La Butte aux Cailles and its restaurant: "Les Cailloux"

If you walk one day on the side of the Butte aux Cailles and that you start to feel the hunger to come, I advise you a small halt at the restaurant “Les Cailloux”. It is a small Italian restaurant not too far from the place of the Butte aux Cailles (XIII), with a middle-class Bohemian environment… but that's why we like the Butte aux Cailles, isn't it? The decoration is sober although a little sinks, with lamps which do not finish any going down… The reception is cordial and the service is fast. I can simply advise it to you for a meal with friends.

(The picture is borrowed from the site of the Verlaine Institute)

Tags: restaurant, Les Cailloux, Paris, Buttes aux Cailles, Cailles, Butte

Second Life: my first avatar

Second Life is very hype so I have just created my avatar and plug me to Second Life… I am not yet totally accustomed with the interface, but it is rather easy to move and interact with the objects. The inhabitants of Second Life (avatars) are very cool and never hesitate to guide you and to help you.


Above a small island that I discovered thanks to Zelena (an avatar met on SL), normally it is a beach of nudists, there is some one of them but not every people… The good point of this small island is that it is rather easy to gain Linden (the local dollar, which will enable you to buy new accessories for your avatar, or to take part in other activities of this world). Indeed on this beach, you can gain 2L$ for 10 minutes sunbathing and you can take part in a lottery and gain even more Linden (not later than yesterday, I gained 238L$)


My avatar, on the bath towel which pays you to sunbathe… As you have probably noticed, my avatar is a default one and looks like a first 3D game of Sega, I advise you to seek a news skin (skin) and to modify your avatar a little… Hair flex adds also much to realism…


An air sight of the dancefloor. I hope to find you on SL (do not hesitate to contact me if you want to be escorted)

Vitaminized salad with banana and apple

A small salad, with banana: a true delight Prepared in a few minutes, you will enjoy it

Ingredients:

• 2 bananas
• 1/2 cucumber
• 1 apple
• 2 big spoons of pinions of pine
• some mesclun (a salad)
• a little olive oil
• 1/2 lemon
• 1/2 grapefruit
• salt and pepper
  

Preparation:


Prepare salad. Heat the pinions of pine on a frying pan, stop when they start to roast. Press lemon and grapefruit, put the juice in a large dish at salad, cut bananas out of discs and add them to it. Raper the apple and add it, cut cucumber in small pieces and add it too. Finally, it only remains to add all: the salad, pinions, salt, pepper and oil… Mix a little to homogenize the preparation: it is done…


The banana adds a little heat and sweetened to salad: enjoy and do not hesitate to eat this dish again and again

Tags: banana, mesclun, pinions of pine, salad, lemon, grapefruit, cucumber

Muffins with Parmesan and Parma ham

A receipt of Gordon Ramsay, again… It is the third receipt which we test and the third receipt is quite as delicious as the preceding ones… It is a book which I advise you to buy and use to impress your guests at the time of an "aperitif dinatoire", or for a "tête à tête" This time it is a receipt of muffins with Parmesan and Parma ham whose preparation is a little strange at the beginning but whose result is excellent. Without waiting more, the receipt:

Ingredients:

• 85g butter not salted
• 100g of flour
• a pinch of salt
  
• Parma ham 100g, (small pieces)
  
• 3 eggs
  
• 4 sage sheets
• 40g Parmesan
  
• 220ml of water
  

Preparation:

First of all, put the oven to 200°. During this time, make gently heat water with butter in a pan, to mix them … I know water and fat does not mix… But I had not warned you that this receipt is a little strange When butter is quite molten increase fire. During this time mix salt with the flour. When the mixture starts to boil, add the salt-flour mixture and to withdraw fire to it. Mix vigorously until obtaining a homogeneous paste. Let cool.

Add eggs little by little to the mixture in order to obtain a homogeneous and flexible paste.

Then add the Parmesan, sage and Parma ham.

On a plate going to the oven, place a greaseproof paper sheet and made small heaps with the preparation (not more than 3 cm in diameter). Let cook during 20 to 25 minutes until muffins take a a little gilded color. Eat them hot or cold. Enjoy

Tags: Gordon Ramsay, ham, Parma, Parmesan, sage, muffin

My banana-chocolate

Delicious receipt of banana-chocolate cake only for you

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• sugar (brown sugar) 130g
• 50g of flour
• 1/2 yeast sachet
• butter 150g
• black chocolate 150g
• 10 black chocolate squares
  
• 1 banana

Receipt:

Preheat the oven (180°c). Mix eggs with sugar, add the flour and mix again. Put the chocolate with the butter in the microwaves. Incorporate the butter-chocolate melted in the preparation. Add slices of banana and the black chocolate squares. Pour the preparation in a cake pan (butter it and add some flour) Let cook the mixture approximately 35 minutes. It is necessary to remove the pan when the cake is tepid then let it cool at ambient temperature. Personally I advise you to taste this cake with homemade chantilly

