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July 31, 2015 By Fausta

Brazil: How to make coxinhas

Found this at my friend Augusto’s Facebook feed:

conxinha minion“Money doesn’t buy happiness.

But it buys coxinhas, have you seen anyone uhnappy while eating a coxinha? It’s impossible to be unhappy with a coxinha.”

Of course I had to ask Augusto for a recipe. Augusto, in turn, asked his friend, chef Ripp Cozzella (a chef!) for advice. Ripp kindly replied,

A cozinha autêntica não tem muita frescura,
Coloca-se em uma panela óleo (pode ser azeite), alho esmagado (algumas pessoas colocam cebola ralada) e caldo de galinha.
Quando levanta fervura, faz como a Patê a Choux e coloca de uma vez a farinha.
Mexe até soltar do fundo. Espera amornar e molda.
Passa pela farinha de rosca fina.
O recheio é o frango desfiado ou picado temperado a gosto.

Which Augusto beautifully translated,

He said that authentic cuisine is not and needs not be fussy or complicated.

The dough is simple: you sauté crushed garlic (some people used grated onions) in oil (it can be olive, or plain vegetable oil) and add chicken stock. When it boils, you proceed like in a pâte a choux, dumping the wheat flour all at once. You stir until it comes off the bottom of the pan, then wait until its just warm. You can then mold the coxinhas then. The filling is simply shredded checken (breasts or even thigh meat), sauteed with regular seasoning (salt, pepper, parsley, garlic, onions).

I’m heading to the supermarket this weekend to get the ingredients.

Warmest thanks to Augusto and chef Ripp.

Bon appetit!

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July 31, 2015 By Fausta

Argentina: Cristina tweets Iran

Today’s Capt. Louis Renault moment:

Argentine President Defends Her Country’s Iran DealAgreement in 2013 was much criticized

What’s with the hair?

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner is using the nuclear accord between Iran and world powers to defend a much-criticized deal her own government made with Tehran nearly three years ago.

That 2013 accord, to create a “truth commission” with Iran to investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, was criticized by many in Argentina and abroad—including officials in Israel—who said it would permit Iranian suspects to avoid justice.

Political analysts in Argentina say the nuclear deal, forged this month, has given Mrs. Kirchner the chance to put her own dealings with Iran it in a new light. She has done so through a series of tweets and public comments.

Related:
Alberto Nisman’s s murder is all about Iran.

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July 31, 2015 By Fausta

Answers: Where can women go, instead of Planned Parenthood?

Don’t believe for a moment that poor women have no alternatives to the abortion-mills-trading-in-human-organs. To be specific, there many better options than Planned Parenthood:

  • Thousands of community Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) for which the Affordable Care Act added $11 billion in funding
  • New York Health and Hospitals Corporation,
  • More at http://www.freeclinics.com/

More answers at my post, Answers: Where can women go, instead of Planned Parenthood?

Related:
I Used To Be Pro-Choice. So I Know This Is An Opportunity For Life Advocates To Start Changing Minds.

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July 30, 2015 By Fausta

Peru: Shining Path’s shameful prisoner camps

The Marxist “criminal narco-terrorist organisation” still exists:

Peru rescues 26 children and 13 women from Shining Path jungle ‘slavery’Officials said some of the captives were kept at the remote hideaway for up to three decades, among them women abducted from a church mission 25 years ago

According to Peru’s deputy defence minister, Iván Vega, the women and children were being kept as slaves by members of the Maoist rebels, who subjected their victims to forced labour and obliged the younger women to have sexual relations with militants. Among them were women whom the Shining Path had abducted from a mission run by nuns in the Andean town of Puerto Ocopa 25 years ago.

Mr Vega described the hiding place in the Junín region, where the captives were found in a joint police and army raid, as a “production camp” providing insurgents with food supplies and a breeding ground for future guerrilla fighters.

To Marxists, human life is simply another commodity.

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July 30, 2015 By Fausta

En español: @OLPL visita Bayly

El escritor Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, anoche, en el show de Jaime Bayly,

Interesantísima entrevista.

OLPL va a presentar su libro Boring Home este domingo a las 2PM en George Gallery, 815 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables. La nota editorial del libro en Amazon dice,

Este libro resultó ganador del Premio “Novela de Gaveta Franz Kafka” en Praga, en 2009, y suscitó no pocas desazones al autor en su patria, Cuba, donde fue prohibido y su circulación clandestina fue perseguida. Un libro que le valió la expulsión de los sellos estatales y su condena por pertenecer al movimiento blogger cubano. Boring Home no solo es un libro de cuentos. Posee una cara aspiración: la de convertirse en un artefacto al que le damos cuerda con nuestras lecturas activando sucesivos repertorios mentales. El bioquímico que persiste en el alma libertaria de Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo transmutó sus disquisiciones alquímicas en este libro-sustancia devenido base reactiva de nuestros imaginarios. Pardo Lazo abreva en las fuentes clásicas de la tradición isleña con un don experimental, propio de su carácter autodidacta. Los cuentos Boring Home parten desde el diálogo formal a la farsa, pasan por la distopía y se encierran, en algunas piezas, en la más provocadora ciencia ficción que no deja respiro.

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July 29, 2015 By Fausta

New Jersey: It’s the taxes, stupid.

njtaxEd Driscoll, posting at Instapundit, links to Lee Habeeb’s article, Fleeing New Jersey, and Its Crushing Taxes, for a Better Life

The home my father thought he owned outright had a co-owner: the local city council and school board. And it was a co-owner with an appetite for spending. Home ownership may have had its privileges, but it became a burden he could no longer afford.

The local property-tax bill alone was enough to make him move. On top of that, New Jersey went from having no state income tax to having one of the highest in the country (8.97 percent for the highest earners, and 6.4 percent for the middle class), and from having no sales tax to having one of the highest rates in the country (7 percent, almost as high as California’s, which is the highest sales tax in America, at 7.5 percent).

Let’s not forget the estate tax, and the inheritance tax, too.

When you sell your house, you have to pay a tax on the total sale (not on the profit; on the total sale), which in my case was an exit tax.

As a result,

New Jersey led all 50 states in one tragic category: creating refugees. Last year, the Garden State lost more residents as a percentage of its overall population than any other state in the country, according to a 2014 National Movers Study commissioned by United Van Lines of St. Louis.

I remember last year I was in Rick Moran’s podcast with Jazz Shaw, who asked, why did I moved from New Jersey? When I truthfully replied, “because of the taxes,” Jazz diverted the conversation and asked another guest whether taxes were an important election issue, who, if memory serves, said they weren’t.

Having voted with my feet, I can assure you, New Jersey taxes ceased to matter the moment I moved away.

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July 29, 2015 By Fausta

Why dress up?

Why dress up? Because we’re tired of gym clothes everywhere, we’re hungry for sartorial style, we’re yearning to be free of slobs!

Read my article here.

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July 29, 2015 By Fausta

Blogging shall resume shortly

The local electrical utility company is having issues, which in turn affects internet connections, hence the delay in posting.

Meanwhile,

A quick glance at my FB & Twitter feeds has managed to put me on full Wednesday Addams mode pic.twitter.com/Od0eL1vVPi

— Fausta (@Fausta) July 29, 2015

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