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Howdy! So I followed an recipe to roast the skin off of a pepper ball, but it was a utter failure. The skin stayed firm, but the pepper turned into mush.
I just, isn’t there any easier way to skin an pepper bell and still have it be mostly raw? I don’t have any open fire to work with.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned former President Donald Trump that if it came down to it, he would use the nuclear option, but Trump missed the warning, Fiona Hill said.
Hill, the former Senior Director for Europe and Russia at the United States National Security Council, told Politico's Maura Reynolds that the road ahead in Russia's invasion of Ukraine is dangerous.
On Sunday, Putin ordered Russia's nuclear deterrent forces to be put on high alert, meaning the weapons have been ordered to be prepared for an increased possibility of launch, Insider's Connor Perrett reported.
Hill told Reynolds that the decision was Putin "making it very clear that nuclear is on the table."
Additionally, Hill said in one of the final meetings between Trump and Putin – where she was present – Putin tried to warn Trump about this very possibility but she didn't "think Trump figured out what he was saying."
She said: "Putin was making the point that: 'Well you know, Donald, we have these hypersonic missiles.' And Trump was saying, 'Well, we will get them too.' Putin was saying, 'Well, yes, you will get them eventually, but we've got them first.'"
Hill said there was "a menace in the exchange" and Putin was "putting us on notice that if push came to shove in some confrontational environment that the nuclear option would be on the table."
She told Reynolds that for Putin, having an "instrument" means he wants to use it.
"Why have it if you can't? He's already used a nuclear weapon in some respects," Hill said, referencing Russian operatives' use of radioactive polonium against Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 and the weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok, against Sergei Skripal and Alexander Navalny.
"So if anybody thinks that Putin wouldn't use something that he's got that is unusual and cruel, think again. Every time you think, 'No, he wouldn't, would he?' Well, yes, he would. And he wants us to know that, of course," Hill said.
From my perspective, deep frying is superior over shallow frying in all aspects. When you shallow fry, you have uneven cooking due to having less oil in the pan; more splatters; coatings are more likely to come off because of the close contact with the food and pan; and the food stays in the cooking environment for a longer amount of time, which usually means moisture loss. Is there any situation where shallow frying would actually be better than deep frying? This is a question of curiosity btw, not to stir up any controversy.
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Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations condemned Putin in another fiery speech on Monday, reading out text messages he claimed were an exchange between a slain Russian soldier and the man's mother.
While speaking to the UN General Assembly, Sergiy Kyslytsya presented "an actual screenshot" of the messages found on the phone of the dead soldier, noting that the messages had been sent "several moments before" the soldier was killed.
Kyslytsya read out the exchange in Russian, starting with the mother asking her son if he is "really in training exercises."
"Mama, I'm no longer in Crimea. I'm not in training sessions," the soldier replied, per Kyslytsya's speech.
The mother then asks if she can send a parcel to her son and asks "what happened" — to which he replies that she cannot.
"Mama, I'm in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I'm afraid," wrote the Russian soldier, per Kyslytsya's speech. "We are bombing all of the cities together, even targeting civilians. We were told that they would welcome us, and they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves under the wheels and not allowing us to pass."
"They call us fascists. Mama, this is so hard," the soldier wrote.
—CSPAN (@cspan) February 28, 2022
Kyslytsya then asked the assembly to visualize the "magnitude" of the crisis in Ukraine.
In the same speech, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UN also condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for suggesting that the use of nuclear weapons should be on the table, calling it "madness."
"If he wants to kill himself, he doesn't need to use nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945," Kyslytsya said, appearing to compare Putin to Adolf Hitler, the German dictator and Nazi Party leader who committed suicide in a Berlin bunker towards the end of World War II.
Kyslytsya has delivered several statements in the UN excoriating Putin for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On February 23, the ambassador slammed Russia for its military attack on Ukraine, telling the Russian ambassador to the UN: "There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell."
