Coriander & Cloves

I was really nervous since I've put my heart into my little company, so it's not like I was pitching someone else's idea: it's all me and my business partner! So thanks for your interest in my small business!!

corianderandcloves.com

myspace.com/corianderandcloves

corianderandcloves@yahoo to order online or call either number.

But here's a taste (our flier and page) but no pics so I don't know how it'll look:
You'll have to check us out online! Friend me on myspace so you can keep up with our menu updates and leave comments about how awesome our food is!

Each regular entrée will feed one or two people depending on your appetite. Family size will feed 3-4. Please place your order by Friday for the following week. We deliver Tuesday through Thursday.

Prices:

$30 for 3 entrées with choice of two sides each except casseroles and entrees offered as stand-alone meals $55 for 6 $45 for 3 family sized entrees $80 for 6
$25 for 3 single entrées with no side $3 per person ordering soup $3 per extra side item	Carrie is a Clemson student and a food enthusiast. She attended Greenville Tech for Culinary Arts and has 15 years restaurant experience.
Ordering options: Phone: Carrie 864-356-0763 Jen 864-222-3437
Email: corianderandcloves@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/corianderandcloves	Jennifer cooks at home with a low-country flair and has 8 years in the food industry.

Coriander &

Cloves

We make healthy, whole food meals for you and your family to enjoy and the best part: they taste great and we deliver right to your door! Why put yourself through the hassle of shopping and cooking? Fast foods are loaded with junk you don’t want in your children! That’s where we come in. We do the shopping and all the cooking. You won’t even have to clean your kitchen! All you need to do is heat it up and enjoy supper with your family.

Bon Apetit!

Pork:

BBQ pork tenderloin w/apricot demi-glaze. Three tenderloin medallions per serving and our signature barbeque sauce.

Pork or turkey tenderloin, apple wood smoked, with sun dried tomatoes and mushroom sauce with zucchini over pasta. Marinated tenderloin baked alone with a tantalizing gravy of the marinade with mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes.

Low Country Boil A scrumptious mix of shrimp, smoked sausage, corn on the cob, and small red potatoes.

Poultry:

Chicken cordon bleu with Dijon beurre blanc. Tenderized chicken breast stuffed with ham, Swiss and scallions with a creamy Dijon sauce.

Pecan chicken. Chicken breaded with pecan flour and lightly pan fried; served with a scrumptious pecan cream sauce.

Chicken Divan: Chicken and broccoli casserole over rice.

Steak:

Tenderloin medallions over gorgonzola pasta. Beef tenderloin slow roasted or smoked over corkscrew pasta in a gorgonzola Alfredo sauce and sautéed mushrooms.

Rolled flank steak with endives and potatoes. Flank steak with onions, celery, mushrooms and bread crumbs mixed and spread on the flank, then rolled and slowly baked. Endive halves topped with apple, walnut, caraway, brie and scalloped potatoes.

Seafood:

Shrimp zucchini and rice. Zucchini halves stuffed with zucchini, rosemary bread crumbs, shrimp, and topped with parmesan. Best with rice

Today’s catch with cilantro lime rice and snow peas. Cilantro lime wild rice with lime fish; served with snow peas and julienne red and yellow peppers.

Crab Cakes on a bed of mild Cajun rice served with our signature sauce (made with—you guessed it!—coriander and cloves).

Vegetarian:

Sweet potato risotto with navy beans and okra. Sweet potatoes mashed and mixed with risotto, topped with navy beans and okra.

Beer braised portabellas over spaghetti squash. Squash baked and shredded into angel hair noodles, mushroom ragout, and topped with the mushrooms.

Extras and add-ons:

Signature Soups:

Roasted red pepper bisque
Black beans and rice

Salad:

Mixed greens, sweet onions, tomatoes, grapes, cucumber, carrots, cabbage, and gorgonzola cheese and our signature vinaigrette

Vegetables and sides:

Vegetable medley (seasonal), Potatoes of the day (scalloped, mashed, roasted, herbed, hashed),
Rice of the day (jasmine, sushi or sticky, risotto, pilaf)
Pasta of the day

Coriander and Cloves

Contents

What we offer

Contact Information

Current Menu

About Us

Personal Interests

What Can We Do For You?

Our Products

We offer home cooked entrees delivered right to your door. It doesn’t get any better than this: we do all the grocery shopping, preparation and the cooking! Many of our entrees and casseroles are stand-alone meals and we add vegetables and potatoes or rice to complete your healthy meals for the others.

Key responsibilities

We do all our grocery shopping in advance, so your orders must be in by midnight on Friday in order to have your meals delivered the following week. We deliver Tuesday through Thursday. You must order 3 or 6 items at a time, all carefully prepared and delivered right to your door!

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Favorite Links

www.myspace.com/corianderandcloves

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Contact Information

E-mail address

corianderandcloves@yahoo.com

myspace.com/corianderandcloves

Web address

www.corianderandcloves.com

myspace.com/corianderandcloves

Office phone

864-356-0763

864-222-3437

Prices

$35 for three meals (each meal will easily feed 2)

$60 for six meals

$60 for three family sized meals (will feed 3-4)

Desserts count as one meal so if you’d like to add a dessert, simply order one less meal and replace with dessert.

