Festival!

This golden treat can be enjoyed with any meal, but is especially delicious with breakfast. It has the texture of a donut, but is not as sweet and is delicous when dipped in gravy.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup flour


• 1 tsp. baking powder


• 1 Tbsp. margarine


• 1 cup cornmeal


• 1/4 cup sugar


• 1 tsp. nutmeg


• 1 tsp. lime juice


• 1/2 cup water


• 1/2 cup oil for frying

Method:

• In one large bowl, sift flour and baking powder.


• Add cornmeal, sugar, nutmeg, salt, margarine, lime juice and enough water to bind mixture to a manageable dough.


• Leave to stand for two minutes.


• Heat Oil in a pan, shape festival into fingers and fry.


• Drain on absorbent paper.

Reaction to "Stop Drinking the Koolaid" article

Received significant feedback overnight regarding the article I posted yesterday. One email in particular caught my attention because it reminded me that we can never, ever give up! To steal a line from the movie, "Apollo 13", "Failure is not an option!

Below is the email followed by my response:

Email from JY:

"Funny we were speaking of the same thing in our sales meeting this morning. It is just one bad thing after another isn’t it. Where is the good news? I remember when we first graduated from college in 1981 and things were pretty rough then as you might recall, with few jobs and interest rates around 20%. At the suggestion of one of our salespeople who was like you we started a good news only newscast at 4p every day. It featured only funny news stories and good news and the response was…..listeners hated it!!!! After less than two months we took it off the air. I guess people like to be told of the grim, the gruesome and just plain bad news. Give em what they want!"

My Response:

"No, we must not give in to the lowest common denominator. Just because the idea did not work then does not doom it to the failure bin. Try again. Do it differently this time: get all the announcers and news people to look for good/positve angles on all the stories and commentaries. Demand that when they have to report a doom and gloom story, they balance it with a positive commentary. Don't wait. Do it now!"

Now I'll wait and see if anything happens...

Really Great Car Ad

I know, I know, everyone says that. Well this one from Audi (http://www.audi.ca/audi/ca/en2.html) literally rips apart the cliche saying, "out of the box".

Take a look for yourself at this link: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1370868150/bctid6806956001

Thanks NM for bringing this to my attention. Enjoyed it.

Ackee and Saltfish...a National Delight

This delicious and vibrant meal is Jamaica's national dish and is often referred to as Jamaica's version of North America's omlette.








Ingredients:
2 cans of ackee
6 slices of bacon diced
1 onion diced
2 green onion diced
1 scotch bonnet pepper chopped
2 branches of fresh thyme
2 cups saltfish (boiled down)
2 tbsp oil for frying
Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

• Put oil in a non stick pan or pot and add onion, pepper and green onion and saute over medium heat.
• Slice bacon into 1/2" pieces. Fry separately, drain on paper towel.
• Add ackee and bacon and mix around.
  Then, add tyme, cover, reduce heat to low-medium and let simmer for 15 minutes.
• Then, add salt and pepper to taste and enjoy.

Can be served with sliced avacado and Festival.