An Edible Mosaic Book Launch Party and a Recipe! - Food Doodles

I have something exciting to share with you today! I?m so honored and excited to be participating in my friend?s virtual book launch party and sharing a recipe from her new book!? My friend Faith Gorsky from An Edible Mosaic just had her first cookbook released: An Edible Mosaic: Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair.

Doesn?t it look wonderful?? I can?t wait to get my own copy!? I absolutely love Middle Eastern food but have very little experience with it.

Faith?s book has over 100 Middle Eastern recipes, with a focus mainly on dishes from the Levant, but also a few recipes from other areas of the Middle East. Faith has a pretty unique story? after getting married Faith spent six months living in the Middle East, where she fell in love with the culture and cuisine. Subsequently, she returned four more times for visits, each time delving deeper into the cuisine and deepening her passion for and appreciation of the region. Recipes in her book are authentic Middle Eastern (taught to Faith mostly by her mother-in-law, Sahar), but streamlined just a bit for the way we cook today, with unique ingredients demystified and cooking techniques anyone can follow.? I know from personal experience, that making Middle Eastern food when you have no experience with it can be really difficult; Faith understands that, and explains complicated dishes in an approachable, easy-to-follow way. The book is available to order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

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After you check out the recipe shared in this post, I hope you?ll head over to Faith?s blog to check out her virtual book launch party to see the other bloggers who are participating. Also, as part of her virtual book launch, Faith is hosting a giveaway of a fabulous set of prizes. Be sure to head over and enter!

The recipe from the book that I?m sharing with you today is for Saffron Rice with Golden Raisins and Pine Nuts, along with a variation for Mixed White and Yellow Rice. The recipe is actually vegan so you won?t have any trouble incorporating it into a vegan or vegetarian meal, but it is just as delicious served with chicken, beef, lamb, or seafood, and it would be really fantastic with just about any curry dish. (In the cookbook, Faith recommends pairing Shrimp in Aromatic Tomato Sauce with this rice dish, which sounds incredible!)

Saffron Rice with Golden Raisins and Pine Nuts

ROZ MLOW?WAN

Recipe courtesy of An Edible Mosaic: Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair by Faith Gorsky (Tuttle Publishing; Nov. 2012); reprinted with permission.

Serves 4 to 6
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes, plus 15 minutes to let the rice sit after cooking(longer if using brown rice)

1? cups (325 g) basmati rice, rinsed
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons pine nuts
1 onion, ?nely diced
4 tablespoons sultanas (golden raisins)
1? cups (425 ml) boiling water
? teaspoon salt
? teaspoon saffron threads (or ? teaspoon turmeric)

1. Soak the rice in tepid water for 10 minutes; drain. While the rice is soaking, put half a kettle of water on to boil.
2. Add the oil to a medium, thick-bottomed lidded saucepan over medium heat. Add the pine nuts and cook until golden brown, about 1 to 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Transfer the pine nuts to a small bowl and set aside.
3. Add the onion to the saucepan you cooked the pine nuts in, and cook until softened and just starting to brown, about 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the rice and cook 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in the sultanas, boiling water, salt, and saffron (or turmeric), turn the heat up to high, and bring it to a rolling boil.
4. Give the rice a stir, then cover the saucepan, turn the heat down to very low, and cook until tender, about 10 minutes (do not open the lid during this time). Turn the heat off and let the rice sit (covered) 15 minutes, then ?uff with a fork.
5. Transfer to a serving dish and sprinkle the toasted pine nuts on top; serve.

Optional:? Add two pods of cardamom, two whole cloves, and one 2-inch (5 cm) piece of cinnamon stick at the same time that you add the rice.

Notes:? I used brown basmati rice, increased the water to just under 3 cups and cooked until the rice was done.? I also added a little more salt to taste after it was done cooking.? I used turmeric instead of saffron and slivered almonds in place of the pine nuts and all the optional spices!? It was wonderful, and highly recommended!

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Live Chat at 12:30 P.M. EST on Election Fraud

Join us for a live online chat with computer scientist Andrew Appel of Princeton University. Dr. Appel will help us understand election security and voter fraud in light of yesterday's events

By The Editors

Image: Ken Wilson

Join us below at 12:30 P.M. Eastern time on Wednesday (November 7) for a live 30-minute online chat with Andrew Appel of Princeton University's Center for Information Technology and Policy.

With many New Jerseyans still coping with the aftermath of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Sandy, government officials gave voters more options for this election, allowing them to cast ballots by e-mail or fax. It's a legally contentious move that gives in-state residents the same benefits as overseas military personnel. But with the ever-present threat of hackers and identity theft, is it safe?

