Author Archive: Chris Potente

Create Your Own LoFi Beat

Create Your Own LoFi Beat

Software

  • Ableton Live
    • https://www.ableton.com/en/trial/
  • Izotope Vinyl
    • https://www.izotope.com/en/products/vinyl.html

Fried Chicken and Curry

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Ingredients

Fried Chicken

  • Chicken Thighs
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Grated Ginger
  • Chinese Five Spice
  • Cornstarch
  • Frying Oil

Curry

  • Beef Chuck, cut in cubes
  • Cooking Oil
  • 1 Large Carrot
  • 1 Potato
  • 1/2 Onion
  • 1 Apple, Grated
  • 4tbsp Unsalted Butter
  • 1/4 cup Flour
  • 3 tbsp Curry Powder
  • 2 tbsp Soy Sauce
  • 2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 2 tbsp Ketchup
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • Water

Instructions

Fried Chicken

  1. Cut chicken into bite-sized chunks
  2. Season with salt, pepper, grated ginger, Chinese Five Spice
  3. Cure in refrigerator for an hour
  4. Cover with cornstarch
  5. Heat fry oil to 350°F, and fry for 3-4 minutes
  6. Let Chicken rest
  7. Heat Fry oil to 375°F and fry again for 4-5 minutes until chicken reaches internal temperature of 165°F

Curry

  1. Rolling cut carrot and potato
  2. Slice 1/2 onion
  3. Cut and grate 1 apple
  4. Cut beef chuck into cubes
  5. Heat oil in pot and fry beef until well browned.
  6. Add onions until softened
  7. Cover with water
  8. Add carrot chunks
  9. Add potato chunks once carrots have softened
  10. This is provide you with vegetable-beef stock
  11. Make Curry Roux
    1. Add butter to pan and mix in flour
    2. When flour is cooked through, mix in curry powder
  12. Add soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup and grated apple to roux
  13. Slowly add vegetable-beef stock to the roux
  14. Add in vegetables and beef to curry and mix

Plate and Enjoy!!

Late Night Cookie Butter “Crepes”

Late Night Cookie Butter "Crepes"

Ingredients

  • Tortillas
  • Cookie Butter/Nutella/other similar spread
  • Chocolate Syrup

Instructions

  1. Preheat a non-stick pan to low-medium heat.
  2. Place tortilla in pan until slightly golden on both sides.
  3. Add cookie butter (or Nutella or other similar spread).
  4. Fold tortilla in half and make sure to spread the filling evenly.
  5. Fold tortilla in half again and plate.
  6. Drizzle with chocolate syrup.

Among Us Paper Mache Helmet

Among Us Paper Mache Helmet

Among Us Paper Mache Helmet

Supplies

  • 1 Part Flour
  • 1 Part Water
  • Bowl/container
  • Newspaper/magazine paper strips
  • Balloons
  • Plastic Face Shield visor
  • String
  • Pen/marker
  • Scissors
  • Tape
  • Mirrored Window Tint
  • Spray Paint
  • Hot Glue

Instructions

To start:

  1. Mix equal parts of flour and water to make paper-mache paste.
  2. Blow up the balloon to desired size.  It should be slightly larger than your head.
  3. Tear the paper into strips, dip into the paste, and put it on the balloon.
  4. Repeat until the balloon is covered with about 2 layers of paper.
  5. Let it dry for at least 4 hours.

In the meantime, make the visor.

  1. Measure ear-to-ear and eyes-to-nose for length and width of the plastic visor.
  2. Cut visor to the same measurements.
  3. Cut mirrored window tint to the same measurements.
  4. Spray visor with water.  This will help the tint covering to stick to the plastic.
  5. Apply the covering to the visor.

Once the balloon is dry:

  1. Spray paint the helmet and let it dry.
  2. Pop the balloon and remove from the shell.
  3. Trim the opening to make sure your head will fit through.
  4. Draw a rectangular hole in the front of the helmet to fit the visor.
  5. Cut out the hole.
  6. Hot glue the visor over the hole.