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Our Menu

Pork:

BBQ pork tenderloin w/apricot demi-glaze. Three tenderloin medallions per serving and our signature barbeque sauce.

Applewood-smoked Turkey tenderloin with sun dried tomatoes with zucchini over pasta, in a mushroom-cream sasuce Marinated tenderloin baked alone with a tantalizing gravy of the marinade with mushrooms and cream, topped with zucchini and tenderloin medallions and garnished with sun-dried tomatoes.

Pasta Fagiolo A scrumptious mix of meats, pasta and vegetables in a hearty stew perfect for any winter evening.

Poultry:

Lemon-pepper chicken with cilantro rice. Tenderized chicken breast marinated and grilled to perfection and served alongside cilantro-pesto rice and vegetable medley.

Pecan chicken. Chicken breaded with pecan flour and lightly pan fried; served with a scrumptious pecan cream sauce over a bed of rice with broccoli.

Chicken Divan: Chicken and broccoli casserole over rice.

Steak:

Tenderloin medallions over gorgonzola pasta. Beef tenderloin slow roasted with mushrooms and served over corkscrew pasta in a gorgonzola Alfredo sauce.

Seafood:

Shrimp zucchini and rice. Zucchini halves stuffed with zucchini, rosemary bread crumbs, shrimp, and topped with parmesan. Best with rice

Crab Cakes on a bed of mild Cajun rice served with our signature sauce (made with—you guessed it!—coriander and cloves).

Vegetarian:

Sweet potato risotto with navy beans and okra. Sweet potatoes mashed and mixed with risotto, topped with navy beans and okra.

Beer braised portabellas over spaghetti squash. Squash baked and shredded into angel hair noodles, mushroom ragout, and topped with the mushrooms.

Desserts:

Chocolate Dream Pie made with an Oreo cookie crust, filled with chocolate mousse and topped with a cloud layer of whipped cream

Spice Cake our version of this holiday classic, carefully crafted with our own spices and topped with a generous layer of cream cheese icing.

Fruit cobbler cherry or peach cobbler with phyllo crust

America's Army

Back to this real world stuff but still more interesting than SL! First person shooter, visual representation of the army's recruitment tool, promotes teamwork, online multi-player game.

The people interviewed and the training area look completely different from what we covered last semester. It looks like a real recruiting office! The realism and the open frankness of the heroes interested parties can interact with is fascinating. Kinda creepy, the way their eyes follow the camera angle, too.

Goal: piquing people's interest in the army
Were they successful? Well, they met their recruitment quotas soon after (although war broke out around the same time which created an urgent sense of patriotism so the data may be skewed)

The training simulations mimic real life fairly well. When you run, your aim suffers because of heavy breathing and just the movement of running. Taking too long to aim, holding your rifle out too long, tires your arm and affects your aim; the game compensates for most variables including getting a non-fatal wound. I was not prepared for such realism in a game but it does make sense.

Even in training, the drill sergeant explains that several factors affect targeting. The part that is unrealistic is the ability to turn the drill sergeant down... But killing your teammates will land you in jail and too much wind will miss a perfectly lined up target. The firing range looks generic; it could be anywhere. But it is, in 'virtu-ality' (as opposed to 're-ality') Fort Benning, GA.

Two forces: mine and the enemy. Opposing forces are always shown to be terrorists; my team is always depicted in army uniforms. Regardless of which 'side' chosen, my team is always the army and the others are always terrorists.

This is not like Halo or many other first-person shooters.

I did it!

I figured out how to upload my page! I couldn't get the links to work, but the tech guy I spoke with said that my page names have to be identical to the links to make them work, and now that I know how to do it, I want to add some pictures to make it more interesting. So I can now tell people to check out corianderanscloves.com and I can start writing the next 20 pages of my dissertation...fortunately I made many blunders, enough to cover a lot of text!

Paper requirements

Dec. 6--final deadline for project
Presentation is IMPORTANT
10 minute in-class presentation on the 4th

DON'T FORGET THE PAPER PART OF THE PROJECT!!!!!!!


What is my project?
Not just a laundry list or prose description

Why did I choose this project?
What makes this good, what makes people notice this concept

How did I complete this project?
What were some of the obstacles, goals I've reached, things that I had to cut out

Conclusion:
Outcome of the project, was it a success, how could I improve



Once the conclusion is written, go back and adjust the introduction!! Creative processes take unforeseen turns so the intro may not adjust or be accountable for these turns unless I revise. Tie up loose ends or remove them all together.

It's crack down day!

Serious games: games that have some sort of message
Fun games are just pure entertainment
Serious entertainment however is much, much more
Games = corruption of youth
but then, excess of any one thing is not good and games are of course included
flow: the force/state of mind when time ceases to exist and you just go with it...i.e. when playing a video game and unable to stop until you beat it
No other media captures attention like games which I suppose is why there are so many educational games for children these days.

Graphic novels can tell stories that are just as deep as (real) novels but get a bad rap as being just for kids, so adults don't take it serious: it's a comic book not a book. This problem is also attributed to video games: can't possible be serious because it is, after all, a game.