Similarly, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted restrictions in response to Sandy so that voters can place their ballots at any polling station, not just their usual assigned site.

During the live chat, Appel will discuss the practicality of Internet voting as well as election security nationwide. We invite you to post chat questions in advance in the comments below.?

Appel is chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University where he researches computer security, programming languages and technology policy. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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'Downton Abbey' season 3: Check out the photos

By Anna Chan, TODAY

Oh, the drama! "Downton Abbey" ended season two with a Christmas special that revealed quite a bit. (Spoiler alert!) Valet Bates was found guilty of the murder of his wife Vera and was sentenced to life in prison; Lady Sybil announced her pregnancy; and Lady Mary ended her engagement to Richard and became Matthew's fiancee.

But that was waaaaay back in February. Season three is getting closer, but it's still quite a wait until the January premiere. To tide you over, check out some photos from the upcoming season:

Joining the cast for season three will be Shirley MacLaine in the role of Martha Levinson, Lady Cora's mother. The drama will also introduce O'Brien's nephew Alfred, who joins the staff of the estate.

"Downtown Abbey" returns to PBS on Jan. 6.

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Seemingly endless Wis. election cycle eases to end

In this Oct. 31, 2012 photo, volunteer Rita Pincsak, right, staffs a Republican phone bank in Waukesha, Wis. With Tuesday?s election finally over, Wisconsinites are entering a period of unusual political calm. Since 2010 the state has been caught up in an endless series of elections, recalls and recounts. But for now the political races are over. That means a breather for busy campaign volunteers, a break for residents overwhelmed by robocalls, and more flexibility for advertisers who saw all the best TV spots get snapped up by deeper-pocketed buyers of campaign and issue ads. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)

In this Oct. 31, 2012 photo, volunteer Rita Pincsak, right, staffs a Republican phone bank in Waukesha, Wis. With Tuesday?s election finally over, Wisconsinites are entering a period of unusual political calm. Since 2010 the state has been caught up in an endless series of elections, recalls and recounts. But for now the political races are over. That means a breather for busy campaign volunteers, a break for residents overwhelmed by robocalls, and more flexibility for advertisers who saw all the best TV spots get snapped up by deeper-pocketed buyers of campaign and issue ads. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)

MILWAUKEE (AP) ? Candidates approving this message have been at it for two years in Wisconsin, along with the robocalls, angry commercials, emails begging for campaign donations and glossy political mail.

Think you had it bad over the last few months? Don't complain to Wisconsin voters, who have endured a continuous stream of elections, recalls and recounts since 2010, including one statewide election each month between April and June.

With Tuesday's presidential and congressional races finally over in this battleground state, residents are settling in to a campaign respite.

Some said they're answering their phones again. Local advertisers have access to the prime television spots that had been monopolized by wealthy buyers of campaign and issue ads. Campaign volunteers suddenly have free time.

"I'm going to catch up on all the reading I've been putting off for a year," said 77-year-old Luonne Dumak, who estimates she spent eight to 20 hours per week volunteering at a GOP headquarters in southeastern Wisconsin for the last two years, including helping Republican Gov. Scott Walker beat back a recall effort.

"But you know," the retired office worker added, "in the spring there's another state Supreme Court race."

Many local voters probably don't want to hear that.

The action started in 2010, when Walker defeated Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in a governor's race that cost $37.4 million, a record at the time. Walker moved swiftly to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees, sparking massive protests and prompting 14 Democratic state senators to flee the state in a futile attempt to block the plan.

Democrats then gathered enough signatures to force several Republican officeholders, including Walker, into recall elections as payback. Republicans responded by doing the same to a few Democrats.

But since the governor couldn't face a recall until he'd been in office for at least a year, Democrats in the meantime transformed an otherwise quiet Wisconsin Supreme Court election into a heated referendum on Walker.

A few months later, in the summer of 2011, nine state senators from across the state faced recall elections stemming from their positions on the labor law. Democrats defended their three incumbents and also took two of six seats from Republicans.

Five more elections arrived in rapid succession this year. Then a Republican presidential primary in April was followed by a Democratic primary in May to decide who would challenge Walker in the June recall election.

In August, four Republicans squared off in a bruising primary for the U.S. Senate. It came to an end Tuesday, with the deciding of the presidential and U.S. Senate elections that had attracted national attention and money to the state.

Margaret Grace, a junior and member of Marquette University's College Democrats, spent two years helping with one hectic Wisconsin campaign after another. After working so long to organize volunteers, make phone calls and knock on doors, she said it felt weird to have all the elections come to an abrupt end.

"It's certainly different. We were saying, 'What are we going to do now that we don't have a campaign to work on?'" she said.

