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Fire Roll

We went to Arigato Sushi in Kamloops this weekend. The food was great. I saw this on the menu and had to order it.

It was called the “Fire Roll.” It was a Dynamite roll topped with BBQ eel, sea cucumber, and flying fish roe. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, it’s surrounded by FLAMES!

The roll is in a little foil boat to protect it from the fuel (alchohol?) and fire. The flames wrap around the roll and heat up the eel on top. After a couple minutes the fire burns out and it’s good to go. The taste was amazing. The BBQ eel is hot but the roll is still cool.
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You ever get an error like this from your feeds generated by WordPress?

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://www.yoursite.tld/utils/test.xml
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

Somewhere along the line a new line was being placed before the XML declaration in the feeds. This caused an error to display in Firefox and other browsers instead of the feed. Read the rest of this entry »

I was trying to teach Kaisey how to count, without much success. The results are very cute though. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s summer, and if if it wasn’t for Barbecue, I’d move to New Zealand for the winter. Thankfully cooking meat over a fire is as old as time and my wife won’t leave me for moving to New Zealand in the summer. Does that make any sense?

No.

About 5 years ago I read this BBQ brisket “recipe.” I put recipe in quotes because it was more of a narrative than a recipe. Some girl had interviewed this old guy on how to make his famous brisket. I wish I could find this again but Google has failed me for the first time. Anyways, the thing I remember most was his Recipe for BBQ rub. Here it is: Read the rest of this entry »

I was having some issues adding sub-categories that had duplicate names, but unique slugs. I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature, but since the slug is the unique key, it doesn’t make sense to me why you couldn’t be able to have duplicate names if the slug is unique. Anyways, here is a hack, not a plugin, so you’ll need to fix it again if you update WordPress. Read the rest of this entry »

So, I’m a pretty big Primus fan but I’ve never been a big fan of Les Claypool’s solo work though (except “Highball with the Devil”). Anyways, I listened to his latest album, “Of Fungi and Foe” and there was one song on it, “Bite Out of Life,” I really liked. It kinda sounds like Primus’ tour bus collided with a band of gypsies. Here it is on youtube, but it probably won’t last…

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My mouth waters just looking at this picture. Those pots of sauce simmering away, the smokey salmon….

Old-School Barbecue: Planked Shad

I need a time machine!

I found this image at Shorpy.

About a year before James Brown died, he came to our little K-Town. I posted about my experience there on the Steeldolphin Forums, and here it is.

I have been a James Brown fan for a long time. I always thought, “If there ever was a chance to see hime live, I would go.” So, unbelievably, he comes to our town. He’s doing the “Seven Decades of Funk” tour. He’s in his 70′s, can he still do it? Can he still put on a show?
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Here’s another article that’s pretty old, I don’t have a date on it but I think it’s about 7 years old. I’ve noticed that more and more sites focus more on ROI and less on looking cool these days, but there are still some good points here.

Many graphic design magazines and websites give awards for outstanding web design. Rarely do these awards take usability into consideration. Graphic Design is very important factor in web design, but there are more considerations to be made when building a website. What is usability, and how does it factor in measuring a site’s success Read the rest of this entry »

In the previous articles, I used a PHP shortcut to display variables. Just like this:

<?=$variable?>

That method, although very friendly and quick, is deprecated, so you should get used to doing this instead:

<?php echo $variable; ?>

I’ll keep you posted if I com up with anything else.