Insider's live blog of the invasion is covering developments as they happen.
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Norway's massive sovereign wealth fund — the world's largest — will dump its Russian investments following the invasion of Ukraine.
"We have decided to freeze the fund's investments and have begun a process of selling out (of Russia)," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told a news conference on Sunday, per Reuters.
The Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, according to data provider Global SWF. At the end of 2021, it held a portfolio of over 9,000 stocks worth $1.3 trillion, including 47 Russian companies and government bonds worth 25 billion Norwegian crowns ($2.78 billion), Reuters reported, citing the Norwegian government.
"Russia's attack on Ukraine has challenged Europe's security in a way we have not seen since the second world war," said Støre in a Sunday statement expressing support for Ukraine."It challenges our norms, our values and the principles that our democratic society is based on," added Støre, according to a Financial Times translation.
Norway's announcement comes as western countries and corporates intensify their economic isolation of Russia, including the removal of selected banks from the SWIFT banking system.
British oil major BP is also dumping its 20% stake in Russian state-backed oil giant Rosneft. BP chairman Helge Lund said Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the "fundamental change" that put an end to the two energy giants' 30-year business partnership, according to a statement.
Norway's decision came just days after the sovereign wealth fund's CEO Nicolai Tangen talked about the difficulties of selling its Russian holdings, media outlet Borsen reported. The Russian stock market has plunged, with the MOEX Russia Index down 35% year-to-date.
"This is obviously a dilemma, but selling out of a market is not black-or-white," Tangen told the Danish media outlet, per a FT translation. "The Moscow stock exchange has fallen markedly in recent days, and if we sell our stocks now, Russian oligarchs would be able to buy these on the cheap."
NBIM's most valuable stake in an individual Russian company at the end of 2020 was in state-owned Sberbank, followed by energy companies Gazprom and Lukoil, according to Reuters, citing Refinitiv Eikon data.
The NBIM did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
So, I found out reading Salt Fat Acid Heat that a lot of olive oil is rancid. Surprising, but I guess it makes sense. I decided to buy a container of Kirkland Signature brand EVOO from Costco, since I've seen that brand receive praise. Thing is, I didn't cook enough and now it's expired according to the Best Before date.
Is it safe to still use this oil? Safe as in not negatively impacting my health. I've heard that the flavors will change, but I hate wasting food. I've seen a few comments that the oil is more likely to be carcinogenic when it expires, so I'd rather not deal with that...
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Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that it is "unthinkable" and "almost treasonous" for anyone who loves freedom to also support Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union", the Utah senator was asked about the "pro-Putin sentiment" held by some factions of the Republican Party.
"Well, a lot of those people are changing their stripes as they're seeing the response of the world and the political response here in the US," replied Romney. "But how anybody, how anybody in this country, which loves freedom, can side with Vladimir Putin, which is an oppressor, a dictator."
"He imprisons his political opponents. He's been an adversary of America at every chance he's had. It's unthinkable to me. It's almost treasonous," he told CNN's Dana Bash.
Romney speculated that conservative figures praising Putin were likely doing so to get attention.
"And it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that. But of course, they do it because it's shock value and it's going to get them maybe more eyeballs and make a little more money for them and their network," Romney said, without mentioning any network in particular.
"It's disgusting. I'm hopeful you're seeing some of those people recognize just how wrong they were," he added.
Bash pressed Romney further, asking if the senator included former President Donald Trump as being among those who behaved in a "treasonous" fashion by expressing support for Putin.
Romney said in reply: "Well, I said it's nearly treasonous. Standing up for freedom is the right thing to do in America. Anything less than that, in my opinion, is unworthy of American support."
Several conservative figures recently praised Putin even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine loomed.
For instance, Trump on Tuesday lauded Putin's justification for invading Ukraine as "savvy" and "genius."
On the same day, Fox News host Tucker Carlson echoed Putin on his show when he said that the US should not care about Russia invading Ukraine. He later walked back some of his comments after Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine began.
