Food that you CANNOT! find in Spain Review

In today's blog I am going to review sweets and a drink that I found very hard finding in Spain, however I like them a lot, and I think everyone should try them. 

Mountain Dew

This is a famous American drink, that has a lot of sugar, probably more than coke, and it tastes like sprite, but with more sugar, and less gas, which I kind of like more, even though I myself can not drink large amounts of, because it is just too sugary. This drink is also famous because its company sponsors large gaming events across the world, as well as Doritos.

White Twix

The good old twix tastes just fine, however people get tired of the old common tastes, so.. they've invented a white twix with white chocolate. I prefer white chocolate over black chocolate, sometimes, and I really found this new invention great.

Snickers with sunflower seeds

Snickers is easy to find in Spain, in fact its almost everywhere, however you cannot find the wonderful snickers in which the peanuts were replaced with sunflower seeds, which more like the Russian style way of doing things. I tried this limited  edition snickers, and it kind of did tasted better than the usual one. I hope they put it into production forever.

Picnic 

The picnic candy is very similar to snickers, however there is more nuts I believe, and it creates a larger variety of sweets you consume, because eating everything the same gets you boring. I really hope they bring that candy into Spain for production.

I have learned that having a bigger variety of candies in the shops makes the life more sweet, and tasty. Eventhough Spain has a big variety of candies, they do not have my favorite ones. In the future I will present everything i have learned during this year in a TED style of talk. 

Food Pyramid Explained

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Eating food is not only a pleasure, but it is also a science, knowing how much calories to consume, or which food not to overeat. In this blog post I will teach you how to correctly balance your diet using the food pyramid.

At first, the pyramid is designed for an average person, which means not for an anorexic, or overweight, in which cases the diets become absolutely different. The real problem about the food pyramid is that every person is different, and sometimes different people cannot consume milk, or even bread, so that's where the pyramid fails.

The way to use the pyramid is actually very simple, the more down a certain food is, the more you should consume it per day. The grains and soy should be around 50-60% of your daily meals. Sweets however should be consumed 1 time per day maximum. Eggs and dairy are best to consume at breakfast, or just before you go to sleep.

Breakfast is the most important meal of your day, therefore that's where you should get the most food eaten. I have noticed that a lot of Spanish people consume just a cafe with a sandwich for breakfast. In reality that is very bad, because after they will feel anxiety, and depression overtime. The breakfast makes your day, therefore all i can say to you is: "Eat Healthy"

I have learned that getting a good breakfast does not only make your day more happy and energetic, but also if you are trying to get muscles, a big breakfast is the best thing you can have. In the future I will put more information about food, and probably one or two food battles. 

Molecular Gastronomy Explained

In recent times Molecular Gastronomy has became one of top trends in expensive cuisine. A lot of people don't know what is it, and how does it taste, and this blog will help you find everything you need to know about molecular food.

(In the photo above an example of Molecular Gastronomy)

What is it?

Molecular gastronomy focuses on physical and chemical transformations of ingredients that occur in cooking, like water (H2O) transforming into gas state from liquid, or as a normal chef would say "boiling". There is a lot of science behind the technology, and normal people without studying any of this "Food Science"  would not be able to produce any of the molecular ingredients.

The cuisine is very recent, and first it was introduced in 1988 in Oxford. To make the food you need to buy expensive equipment like super exact electrical weight, and other science things. Also the molecular food does not focus on how much you eat, but on which tastes you get, and the artistic composition of the plates you consume. (If you are hungry, go to McDonald's)

(In the photo below an example of molecular composition of a dish used in Molecular Gastronomy)

(Fake caviar, which tastes like it, but made out of different chemical components)

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Conclusion

Even though I never tried Molecular Gastronomy, I have learned that Molecular food is not that easy to produce, however some people buy kits and do it at home. It is a very interesting topic, and in the future there will be much more restaurants offering it, however right now it is very hard to find, and if you do manage to do so, it is very expensive, as dishes go around 50$. In the future I will explain more different types of food, and explain it in this blog. For my self I learned that now I want to try this type of food, and say to all the people how it tastes like, because everyone argues about it, but nobody has tried it.

