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Monthly Archives: May 2022
Hurricane Agatha – Forms in the Pacific
Scott Joseph’s Foodster Awards for Best Pizza.
The Foodsters are an ongoing program to recognize and celebrate culinary excellence in Central Florida. The Foodsters are open to any business with three or fewer locations — no chains.
Navigate to the following website to vote for your favorite pie…
Best Pizza 2022 Nominees:
- Tornatore’s Cafe & Pizzeria – College Park
- Tartini’s Pizza & Spaghetteria – Pine Castle
- Vinzo’s – Red Bug Lake Rd / 436 – Casselberry
- Jerry’s Pizza & Italian Restaurant – 434 / Rangeline Rd – Longwood
- Pizzeria Valdiano – Winter Park Village
- Buttercrust Pizza – South Orange Ave (Gatlin Plaza)
- Antonella’s Pizzeria – Orange Ave Winter Park / University & Goldenrod
- Brad’s Underground – Curry Ford Rd – Dover Shores
- Brick & Fire – South Orange Ave – Hospital District
- Lazy Moon Pizza – Colonial and Mills / University Blvd near UCF
- Paradiso Pizza – Semoran and East Colonial
- Pizza Bruno – Curry Ford Rd (Dover Shores)
- Terramia Wine Bar and Restaurant – Douglas Ave / 434 and Co Rd 46A
- Ziggie’s Pizza – Virginia Drive – Colonialtown
- Pops pizza – Mills Ave – Colonialtown
- Antica – Cranes Roost
- Victorio’s – Winter Springs, Hunt Club, Longwood, Oviedo
- Park Pizza – Lake Nona Blvd
- Antonio’s downstairs – Orlando Ave – Maitland
- Two Guys Pizzeria – East Colonial / SR 408
- Tomasino’s – Colonial Drive, Red Bug Lake Rd, Narcoossee Rd
- Francescas – Maitland (Orlando Ave & Horatio)
- Michael’s Ali – West Plant St (Wintergarden) & West Minneola Ave (Clermont)
- Posto Pizza – Celebration
- New York Pizza (17-92 & South St) – Fern Park
- Prima – Sams Ave New Smyrna Beach
- Pizza Slut – ????
- Julia’s Pizza – Lee Rd and Edgewater
- Boardwalk Pizza – Lake Howell & Howell Branch
- Black Magic Pizza – Pop Up Locations
- Danino’s Trattoria – Sand Lake & John Young
- Muzzarella Pizza and Italian Kitchen – Lake Underhill & Goldenrod
- Pizza Extreme – South Kirkman / I-Drive
- Goodfellas Pizzeria – East Colonial / Alafaya
- Lil’ Anthony’s Pizza – Avalon Park
- Mozzarellas – ????
- Bella Roma – East Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy / Canoe Creek Rd – St Cloud
- Pesaro’s Pizzeria & Ristorante – Avalon Park
- SoDough Square – East Michigan Street
- Touch of Basil – St. Cloud
- Stone Fired Pizza – Pine Castle
- Francesco’s – Maitland
- Don Giovanni Contemporary Italian and Pizzeria – Taylor Rd, Port Orange
- Cafe Murano – Cranes Roost
- Bacci – ???? New Smyrna
- LeMay’s Pizza – Poinciana
- Marco Polo’s – Canoe Creek Rd – St Cloud
- 1803 Pizza Kitchen – Winter Park Rd / Corrine Drive
- Del-Dio Pizzeria – East Colonial Dr / Maguire
- Phyre GenX Pizzeria & Brewery – 10th St – St Cloud
- Papa Gios – East Colonial Dr (Bithlo)
- The New York Pizza Company – Bill Beck Blvd. – Kissimmee
- Piazza Italia – Lake Nona
- Monte Vesuvius – ????
- Manninos (Davenport)
- Via Napoli – Disney
- Pienezza- Kissimmee
- Floridino’s Italian Kitchen
- Armando’s – Winter Park
Florida’s median home price soars to $410,000
The median home price in Florida hit $410,000 in April, according to a report from the Florida Realtors trade group, further eroding the options for working-class residents to find housing.
All of Florida’s 22 metropolitan statistical areas experienced an increase in home prices over the past year, most in double digits, with prices continuing to rise. The statewide year-over-year increase was 21.8% percent, the report found.
Only the Tallahassee metro, with a median home price of $299,000, saw a decrease from its price in February, which was $306,950.
The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford MSA had the sixth-highest home prices, with a median of $425,000, a 23.9% raise. This is higher than April’s report from the Orlando Regional Realtor Association, which includes a broader coverage area than the MSA.
The report put Orlando above the Tampa region, with a median of $404,900, but below the Sarasota area’s $500,000.
NASA Thermonuclear Art in 4K
The sun is always changing and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun’s atmosphere, the corona.
SDO captures images of the sun in 10 different wavelengths, each of which helps highlight a different temperature of solar material. Different temperatures can, in turn, show specific structures on the sun such as solar flares, which are gigantic explosions of light and x-rays, or coronal loops, which are stream of solar material travelling up and down looping magnetic field lines.
