Chile Rellenos

We just made tasty Chile Rellenos from scratch, based on the dish at Papá Chano's in Monterey.
Below is the recipe followed by some photos...

Ingredients
• 2 Pasilla (or Poblano) chile peppers per serving
• shredded cheddar and jack cheese
• 1 or more eggs beaten with a little water
• corn masa flour
• oil for frying

Preparation
• Roast peppers under broiler on all sides, then place the peppers in a plastic bag in the refrigerator until cooled. (This process "sweats" the pepper and makes the peeling process very easy).
To remove seeds: Slice down one side of the pepper, trying to keep the original shape (and the stem). Remove the seeds and drain on a paper towel.
• Place 2 to 3 slices of cheese in each pepper, secure with toothpicks.
• Dip stuffed peppers in flour, then egg mixture, then flour.
• Place each floured pepper on waxed paper until all are stuffed and floured.
• Heat oil for frying in large fry pan.
• Fry peppers on all sides until golden brown in color.

Mmm... Bagel...

This is by far my favorite bagel to get at the Bagel Bakery. It is based on the New Yorker but differs slightly. It also tastes very good on the Jalapeño Cheddar or Poppy Seed bagels.



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» Sliced Tomato

Tijmen's New Website

Visit my friend Tijmen's new website at http://ashpaw.wetpaint.com/

It features some claymation projects he and Yann have done like this one:



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Help!

This is mainly for Oliver, who wanted to know some basic HTML code, for blogs, wikis, etc.
NOTE: this is NOT "forum" BBcode or Wikipedia code.

All tags have beginnings and closings except for images. I'll put TEXT in between formatting tags...

Bold : <b>TEXT</b> or <strong>TEXT</strong>
using strong is highly recommended.

Italics : <i>TEXT</i> or <em>TEXT</em>
using em (emphasis) is highly recommended

Links : <a href="URL">TEXT</a>

Font : <font face="FONTNAME" size="FONTSIZE" >TEXT</a>
the size can be something like 12 or 14 (like in Word) +4, +2, -2, etc (larger or smaller than the standard size) or xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large. You can even just say larger or smaller.
font face name can either be specific or you can type serif, sans-serif, or monospace (monospaced is plain-text looking like Courier New)

Images : <img src="URL" width="PIXELWIDTH"
height="PIXELHEIGHT" alt="TEXT" />
insert pixel denominations for width and height
the alt attribute is what displays when you roll over it.

Embed : <embed src="URL" width="PIXELWIDTH"
height="PIXELHEIGHT" wmode="transparent"></embed>
you can embed mp3's, flash, etc.
test the width and height...they can be kind of weird

Line Breaks : a line break is a simple </br> wherever you want it

Bulleted List : Begin the list with <ul> and end with </ul>. each bulleted item will be <li>TEXT</li>
To make hierarchies like:

• TEXT
____• TEXT
• TEXT

you type <li>TEXT</li>
and then to make a sub-item add another <li>TEXT</li> right before the closing </li>
Example: the above example would look like:

<ul>
<li>TEXT
<li>TEXT</li>
</li>
<li>TEXT</li>
</ul>


Tables: Begin with <table width="WIDTH" border="PIXELS" cellspacing="PIXELS" cellpadding="PIXELS"> and end with </table>
Width can be pixels or type 100% to make it fill the entire space.
Rows begin with <tr> and end with </tr>
Each cell in a row is <td>TEXT</td>
Example: two rows, two columns at 100% would be:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>TEXT</td>
<td>TEXT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TEXT</td>
<td>TEXT</td>
</tr>
</table>

Padding is the margins of the cell, spacing is how far apart each cell is.
(both are in pixels)
Border is the number of pixels of a line in the border.

The Elements Song

We have to memorize a section of this song for science class...
Click your connection speed below to watch (or download mp3)

Happy Easter!

I found this online and couldn't resist putting it up...

CCS Concert

About a month ago (February 9) was the Central Coast Section honors concert at our school. I played clarinet 5th chair in the honor band. We rehearsed in the evening on the Thursday before, all day Friday, and in the morning before the concert on Saturday. The recording of the concert just arrived. Below are the pieces we played for the concert with a short description...

• Onward!
  This was one of my favorite pieces we played. Unlike all the others, we had never seen it before the rehearsal. It was challenging because the clarinets had to play really fast eighth notes, which was tiring. It was still very enjoyable.
• Dreams and Fancies:
  I. First Dream II. First Fancy III. Second Dream IV. Second Fancy
  Dreams and Fancies was a four-movement piece consisting of two "dreams", slow movements, and two "fancies", faster movements.
• A Hymn For Band
• Military Escort
• Regenesis (Song of the Planet)
  Regenesis was written for the tenth anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The movements (all in one file above) are entitled "Vistas", "Warning", "Cataclysm", "Void" and "Renewal"

Fantasy Landscape

I made this picture in Photoshop with the Dodge and Burn tools for shading, mainly using the paintbrush for creating the actual elements. Fantasy Landscape was inspired by one of the stage-builder places in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, as well as Fantasy Meadows from Kirby Air Ride.

Wii

Hopefully, soon I will get a Nintendo Wii. I am going to sell my GameCube and most of my games (excluding Super Smash Bros. Melee, Kirby Air Ride, and Super Mario Sunshine). Then I will be able to link up with Oliver, Michael, Riley, Matthew, Tijmen, Yann, and just about everyone else I know who has a Wii.

I plan on getting Super Smash Bros. Brawl first, as well as Wii Sports, of course.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl came out last Sunday!

I've played it once so far, and it was really awesome. Meta Knight is personally my favorite new character, with a tornado attack and other really cool special moves.

I managed to find an mp3 of the theme song, which is an all-new choral song in Latin (See the lyrics here). Hopefully this weekend I can go over to Riley's with Michael and Matthew and have a tournament.

Wall-Eyed Weirdos

Riley, Michael, Matthew, and I had a wall-eyed weirdo drawing contest in the library the other day. Here are each of ours...

Lobster Lemon

Tijmen and I came up with this idea during P.E. basketball today.
I based it off of this sketch that I did later in the day.

Fixing Fish Tacos

Today I fixed the old fish taco image. It was producing a glitch when viewed in certain programs, like the web browser. Below are the old and new FTs.
In other news, Oliver found out he's a rooster, not a dog, on the Chinese zodiac.

Oceania

Just playing around with Photoshop this morning. I made an underwater scene...the first I have ever done...with some rock fish. I mainly did this scene to try out making custom gradients, like the one I used for the background.

Career Day

Career day today... people from around town came in and talked about their jobs.

My class visited a dance instructor, CalAm water representative, Nob Hill employee, and the manager of the local Animal Friends Rescue Project, to name a few.

Yann did a demonstration for the dance instructor. Apparently, he takes lessons there after school. We did some of the dances that we also do in P.E. at school, like the East Coast Swing and Salsa.

The California American water people gave us a lot of cool "goodies" like a hose nozzle and shower head. At the right is a photo of the hose nozzle with a bunch of settings like shower, center, cone, flat, jet, etc. They're the kind you pay about $20 for at a store, but CalAm gives them out for free. =)

Checkers' Birthday

Today was Checkers' birthday. We got him over a year ago when he was only 11 mos. old.

Afrotastic

Just finished making a picture in Photoshop for Yann. His name is Afrotastic, and Yann doodles him in his school planner and other things.

I used dodge and burn to create highlights, as well as a lens flare on his eyes. It was based off of this sketch.

View captainblu, Yann's site, for more.