or not, I'll be back in January for Warhammer Online.

So until then, I wish you good luck and phat loot

PS. Remember, I've sold my account, that means when you se

Ok.. well as you can tell from the other posts I've made lately.. I'll be single again REAL soon.. It hurts and some days feels like I'm going crazy and wondering why I'm still here, but it's for the better in the long run. But NO for those of you wondering, I'm NOT saying I'm not going to do it again!! I've said that before and look where it got me!! I'll say I have more ambitions in life and have learned some important lessons this time around and leave it at that!

I am enrolled to go back to school next month (Sept) for Criminal Justice. Financial Aide is set up tenatively.. They're giving me a hard time about his income and the divorce. GRR.. thankfully it will be final in time for them to work it out.

Now I've got his brother trying to put me on a guilt trip for my poetry on myspace.

There isn't even anything mean in the poetry I posted.

This has been the first time I've felt like having a nervous break down since we left each other last week.

No one NOT one person can know what he and I have been through with each other. He's not perfect and neither am I.

I guess this is the only place I'm going to be able to speak openly about it anymore.

At least he doesn't check the Scarab website.

He never really was a big fan of you guys. I can see why now. He's never been a people person or emotional at all. He doesn't like to get involved in anything that remotely has to do with other gamers except for his closest friends.