Baconator Chili Toast Blast-Sunny Sunday Version

Okay so here we go for this majestic culinary creation you will need:

-Bacon
-Cheese that melts nicely
-Fresh tomatoes
-Mexican Kidney Beans
-Parsley
-Toast Bread
-Cumin
-Coriander
-A mixed spice powder with chili, garlic, cumin, paprika, dried onion, etc.

So thats's our spice mix, all sourced in either India or the next local supermarket

Then we chop the fresh parsley leafs and the tomatoes and slam them in a frying pan together with the Mexican kidney beans. Then we add spices to taste. I like to go a little but heavy with the cumin but show restraint with the coriander/cilantro that had the tendency of overpowering other flavours a bit.

Now that's our tomatoes cooking up nice with the beans  and the flavourings.

At the same time you should baconating with dedication:

Thats's my bacon of choice, it's good, in strips and the brand shares a name with a famous Italian firearm manufacturer, and we all knows guns are at least as cool as bacon.

 That's some Raschera cheese next to our beloved bacon, they go well together Italy's finest.

Bacon strips cooking up nicely as they should. Dammit!

Nows let's get to the assembling part, first of all let's get our toast ready:

Next step will be unloading the tomato and bean mixture onto the toast with dead accuracy, as we don't tolerates failure round here.

Okay so now we're slowly getting there, just need to make everything nicely fit on that toast, now we add our bacon.

It's starting to look yummy! Ain't it? Brap

Now let's add more BACON

Now that's more like it, I had some extra bacon cooking so I just slammed the fucker onto that. I knows it looks good, but it's not done yet.

Side view of our lovely creation, just for the artistic factor!

That's like porn, pussy or bacon, the choice is yours, at least one is always warm, welcoming and never smells like an open air fish market on a warm sunny summer day. Am I right lads?

MAJESTIC:

Close up of our creation:

So nows that's almost finished, all we need is some melted cheese and then we're home free.

Okay now let's put this in the oven and let fucker melt.

Wow looking orgasmic ain't it? Wonderful, we're almost done, nows all the flavours would have mixed nicely with each other, the spices, everything.

What we have here is by far the pimpiest cheese on toast ever made, future generations will use this as guideline for the food making process of a hybrid of humans and robots that will over take humanity and force the global population on a diet of bacon.

In case you haven't noticed that looks yummy as fuck, have another peek

Ready to be eaten by me:

Final pic of my lovely creation, marvelous creation I might add

Hope you enjoyed my cooking blog today, with nice ingredients, a taste for grease and enough beer and stuff in your system you should never underestimate your culinary creativity. Keep your mind open, try different combinations, experiment. If you want to be on the front line of food making, dig yourself in a trench of bacon and hold your own against haters and nay-sayers.

Keep it real to the max. Peace bruvs.

8-Bit Militia Salutes Comrades Beavis and Butthead

Who doesn't like retro stuff? I mean if you don't you're probably some sort of boring wanker who has no right to live. I mean what's better than retro games?

Screw Xbox I play old school Nintendo, that should be your mantra, you know something you repeat to yourself every morning while shaving or drying your hair after shower.

Please don't tell me you haven't been getting into 8-bit music lately, okay I've been mostly bollocksed on MXE and other assorted goodies but still any self-respecting nerdy fellow should be going absolutely mad when hearing an 8-bit version of Reign in Blood by Slayer.

There's plenty more decent tunes re-made in that style, I could post links if I wanted but I can't really be arsed that much so you should do your own research.

The shit I'm talking about is so on and so real I need video-graphic evidence to prove just how fucking awesome the whole thing is, there you go here's a teaser of what you could be doing tonight, instead of the boring bullshit you're probably engaged in:

Anyway old school retro games kick ass and if you don't agree they should should ship you to some labor camp far away as you're not deserving of your place amongst us!!! Bla ha ha!

So today I found a gem, a true gem, I mean something that would get proper nineties freaks cream over their pants as if they were actually getting some sort of sexual contact, lol, yeah right!!

So that's the find, yes, I know you now have such a massive boner you just told your mom you can't be making it to dinner as it would be a major distraction, now that you have not only something to do, but the ultimate, I mean the ULTIMATE 90s kid retro game.

The Nostalgia is strong with us tonight, what we have is probably one of the cultiest, baddesst games that ever came out for SNES, obviously Nintendo purists would say that would be Zelda or Mario, but the true kids of the nineties will only have one game to play, Beavis and Butthead!!! BAAAAAAM

This game is actually pretty easy to play, but for us who were brought up in the nineties, with Daria, B&V and rock music on tv, this game is a pearl and as such it should be treated/respected. Its's not just about the way it plays.

Perfection all round from this product, I hope you will enjoy as much as I will tonight. I'll probably end up half comatose in front of the screen in a few hours, but that's how I roll and so should you.