All the images were taken from Wikipedia Commons

Sushi Rolls Explained

                                                                        すし, 寿司, 鮨

Sushi is a type of Japanese food consisting of vinegared rice. It is usually made with fish and vegetables, however there are a lot of variants.

Different Types

Raw fish (or sometimes meat) sliced and served without rice is called "sashimi".

The wrapping paper for rolls is called "Nori" Nori is a type of Algae.

"Maki" (which means roll) is rolled sushi usually wrapped in Nori

"Nigiri" is a slice of raw meat or fish mounted on top of vinegared rice

"Wasabi" is a green plant which when consumed is tasted very hot, and it is used to spice the things up, and change the taste when eating different types of sushi. It is not considered a sushi, but a sauce.

SUSHI REVIEW

I tried this set of different maki rolls, including my favorite one: the Philadelphia roll, which includes Philadelphia cheese, salmon, and cucumber. Other roll was a hot baked roll, which is really good, because usually the rolls are served cold and raw. 

Conclusion

In the future I will try more different types of food of course, unless I want to starve to death, and I will post more blogs. I have learned that adding wasabi to say sauce is really nice, and it adds more taste to the sushi. I also learned a lot about the food I ate, and its really interesting, because usually people don't know background information about the stuff they consume.

All of the images were taken from my personal photo gallery and Wikipedia Commons.

Cakes Review 

Napoleon vs. Cheesecake

I have tried two different cakes, and the two of them were delicious. One was a Napoleon, or also known as Mille-feuille, and the other one was a simple cheesecake. In this post I will describe you some history from both cakes, and decide which one is better...

Napoleon

Mille-fuille from french translates as "a thousand leaves", and traditionally it is made up from three layers of puff pastry, and two layers of pasty cream. The layers can sometimes be replaced with whipped cream or jam. The top part of the cake also can vary. The cake is called Napoleon in Russian because people liked eating eat after the defeat of Napoleon. Later the cake became standard in Soviet cuisine.

The version I tried had a nice strawberry on top, and some crispy chips and sugar on top. Personally Napoleon is one of my favorite desserts, and this one pleased me a lot. It was soft and fresh, and the concentration was good enough.

Cheesecake

In ancient form Cheesecake was popular in ancient Greece. The taste of cheesecake differs a lot assuming which cheese do you use to prepare it. There can be baked and fresh types of cheesecakes, in my case it was a fresh one. Lots of countries have their own variants of cheesecakes

The cheesecake I ate was good, but the cheese that was used was not one of my favorites. I have tried better cheesecakes however the sugar star on top was a nice detail, however it was super hard to bite.

Conclusion

Napoleon has an interesting background story, and cheesecake is more spread in the world.

Today the cheesecake have won. In the future there will be more battles of food. I hope you, such as me, have learned something interesting for yourself, and next time you go to a restaurant, you will have something to tell to your friends.

Flaming Cheese Potatoes

In this project I took 2 slowly baked potatoes, and after about 1 hour of soft cooking, when they were ready, I put some cheese into them, cutting a big hole in the middle, and stuffing them with cheese French style, like in fondue. The semetric aspect of 2 things of each, adds a sort of beautifulness to the food. Eventhough sausages are not something you would ecspect in a restaurant, but all together the plate looks very traditional, and home-made. I would reccomend this plate to everyone who likes potatoes, and everyone who likes fondue. I learned that expirimenting with food could give out different results, and it is super cool if you do it as well at your house. In the future I will post more interesting cooking ideas.

Blog Explained

In this blog I will critisize different types of food, and I will also sometimes create my own food, and say what inspired me to make it.

FINAL UPDATE

This blog is 100% is going to be dedicated to food reviews.

