Christopher’s Internet Affliction

Hi everyone!

So I’ve been playing with spices and sprucing things up a little, as I’ve never much been into heavy spices in recipes, and I think that this recipe works out nicely- Not blazing and indiscriminately hot, but rather a subtler, more flavorful spice, with a little heat for fun. I emulated Middle Eastern and Caribbean cooking, picking a little from Jamacian jerk recipes, while adding what seems like good things to it. I’m sure there’s some other great things that can be thrown into this one, a little saffron powder, smoked salt, things like that. This is a really great recipe to play with and just have fun!

I named this recipe for fun for one of my favorite actors, John Barrowman. He’s a super talented British actor, but spent his formative years and was raised right close to me in Joliet, Illinois. He still visits sometimes, and I hope to bump into him on the street, or see a live performance here in Chicago! Wouldn’t that be so exciting?! Anyhow, this recipe is spicy and beeeefy (if you wish) like Mr. Barrowman. (heheh!) He also has a new CD of showtune covers coming out in just a few days, on March 1, 2010. He’s also playing a guest role in the last six episodes of this season’s Desperate Housewives on this side of the ocean, too! I also have to gush over the cufflinks made by Ian Flaherty that he’s chosen for his site- They’re all so wonderful!

Anyhow! After the jump, Onwards with the recipe!

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Okay! Our beloved Lost is in the first half of the final season, and now some secrets are coming out. The numbers, part of the show’s lore since Season Two, have appeared in repeated forms throughout the entire show from there- The numbers are used to win the lottery, they are to be input so ‘the button’ can be pushed, and add up in some interesting ways. Now, it has been revealed that each ‘candidate’ has their own number, as referenced in both ‘The Numbers Cave” (06×04) and “The Lighthouse” (06×05), both pretty new additions to the storyline, as well as being a part of The Valenzetti Equation. Anyhow, here’s a few little bits of trivium for you:

4 John Locke

8 Hugo Reyes

15 James Ford (Sawyer)

16 Sayid Jarrah

23 Jack Shepard

42 Sun or Jin Kwon

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 added makes 108, the number of minutes that must pass before the button is pushed… 5×108= 540, the number of days indicated by The Dharma Initiative that crews are to be switched out of the Swan Station. Curious, no?

Also, 108 is the number of the man that is to come to help Jacob. A candidate or a hero? I guess we’ll have to keep watching!