Vegan Scones

Too easy.  No butter.

Tomato Rosemary Scones (adapted from Vegan Brunch, Isa Chandra Moskowitz)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

3 cups flour
2 Tbsp baking powder
Up to 2 Tbsp brown sugar/honey (Less is more)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Mix.  Make a well.

1/3 cup olive oil
14 oz. tomato sauce (1 1/2 cup)
1 tsp cider vinegar
2 Tbsp chopped/crushed rosemary (fresh if possible)
Pinch thyme
(Options: chopped olives, peppers, or nuts, grated lemon rind, chili flakes, ?)

Add.  Mix gently, as little as possible to make a wettish dough.

On floured surface, with well-floured hands, divide in two.  Pat out each ball of dough to make six-inch wheels.  Cut into slices.  Put on greased/ nonstick baking sheet, bake 400 degrees for about 15 minutes til they are firm enough for your taste.



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Cloud control

 Annalee Newitz for Gizmodo on the future of google.

I'm slowly reading Terms of Service, by Jacob Silverman.  Slow because I'm reading on the light rail 30-40 minutes a day, and because there's a lot of information packed into each page.

I've been waiting to read more science fiction that tackles the kind of issues raised in these books/articles.  Mostly there's a lot of vague handwaving towards a totalitarian scenario, or it's a metaphor for oppression.  Detailed tech-savvy analysis of where the social media, data as the monetizing factor, no privacy scenario is headed, not so much.

Guess I'm gonna have to write something this summer...

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