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Hello,
I'm trying to make Pad See Ew and when I try to cook the flat wide rice noodles they keeping rolling into themselves. I tried stirring the noodles while they are cooking but it doesn't help out.
I have pictures but for some reason I cannot attach them.
Any tips?
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Basically the other day I was making burgers on the stovetop. This is something I’ve done for years. Just ground beef, at least 15% fat but sometimes more. However, this time I bought a different brand from Aldi that I’d never used before, and the burgers were releasing this brown goop as they cooked. These little blotches were forming around the perimeter of the patties. I was able to scrape it off but I have no idea what it was. It seemed kinda gummy. Any thoughts?
Every great restaurant I go to makes outstanding sauces.. what are some simple sauces that can wow guests?
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted Saturday evening that the company's Starlink satellite internet service "is now active in Ukraine" with "more terminals en route."
Musk's announcement came in direct response to a plea from a Ukrainian government official for more Starlink stations amid a Russian invasion that disrupted Ukraine's internet services.
"While you try to colonize Mars — Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space — Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people!" Mykhailo Fedorov, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, tweeted at Musk earlier on Saturday. "We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand."
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2022
Musk responded just 10 hours later, saying he had granted the request. It wasn't immediately clear how widely accessible the Starlink service would be in Ukraine.
In response to Musk's announcement, the official Twitter account for Ukraine tweeted, "Thanx, appreciate it."
—Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) February 26, 2022
Internet connectivity throughout Ukraine has been affected by the invasion, though the extent wasn't immediately clear on Saturday. Connectivity to the country's main internet provider even briefly plunged by 20% on Friday, internet monitors told Reuters, adding that it was unclear how much of that was caused by Ukrainians fleeing their homes.
"We currently observe national connectivity at 87% of ordinary levels, a figure that reflects service disruptions as well as population flight and the shuttering of homes and businesses since the morning of the 24th," Alp Toker, director of NetBlocks, told the news outlet.
SpaceX's Starlink is a growing network of private satellites hovering in a low orbit aiming to provide high-speed internet service around the world. There are more than 1,500 Starlink satellites currently operational.
Saturday wasn't the first time SpaceX has offered to send Starlink terminals to countries in need. Last month, Musk similarly offered to send the terminals to Tonga, where a volcanic eruption disrupted internet access across the country.
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Tom Norton, a pro-Donald Trump congressional candidate mounting a Republican primary challenge to Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan, had for months refused to file a federally-mandated personal financial disclosure.
"That's none of the federal government's business," Norton told Insider for an article published Thursday detailing his decision's potential civil and criminal ramifications.
Now, Norton has changed his tune. Completely.
"We're paying it, filing the financial disclosure, even though I still think it's none of the federal government's business," Norton said in a five-minute video posted to his campaign's YouTube account, in which he discussed in detail his turbulent financial history.
"This is getting filed because … and I am paying the $200 fine, so that way the liberals will stop crying," Norton said.
In response to an Insider text message asking about his change of mind regarding the disclosure, Norton said he "thought it was a rule not a law."
"When your budget is 17,000 pages, it's impossible to know every law on the books," Norton said.
A campaign spokesperson for Moolenar did not immediately return an Insider request for comment.
In his video, Norton offered numerous details about his personal finances he says will appear in his official financial disclosure.
He described himself as a "self-employed contractor" who earned $257,713 during the first year of his congressional campaign and $222,696 the second.
Norton said he owned rental property with an assessed worth of $100,000 to $120,000 that is "completely paid off."
He also noted he maintained an E-Trade account "with some dividend stocks — it's not huge" and that he owns "some cryptocurrency."
In his early 20s, after he "got in trouble with some credit cards" and lost his job and apartment, Norton said he reformed his financial ways and has since bought a house.