I mean the worst thing that will happen is losing track of time and showing up at work still fucked, but that has happened to me so many times throughout the years it's not even funny. Blud Blud!

I wish a safe, eventual, chemmed up school night for everybody out there!

Peaces out bruvs, and see you next time

Microchip Family Needs Closure

Has anybody ever felt attached to a machine just as much as you feel attached to a living creature? Well I think I have.

I mean for years and years, this piece of plastic, metal and rare earth materials has been probably the closest thing I had, we shared everything, the good times, the bad times, the boxes and the movers, the cold rainy days in England and the warm uneventful summers in Italy.


The essays the night before the deadline, fast and stimulated like a Thai truck driver, the endless smut sessions, the music making sleepless nights(well dawns more likely).  My favourite movies and tv series, animes, cartoons, they all went through him.

If you were to send the keyboard to a forensic lab they would find traces of food, blood, quite an array of exotic chems, about a trillion potential babies, dust and pollen from seasons and seasons of moving, travelling, living...

He's an old warrior gone forever to the Valhalla of dead computers, but he will always live in me, the memories are there to stay my brother.

You were a friend, a brother and we went through so much.

I'm now no more a Mac user, as I don't follow trends, a new companion has joined me, the Ubuntu powered laptop I'm typing this on as already seen quite a bit. He made his maiden trip to Paris the summer I bought it, then working with me in Lebanon and then NY, he's traveled more than the average American.

The one on the right is the now deceased hero, this is to remember him and celebrate his life, I now it's probably the nerdiest thing in the world to write a R.I.P  blog entry for a dead computer. But hey, that's me and I'm damn proud of the way I am.

So iMac G4 that served me loyally since 2003 and has followed me throughout my adventures, thanks and I hope you're now resting in paradise, where there's no blackouts and the internet is free.

Rest in Peace brother, you were greatly appreciated.

Later

The laptop on the right of the amp has been my new loyal servant the past few years!

One Lively Frankfurter Sandwich Lunch

Mmm today I didn't know what to eat for lunch, something that would be filling, tasty, active on those grease-receptors and fast to make. The answer came to my mind quite quickly when I spotted a couple of Frankfurters in the fridge.

So there I was, I cut the sausages in slices and dropped them in boiling water, as they get less greasy than they would if I grilled them while still keeping their taste.

At the same time I put some butter on one slice of bread while the other was covered with a couple of slices of Italian Blue Cheese(sort of like Stilton), then added some lovely Dijon Mustard, to enhance the taste of the Frankfurters and offset some of their heavy porky after taste.

Another slice of bread was covered with some delightful five spices Mustard, also from France, which is absolutely amazing, as it is made with white wine vinegar and Champagne, plus assorted spices and flavourings.

I then started assembling my sandwiches putting the cooked Frankfurters on top of the bread and adding a little bit more seasoning, in the form of Encona hot sauce

The next step obviously involved me assembling the bad boys and putting them in my loyal grill, which has loyally served me for years now when preparing my greasy fixes.

Look at those greasy things cooking up nice

And finally ready they were, the cheese was melted and so was the butter, the mustard had flavoured the wurstels enough and the bread was nice and crunchy, ready to dig in, yes I am.

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Jacket Potato Breakfast - Pancetta and Cheese

What's better than waking up early, having a nice warm cup of coffee and some decent breakfast to go with it?

So this morning I took one left over potato from last night, it had been boiled but not too much so the texture was actually still decent.

I then digged a bit of a hole in it and filled it up with some nice Raschera cheese, which is an Italian cheese that melts really well and some sliced pancetta, flavoured with herbs and spices.

Five minutes in a hot oven and it was done, really good filling breakfast.

Obviously ended up dousing it with some green Jalapeno Tabasco just to add a little bit of edge to it, as I reckon it enhances any dish.

That was quite nice indeed, oh and I almost forgot, happy St.Valentines Day to all you singles out there, that one's for you: ENJOY

See ya later peeps

Artichokes, Bacon and Steak, now thats's a quick lunch

For side we'll have Artichokes hearts, washed and cut, fried in olive oil with parsley and garlic. Cook them until they slightly darken and soften. Don't overdo the cooking though, so to keep their healthyness as intact as possible.

As for the main meat based course, cut some pancetta(bacon) in slices, that's the stuff I'm talking about.

We'll use this instead of butter to cook the meat in, as the bacon grease gives a much better taste to the meat.

So after the bacon starts leaving out some grease, we add some garlic, rosemary, grounded black pepper and spread this around our grill.

Then we slam in the steak and let it brown on both sides, the inside has to be between pink and reddish according to taste, as long as you sourced your beef from your local trusted butcher and not some supermarket.

That's how it should look like after you're done with it.

You can obviously place the pieces of bacon and the garlic and rosemary on top of the steak when you serve it, for added taste and nicer look.

