It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin
The harder I work, the luckier I get. - Samuel Goldwin
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. - Buddha
Step One:
You’ve been really wanting to try the miso garlic Sea Bass recipe you’ve cataloged in your mind so head to your favorite store. Go to the store and look for Sea Bass. Be confused when you look in the seafood section and cannot find Sea Bass. Begin to leave the store and think about other locations that may have Sea Bass but then think about how much effort that would take. Stop and head back to the seafood department and reconsider all the seafood that is available except for Tilapia of course.
Pick out a huge salmon and decide what you want to do as this changes your plan entirely. Think in the areas you like to cook in … southwest! Yea! BBQ! You’ve done that before… okay you’re ready. Grab several other items at the store that go along with fish. Things that are citrusy. Find a semi-prepared civeche mix and other ingredients like mango and other ingredients to your liking. Find some nice pre-made salad greens. Think about stuff you have at home. Forget to get the ginger. Forget additional fresh limes. Go to the battery section and look for AAA’s that are supposed to be on sale. Go home with enough stuff to fake a BBQ salmon. You must think about a really cool name for it not just BBQ salmon.
Ingredients from store (or at home):
1. Salmon
2. Mixed greens
3. Cilantro
4. BBQ sauce (or make your own)
5. Mangos
6. 1 large yellow onion
7. Bag chips (triangle shaped)
8. Civeche ingredients (shrimp, lemon and lime juice, pico de gallo, a little garlic and cilantro—this needs to soak all night so the acid in the lemons and limes cooks the shrimp)
9. Butter and margarine
10. Freshly ground pepper
Step Two:
Go home put everything away and eat some baked Cheetos and think about what you need to do 14 hours before the contest. Invent a lime-tequila marinade (it was either that or some corn based vodka my wife got for me in Germany) with chopped yellow onion and soak the salmon for about 4 hours. While that soaks work on the computer and eat the Chinese leftovers that were left unattended on the counter.
Step Three:
After four hours remove the excess juice (leaving the onion) from the salmon and cover both sides of the salmon with freshly ground pepper and liberal doses of BBQ sauce. Cover with plastic wrap and put back in the fridge.
Step Four:
In the morning sleepily realize that you have to cook a meal before work and then make coffee to help in finding the enthusiasm necessary to cook a large salmon. Drink coffee and then chop the mangos and add them to the civeche that soaked overnight. Heat up a skillet medium high with metal handles because you will put it under the broiler later. Add a tablespoon of salted butter and a tablespoon of margarine and cook the salmon with the lid on. Turn on the broiler to high. When the salmon is almost cooked on the stove top, put it under the broiler with the lid off and leave it there until the edges are caramelized and the fish is fully cooked.
Step Five:
To serve the fish, place on plate in the following order: salad greens > chips (make a circle out of the triangle chips) > ceviche > salmon > cilantro for garnish.
1920’s: cost of health care was ~4% of urban income but demand for hospital technologies rose. 1930’s: Blue Cross began providing hospitalization insurance for $6.00. Hospitals had steady income; consumers had relief but still paid other health care out-of-pocket. 1940’s: Blue Cross’ success prompted for-profit insurance companies to enter the health market, leading eventually to end-to-end health care “management”. 1950’s: demand for health insurance increased along with health care technologies and costs. Government policies encouraged providing health insurance as compensation instead of wages. Physicians lobbied to charge market rates based on ability to pay or location. Pharmaceuticals lobbied to charge market prices based on demand. 1960’s: government programs helped poor without modifying growing for-profit health management system. Today: the working insured enjoy new health technologies but pay ~15% of income and rising when including lost wages due to company’s premiums.
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