"I'm the Dave Ramsey candidate," he said, referring to the financial author and radio host who preaches against debt. "I actually do pay my bills. When I talk about financial responsibility, I do it. I have gotten behind in the past, and I paid 'em … I took care of myself."
Norton acknowledged he has "a DUI from a few years ago" and that he's previously "gotten in trouble with the law" and paid fines. He didn't elaborate on the nature of the legal trouble or fines.
Norton also criticized the financial habits of President Joe Biden, Moolenaar, and politicians who use so-called "leadership political action committees," which have come under fire by government reform groups as lightly regulated slush funds for members of Congress.
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A congressional candidate must file his or her financial disclosure, which details personal investments, debts, employment, and side income, shortly after raising or spending $5,000 in campaign cash, according to House ethics guidelines and federal law.
Norton easily surpassed that threshold early last year, raising $113,239 by the end of 2021, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The standard, US House-issued fine for a late personal financial disclosure filing is $200, payable to the US Treasury.
But a candidate who "knowingly and willfully falsifies a statement or fails to file a statement" may be subject to investigation by the Department of Justice.
While such investigations are rare, the maximum civil penalty for such an offense is $66,190, while the maximum criminal penalty is one year in federal prison plus a fine of up to the same amount, according to the federal Ethics in Government Act.
Separately, federal law, as amended by the False Statements Accountability Act of 1996, "provides for a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment for up to five years for knowingly and willfully making any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation, or falsifying, concealing, or covering up a material fact" in a filing covered by the Ethics in Government Act.
A congressional candidate who refuses to file a personal financial disclosure "would find themselves in violation of the Ethics In Government Act," Jordan Libowitz, communications director for nonpartisan government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told Insider last week.
While the federal government could conceivably pursue criminal penalties against a candidate for not filing, "it is much more likely that the DOJ could, and should, pursue civil penalties," Libowitz said.
Norton's refusal to publicly reveal his personal finances follows the publication of Insider's "Conflicted Congress" project, which found that 57 members of Congress and at least 182 senior congressional aides have in recent months violated the federal Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 with late or missing financial disclosures.
As of Saturday night, Norton's financial disclosure did not yet appear within the Clerk of the US House of Representatives document database.
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So my grandma likes to send my family a box of oranges every once in a while, and I had plans to make orange chicken with one of them. My sister forgot we were gonna make it and ate all the oranges
Can I still make orange chicken with out an orange? I have no lemons, but I have orange juice and types of vinegar if one of those are an option. I don’t have extracts either unfortunately. If someone could help real quick that’s be great 😅
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Settle a debate. Is there anything you can’t fry with enough batter or dough?
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SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES — Roman Trofymenko's phone erupted in notifications on Wednesday night.
His friends in Ukraine were posting on social media about loud booms they heard in the distance — missiles and bombs Russia was launching at airports and military bases across the country. In Kyiv, Ukraine, it was a few minutes after 5 a.m. Thursday. Russia was beginning its invasion.
Within 24 hours, Trofymenko and his wife, Tanya, who declined to share her last name, were with about 1,000 others at an anti-war protest in front of San Francisco City Hall. Demonstrators waved blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags and sang the country's national anthem. Tanya's homemade sign read "Drink shit, Putin," in Russian.
"Yeah it's very aggressive," she said of her sign, but Trofymenko added, "It's not as aggressive as shelling civilian buildings."
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The protesters had demands — enact sanctions, cut Russia off from SWIFT, and send military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. But for many Ukrainian Americans who attended, it was a chance to gather with others who shared their fear and despair, who were worried for loved ones stuck in Ukraine's seiged cities, and who could do little else to help.
"It's taken lots of anti-anxiety medication to stay sane," Olena Polovynkina, who has family in Kyiv, told Insider. She drove two hours with her mother, husband, and twin babies to attend the San Francisco protest. "Really sad. Really angry. Really helpless. A spectrum of emotions. It's just terrible to watch and see people die."