Her group says it's considering partnering with environmental or women's rights groups on campus.

All those Wisconsin elections meant plenty of campaign spending: $81 million in the Walker recall race, about $65 million for the U.S. Senate race and $44 million for the state Senate recalls last year. A lot of that money went to TV stations in battleground areas such as Brown County.

Stations have to give legally qualified candidates their best ad rates. But issue groups, who are often well-funded and eager to spend, can be charged anything, said Steve Lavin, the station manager at WBAY-TV in Green Bay. Where a regular advertiser might be charged $2,000 for a prime-time spot, an issue group could be charged $20,000 to $30,000, he said.

That left some reliable advertisers scrambling for preferred spots. David Gruber, a personal injury attorney, is well-known throughout the state for his catchy commercials. But with fewer favorable time slots to choose from, he said his office compensated with billboards and website ads.

So many elections in such a short time could have caused Wisconsin voters to burn out. But the opposite was true. While voter turnout nationally was lower Tuesday than it was in 2008, the number of Wisconsin voters who turned out increased by about 80,000.

Still, the elections took a toll on some people.

Rita Pincsak, 63, of Brookfield said political divisions caused her to break off friendships with people whose views weren't compatible with hers. And James Stanhope, 60, of St. Francis said he stopped answering his phone for the past two months to avoid robocalls.

"I've gotten sick and tired of it," said Stanhope, adding that the endless TV commercials were intolerable. "I mean, when you know ads by heart and they start playing in your head, you've had too much."

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Associated Press writer Carrie Antlfinger contributed to this report.

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Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.

Associated Press

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Analysis: Obama, GOP size each other up for deals

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The people of a polarized nation just created a government that looks like them, and it sure looks a lot like the dysfunctional one now in place. The only hope for progress on jobs and everything else that matters is if President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress find fresh political incentive to compromise.

For the good of the country. Or, this being Washington, the good of their party and their political survival.

The nation's dreaded gridlock is still a four-way intersection in which all the drivers think they have the right of way.

A re-elected president says he has a mandate to raise taxes on the rich. The Republicans running the House say they have mandate to stop tax hikes on anyone. The Democrats who lead the Senate say the election only strengthened their stand, but Senate Republicans still have enough votes to block what they don't like.

In the hours after the election, at least, Republicans and Democratic leaders said they are willing to steer toward compromise, as messy as it may be.

Each side is assessing why and when to give ground in order to get business done, first on fiscal matters, and then perhaps on immigration laws.

The White House in particular was waiting to see the next move from a Republican Party that lost not just the White House race but a little ground in the House and Senate. As Sen. John Cornyn of Texas put it: "We have a period of reflection and recalibration ahead for the Republican Party."

A look inside each camp's political calculus shows voters may see some results.

To start, the Congress and Obama must act because they have created themselves a mess. Nothing big in Washington gets done without a punishing deadline.

Thanks to a series of deals and blown deadlines over the years, the nation on Jan. 1 is due to be hit with tax increases on millions of Americans, plus spending cuts that all sides agree would undermine the military and other basic government functions. The combined hit could throw the economy into recession.

To avoid that, the leaders are talking anew of a grand deal, not a quick fix. As envisioned, it would head off not just the looming fiscal cliff but also open the door for a serious look at reforming the nation's system of taxation and making cost-saving reforms to sacred entitlement programs such as Medicare.

House Speaker John Boehner offered an opening to Obama on Wednesday. "Let's rise about the dysfunction and do the right thing together," he said.

Of course, Boehner and Obama famously fell flat when they reached for such a bargain in 2011, as the country careened toward a perilous default. Boehner said Obama changed the terms, while the White House groused Boehner could not corral House Republicans who did not want to hand Obama a victory before his re-election bid.

"It's not gravy anymore. It's not optional," said Jim Papa of Global Strategy Group, who used to work in the Obama White House legislative office as well as for Democrats in the House and Senate. "It's viewed as something that must get done for the future of the country. So all that's left is to figure out how to do it. And that's what different from last time."

Yet a conflict remains that goes to the core of the fight ? indeed, to the core of the election.

Obama insists he will not go for a deal that extends tax cuts for incomes over $250,000. He thinks his win gave a mandate on that matter above all else, and exit polls showed most voters were with him. Boehner said the House would consider raising tax revenue by fixing the tax code and boosting the economy, but not through higher rates.

It is not clear how that standoff will get settled before year's end. And that's just the House.

Obama also still has to deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., whose disciplined band of Republicans just got more conservative with the addition of tea party-backed Republicans like Ted Cruz of Texas and Jeff Flake of Arizona. McConnell is up for re-election two years from now in a state that produced tea party favorite, Sen. Rand Paul, who McConnell opposed in the 2010 Kentucky GOP primary.

