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Actually, we have stories about how in the South, you have to make sure you keep your doors locked during the summer.

Why?  Because if you don't, people will put an enormous pile of zucchini in to get rid of it.

So no, zucchini is not difficult to procure at all.

ROTFL!!

Recipe Name: ramen with vegetables and egg

again: I may have used italian only stuff diffcult to find in your area. I can't say. probably zucchini are rare or not cheap.

you'll need a wok for this. and whatever the precooked ramen says you'll need to prepare it.

ingredients for 4
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- ramen (the thinest one you can find, I can't find fresh one but precooked will do fine)
- 4 carrots
- 2 yellow bell pepper
- 2 red bell pepper
- 2 onion
- 4 eggs
- 3 zucchini
- a strong Japanese beer, 500ml bottles are the most common so go with that
- soia sauce

pour some olive oil in the wok.

chop the onion roughly.

chop the carrots too. carrots need to be in the smallest pieces, you can also make a julienne cut out of them but I prefer pieces.

clean the bell peppers.

start heating the oil on a high flame

keep chopping pepper until the oil is hot, then pause and give attention to the wok

put onion pieces in the wok and shuffle them a lot. when they start turn yellowish, put carrots and lower the flame. don't wait until onion are fully golden because you'll burn them as carrots are not that watery to safeguard the onion pieces. carrots need to go this way 10 minutes before putting peppers in.

finish chopping peppers. make stripes, around 1/10" in thickness and no more than 1" long. thinness is for the cooking, length for blending with the ramen

while you're chopping keep an eye on the stuff on the flame. when it gets dry, pour with a quarter of the beer. let it go a couple of minutes, and put peppers in. shuffle them all. they need to go 20/30 minutes before putting zucchini in

in the meanwhile start cutting zucchini. chop them in pieces, make them in pieces roughly of 1/2" size. now and then shuffle up the stuff in the wok. this should slow you enough that by the time zucchini are chopped you can put them in the wok. respect the time limit or zucchini wil get ready before pepper

they'll need to go for another 30 minutes, so plan the ramen accordingly to make it ready when the vegetables are ready.
after 20 minutes or so, break the eggs in a cup and mix them thoroughly

when ramen is about to get ready, say a couple minute before, crank up the flame as you need the vegetables super hot and put the beer to prevent them burning down on the wok. shuffle frequently. you'll need to have them hot for the egg to cook.

when ramen are ready put them in the wok, give a quick shuffle, put the egg in and shuffle until the beer dries and the eggs are well cooked. it will take 2/3 minutes.

pour some soya in and it's ready.

I serve them directly from the wok, the wok it's nice enough to be brought on the table steaming (I'm quite obsessed with presentation )

some of my favourites; quite simple and yet tasty

note, those may have an italian twist in them
note 2 I can't wait for the italian food week to show off 
note 3 I'm taking wild guess at cooking terms, sorry for that.

Recipe Name: chicken&rice

ingredients for 4
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6 zucchini
200gr of chicken breast
some flour
soya sauce
300gr of basmati rice
oil, butter, salt
Instructions
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chop zucchini cross cut as thinly as you can, be sure to be uniform. thickness influences cooking time.

wash the rice under runnig water for a couple of minutes and let it rest under water in a casserole

put the zucchini in a pan with a little of virgin olive oil, let the oil get hot, shuffle for a while and keep an eye on it because in this phase they havea chance to get burnt; keep them going in hot oil for a couple of minutes and then add a little of water; put a lid on and let them go on a medium flame until they're almost dry. this will take a while so you have just enough time to do the other stuff.

after the lid is on on zucchini, chop the breast in small pieces (between 1/2" and 1/4" inch), put them in a plate and cover them in flour.  shuffle until flour is attached to the meat at all sides and then take away the excess flour.

put some butter on another pan and when it's hot put the meat in it, mix up and some five minutes after pour them with soya sauce. don't let them turn to dry as the cooked sauce will help flavouring the rice

in the meanwhile take the water away from the rice casserole (keeping the rice!) and recover the rice with 600ml of fresh water, add salt. put on a moderate fire until half the water is gone, then add a bit of butter and let it finish cooking until almost dry. if at the end of the water it's still raw put some more water and keep it running until cooked.

put the rice with the meat and add zucchini. meat take a while to chop so zucchini will be ready by now, they cook in about 30 minutes so if you have precut meat you can adjust time accordingly.

add a bit of fresh soia sauce and mix it all up.

prepare time: 45 mins

Recipe Name: beef&rice cherry flavoured

ingredients for 4
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five spice powder
cherry flavoured brandy
garlic
200gr of beef
300gr of basmati rice
oil, butter, salt, sugar
Instructions
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wash the rice under runnig water for a couple of minutes and let it rest under water in a casserole

chop the beef in pieces, around 1/2" or 1/4" size. put it in a casserole, cower with water, add a spoon (coffe size) of sugar, 3 coffe size spoon of five spice powder, 4 spoon (big) of cherry brandy, 3 cleaned garlic cloves (not chopped, you'll remove them when it's ready)

put with a lid on over a strong fire until boiling, then remove the lid and let it go at moderate fire until almost dry. keep it moist as that will be the rice dressing

in the meanwhile take the water away from the rice casserole (keeping the rice!) and recover the rice with 600ml of fresh water, add salt. put on a moderate fire until half the water is gone, then add a bit of butter and let it finish cooking until almost dry. if at the end of the water it's still raw put some more water and keep it running until cooked.

serve in a plate, the meat on a side and the rice on the other side, the rice covered in the left over of the sauce from the cooked beef

Quote from: lastofthelight on January 12, 2011, 04:48:22 am

Where else do they get money from then?

They sell other software products or other people's games.

The profits from their own in-house games are a small part of their total income.

not only from third party games (both as a publisher and as a distributor, I think they own impulse). they have a also wide range of enterprise solutions and desktop products (of dubious utility to me):
http://www.stardock.com/products/
http://www.stardock.com/corporate/

the point was that they would like to expand their game development team enough to have one group expanding on the elemental engine for creating expansions and other game while the other should have continued their work on galciv engine.

the creation of an upfront engine for elemental somewhat delayed the expansion, but they're strong enough to keep up with a single games team

Quote from: Tellemurius on January 11, 2011, 03:17:06 pm

what do you mean by that, criminals?

People with serious mental illnesses?  Convicts?

jealous significant halfs?

btw, I think that should the revolutionary sentiment get strong enough, people will find the guns they need regardless of the gun right in the nation at the moment just before the revolution begins. they stormed the bastille mainly for its weapon caches, not for 'the political symbol it were' as french tales later told...

I'm watching this game too, as a long time fan of master of magic. I'll wait until some 1.2 review comes in.

regarding content... this game is one with a good chance to cater a good community of modders, if the civilization guy is going to work at the moddability then we'll see tons of content and a small chance of a mom rewrite. civ III and 4 had some impressive mods, specially the ones focusing on well known nerdish subjects (middle earth for one)

Just out of curiosity, what is "non-fairy vampirism" supposed to be? Vampire fairies are kind of a hilarious idea though, fluttering around nipping people on the arms.

there was a thread about it no long ago http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=71994.0