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In Los Angeles, another group of Ukrainian Americans gathered for a vigil at the Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church. They sang hymns and prayed. During the Thursday evening service, Ukraine faced a second consecutive night of Russian bombardment.
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"For a couple of hours, I was in such a shock that I could not believe that it happened," Rev. Ihor Koshyk told his congregation, adding, "It felt to me as if I was sleeping and it was not real."
"Gathering together helps us to deal with our anxiety, it brings us a little bit of comfort," he said.
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Polovynkina and her mother, Tetiana, began shaking uncontrollably when they heard the first reports of bombing in Ukraine Wednesday night.
"I was hoping it was a joke until then," Polovynkina said. "It was a really strong stress and anxiety reaction. I never experienced it in my life. We were both really cold and shaken up."
They stayed up late watching the news, trying to track Russia's movements across their home country.
"We can't put our computers down. It's just horrible. Your heart is breaking, basically," she said.
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Polovynkina needed anti-anxiety medication to get to sleep that night.
A demonstrator named Sergey, who only gave his first name, told Insider that his family and friends in Ukraine are being advised to cover their windows in duct tape, so that shattered glass won't fall into the house.
"The idea that they are suffering — like right now they are waiting [for] bombs and I'm not — I feel ashamed and feel this guilt that I'm not there," Anastasia K., who said she's been coping by "drinking a lot of vodka," told Insider. She declined to give her full name.
"The biggest fear is my people die. People die and my country will die and will be burning," she added. "Even if somehow we win, what will be left? Ruins. Just ruins and dead people. And for what? I just can't understand for what."
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Anastasiia, who declined to share her last name to protect her privacy, returned from a visit to Ukraine just two weeks ago. On Thursday, her parents were hunkering in a bomb shelter in Kyiv. When she first heard reports of bombing, she called them, but they couldn't talk. They were rushing to pack their suitcases.
"I'm not available for them. I feel helpless," she told Insider, adding, "Maybe I missed the signs. I don't know."
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Polovynkina has been talking to her family regularly, but the conversations are difficult. They've ended up talking about the babies to avoid discussing the conflict.
"No one knows what to say. No one knows how to support each other," she said.
For now, her family is stuck at their home in Kyiv. They have no plans to leave.
"They say they don't want to be refugees. They'll stay to the end, whatever that is," she added.
Back in Los Angeles, Rev. Koshyk said his parents and dozens of relatives who live around Lviv were considering fleeing to Poland.
Natalia, a churchgoer with grandparents, siblings, and cousins in Starokostyantyniv, western Ukraine, said that her mother simply asked her to pray. On Wednesday night, Natalia's sister called her, saying she could hear explosions.
"They went to the basement of their building with mattresses for the night," she told Insider. "My grandma told my nephew to help her put together an emergency medical kit and he told her 'Grandma, I'm scared,' and couldn't eat that night."
Natalia declined to share her last name out of fear for her family's safety.
In a phone call on Friday, Trofymenko said he felt more hopeful than he was at the Thursday protest.
"I see a lot of reports specifically from Ukrainian military, and they're quite optimistic, so I'm trying to stay optimistic as well. Overall, we are more enraged than depressed," he said.
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Nadia and Josh don't know how to explain the situation to their three young children, who are under the age of 7. They declined to share their last name, to protect family members in Russia and Ukraine.
When they said they were going to the San Francisco protest, their daughter asked, "Is this a holiday? Are you celebrating [Putin's] birthday?" Josh told Insider. "And we explained, 'No, we're not. We're doing this so people tell him to stop.'"
Nadia grew up in Russia, but her sister lives in Odesa, Ukraine, with her own family. Her sister's husband and two 20-something sons can't leave the country, since the government banned all male citizens 18-60 years old from leaving. On Thursday, her sister used the phrase: "If we survive."
"I've been mostly crying," Nadia said, tears filling her eyes. "We didn't want this war. None of us. But no one gave us a choice."
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