Corgi Facts #1: A corgi’s front and back paws are totally different! The front paws are really thick, and the paw itself has a wide base. There’s a huge corgi ‘knee’ on the front, and some tri-color corgis have a colored ‘wrist band’ too. Super cute, and totally squishy.
The rear paws are a bit thinner and more straight. Unlike the front, they don’t bend at a ‘knee,’ so when a corgi walks/runs it looks like they’re running on little furry stilts from the back.
Einstein kindly posed for the above example.
Doorstep Corgi - My Space Cowboy, Einstein, is exactly the same length as the doorstep. He knows he’s a perfect fit.
nthinks asked: Looking at some of the things you eat, how the hell do you stay so damn skinny? I'm jealous.
post-meal PURRRRGGGGEEEE
What I wanna be when I grow up. This guy.
Recipe: Pizza Potato Skins
I created this recipe today for lunch while taking a break from reviewing just about the entire PlayStation Vita launch line-up. They were perfect to stick in the oven while typing away, and they’re even better now that I can gobble them up in my office while finishing my work.
These ‘skins add a pizza twist to the standard formula…mostly because I didn’t have bacon and green onions, but had leftover pizza makings. They also use those creamy little Yukon Gold potatoes, which both reduces baking time and makes the skins small and pop-able. The Yukons really make these potato skins great.
Ingredients:
- 6 Yukon Gold potatoes
- olive oil
- canola oil
- 1/2 cup sharp cheddar, cubed
- 1/4 cup pepperoni, cubed
- 1/4 cup pizza sauce
- kosher salt
Pre-heat oven to 400 degress. Wash the potatoes, dry them, and rub them with olive oil. Bake for about 40 minutes, until soft. Remove to cool a bit.
Turn the oven up to 450 degrees.
When cool enough to handle, cut potatoes in half and scoop out most of the middle of each half, leaving a couple of centimeters of thickness. Use a brush to paint both the insides and backs of the potato halves with canola oil, then season with kosher salt. Bake potato side up for about 8 minutes, and then flip skin side up for another 8.
Remove potatoes from oven to paint the insides with a bit of pizza sauce. Top with cubed cheddar and pepperoni. Bake for five more minutes at 450 to melt cheese and crisp up pepperoni.
Devour.
This is being posted for my boy Jeremy Hoffmann.
roux
curry
Saute onions in large pot in oil on medium low, until caramelized. Turn heat to medium high and add beef, browning. Add carrots and broth and bring to a rolling boil. Reduce heat, add potatoes, apple sauce, tomato sauce, salt and curry powder. Simmer for about 35 minutes, until vegetables can be pierced with a fork.
Melt butter on medium low in a small sauce pan and add flour and curry powder, stirring to form a paste. Add pepper, ketchup and tonkatsu sauce, combining to a thick paste. Cook on low until paste crumbles a bit. Remove from heat and set aside until curry is ready.
Mix 2 cups of liquid from curry pot into roux sauce pan and whisk until smooth. Pour roux mix into curry pot and stir until thickened.
Serve over rice.
Chihuahua Corgi mix? Adorable!!!!
Mojo, my Chihuahua/Corgi mix, enjoying the first snow of the year <3
What an incredible year 2011 was. When I look back at it I keep thinking of amazing things that happened. I’ve nodded my head in disbelief so many times today.
I was living in Japan at the beginning of the year, which was amazing in itself. Writing a travel book, making friends and musical contacts, learning and taking lots of photos. Then, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. I made it through Japan’s largest earthquake on record in March. I moved back to USA right after, relieved family waiting.
Carissa and I went on a fantastic European vacation after that, covering Paris, Amsterdam and everything in between. I’ll never forget it. Then, I saw the world traveling for Destructoid all year, as I have for the past half decade. I know I’m very lucky to have this gig. I actually hit 100,000 airline miles for the year in November, making it my fifth year to pass 90,000 miles. I saw so many places, walked so many streets, and ate so much great food.
Then, in the fall, I took over as Destructoid’s Editor-in-Chief. My dream job of dream jobs. I still feel like I’m dreaming. How could one person be this lucky?
And that was just one year. Maybe with this you can understand why I’m so excited for 2012. I can’t wait.
Happy New Year!
Aww! Otousan blasts off into space, but no one cares. Also, I need that heated Otousan rug NOW.
Christmas came early! So happy.
This corgi obeys, but with such anger! He’s so pissed off about having to do tricks for a biscuit, but that makes him even cuter.
