Food: Beef over Pasta

Okay! I live by myself and I really don’t cook often. I barely have enough kitchen equipment to make any basic meals (pots and plates). Most of the time I end up ordering in or dining out 99% of the time. So this was a nice change and challenge for me! I started the day by searching the web for an organic grocery store. I found Yogi Organic located at (2233 31st Street Astoria NY 11105). This location is very convenient for me as I live nearby. I decided to buy pasta, accompanied by some of my favorite ingredients, peppers and corn. I followed a whim and stepped into Key Food Super Market next door, and I was lucky enough to find Great Range brand Bison Ground Beef.

To be honest, I really didn’t have a specific recipe in mind. I just had an idea of what I wanted to taste that day. So, I headed home and lined up on the kitchen counter the following ingredients:

Ground Beef

Onion

Corn

Tri-color Pasta

Green and  Yellow Bell Peppers.

I needed to figure out if I wanted to have this to myself or share with someone else. I decided to telephone two friends and asked them if I could come over and cook for them at their place, not to mention they have a larger selection of cookware. (Keep in mind, I don't even have salt at my home!) Thankfully, they were more than happy to accept. I then telephoned my mama and asked her a couple of questions and for tips about how to cook the meat. She refreshed my memory on what she has taught me during my upbringing, and I was set to start my cooking.

The cooking went smoothly! Thank God! Haha. I started prepping the bell peppers by slicing them up. I cooked the meat first and then began cooking the pasta. As fried the beef, I slowly and steadily added seasonings. I stuck to the basics: salt, pepper and garlic. The fat in the beef contributed to a texture similar to that of chili. I salted the pasta water to add flavor. The whole ordeal took around 45-60 minutes, which was far quicker than I had anticipated. Who knew simple cooking could be so easy! I plated the pasta, topped it with my beef "chili" and some Parmesan cheese.
All in all, it was a great experience! My friends and I had a lot of fun; they even helped out a bit with the prep. The food tasted awesome. Be jealous!

Myth: Bottled water is convenient.


“Bottled Water Myth Versus Reality” - Prepared by The Story of Stuff Project - is a document that exposes the lie in the myth which states "Bottled water is convenient" and explains why is tap water much more beneficial than bottled water, one good reason is nothing beats the convenience of free tap water from your own kitchen, there is nothing convenient about shipping water thousands of miles from its source, plus the effort and the money spend just to dispose this bottles takes away all the so called convenience they say there is.


It does not make sense to pay relatively so much for a product that is available for free. Is absurd to take money out of your pocket and keep recurring to buy bottles of water when you can have one reusable bottle and refill it as much as you want at the same time helping against pollution. I’ll say one of the biggest problem occurs right after drinking the bottle of water, you are left with a plastic that takes over 1000 years to dispose and harms the world in many ways.

Blog Entry 10

In The Meatrex 1, Leo, the young pig, takes the red pill and watch the truth of what has being going on in farms for decades. Leo is introduced into the reality of the problem caused by big corporation farming. Moopheos the cow, explains how this is affecting the local farmers and society which are exposed to pollution and disease caused by the unhealthy condition animals are kept in captivity while farmed.


In the Meatrex 2, Moopheus, Leo and Chickity expose the dark side of the dairy industry to the others animals in farms and start fighting the corporation agents. They also adise how e can join this movement and help to improve this situation farms are in by advising on how to making the world safe for sustainable family farms.

 In the Meatrex 2-1/2, Leo takes us to a processing facility where we learn how how big corporations feed process all this animals. Also, employees inside the factories facilities are exposed to dangerous condition and woke in a fast passed without any concern to their safety or the public whom will consume the product. Leo mentions how this corporation don’t care about problems such like salmonella or mad cow disease and only care to sell and make profit.

Blog Entry 11: (Genetic Engineer)

Genetic Engineer has more cons than pros. It can be dangerous. Is unknown the harm of Genetic Engineer (GE) can cause if not tested correctly. Scientist still cannot determine the effect of introducing DNA of one species into another. Genetic pollution cannot be cleaned up, once released into the environment, genetically engineered organisms cannot be reversed or recalled.

Blog Entry 9

Not everyone will accept the information of the truth. Unfortunately the truth is not for everyone to assimilate. Sometimes reality cannot be absorbed in the right way without the proper conditions been taken placed first.

Like in the matrix when neo is first contacted he refused to wake up from the fictional life, even Morpheus mentioned to Neo that is not recommended to unplug those after certain age because they cannot handle the truth and are tended to refuse the liberation.

Similar when a person starts a gym routing, the first week of lifting weight the muscles will get very sore and will hurt after gym sections, after several months this pain goes away because the muscles grows and gets used to the tension and the weight pressure imposed to them. Same way our brain works, and many other things in our life works similar to this assimilation stage as well.

When kids are growing is not wise to expose them the crude and cold adult world, they are many things we need to hide(disguise) and not teach them yet  till certain age later on when they are older and ready to bare the shock of reality.

Taking the assimilation process in consideration there is no doubt that some people will just not be ready to accept the real information of the truth and will stay in the shadows till the timing is right or maybe not at all, some will stay in the dark shadows without the chance of ever waking up to the real light.

Blog Entry 8

Ignorance is bliss?

Sometimes is not so easy to handle the truth. The truth can hurt and is not always the most pleasant. For example some people choose to be a joyful pig rather to be an unhappy human. This leads people even to deny and not to accept the truth. Same way of reasoning it was for Cypher which preferred to live inside the program of the matrix, have a good and easy life with all type of pleasures, fame and money rather than living in reality outside the Matrix. For him Ignorance was better than the liberation.

Blog Entry 7:

Reality TV is delivering dangerous messages to its viewers, particularly to those in early childhood and adolescence, as this is a critical period of brain development, rapidly and easily absorbing information.  The prominent themes showcased in Reality TV are those of survival, fame, and vanity.

Timothy Sexton, writer of “The Dangers of Reality TV,” mentions that reality television promotes competition as the key of success, and compares it to the capitalism economy, similar to cooperation’s monopolizing the market. In Sextons words “life is nothing but a competition that we continually engage in with each other.” This is the message we are receiving from this medium of entertainment. The majority of realty shows revolve around a grand prize where the most aggressive competitor has a greater advantage of winning. We also always see a system of elimination where participants must survive each round in order to remain on the show.  

I believe is very sad to know how popular this so called “Reality TV” has become in the American Society, how young minds are mold believing that just being competitive and having a more attractive image than others is the most important in life. I personally experienced the influence of this type of shows and I noticed by watching this for many hours how empty the content of this TV series really are. I could notice for example that some reality TV participants are constantly looking for attention by provoking the most strange and extreme situations, like gossiping, use of profane language, nudity, etc. participants use any means possible to draw attention to themselves and work along with the TV channel's directors which are looking to boost the ratings even if they end up making a fool of themselves.


Probably this TV companies are very aware of what is going on, hopefully there can be changes made in programation for the shows to be more instructive but is not in the Channels Owners intererst because there only concern is the ratings which brings them profit. Reason why I say we will see much more of this Reailty TV for now and for the future to come.