Sunday, October 24, 2010

How Many Miles Is A Lot On A Diesel Truck




After leaving the city of Merida we move in Andalusia, in order to get to Rota and do in this place our headquarters in search of traces of Goya in Cadiz. We arrived at the Playa de la Luz, famous for its pens Romans engaged in fishing and where we rest to admire the sunsets over the Atlantic in the hotel of the same name.

Back in Cadiz, both Teresa and I felt the same feelings from when we first visited in 1986, as the city retains the spirit of the years, but modernity has increased to the outskirts of Old Town. We left the car and started to walk its streets in search of the Rosary, where the parish, and beside it, the Holy Cave where Goya left his mark creative.

When we saw the first pictures were yellowish and not well appreciated, although the book published by the Banco Zaragozano in 1983, with texts by Professor Federico Torralba and magnificent photos of Luis Mínguez and printed by Octavio and Félez in Zaragoza, could appreciate the great skill with which Goya painting executed such works. In our books the way Goya Goya and facing the wall, talk about the importance of these works, before being restored. in 2000 were restored in the Prado Museum and exposed in the same and it was when we saw in all its splendor and colorful painting and appreciate the change of concept that Goya prints of his work after Andalusia. Cajamadrid published a study of intervention in 2001. Now they are back in place, where the great Aragonese were painted on his second voyage Cadiz in 1796.

Interestingly Goya is located in Cadiz where he falls ill and becomes deaf, but also thanks to the care of his friend Sebastian Martinez, his family, Cadiz and the air of the Atlantic Ocean, is recovering from the tumble of heifer death, which leaves him with ill health but his eyes, hands and brush most creative and brilliant.

The Holy Cave existed in the Chapel or Crypt of the Church of Rosario, occupied by the Confraternity of Penitents Mother's Antigua since 1756, in 1771 access to the same address the priest Don José Sáenz de Santamaría, who in 1781 promoted to expand the Oratorio underground and build on top commissioning a new architect Don Torcuato Cayon project , which was completed by the architect Torcuato Benjamin. The construction of the new neoclassical oratory influenced by the way to Ventura Rodriguez, a friend of Goya and builder of the Santa Capilla de la Virgen del Pilar in Zaragoza, is one example of neoclassical architecture in Andalusia.

The reliefs were commissioned the sculptor Cosme Velazquez penitence and the crypt is a magnificent Calvary Galdulfo Vaccaro and sculptors. The promoter of the new building instructs the musician Joseph Haydn's famous musical piece to accompany the preaching of "The Seven Last Words of Our Redeemer on the Cross" on Friday morning Ghost.

This new chapel is accompanied oval lunettes decorated with paintings of Zacarias Gonzalez Velazquez, whose theme is The Marriage of Cana, dated in 1795 and José Camarón collection of manna. Both fit the season and architecture but they are cold, they comply with the order and keep both reminiscent of antique prints. Also a portrait on the front shield by the painter Francisco Riedmayer.

Goya recovered in 1792 and it is quite possible that before returning to Madrid and take the commission to paint three paintings in the Holy Cave. In 1793 in Madrid again, and its creative power is turned on and investigate new pictorial materials, working on hojadelata, and that had a factory round and certainly will provide the plates Sebastian Martinez, and scenes painted on them for calling bulls Caprichos, for the first time using this terminology for their work and presenting at the Academy of San Fernando. By this time Manuel Godoy soars in power and protects Goya as a painter and in 1796 invited him to Rome Site in Granada, to paint his portrait horses in the landscape of the river Genil, coinciding with that Duchess of Alba who was in Seville with her husband the Duke, who died in that city.

Goya moved to Cadiz to paint the custom of the Holy Cave and leaves us three pictures, in which, with some memory of the paintings of Aula Dei, faces three issues. The multiplication of the loaves and fishes, with a triangular composition in an oval in which the figure of Christ divides the scene. In The Parable of The Wedding of the King's son, leads to a large room where only one of the guests is bound fired for not meeting standards, other workers are concentrated at the bottom. King reminds the Wise Man of Aula Dei in their approach and execution. The sacrament breaks with a composition circulate within the oval, hardly reminiscent architecture, everything revolves around Christ and his future tragedy. It is the most fluid brushwork and in the future apply this concept in his frescoes in the cupola of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. The color of these three paintings reminds us of the air and sea from Cadiz.

When his work is aimed at Sanlucar de Barrameda to meet the Duchess of Alba widow.

Carlos Barboza

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

How To High Towear Suspenders

Brownie for friends

The kitchen is a pastime and a necessity. You can cook to survive, you can eat forever envelope drawing on the wide range that the food industry makes available and can be eaten cooked with imagination as found in the market.

I'm one of those who enjoy cooking and entertaining. It began as un interés de adolescente: me relajaba en mis horas de estudio aprendiendo a cocinar lenguas de gato, bizcochos, cualquier cosa que sonara a dulce. Luego, lógicamente, vino lo demás.

Comencé con la ayuda de los libros de cocina. He cocinado casi de todo: potajes, paellas, fideuás, ossubucos, canalones, lasañas, hago mis propias masas de pizza, caldos, cremas de verduras, quiches, bizcochos, panellets, trufas, profiteroles... incluso en mi época de vegetariana estricta aprendí a preparar seitán, una experiencia divertida y muy gratificante.

A medida que aprendes a cocinar, vas asumiendo lo que yo llamo una cierta "intuición". No hace falta un gran dominio de las amounts or adjust the script for a recipe. The experience and some sensitivity do the rest. Over time, we end up throwing some cookbooks and light the oven to see what happens.


