u Lure Chijr . Orl tjeb / t /Gee > I /Cake h LET'S TAKE IT SLOW A quick lesson in cooking When I was asked to provide my cu linary wizardry to the Behrend Beacon, I was like "No Way! Really? Me?" and jumped right in. I came up with some fresh new dishes, provided pictures, and laid out detailed plans. I was so excited to bring my style to you, the readers, that I completely forgot that not everyone knows how to cook in the first place. So, for this week's column, in lieu of some delectable delight, I will provide my three best tips for working in the kitchen. I promise, it's all pain less! Now, I know it is the week before finals, but this is a lesson that doesn't require studying, and in all fairness is a better way to relax from all the stress everyone is enduring. ( A big ups to all my engineering folk out there!) Work ing in the kitchen is far easier, and far more enjoyable than most would be lieve. I often hear "there is no way I am cooking anything like that, I mean, I can make a mean grilled cheese, but otherwise I'm garbage." This is a fallacy! Everyone and any one can cook it's just all a matter of ap plication. Follow these three easy tips and everything you hope to create will be obtainable. Tip #1 - Patience is everything. I cannot stress this enough. I often equate cooking to making sweet, sweet passionate love. Pay attention to the details, take your time, and in the end everyone will be happy. When you're cooking, things take time, and of ten things burn when you walk away. Don't let yourself get distracted! Tip #2 - Taste! Taste! Taste! How will you ever know the quality of what you are serving if you don't know how it tastes at every step. This follows with the patience. Paying attention to what you're cooking will provide amazing results. Tip #3 - Break the rules! (Not mine, of course) Be creative! Have fun! Try new things! Here's a secret, between you and me. Some of my more cre ative dishes that I serve, I have first created after boozing it up. Sure, not everything is a hit. Sometimes though, it's a real winner (the hangover of ten isn't.) Take everyday normalities and create. Be a Picasso of the Pan try. Who knows, maybe you'll get your own column someday. Cooking has always been a joy to me, and I want to make sure it is a joy to you. It's semesters end and these are rules you can take home with you. Create something for Christmas din ner. I'm sure it will be better than the fruitcake. If it isn't, don't sweat! Just grab a beer and you'll be hungry in no time! Jason Ramsey brings soul to Bruno's BRIANNA VANGELOV Jason Ramsey, whose voice mes merized ears last Friday, will un doubtedly hit the top of the charts. Despite the snow and cold he faced, the performer from sunny Austin Texas didn't bat an eye as he serenaded the audience and played his guitar. Interacting, bonding, and jok ing about his recent losses at the casino, his persona reached out to the audience and seemed to cap tivate all in attendance. He did a wonderful job of bringing everyone onto one level, and making the mu sic something everyone understood and felt in their own way. Even after the show, he promptly left the stage and shook the hands with those in the audience, giving him a more hu- stall writer man aspect, than other performers, and giving a real life to the perfor mance as a whole. Jason Ramsey's soulful, neo blues like sound doesn't just focus on anything, it's inspired by "Beau tiful women and life's struggles." A fact that most of the audience seen firsthand with songs played like "Bacon and Eggs" and "Those Jeans" that focused on women he had encountered in his life. Despite some of the humor in the lyrics of a few verses, the raw emotion that seeped through and the passion that flowed through his Zach Bauer / The Behrend Beacon Jason Ramsey, seen above, entertained students with his neo-blues like sound in Bruno's last Friday. have mere of a low-key and intro spective'hound than some of his previous elbums. Crystal Bowersox Anii,,tter fiarMer's Daughter is the debut al iftrn American Idol runner up , Crystal BOWerSOX. The first single from the project is "Hold COM owersox has said shewrote gout 90 percent of the songs,On thel2 song collection. There Will also be a cover version of the Bubble Springfield classic “Vor What WS Worth." , *Alt American Nightmare Hindeetnewed album All Amer kXzn Meflpnare, is expected to have monumental success. All Anterioill Nightmare continues to follow their living...life-to-the-full ` est and often biographical writ ing Oe. 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Farmer's T.I. - No Mercy Ready to leave the court ordered halfway home and reenter the hip-hop world, T.I. released his aptly titled single "I'm Back" in March of 2010. He was still releas ing singles and videos when the rapper again ran into legal trouble and promptly renamed the album No Mercy. He also announced new guests for the record which include verses and hooks from Eminem, Kanye West, and Chris Brown. The Sorrow - The Sorrow The third, self-titled album from this Austrian metal band has entered the official chart in the band's home country. This album is unusual, courageous and cre ates a musical atmosphere from the first to the last note which is unequalled in today's metal world. The Sorrow contains 13 tracks which combine everything that makes metal great. Ari Hest and Ray LaMontagne have stayed two of his main in spirations throughout the years, unchanging in what they offered to him. However, despite the fact his taste in music did not change Ramsey did admit that "My style has changed over the years; no two songs I write are the same." Behrend was the last stop on his tour, though Ramsey when ques tioned "would love to be able to make a living from music solely, and marry Rachel McAdams." So where does this leave the soulful singer? Only time can tell.
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