Update

This blog is going to be changed to another subject. The new topic is gonna be dedicated to reviewing other people's. I will create a rubric, and I will see other people's blogs, and I hope I will learn a lot of new things like that. 

This Blog is Finished

I worked over the last few month on this blog to learn new things about PCs. I have learned a lot of new things I never knew about. My knowledge on the topic definitely improved.

I learned about myself that it is not hard to learn anything if you dedicate some tome to it, and if people say that they can not understand something, they are just lying. From here I will go to my new project which will be me creating my own website, and I will try to learn C# programming language, as well as some simple Java script, more complex html, and discover how things like hypertext transfer protocol work. I think it will be very interesting to go deeper into programming. I want to finish my final post with the saying that Mark Zuckenberg said that in 20 years we will be teaching programming in schools, and we will wonder why didn't we do it earlier.

Create an Invisible Folder on Your Desktop

Today you will learn a simple trick to create an invisible folder.

(Works on Windows)

Step 1. 

Create a folder

Step 2.

In folder properties change icon to an invisible one as shown in the picture

Step 3.

Rename folder holding ALT and pressing 0160 in that sequence (ALT+0160)

Step 4.

Congratulations, you now have an invisible folder.

I have learned how to create an invisible folder a long time ago, and it helped confuse some eyes starring at my computer. In general it is just a little fun thing to do to hide some of your information, or just to prank your friends. In future I will post more tricks on how to do tricks with the PC.

Parts inside a PC that you can Customize

In this blog post I will describe the different parts inside the computer (Not monitor or case) and in which way can you customize them.

photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org

Power supply - some people say that power supply is not important, but it actually is very important. Power supply is used to basically power everything up with electricity. The more graphic cards you have in your custom PC, and the more power-consuming your processor is, the more money you will need to spend on the power supply.

Processor - processor proceds all the things you do on your computer. The better processor youbuy, the better and faster your computer will work, but some processors overheat too much, and they require high cooling systems. 

RAM - The more RAM you buy, the more things you could do at once at your PC. People who like to play at high quality, and record everything they do, while chatting on skype, with Google chrome open, like to buy lots of RAM. You can buy either 2,4,8,16,32 or 64 (which is just too much)

Video Card - Video Card is one of the most customizable parts of a PC. The better your Video Card is, the better graphics you can have in your gaming experience, and that's why so many people buy super expensive cards, but they forget to spent money on everything else, because the graphics card is not only the thing that is responsible for good game play. Having good motherboard and good processor is also very important, so don't spend 1000 $ on a graphics card on your 50$ PC, it will not change much.

Motherboard - motherboard is the main part of your computer, so you should think about this one the most. Chosing motherboard influences directly which components will you need to buy. The more expensive the motherboard, the better components should you buy, but any would work, it is just you did not spend your money well.

Hard Drive - With hard drive everything is easy. The more space you want, the bigger hard drive you buy, and if you want to data to load faster you can buy an SSD, which is a little bit more expensive. Don't overbuy memory if you are not gonna use it, it would be a waste of money. 1 or 2 TB is just enough, unless you plan downloading hundreds of movies and games.

CD-Rom  - There is not much customization you can do about the CD-Rom, but you can either choose between puting a normal one that comes installed in  all the basic PCs, or you can put a Blue ray one to watch movies in super high defenition (But personally, in the era of internet where you can download everything, I would not put a blu ray CD-Rom inside my computer)

I have learned a lot of things about different computer parts, and I hope you, my reader can learn some things as well. In the future I will do a better review on each of the things, and I will post on how to choose your monitor, mouse etc.

List of Useful Programs I Recommend For Windows

1. Avast Free Antivirus 

A free Antivirus program that is very helpful against Trojans and viruses. I used it for over 2 years, and it blocked most of the infections, however it is not as good as some paid antiviruses such us Kaspersky

2. WinRar

WinRar is a wonderful program that lets you open most of the packed files in formats like zip and ISO. It is also used to download and unzip games which most of the people use it for. The program is free, but it will sometimes ask you for donation.

