Nando’s marketed their “chicken steaks” quite vigorously – though I had never tried one. My version may or may not therefore be in any way similiar – still, I think it’s one of the nicest recipes I have thus far come up with, and it’s definitely one of the healthiest.
Ingredients:
2/3 Deboned skinless chicken breast fillets
Mielie-meal/Cornflour/Maiseflour (whatever your culture calls it)
Robertson’s Chicken spice mixture
fresh ground black pepper
Fresh garlic house
Peel the garlic and then cut the blocks into thin slices, you need about one whole garlic-block for each chicken fillet. Using a sharp thin knife (such as a fruit knife) pierce the chicken, and then push the garlic slices into the slits you cut. Sprinkle the stuffed chicken fillets lightly with salt, grind black pepper and chicken-spice on to taste. Coat in a thin layer of maize-flour.
Put a thin layer of cooking oil in a frying pan and heat up on the stove until very nearly evaporating. Toss the chicken pieces in and fry on very high heat. As always when frying on high heat it is important to turn the food almost constantly in order to prevent sticking or burning while maximizing flavor. The high heat will quickly seal the chicken on the outside and lock the juice and flavour in on the inside. The flour will gradually discolor through yellow to an eventual dark brown, once you start seeing dark brown spots, pour a cup of water onto the oil and close the pan with a lid right away to trap the steamcloud. Reduce the heat to 2 and leave to simmer for about 30mins or until chicken is cooked through.
Serve hot.
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“Celibacy is for people without alcohol” – Silvia Akemi Hirano Venter (my wife).
DISCLAIMER:
The fact that I am madly in love with her, is by no means dependent on this extremely true observation she made.
It is a fairly well known fact that characters are typically considdered to be covered under copyright and writing a story using a character from another story is generally deemed a clear case of derivative work. However it is also true that copyright only covers actual copying – if you write a book that is a word for word match of “Gone with the wind” and can prove you have never read Gone with the wind, then you are not guilty of copyright infringement.
Now I think one can make a very clear case that online nicks are characters (fictional ?) especially when they are as old and established and known to belong to a given persona as for example my own silentcoder is.
So that would make using my nick without my permission a case of copyright infringement right.
The RIAA certainly seems to think so. This of course ignores the reality that creativity is inspired by other people (which is the classic Lessig-esque and free-software complaint against RIAA-style thinking). But as it turns out … there is another whole side to the issue which is often overlooked – the unknown duplicator.
Now take the example of silentcoder.com which was registered by another person. Moreso, this person is into many of the same topics that I cover on this blog – and the site’s main feature (like mine) is a blog.
However, the person who registered it was at the time completely unaware of my existence or of this domain (as he details in this post).
He has since discovering me, and my long history with this nick (as attested by google)
offered to stop using the domain in fact if it bothered me.
My feelings ? No way dude. It wasn’t imitation, and he didn’t know about me. I wouldn’t force him to change it – though if I was in the same position I would feel awkward about continuing to use the nick – but I have no reason to expect him to feel that. If he does, it’s his concern, if he doesn’t then that too is his concern.
That is just another thing the RIAA simply doesn’t get – sometimes, great minds really do think alike.
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