Geek Cooks: Easy Desserts for Everybody...

I am rather (in-) famous for my culinary skills. So when I volunteered to prepare desserts for guests this weekend, it was rather challenging for me. To meet the challenge, I had to look into to pri-mate instincts...

[Snip! Black & White Documentary style]
Homo-sapeian aka us humans are most disabled species on earth... Physically i.e. We lack the furriness of a polar bear which would saves us from the withering cold. Yet, the human species survived the ice age.

The human species lacks sharp teeth or claws of now extinict Sabre-tooth, yet the primitive man managed to hunt and eat meat.

Luck? Somewhat. But the real thing, we innovate...:D

That is the reason for survival from ice age to today.

[Snip! Back to life today... present day modern kitchen. Credit for of this stuff above : NPR program on WABE 90.1 FM - Infinite Mind]

Anyway, I needed to innovate, with the "limited" resource in my hand. I choose to assemble. (Henry Ford would have turned in his grave, if heard this). Here is what I came up with...

Pineapple-Banana Split with grape topping
(Test-tasted using Eddie's Hand churned Chocolate ice-cream and Reena's Mango Ice-cream)

Ingredients

1. Churned Chocolate Ice cream (I did not make it, it just happened to be at home)
   or Mango Ice cream (Another ice cream variety that was in hand)
2. Banana (half)
3. Pine apple slices (Canned from any store)
4. Red Grape (1 piece)

Steps

1. Cut the banana into half and split the banana in the middle.
2. Place it in the serving dish, usually would be desert bowl as a V-shape.
   (V as in victory and that is what we plan for with our dessert lovers)
3. Drop in couple of scoops of ice-cream in the space between the V - banana split.
4. Take the pineapple slice and cut into half.
5. Drop the slices around the scoop.
6. Place the red grape on the top of scoop.

And there....:)

An fully assembled geeky banana-pineapple split with grape topping and ice cream of your choice.

My fellow humans... and beyond... ENJOY!!!

~~~ Cooking Unknowingly....now...

Hurricanes, World energy crisis and my outlandish ideas..

Before my blog meets the same fate as my website (death by lack of updates), here are some thoughts after hearing lot of coverage on hurriances in the US (North America, Gulf of Mexico really), world energy crisis....

In my limited knowledge of hurricanes are naturally occuring phenomena. Usually form over a oceans, thanks to a low pressure area, feeds on the warm ocean currents and becomes an monster at times with maximum sustained winds on which it gets its category.

Now, in one of the TV coverages, one hurricane "expert" mentioned that the energy from the storms could power the entire United States for a year.

That sparked a brain wave (in my brain of course) !!!

Now what if there was a way to "harness" the energy of the storm?

Only if you could throw energy acquistion devices (I fondly call them - "power goblets") into the storm and they would collect the energy from the powerful wind forces within the storm. The goblets would be intelligent and self powered enough, to navigate themselves outside the storm areas once fully charged and just float out in the calm waters. Thanks to nano-eletronics, I would not concive a power goblet to no more larger than a couple of tennis balls put together.

The power goblets would be configured with GPS and beacons. A goblet collection vechicle (sea fairing /airborne) would collect the goblets and bring them to mainland.

The energy from these goblets would be emptied into an energy distribution device and send around the globe to cities, village and maybe even cars.

Howzzat to solve the energy crisis of the world?

I even found the name for the venture or the new occupation/industry - STORM POWER HARVESTING.

I originally thought of Storm Harverters, but that gives an incorrect connation that storm harverters actually create storms...:)

Coming next, some closer to land idea to harness the same power. Umm... it's all in head, need to visualize it more before putting it in words.