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Funciona! | It works!

Algumas semanas atrás li um post no LifeHacker sobre "Como limpar seu microndas com vinagre". Esta semana resolvi testar aqui em casa (o coitadinho já estava pedindo arrego). E não é que a receita funciona!?

Eu coloquei uma vasilha com meia xícara de água e meia xícara de vinagre branco por 2 minutos na potencia alta. Depois é só passar um paninho e a sujeira (até mesmo aquela grossa que estava lá por alguns meses  algum tempo) sai fácil, fácil. Maravilha!

Some weeks ago I've read a post at LifeHacker on "Steam-Clean the Microwave with Vinegar". This week I've decided to try out at home (the poor thing really needed some help). And...IT WORKS!

I've used a bowl with half a cup of water and half a cup of white vinegar, 2 minutes on high. After that all you need to do is swipe with cloth or paper towel and all the food stains (even the ones were there for some months some time) come off easily. Great!

My Award-Winning Heavy Metal Oatmeal Fudge Bars

Danielle "Foodmomiac" Wiley herself requested this recipe via Twitter, so I'm obligated to share.

PHIL'S AWARD-WINNING HEAVY METAL OATMEAL FUDGE BARS
(First Prize, Alameda County Fair, sometime in the late 1980's)

INGREDIENTS (Oatmeal Mixture)

• 2 cups packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cups margarine or butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• Any selection off of Dio's The Last In Line album (pref. "Mystery" or the title track)
• 2 1/2 cups baking mix (I use Bisquick)
• 3 cups quick-cooking oats

INGREDIENTS (Chocolate Mixture)

• 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips (or "semi-bitter" if you're truly metal)
• 1 cup sweetened condensed milk ("condensed" is another word for "heavier"... kind of... but not really...)
• 2 Tbsp. margarine or butter
• 1/2 tsp salt
• "Hypnosis" off of Testament's The New Order
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• Metallica's Master Of Puppets

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• Grease a jellyroll pan (15.5" x 10.5" x 1")
• Begin making the oatmeal mixture: Mix brown sugar, 3/4 cup margarine, the eggs, and vanilla. Stir in the baking mix and oats until uniform consistency is achieved.
• Play the Dio album
  
• Throw 'em the horns!!1! With greased hands formed thusly, press 2/3 of the oatmeal mixture into the pan.
• For the chocolate mixture, heat the chocolate chips, condensed milk, 2 Tbsp. of margarine, and salt until smooth. Stir in nuts and vanilla.
• Spread chocolate mixture evenly over oatmeal layer.
• Drop remaining oatmeal mixture by the tablespoonful onto the top.
• Bake until brown, or about 26 minutes and 47 seconds. (The first four tracks off of Master Of Puppets -- "Battery", the title track, "The Thing That Should Not Be", and "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)")
• Cool completely. (Testament's "Hypnosis" is good to get this started.)
• Cut into 2" x 1" bars
• Makes 70 bars. (Or 666 really, really tiny ones.)

Phil's Salmon Burgers

This has been adapted from David Joachim's A Man, A Can, A Plan, but with my own touches added.

Ingredients

• Two 14.5oz cans of salmon
• 3.5 cups of dried-cornbread stuffing
• Three eggs
• Two egg whites
• Four green onions, chopped
• One 15oz can of sweet-corn kernels
• One copy of Rainbow's "Man On The Silver Mountain"
• Three ounces of Leblon cachaça
• Two tablespoons of butter

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (204 degrees Celsius).

Take the salmon, two cups of the stuffing, the eggs, egg whites, onions, and corn and mix them up in a bowl. (Be sure to de-bone the salmon if necessary. Don't worry if you don't get it all 'cause the cooking process softens the rest.)

Start playing Rainbow's "Man On The Silver Mountain."

Take the remaining 1.5 cups of the stuffing and put it on a plate. Using the salmon/egg/onion/corn/stuffing mixture from the bowl, make six evenly proportioned patties. Stamp both sides of the patties into the stuffing on the plate.

Distribute the breaded patties evenly inside a greased 13x9 glass casserole dish.

Drink the cachaça.

Melt the butter in the microwave. Brush/pour the melted butter over the patties.

Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes or until the tops start to brown a little.

Serve with tartar sauce or horseradish. Makes six burgers. Most folks have two for a dinner.