All looking good with the artichokes on the side to add some extra veggie goodness to our meal.

So as we say around here, buon appettito, tastes even better with a slice of some freshly baked bread, a cold lager and a hint of green jalapeno Tabasco I bought in the US to spice up the bacon a little.

It did indeed taste delicious, the meat was tender and tasty, cooked just right, I didn't put any seasonings on it, except for the garlic, rosemary and black pepper as I actually enjoy being able to taste the meat, especially if it's from a good cut.

The artichokes were amazing too, very tender and tasty.

Later peeps

The Monello Strikes Again

Bear with my atrocious spelling, but really I'm powerless it's those geezers over at Intas Pharma who should be making more reliable etizs, one does nothing, then the next three floor you completely and make you stumble around like the town's alcoholic from an Irish novel.


Today, they say it's the coldest day in the past 27 years, as I've been alive(barely) for the same amount of time, that's the coldest I have ever felt.

It was -11,5 this morning and -9,5 tonight, I know that for the Canadians/Dakotians and other people out of the movie Fargo, this might seem like nothing but we're wops around here, even though we're so close to France we might as well be talking all faggy and educated.



Now I'm going to share a photo of my command center (CC), this is from where I lead most of my operations, like once in a while sending job applications and watching videos on youtube.

Interesting, isn't it? I don't usually discuss operational matters with civilians, but I guess you're just of the lucky who got to see where the shit is really going down

I'm also going to share the epic snack I had a while before, it draws from the triple-stack philosophy, which as you probably knows originated with the Big Mac.

Now you can say whatever you want about McDonald's but they were creative, at least at first, with their products, nobody before had thought of using not two, but three slices of bread to make a sandwich. Now that's R&D if you know what I mean. Like proper creative like.

One slice of bread, fried egg with cheese, then another slice of bread, melted cheese, smoked bacon and jalapeno peppers, plus more melted cheese.

Now that's a fucking snack.

More detailed photos so you can admire it in all of its glory, I obviously ended up dousing the lot with Encona and green Tabasco, the type of Tabasco sauce with jalapeno peppers they only have in the US.

So for me tonight it's going to be a few more of these...

And then maybe more of this:

Tomorrow I'm not gonna remember shit, obviously my arse is going to burn because of all the hot sauce I put on my food tonight, hey at least it's not for the same reason as Stu in the film.

Always look at the positives my friends and keep on going, life is too short and unpredictable to be sad all the time, so take some more of whatever makes you feel nice, have another beer, deep fry some more sausages wrapped in bacon and LIVE IT UP!

That's what the Monello way is all about, and with this I leave you, unless I die of respiratory failure I'll be back with more shit tomorrow or next week or whenever I can be bothered updating this.

Later

Street Art and Guerrilla Art in the Streets of London and Paris

This is a photo of a cool street art I took in central Paris a few weeks ago.
I always liked street art and I'm particularly obsessed with cats, so this one really drew my attention.

This is a shopping list I had made on a piece of paper from one of the agency's clients(where I sort of work), one of the main newspapers in Italy, I always like to leave my mark in the places I visit, just like dogs pissing on corners.

The shopping list was abandoned on a cold wet rainy windy London night, while my mate was playing with his three legged dog in the green area in front of his flat.

I took this photo the morning after, clearly it had been raining all day, so you can see the paper got all wet, you are still able to identify chocolate as the first item on my shopping list.

This is a white man, in a yellow background, I think I took him in Notting Hill but I can't be certain, he looks down to his right, probably looking at that beer barrel that's been unofficially converted into an ashtray.

He looks satisfied to me, although not very happy, could be worse still.

In this photo I totally admit that one of the main reasons for taking the photo was to capture what appeared to me as an attractive red head milf. Although I can also claim an emotional attachment to the club as it reminds me of a few wild nights back in the old days. Never liked 333 too much, but it wasn't that bad either. The graffiti do look cool though, at least you have to agree on that.

This one was was taken on Bishopsgate, right when the white collar area melts into the newly gentrified hipster colony of Bethnal Green Road, which has been lamed down throughout the years due to the influx of wankers who make blogs such as this.

More lameness ensuing in the next few photos that were taken at the Occupy Camp next to St.Pauls Cathedral, wait and see, just see...

Okay so the douchebag is very strong in this one, I for once made a prayer to our only saviour, the Dark Lord Chtulu, who unfortunately was too busy targeting Whole Food Markets stateside and in this instance could not help.

He did send me a text asking sorry though and promised he would clear all the krusties from the St. Pauls as soon as possible, unless he has other unexpected timetable clashes. We can only hope.

More pathetic attempts to give legitimacy to their crappy attempts at activism by using imagery of well known inspirational figures of the past, in this case, would probably tell the middle/upper class students to retreat to their parents' detached homes and stop littering public soil with their soap-shy presence.