The president's approach, meanwhile, is heavily influenced by the debt debacle in the summer of 2011. Viewing that as a period of outreach that backfired on him, Obama goes into fiscal negotiations now with no incentive to give ground on what the White House calls tax cuts for millionaires.

"That's not bipartisanship. That's not change. That's surrender," Obama warned in the final days of the campaign. "That's surrender to the same status quo."

Obama's thinking, too, is that Republicans will have to help him fix the nation's broken immigration system or risk alienating a Hispanic population that could torpedo the GOP's electoral power for years.

Voters created this dynamic because they themselves are increasingly polarized. The nation was split 50-48 percent in choosing Obama over Romney. The share of moderate voters in the middle keeps shrinking.

There are signs of hope for compromise.

Karen Fitzgerald of Miami was all but grieving Republican Mitt Romney's loss to Obama. Throughout the election, her friends, most of whom are Democrats, had chided the Republicans on Facebook. On Wednesday, she saw a different theme in their posts.

"Now they're all saying we need to work together and be united," she said. "Maybe we can."

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Associated Press writers Christine Armario in Miami and Ken Thomas and Andrew Taylor in Washington, and AP Polling Director Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.

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AP White House Correspondent Ben Feller has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Follow Feller on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BenFellerDC

An AP News Analysis

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West Idaho Orthopedics Team Promotes Shoulder Health for fall ...

The staff at West Idaho Orthopedics (WIO) encourages Idaho residents to attend to their shoulder health this fall. Noting that people throughout the greater Boise, Meridian and Caldwell Idaho, region spend more time outside in the fall, the doctors want to educate the community about shoulder injuries. The medical staff at WIO includes Dr. George Nicola, Dr. John Q. Smith, Dr. Charles Schneider, Dr. Michael Shevlin, and Dr Robert Hansen.

A sophisticated ball-and-socket joint offers great flexibility, but it also suffers from a certain amount of inherent instability. To keep the ball of the upper arm bone moving smoothly in its socket, a cuff of muscle tissue and tendons surrounds it. This tissue is prone to inflammation and injury. An Idaho sports medicine specialist can assess an injury to the joint and determine the appropriate course of treatment. Sometimes rest or physical therapy can alleviate symptoms and restore joint health, but shoulder arthroscopic surgery may also be necessary.

Repetitive motion injuries can cause tendinitis in the soft tissues of the shoulder. These injuries typically do not require surgery and respond well to physical therapy or rest. Most shoulder injuries that necessitate surgery involve a rotator cuff tear or an injury to the labrum, the rim of cartilage surrounding the muscular cuff. These injuries can happen on the football field or around the house. Even a short fall from a ladder can be enough to tear the delicate network of tissues surrounding this flexible joint.

Only a doctor can tell the difference between an injury that needs only rest and one that requires surgical intervention. An Idaho sports medicine specialist should assess any injury as quickly as possible after it occurs.

Like arthroscopic knee surgery, a modern shoulder operation is a minimally invasive surgery that has a significantly reduced recovery time over conventional surgery techniques. An Idaho orthopedic surgeon who opts for minimally invasive surgery when the injury permits it can give patients a shorter recovery period while offering the same positive outcome as more invasive rotator cuff tear repairs.

Every doctor at WIO has years of experience performing a variety of orthopedic surgeries including shoulder surgeries. Dr. George Nicola pioneered a quadriceps-saving arthroscopic knee surgery at WIO, and he also brings his expertise to shoulder procedures. Dr. Charles Schneider, an avid outdoor sports enthusiast, has performed many arthroscopic shoulder surgery procedures on patients who share his love of skiing. For all disorders of the hand, wrist and shoulder, Dr Robert Hansen offers years of expertise. As backpackers, Dr. John Q. Smith and Dr. Michael Shevlin know how important shoulder health is to normal activity.

The team at WIO has performed hundreds of shoulder arthroscopic surgery procedures on patients throughout Boise, Meridian and Caldwell Idaho. Residents who have sustained a shoulder injury are encouraged to seek advice from an Idaho orthopedic surgeon who specializes in joint health.

West Idaho Orthopedics
206 E. Elm Street
Caldwell, Idaho 83605
208-459-4511

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Monday Night Football Live: Eagles Vs. Saints Score, Analysis

Bleacher Report:

Michael Vick is Philadelphia's starting quarterback, for now, as the Eagles are in New Orleans to take on the 2-5 Saints. If there ever was a night for Vick to get on track, it would be tonight. The Saints have the league's worst ranked defense.

Read the whole story at Bleacher Report

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