Tags: cake, banana, chocolate, brown sugar, flour, butter

Restaurant: Les délices d'Aphtodite

A small Greek restaurant not far from the Latin Quarter, forget the kebabs, chips, Coke and other white sauces !!! We are very far from the ordinary Greek, the price is there for you to recall it for you go there follow the guide. I highly recommend Pikilias to you, the reception is warm and elegant and finally the wines are very good! A must

Tags: restaurant, Greek, Pikilias, kebab, Paris

My receipt of fajitas

My first tests for the fajitas were limited to buy a prepared sauce… But it is not really funny thus I created my own receipt :

Ingredients:

• 3 onions (average)
  
• 1 large green pepper
• 2 tomatoes well wall
• 2 limp of tomato puree (2*70g)
• tabasco (for those which like)

Receipt:

Cut onions in very small pieces. Put some olive oil on the bottom of a large pan, add onions and make them bleach. During this time, cut tomatoes and sweet pepper in very small pieces… Add to onions, and to let it on the fire during a few minutes. Add the tomato puree finally, cover and let cook a good 10 minutes. Your sauce for the fajitas is ready.

Good appetite

Tags: fajitas, tabasco, tomato, green pepper, onion, mijoter, napper

Rollmops and its vegetables

Small fast meal but so good
The reverse engineering is very simple (for 2 people):

• a box of rollmops
• a half cucumber
• 2 tomatoes
• a small green pepper
• a carrot

Peel and cross with love: here it is ready… You can also prepare a small sauce containing soft white cheese, of a little dill and wine vinegar. Good meal

Tags: rollmops, cucumber, tomato, carrot, kitchen

Joost: the P2P TV

You probably know Kazaa and Skype… Imagine that their creators started to work on a new service … According to you which will they choose? The TV!!! Thus the old project known under the name of “Project Venice” is beginning its as Beta version under the name of Joost and like many Beta project, you are recruited either directly or by sponsorship the quality is rather good
The interface looks like an application written in Flash or something from the Internet world, but it does not look like an interface the Windows world. A little annoying at the beginning but you will quickly enjoy the interface.
For the moment there are only few channels… But it is a version beta, I guarantee that when the system will be more widespread, many advertisers will want to take benefit from this new service… Moreover I wonder what that will happen when each one will be able to create its own contents and to upload it in the system… It could be the end of VOD
of course you will have to wait sometimes… and especially at the beginning… but as a whole, it is largely possible to watch an emission without too much annoyance…
On the other hand, I do not know very well which software of compression they use, but it is a greedy resource: knowing that I have Pentium M (1,4GHz), that I have just launched Windows and that the only launched program is Joost (made abstraction of MSN and others…) I have an average consumption of my processor of 70%!!! On the other hand the use of the network remains suitable… I wonder well how that workss… I believe that I will have fun in the following days… and will watch series

Tags: joost, Venice Project, Kazaa, Skype, sponsorship, Flash, Windows, VOD, compression

Richard Stallman and Trusted Computing

If you want more information about the Trusted Computing, even if I think that the movie is better

Tags: Richard Stallman, Trusted Computing

Trusted Comuting: a film to warn you

Do you know what "Trusted Computing” is it is a new idea developed by some great names of computers, according to them to make our computers safer. The guiding principle is very simple, it consists in assigning a signature for each data-processing object (software, document, music), and delegating to a third party the task to check if the handled object is authorized with being used on the local system… Elegant you will say, at the end we will get rid of all theses viruses… But think just a little: who will be the third party, the confidence one? All the signatures will have to be checked by this third party, and thus each signature recorded in the big database of this new Big Brother what, in a Microsoft logic, for example, will mean paid a lot of money to record your signature (if you do not believe me, ask yourself this simple question: “How much would it cost me to have my certificate in Internet Explorer? ”). To explain hazards this concept, here a small film found on Zudeo:

Once again the great computer makers groups or OS makers intend to play Big Brother with the world… But once again, I think that the free software, will be able to answer this threat… If the laws are not voted by and for the million of $ these large companies!

Tags: big brother, trusted comuting, APRIL, Zudeo, free software

The museum of the primitive arts or the museum of the Quai Branly

The museum of the Quai Branly or museum of arts and civilizations of Africa, of Asia, of Oceania and Americas (nonWestern civilizations) is located as its name indicates on the Quai Branly. Personally, I think that in a near future it will be called Musée Chirac, the BNF is now called Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. Each French President has its own monument in France... (except maybe Valéry Giscard d'Estaing )As you can see on this picture, the museum is all longitudinally and rises a such house on piloti on the top of the garden… Next time you walk in the garden, have a look to the ground, you could discover something , the large cubes of color must correspond to rooms but I am not certain…
Because I did not visit yet, moreover, I suppose that the photograph above must correspond to the library part…
I wonder whether in summer open air conferences will be envisaged… A little like a chief council (OK, I recognize it, that strongly resembles to an amphitheatre… so much more with Latin 's touch…) Finally this museum is worth be seeing, and I think I will visit it soon… So follow this blog

Tags: quai Branly, Chirac, Miterrant, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Giscard, BNF, primitive arts, museum