Chorizo and Sausage Gravy
This may be the greatest biscuits and gravy gravy recipe ever. Screw it... I WILL MAKE THIS CLAIM!
This is the greatest biscuits and gravy gravy recipe ever... until i make it further better.
Ingredients
- 1lb sausage
- 1 stick of chorizo
- 2 eggs
- flour
- milk
Process
- Cook the sausage and chorizo.
- Leave the grease in the pan.
- Add four very rounded tablespoons of flour*. Maybe more.
- Cook the meat and flour mixture a bit.
- Slowly add milk and mix until you get the consistency you want.
- Mix in the two eggs and let that cook.
*the more flour you add the more gravy you're going to get. I like mine on the meatier side and for 1lb of sausage four rounded tablespoons was good.
You're on your own for biscuits. I would suggest something better than Grands, they always have a bad aftertaste to me. I admit, there's not much too it but I've never seen biscuits and gravy with chorizo in it. I have tried just chorizo in the gravy but it's just not as good. Here is a picture. Don't let the look deceive you.
Most likely I will make this better by adding Bacon.
Is Apple Playing the Startup Game?
What would be the easiest way to keep a secret about an upcoming device? The device not to exist!
I recently read an article by Paul Graham, What Startups Are Really Like and he notes that one of the suggestions is to release early and get customer feedback. What if you didn't even have to release?
For a second lets think about what happened with the iPhone. There was a lot of speculation before January 2007, and then iPhone came to MacWorld with a magical device that no one had seen before and didn't even have them ready for release until June 2007. Even then they ran out. I don't have a clear history of the time before January 2007 because I didn't pay attention to Apple news back then but I imagine it's very similar to the rumors and speculation that has been flooding the Mac community since early December.
Lets say Apple decided in October / November that the technology was ready for an Apple phone. Rumors started to spread but initially trickled. As Apple is designing hardware they put out different little bits of rumors here and there, parts manufacturers let it slip that Apple is buying parts, patents starting making headlines etc., but Apple at this point has no actual phone. And then what does Apple do? It listens. It puts it's collective ears to the track and starts hearing what people are speculating about. Gathering ideas? In December they start developing a weak layer of software and hardware to support it, ready for January of 2007. Think about it. Apple didn't have to even give people hands-on demos or anything. I'm not saying they hadn't tested the feasibility of the device, I just think as far as features go, the community fed them to Apple. All they had to do was simply show a thin layer of design for key features on this magical mystery device. As long as they could commit to their promises, it didn't have to even be ready for release. Remember that even in June they hadn't manufactured enough to meet demand. The first OS for the original iPhone wasn't *that* feature-full, but it met speculations and was executed well! Six months is plenty of time for a company with Apple's level of resources to develop the software for the phone they promised in January. Interesting enough, the 3G was a completely new, more compact, design which even included a 3G radio, leading me to believe the initial hardware design was done in a bit of haste (where they didn't consider that the metal backing of the original iPhone affecting radio signal strength). To their credit, excellent execution.
As for an upcoming tablet-like device, they don't necessarily even have this new device in hand right now. There are tidbits that say "You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet," and it doesn't take much for people to run with that idea and come up with even newer ideas. They could be working on it as I type this and implementing key features that experts and the community are saying the device needs to beat the competition. Doesn't anyone else think it's weird that they could keep such secrets? Steve Jobs couldn't even keep his health problems a secret. There is just no secret to keep! It's also interesting their event is now two weeks after CES where the competition is presenting their sub-par tablet devices? I'd say two weeks is plenty of time to implement some last-ditch ideas, especially ones you don't have to immediately release to the public.
Apple is agile and I believe this is something they do best, and for that fact what GM does worst. And what has the entire Apple community been providing over the last month but providing excellent ideas. Why not just let the customers decide what they want and then execute their ideas?
If the device is ready for release on the 27th, this whole article is moot, but I could still be right about the iPhone 
EDIT: Just so this is clear. I have been informed that there are many iterations that the iPhone went through so it wasn't a turnaround of 6months. But it also doesn't mean they're not keeping an open ear, but this is somewhat obvious within constraints. SDK was a request from the users, but maybe it was always planned.
Apple Pie
Do I continually out do myself or what???
Ingredients
The Crust
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- I teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 6 tablespoons shortening
- 6 to 8 tablespoons ice water
The Rest
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 6 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
Instructions
The Crust
- Put the 2 cups flour, 1 tsp salt, and 1 Tbsp sugar in a big mixing bowl.
- Use a masher (potato or dough) and mix in the 6 Tbsp butter, 6 Tbsp shortening, and 6-7 Tbsp water.
- Mash this up until it holds together but isn't too goopy (7 Tbsp of water was good for me).
- Wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for 20 min.
- Peel and cut the apples.
- Tell someone how you wonder what your upstairs neighbour is doing.
The Pie
- After 20 min, remove the pie crust from the fridge.
- Take about 10-15% of the crust and set it aside.
- Roll the big component of crust and put it in your pie thing.
- Put all the apples on the pie crust. Mound them.
- Take the 10-15% of pie crust you set aside and make it into long strings or flat slats that will go over the apples. Think old-school apple pie and how it looks when it has the Kris-Kross (daddy mack!) thing going on.
The Sauce
- Melt the 1/2 cup butter
- Add in the 3 Tbsp flour. Make it kinda a gel / goop.
- Add 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and 1/4 cup water.
- Get this boiling.
- Pour it over the pie. Let it get good and covered.
- Bake at 425 for 15 minutes.
- Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes. Use your eyes here.
- Optional: sprinkle some cinnamon on top after you pull it out.
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