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The Lobster House soup is a really tasty treat from the ocean. Use it before the main course for extra special occasions. It takes some work but is well worth the trouble. It tastes really delicious and is great with white wine.
Jack Feka - a fellow SBIer I got to know on board the Freedom - is just starting a site with shrimp recipes. As shrimp and lobster have similar methods of cooking I sent him the recipe replacing lobster with shrimp
Well - you shouldn’t believe anything you see on TV but this is just amazing. I knew this blog is getting a LOT of exposure but this is kind of getting out of hand…
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…only problem is that just like Schwarzenegger I am just not eligible for president - sorry to disappoint you
After this question came up in a family discussion it lead to some deeper thinking. Opposites are often quite obvious: Dark - Light; High - Low; Fat - Thin; Sad - Happy.
It seems that with paper for example you can look at various properties and draw different conclusions.
Paper is white - usually but not always. Coal could be a candidate as it is black.
Paper can be written on. Water can not be written on.
Paper can be torn easily. Steel can not be torn.
Paper is highly flammable. Fire could therefor be considered an opposite.
Paper is a material. A thought or a feeling is not.
As you may know, Leifur Eiriksson or Leif Erikson was the first European to discover America. The website www.islendingabok.is (Book of Icelanders) allows me to look up my relation to all Icelanders - living and dead. So I found out how we are related. Our common ancestors Úlfur and Björg where obviously born in Norway, since they were born around 850 and Iceland was found in 874 and settled in the years after.
For many, Leif Erikson is almost a mystical legend than a real person! But here he is and I have followed his line as his great nephew around 25 generations back! Yeah - it’s amazing how close to these times a family tree like this makes us feel
Erik the Red was a Norwegian who fled high taxes and came to Iceland. Erik The Red’s real Icelandic name was Eiríkur “rauði” Þorvaldsson. Living from around 920 - 1006. He moved to Greenland in 986 and built his farm “Brattahlíð”. This was written in the book “Landnáma” (Book of Settlers).
Everyone in Iceland knows that his son Leif was the first man from Europe to go to America. There has been some controversy about the nationality of Leif the lucky. Leif was born in Iceland and therefor Icelandic.
Check out these blogs about the legendary Leif Ericson:
A group of scientists believe the Holy Grail and other lost objects, which according to Christian mythology were guarded by the Knights Templar, may be located at Kjölur in the center of the Icelandic highlands.
“There is strong indication that the solution to this mystery may be found in Iceland,” architect Thórarinn Thórarinsson wrote in a letter to the local authority, requesting permission for himself and Italian cryptographer Giancarlo Gianazza to search for the treasure in the region.
According to visir.is, Gianazza believes to have found important clues to where the Holy Grail is hidden in poems by Dante and artwork by Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance painters. His research has led him to conclude that the treasure is located in a five-meter-large secret underground dome by Skipholtskrókar near Kjölur mountain pass.
One of the clues is a consistency between da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper and an aerial photograph of the area.
The theory is that the Knights Templar came to Iceland in 1217 to find a hiding place for their treasure and that Snorri Sturluson, the author of Prose Edda and other medieval scripts, helped them create the underground dome in Iceland’s central highlands.
“We have investigated that place since 2004 with field work both in summer and winter and undertaken extensive geological measurements,” Thórarinsson said in his letter. “The information that we have gathered during these trips as well as further research of original sources give us reason to investigate the area in more detail.”
Thórarinn was given permission by the local authority of Hrunamannahreppur to dig a two-meter-deep and five-meter-wide ditch by Skipholtskrókar with the condition that the ditch will be closed after the research is done.
… “it’s about time” you might say. And - yeah this is the first time I start a real blog. In this blog I intend to open my “doors” and share all sorts of different things I find out about the life and the world we live in and how to handle the tasks it throws at us.
In particular I will chat about the internet and the technology we use to bring fresh ideas to people and just in general to be a part of the growing community that is being formed by the net.
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I was hoping to get the domain thrandur.com — but unfortunately someone has grabbed it before me. Never mind, this thrandur.net will be just as good and the .net ending kind of links it better to the purpose of
The Lobster House soup is a really tasty treat from the ocean. Use it before the main course for extra special occasions. It takes some work but is well worth the trouble. It tastes really delicious and is great with white wine.