3. Steam

A free program that lets you download or buy cheap games. All the gamers have it!

4. Skype

A free social program that lets you have calls through internet. If you have far relatives, or friends to play online with, you should install this program. I used this program for over 4 years, and mostly I am very happy with it.

5. Gimp

A free program that is a great alternative for Photoshop. Very easy to use, and you can put your creativity to the maximum in it!

6. Audacity

Audacity is a free program to edit sounds. I recommend it to all the beginning musicians.

7. VLC media player

A player that lets you play almost all of the music and video formats. A good alternative for windows media player.

8. Dropbox
A program that backs up your files online. Very useful if you are out of space, or you need to share your big project with someone

9. Libre Office
A free alternative for Microsoft Office. If you think Office is overpriced, (or you can not find a torrent) this program is for you. BTW office is overpriced god damn it Microsoft!

10. Notepad++
A notepad that lets you create your own HTML websites in a much easier way than the regular notepad. Very useful for educational purposes, and for working with many notes at the same time.

11. Zona
A Russian program that lets you see all the movies, TV shows, and normal television for free(legal((trust me no virus))) There is an option to have this program in English.

12. Google Chrome
Who does not know Google Chrome? The best internet browser, the best alternative for Internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Everybody uses it!

13. Itunes
A very helpful program that lets you organize your music, or even buy some movies and songs. You need to have this program if you own any apple devices in order to sync them correctly.

14. Sony Vegas
A paid program that is the best at movie editing. If you ever thought of making a professional montage, or even a small movie, this is the best program. Very expensive, but  there are ways to get it for free...

15. Hamachi
A program that is very useful for video gaming that connects yours and your friends IP addresses to create a LAN server, which is not actually LAN, but in games like minecraft or Gmod this is a very useful thing.

Through all my years of browsing the many  PCs I used, I learned that this programs make the possibilities of your computer almost infinite. Even though I did not master all of those programs, I still have much many more to go which are more complex, like 3D animation blender, and 3D architecture SketchUp, which are both amazing...

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

Alt+F4  close the program 

CTRL+ALT+Del bring up the operation menu (Useful for when you have a program not responding, and you need to close it)

Windows Logotype + Tab Quick change of programs

Windows Logotype + Tab+CTRL Permanent change of programs

ALT+Tab fastest program changer

Alt+Space Show the menu of the current window you are on

CTRL+Tab Go to the next window in your browser

F5 Refresh your browser page

Windows Button + Down Arrow minimize current window

Windows Button + Left/Right Arrow Put your current window to the left or right

I have learned that it´s very useful to use windows shortcuts, and they really save lots of time. Everybody should use keyboard shortcuts to maximize their work time.

yeah and in case you didn't know: 

CTRL+C COPY

CTRL+V PASTE

CHOOSING KEYBOARD 

There are many different keyboards . Some cost 10 dollars, but some cam reach up to 200 dollars. So what makes them so expensive? Lets find out.

 

KEYBOARD

If you are reading this you probably use a QWERTY type of keyboard, however different countries use different layouts, as France uses AZERTY frequently, or Germany uses QWERTZ pretty often. 

The best type of keyboard to choose is the mechanical type, because other keyboards like the wireless ones have much less functionality, and response time. Its better to buy the bigger type of keyboards with the number pad on the right, and as much more programmable buttons as possible (They are really useful in games, and building / painting programs, you can even buy a secondary keyboard only with programmable buttons)

Recommendations

some of the top 2014 gaming keyboard will be down here listed by highest-lowest price.

Logitech Orion Spark G910 180$

                               (ipod not included)

Corsair Vengeance K70 130$

Logitech G510s 120$

Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 112$

SteelSeries APEX 100$

Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 3 100$

G105 Logitech 60 $

In the end its your choice which keyboard should you buy. There a lots of different keyboards, but these are the only ones I find good.