Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who is accused of keeping his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, refuses to answer further questions, police say.

They said he had signed a statement admitting imprisoning and raping his daughter and fathering her seven children, but refuses to explain.

Franz Prucher, head of police in Lower Austria, said police would be investigating whether Mr Fritzl had committed any further crimes.

Mr Fritzl faces up to 15 years in prison if he is convicted of raping his daughter, among other offences.

 Mr Fritzl has admitted to disposing of the body of the newborn in an incinerator shortly after the birth.

Elizabeth and three of the children were held captive in a windowless cellar under the family home.

She was allowed out of the cellar and admitted to hospital in Amstetten.

The other children who were not confined to the cellar lived an apparently normal life with Mr Fritzl as his “grandchildren” in the upper sections of the same house.

Today’s Subject is Cancer…

      Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display the traits of uncontrolled growth, invasion , and sometimes metastasis. These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize. Most cancers form a tumor but some, like leukemia, do not.

      Cancer is usually classified according to the tissue from which the cancerous cells originate, the primary tumor, as well as the normal cell type they most resemble. These are location and histology, respectively. A definitive diagnosis usually requires the histologic examination of a tissue biopsy specimen by a pathologist, although the initial indication of malignancy can be symptoms or radiographic imaging abnormalities. Most cancers can be treated and some cured, depending on the specific type, location, and stage. Once diagnosed, cancer is usually treated with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As research develops, treatments are becoming more specific for different varieties of cancer. There has been significant progress in the development of targeted therapy drugs that act specifically on detectable molecular abnormalities in certain tumors, and which minimize damage to normal cells. The prognosis of cancer patients is most influenced by the type of cancer, as well as the stage, or extent of the disease. In addition, histologic grading and the presence of specific molecular markers can also be useful in establishing prognosis, as well as in determining individual treatments.

Food Of The Day…

Donuts!!

      Ring doughnuts are formed either by joining the ends of a long, skinny piece of dough into a ring or by using a doughnut cutter, which simultaneously cuts the outside and inside shape, leaving a doughnut-shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center. This smaller piece of dough can be cooked or re-added to the batch to make more doughnuts. A disk-shaped doughnut can also be stretched and pinched into a torus until the center breaks to form a hole. Alternatively, a doughnut depositor can be used to place a circle of liquid dough directly into the fryer. Doughnuts can be made from a yeast-based dough for raised doughnuts or a special type of cake batter. Yeast-raised doughnuts contain about 25% oil by weight, whereas cake doughnuts’ oil content is around 20%, but they have extra fat included in the batter before frying. Cake doughnuts are fried for about 90 seconds at approximately 190°C to 198°C, turning once. Yeast-raised doughnuts absorb more oil because they take longer to fry, about 150 seconds, at 182°C to 190°C. Cake doughnuts typically weigh between 24 g and 28 g, whereas yeast-raised doughnuts average 38g and are generally larger when finished.

      Before the ring shape became common, doughnuts were often made as twisted ropes of dough. In the UK, doughnuts were always made into a ball. When cooked, they were injected with jam or jelly and always rolled in granulated sugar. This method is still in practice, but ring doughnuts are also now widely available. When placed into a pot of boiling fat, they floated until the lower half was cooked and then rolled themselves over to cook the other side. Ring doughnuts have to be flipped over by hand, which was more time-consuming. The twisted-rope type is called a cruller in some parts of the U.S., but cruller also refers to a particularly airy type of ring doughnut, usually glazed.

Food Of The Day…

Fried Chicken!!

 

Fried Chicken is chicken which is dipped in a breading mixture and then deep fried, pan fried or pressure fried. The breading seals in the juices but also absorbs the fat of the fryer, which is sometimes seen as unhealthy. The chicken itself may be chicken pieces on the bone with skin, or boneless and skinless pieces, usually breast meat, as in chicken fingers.