This is evident with the brownie recipe . The brownie chocolate cake is very typical of Anglo-Saxon countries. It is basically a mixture (explosive) butter, chocolate, sugar, eggs and nuts. There are plenty of variations of the original recipe. The secret of the brownie is on two things: first, use quality ingredients and second, adjust the cooking time. The reason for the second point I brownie said that the finish should not be cooked completely. Should be cooked "to mean" to make a crust that encloses the central part unfinished sewing, tender and creamy. Knowing the behavior of our oven is important. In fact, the secret of almost all well-made biscuits lies in cooking, rather than whether we have gone from quantity with sugar or olive oil.

My brownie is usually a "must" when I go to dinner at my friends and my family. On Friday night I attended a dinner with good friends I have in Terrassa and each brought a different dish. One of my friends is an excellent cook and entertained us with a crown of pumpkin with blue cheese sauce that sparked more than a whimper pleasure (mine), a salad of arugula with Greek cheese and tomatoes ... was a riot of colors and flavors beyond the stale dish of sausages with bread (and tomatoes, Catalan-style).

My version works as I will explain below. I point that I always give numbers as approximate, since the flexibility in the kitchen is a great quality.

INGREDIENTS ---------------------------- -------------------
200 gr. chocolate fondant (I like to put it high in cocoa minimum 70%).
200 gr. butter (no margarine-type junk, do not be fooled).
150 gr. sugar (If powdered, much better, but I use the normal at hand). 3 large eggs
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100-120 gr white flour (sometimes I put wheat or buckwheat, then usually put a little less), passed through the sieve, so smooth.
1 / 4 of Yeast on Royal .
A handful of nuts (or almonds, or hazelnuts, dried fruit ... any worth)
Diced candied orange to , to taste. DEVELOPMENT ------------------- -----------------




1. We light the oven to start, over medium heat.
2. Grease bottom: passing a oil layer of butter, then sprinkle with flour finely. I always toss and throw the flour off the excess.










3. In a saucepan, over low heat, start to melt the butter mixed with chocolate fondant. Technically it should be done in a water bath, but low heat and stirring continuously, it is just as well. Yes, can not she fails, if the butter and chocolate boiling, the mixture is weakened a lot, the trick is to stir continuously until both have melted and been mixed.







4. In a bowl, breaking eggs and beat briskly a couple of minutes (think of your boss tends to work).
5. Add the sugar and continue beating until you get a foamy.
6. With the rods to beat the mixture gently we add butter and chocolate. This mixture should have a nice brown color, bright, mixed well with the eggs and sugar.








7. The texture is like cream, you do not beat too long. Once mixed, add the flour as rain. At this point we leave the rods to beat and mix with a wooden spatula, making moves from outside to inside, "wrapping" the mass.
8. Finally mix with this method of nuts and candied orange.
9. This mixture, which should have a glossy texture of heavy cream and some sticky (or sliding, but not too much) is poured into the mold.
10. Cooking. It works for me as follows: 15 minutes on medium-high heat oven and 20 minutes down the heat to medium-low with the idea of \u200b\u200bconsolidating the cortex (not burn), cook a little more inside, but not cook totalmente.Yo I have a single oven gas, which is usually cooked to a temperature higher and more unequal than electric ovens, much easier to understand. This is where everyone will have to investigate your own oven and reach an entente cordiale. " If the inside is cooked too is not a tragedy, it becomes a delicious chocolate cake. So take care that it does not burn the crust. ----------------------------------------




Then to serve, it is usually warm up a bit to melt the central part of the brownie, and served with cream. I usually put a flower of cream on the brownie portion, or serve clarified bitter orange marmalade to accompany the lot. Clearly

British recipe that is different, every recipe I adapted to my peculiar way of doing, is what makes each of us has his "point" personal. From here you can vary the proportions, try more pure cocoa (I've found one of 85% purity in a wholesale baker in the center of Barcelona), meal number (spelled the difference I like to the wheat, and is more nutritious) ... Who said good food "has to be paid? to friends for free:)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Congratulations Quote For Promotion

ILP: sequels were even worse ...



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few weeks ago my couple had the chance to spend a weekend in Deltebre in the house of some friends in the neighborhood. He was in Tortosa, Amposta and enjoyed the kindness and hospitality of the people of the Ebro, frolicked in the dunes of the Delta in a few years ago he recorded his theme U2 Vertigo ; passed it pump.

I was struck by the insistence of those people to convince my partner that "correbous are not like bullfight." Repeatedly invited him to come to see them, so that it finds "that there was no animal abuse." Once home even thought it had convinced him so he tried to make me look at me. We knew

what would happen and when it came out the ILP in Catalonia on the run. Protectionist circles knew what would happen.

That makes it no less shameful.

I feel compelled to write about this, because a minimum of coherence requires me to not remain silent before what seems an act of hypocrisy over the Catalan political class. Vein is "La Fiesta", but allowed "The Correbous." By keeping a handful of votes have succeeded, once again, Catalonia is halfway between progress and ridicule, the latter winning by a landslide.

funny thing is that "correbous are an example" book "of how reach agreements and alliances that we are off course do not understand or approve. I can only add that I'm very seriously considering not voting in the upcoming regional eleccicones. The only alternative that the political class would understand (and I have my doubts) would be an almost complete abstention of the public, to protest his ineffectiveness and inefficiency at all levels.

But ... better have a good laugh. A comedy show (Poland) Catalan channel showed very well what many think about shielding correbous . I vote for suegerencia implement the program. Included the gag is in Catalan, but it is very short and well understood. ------------------------------