Author Archives: Micah

Geek Brunch 160 – Remember the Awesome Stuff

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Welcome to another somewhat forgetful episode of Geek Brunch. This week Mike is out (continuing our string of episodes where someone is missing), but Micah returns to talk to Bill about all the comics, movies, tv shows, and food neither of them can remember experiencing over the past two weeks. A few of the remembered titles are Secret Service, Conan The Barbarian, Glory, The Secret, Saucer Country, Green Lantern Volume 3, Supurbia, Book of Human Insects, Tyrannosaur, and Battleship. Somewhere in there is a really cool talk about the history of comics, manga, and cartoons. So enjoy that. We also discuss how awesome Osamu Tezuka is and Micah’s new love “Kid’s on the Slope.”

Geek Brunch 158 – 400 Avengers Trailers

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Happy Birthday Barb! Mike is out celebrating the birthdays of his wife and Mother-in-Law.

We start off the episode takling about Spotify, Google Music, and the music industry in general. We then move into why Micah loves Prose Novels. Afterwards we go head long into  comic books like Batman, Avengers vs X-men, Conan the Barbarian, The Manhattan Project, The Secret History of D.B. Cooper, Barbarella, Castle Waiting, Mega Man, Dominique Laveau: voodoo child, Marvel’s Ultimate Comics, Comic books by Celebrities, Double Dragon, and CSI: The Comic Book.
Our TV Shows are The Killing, Bones, Castle, Red Drawf,  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Ultimate Spider-Man. Finally we go with the Movies Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Hunger Games, Melancholia, Beginners, Battleship Movie, and all 400 Avengers Trailers. Yup. We also have a special guest that shows up part way through then bounces out.

Geek Brunch Onion Gravy Recipe

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Ingredients 

  • 1 onion!
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (olive oil is good, too).
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 cup water
  • 1 cup stock broth (some recipes call for beef. I think veggie works just fine. Heck, you can use water).
  • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Preparation

  1. Saute the onion in oil and butter. Really you’re trying to caramelize the onions.
  2. Add in flour, water and broth. If you want it to be thicker, add in the flour first. Then the broth after a minute and so. Be patient. This will get thicker the longer you do everything. Throw in all the other ingredients once you have the broth and water in.
  3. Make sure you stir in and scrape the bottom of the skillet to get all the onion up and stirred into the mix.

The entire process should take about thirty minutes or so. You can add a bit of flour to thicken it up, or patience. You can season it with pepper or other spices to taste.

Blueberry Pancakes

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2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon of cinnamon
2 large eggs

1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen and thawed (optional)

3 cups buttermilk
4 tablespoons unsalted butter

 

1. Mix the stuff.

2. Make pancakes

3. YUM!