September 12 game: the goal is to kill terrorists in the town. There are many civilians in the town, too, so it's impossible to take out a terrorist without "taking out" some townspeople too. Every time you kill a civilian, they turn into terrorists. The more you kill, the more terrorists you have. You cannot win this game. You just create more terrorists until there are no civilians left. After every missile you deploy hits, a group of civilians gather to cry. After the sobs, the game make a chirping noise as the criers become terrorists.
Violence breeds violence!

Madrid is the candle game; keep the flame (and the memory of the person it's lit for) burning. Message: it's impossible for one person to keep all the candles lit! The instructions say "you have to keep trying" but the player burns out and then the candles burn out and the people/candles/memories fade to black.
Now we're playing some games on powerfulrobot.com but my favorite game from last semester, Cambiemos, is no longer available to play. :( The only game that worked at this computer workstation was the Howard Dean game for canvassing. I'm kinda glad because the Powerpuff girls game looks very frustrating whereas Dean was more droll. These little games are perfect for simply killing time without any real purpose. I liked the Dexter game, too, as I recall but I couldn't load the plugins for that and many other games. I've never liked the repetitive games because there's no room for my imagination; I don't even play solitaire (on the computer or with cards). Little time killers hold no interest for me outside this class; I just don't get it. I'd rather read a book or an interesting article (or even sometimes a gossip column).
But if I've got a couple of hours to pass, I do enjoy World of Warcraft. It allows room for my imagination within the game. I can quest or explore or level or go to an arena or make stuff or just socialize. My characters can even enjoy a party and get drunk while socializing. And there are a myriad of ways to defeat enemies and those ways keep increasing as my character levels. It's not just a time killer because I'm fully engaged in the game. I guess that's why I like it. It's not just mindless tedium; I can mow the lawn or fold laundry or do dishes if I'm just looking for mindless tedium and those activities are useful!

Powerful visual messages can be acquired from video games I suppose but they're really just not for me. And no, I don't click on the mini-games within ads that flash across my screen while I'm waiting for my pictures to load on my myspace page. Games are not just entertainment; educational games are not just for learning. They blend the boundaries between fun and learning.

Computer Graphics

Computer enhanced and generated film images and film
Most images today are computer generated or enhanced and are produced digitally. Even movies! (since Star Wars Episode 2 was the first completely digital movie that wasn't all animated)
Shrek and other Pixar and Dreamworks movies are all digitally animated
I think Toy Story was the first all-digital animated movie; I love the short clips at the beginning of Pixar movies!

Striving for animated photo-realism
Eragon--there are no real dragons so that one is so digital
Lord of the Rings
Narnia
300 (a superb example of digital enhancement :)
Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino

A page from history: c prompts and such from old OLD computers that didn't understand anything unless you were super specific about what you want! And then Macintosh was born in 1984 and all those old interfaces became obsolete as we all took bites out of this new fruit of knowledge, the Apple computer!

In word, all of the options are available in pull-down menus collected into category tabs at the top of the screen. That's visual communication!
The animated office assistant...everyone's favorite brown-nosing communicator! I like the wizard because he falls asleep and snores if you don't use him. I also like the bouncy ball and the robot and the dog and the kitten who chases his tail. The paperclip is rather overused, so I never use that one, but the others are friendly and not quite so annoying.


I think if you use the dog, he'll chase your cursor if you wave it around.

Google maps--I've never used it but it's kinda creepy that I can zoom in far enough to see if there are any parking spaces at the library!
I can see my house from here! I don't know if I'm fascinated or really creeped out that I can map the route I take when I walk my dogs with the neighborhood kids and see it from an aerial view!
I think I'm gonna go with creepy, but only slightly more so than fascinating.
And I can follow the roads to my parents house and up the street from them to the creek where I used to play when I was a kid and into the forest, but it doesn't zoom in close enough to see the structures hidden by the trees. OMG I just can't wait to show Max! My mother will be upset, though.

videogames

Since we're starting to cover videogames, I thought I'd share some screenshots of the only game I play. This is Celticwitch, my main character. She's a night elf priestess. I took her trick or treating and she got a ninja costume. She's in Auberdine on Dark Shore in this pic because the backdrop was the best for this costume!



On the right is Sorrie, a blood elf. She's my Horde main. I like her because she's sassy. Blood elves like pretty things and they like their magic to make things pretty. But they don't want to use their own magic; they take it from others and hoard their own magic! But I still like her. Horde is a completely different game from Alliance and much, much more difficult. For me, anyway.



This is Nucleardemon, Max's favorite character. He's a gnome warlock and he has an imp that is very rude and sometimes talks back. He went trick-or-treating too and got a night elf mask! Sometimes, when Pagyel is rude, we let him get himself killed as punishment but when we reconjure him, he's still rude. Max likes Nucleardemon best because he's little and fast just like himself.








On the right is Scrunchie, Max's main. He's a night elf rogue who has been "tricked" instead of treated! The innkeeper in Darnassus turned him into a cat! Normally he's very imposing.