Also referred to as Southern Fried chicken, it is most often made using a pressure frier, as this is the quickest and some would say, ‘tastiest’, method of preperation. The water inside the chicken becomes steam and escapes through the oil in a sealed chamber, increasing the pressure and lowering the cooking temperature needed. The steam also cooks the chicken through, but still allows the piece to be moist and soft inside the crispy batter.

Southern fried chicken is historically an Afro-American dish. The preparation of fowl using frying was relatively unknown among Europeans and the European setters of the United States, but was common in Western Africa. Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas brought this method of food preparation with them.

Varients

 

 

•    Chicken fingers – also known as chicken strips or chicken tenders, this is one of the most common forms of fried chicken, generally pieces of breast (sometimes with rib meat) cut into long strips, breaded or battered dipped, and deep fried.
•    Chicken nuggets
•    Buffalo wings, or the boneless buffalo fingers. Epynomous to Buffalo, New York.
•    Popcorn chicken – occasionally known as chicken bites or other similar terms, small morsels of boneless chicken, battered and fried, resulting in little nuggets that resemble popcorn.
•    Chicken patties – breaded, fried patties of chicken meat used in sandwiches.
•    Chicken Fries – chicken nuggets in the shape of french fries, popularized by the fast-food restaurants Burger King and KFC.
•    Chicken Chipees – chicken meat chopped and shaped into chips coated with potato crumbs. Popular in Australia
•    Chicken Karaage
•    Chicken Katsu – Panko breaded chicken one to two centimeters thick and sliced to bite sized pieces, served with cabbage. A variant of tonkatsu, used in the Hawaiian plate lunch.
•    Country fried chicken – chicken meat that has been coated with flour or breaded, fried and served topped with country cream gravy.

Food Of The Day…

Pudding!!

      The US/Canada and Asian version is one of the most common varieties of sweet or dessert pudding served in these countries. It is usually eaten as a snack or dessert. It is also used as a filling for chocolate pie.

      Historically, it is a variation on chocolate custard, with starch used as thickener rather than eggs.This dish was invented by Meredith,Helenna,Mary, Early versions of the dish using both egg and flour can be found in the 1918 edition of Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cook Book and in the 1903 edition of Mary Harris Frazer’s Kentucky Receipt Book.

      In the late 19th and early 20th century, chocolate pudding was thought of as an appropriate food for invalids or children as well as a dessert. It was not considered a health food in the modern sense of the term, but as a wholesome, high-calorie food for those with poor appetites due to ill-health. General Foods (Jell-O) introduced chocolate pudding mix in 1934 as “Walter Baker’s Dessert”. It was renamed “Jell-O Chocolate Pudding” in 1936.

      Modern chocolate pudding is usually made with milk and sugar, flavored with chocolate and vanilla and thickened with a starch such as flour or cornstarch. Occasionally, eggs are still used when making chocolateand Christina pudding. Usually it is cooked together on the stovetop, but other methods exist including steaming, baking (sometimes in a bain-marie) or freezing (using gelatin as a thickener). Sometimes white chocolate pudding is made. Chocolate pudding is commonly purchased ready-made in stores, popular brands include Jell-O Pudding by the Kraft Foods Corporation and Snack Pack (pudding) by Hunt’s.

Food Of The Day…

Buffalo Hot Wings!

There are four different legends about how the Buffalo wings came to be.

• One story is that Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar, located at 1047 Main Street (between North Street and Best Street) in Buffalo, New York on October 3, 1964, co-owner of the Anchor Bar with his partner Frank. Upon the unannounced late-night arrival of his son, Dominic (and several of his friends from college), he needed a fast and easy snack to present to his hungry guests. It was then that he came up with the idea of deep frying chicken wings (normally thrown away or reserved for stock) and tossing them in Frank’s Red Hot hot sauce.