Scientists study these images to better understand the complex electromagnetic system causing the constant movement on the sun, which can ultimately have an effect closer to Earth, too.
Flares and another type of solar explosion called coronal mass ejections can sometimes disrupt technology in space. Moreover, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.
Iraqi citizen living in Ohio arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush
A terrorist plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush in revenge for the Iraq War was uncovered earlier this year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in an unsealed search warrant.
Shihab Ahmed Shihab, an Iraqi asylum seeker, described the plan to a paid FBI informant who also drove the suspect around Dallas to conduct surveillance on Bush’s home and offices in February, according to a March 23 search warrant unsealed last month in federal court in Columbus, Ohio.
The plotters “wished to kill former president Bush because they felt that he was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the entire country of Iraq,” FBI Special Agent John Ypsilantis, a member of Joint Terrorism Task Force in Cincinnati, said in the filing.
The warrant, first reported on Tuesday by Forbes, has been resealed. A spokesperson for the US attorney’s office in Cincinnati declined to comment. Freddy Ford, a spokesman for Bush didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Citing operational security, Secret Service Special Agent Steve Kopek declined to comment on the matter except to say the “US Secret Service takes all threats to our protectees seriously.”
ISIS Support
Four Iraqi nationals, two of whom are ex-intelligence agents, were to be smuggled into the US from Turkey, Egypt and Denmark as part of the plot, the FBI agent said. The plan involved getting the plotters into Mexico and then crossing the border into Texas, Ypsilantis said.
Though Shihab was not himself a member of the Islamic State militant group, the warrant described the smuggling plot as an “attempt to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, specifically ISIS.”
A Columbus resident, Shihab asked the informant for details about security operations at Bush’s home in Dallas and Crawford, Texas, ranch, the FBI agent said. In February, the informant picked up Shihab at the airport in Dallas and assisted him as he used his phone to record video of Bush’s gated home as well as the library and offices at the George W. Bush Institute, according to the filing.
Shihab allegedly told the informant “that he wanted to be involved in the actual attack and assassination” and that he “did not care if he died as he would be proud to have been involved.” according to the search warrant.
He also inquired about how to obtain fake FBI or police badges, the FBI said. The informant has been supplying information in exchange for money for over 10 years and recorded many of his conversations with Shihab, according to the filing.
Bush last week reignited controversy over the war when he inadvertently transposed “Iraq” for “Ukraine” while criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin for a launching a “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion.”
Shotgun Red’s Secret BBQ Sauce
2 cups Hunts ketchup
1 can mild Rotel’s (drained and blended)
3 anchovies (blended with the Rotel’s)
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup apple juice
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. garlic powder and 1 tsp. onion powder
2 or 3 tsp. black pepper
1/4 cup grape jelly
1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper (optional)
1 tsp. worchestire sauce
1/4 tsp. liquid smoke
(optional) 1/2 cup (finely diced onions)
Simmer for 1 to 2 hours stirring frequently
Chill in the refrigerator for 3 days.
Monkeypox in the United States
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are collaborating with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to investigate a situation in which a U.S. resident tested positive for monkeypox on May 18 after returning to the U.S. from Canada.
CDC is also tracking multiple clusters of monkeypox that have been reported in early- to mid-May in several countries that don’t normally report monkeypox, including in Europe and North America.
It’s not clear how people in those clusters were exposed to monkeypox but cases include people who self-identify as men who have sex with men. CDC is urging healthcare providers in the U.S. to be alert for patients who have rash illnesses consistent with monkeypox, regardless of whether they have travel or specific risk factors for monkeypox and regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
“Rescued by Ruby” star put down after illness.
A Rhode Island dog whose inspiring story of going from shelter dog to lifesaving police K-9 became the subject of a recent Netflix movie has been euthanized.
State Police said Sunday K-9 Ruby was put down Friday following a “sudden, acute, and untreatable illness.” She was 11 years old.
Col. Darnell Weaver, superintendent of the state police, expressed gratitude for K-9 Ruby’s years of service.
“K-9 Ruby dedicated her life to serve the citizens of Rhode Island and make a positive impact on every person she ever interacted with,” he said in a statement. “She became a symbol of hope for all shelter dogs, showing the world what a shelter dog can do when just given love and the chance to shine.”
Continue readingCrawfish Etouffee
Crawfish étouffée is a simple dish of sweet and meaty crawfish served up in a rich and flavorful gravy that is made from a quick roux. The dish includes the Cajun holy trinity of onions, bell peppers and celery, along with lots of garlic, spicy Cajun seasonings, and fresh chopped herbs.
The name itself, étouffée, is a French term meaning “to smother” which refers to the rich gravy that smothers and surrounds the crawfish.
This is food from the heart, a staple of Louisiana, and with one bite, you’ll be hooked for life.
Crawfish Season
Crawfish season in Louisiana typically runs from November through July, depending on the weather. Cooking crawfish is typically done in a boil, like a crawfish boil, with lots of corn and seasonings.