• A second version as told by Dominic Bellisimo (Frank and Teressa’s son) to “The New Yorker” reporter Calvin Trillin in 1980 stated: “It was Friday night in the bar and since people were buying a lot of drinks he wanted to do something nice for them at midnight when the mostly Catholic patrons would be able to eat meat again.” He stated that it was his mother, Teressa, who came up with the idea of chicken wings.

• The third version of the origin involved a mis-delivery of wings instead backs and necks for making the bar’s spaghetti sauce. Faced with this unexpected resource, Frank Bellisimo says he asked Teressa to do something with them. 

• The fourth version has nothing to do with the Bellisimo’s or the Anchor Bar. Calvin Trillin stated in his 1980 “New Yorker” article that a man named John Young also claimed credit for serving chicken wings in a special “mambo sauce.” Chicken wings in mambo sauce became the specialty at his Buffalo restaurant in the mid-sixties. Young had registered the name of his restaurant, John Young’s Wings ‘n Things, at the county courthouse before leaving Buffalo in 1970. 

Buffalo wings are also used in competitive eating events, such as Philadelphia’s Wing Bowl and at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.

Food Of The Day…

Cookie!

• Drop cookies are made from a relatively soft dough that is dropped by spoonfuls onto the baking sheet. During baking, the mounds of dough spread and flatten. Chocolate chip cookies (Tollhouse cookies), peanut butter cookies, and oatmeal cookies are popular examples of drop cookies.
• Refrigerator cookies are made from a stiff dough that is refrigerated to become even stiffer. The dough is typically shaped into cylinders which are sliced into round cookies before baking.
• Molded cookies are also made from a stiffer dough that is molded into balls or cookie shapes by hand before baking. Snickerdoodles are an example of molded cookies.
• Rolled cookies are made from a stiffer dough that is rolled out and cut into shapes with a cookie cutter. Gingerbread men are an example.
• Pressed cookies are made from a soft dough that is extruded from a cookie press into various decorative shapes before baking. Spritzgebäck are an example of a pressed cookie.
• Bar cookies consist of batter or other ingredients that are poured or pressed into a pan (sometimes in multiple layers), and cut into cookie-sized pieces after baking. Brownies are an example of a batter-type bar cookie, while Rice Krispie treats are a bar cookie that doesn’t require baking, perhaps similar to a cereal bar. In British English, bar cookies are known as “tray bakes”.
• Sandwich cookies are rolled or pressed cookies that are assembled as a sandwich with a sweet filling. Fillings may be with marshmallow, jam, or icing. The Oreo cookie, made of two chocolate cookies with a vanilla icing filling is an example.
• Fried cookies including traditional cookies such as the krusczyki, rosettes and fattigmann as well as a newer American trend of deep-frying ordinary drop cookie dough.
• Cookies also may be decorated with an icing, especially chocolate, and closely resemble a type of confectionery.

My Favorite Thing…

          My favorite thing is…Pizza! Pizza marinara, which is made with tomato, garlic, oregano and extra virgin olive oil, Pizza Margherita, made with tomato, sliced mozzarella, basil and extra virgin olive oil, and Pizza Margherita Extra made with tomato, buffalo mozzarella from Campania in fillets, basil and extra virgin olive oil.

         

• Pizza Romana (in Naples): tomato, mozzarella, anchovies, oregano, oil;
• Pizza Viennese: tomato, mozzarella, German sausage, oregano, oil;
• Pizza Capricciosa (“Capricious Pizza”): mozzarella, tomato, mushrooms, artichokes, cooked ham, olives, oil (in Rome, Prosciutto raw ham is used and half a hard-boiled egg is added);
• Pizza Quattro Stagioni (“Four Seasons Pizza”): same ingredients for the Capricciosa, but ingredients not mixed;
• Pizza Quattro Formaggi (“Four Cheese Pizza”): tomatoes, mozzarella, stracchino, fontina, gorgonzola (sometimes ricotta can be swapped for one of the last three);

About A Computer…

A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 – 1945), although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier. Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers.

 A Note About Early Computers…

First Post

Yea, your right…This is my first post.