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Crispy B-Sprouts

Main Ingredients

1 pound Brussels sprouts

Extra-virgin olive oil

Sea salt

Paprika

Garlic Powder

Herb/Parmesan seasoning, optional

1 tablespoon grated, or 1/4 cup shaved Parmesan cheese

1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves

parsley leaves, for garnish

red pepper flakes

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Slice the Brussels sprouts bottoms off and then in half, toss with olive oil and pinches of salt and pepper, and garlic powder in large bowl

Then spread on the baking sheet and dust with paprika. Roast 30 minutes or until tender and golden brown around the edges. Then down to 375° for another 5-10.

If desired, toss the roasted Brussels sprouts with the Parmesan, and thyme leaves. Garnish with parsley and red pepper flakes.

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Perfect Cast Iron Potatoes

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Main Ingredients

Yellow or russet potatoes

Extra-virgin olive oil

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Garlic powder

Paprika powder

Herb/Parmesan seasoning, optional

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425°

Slice the potatoes with a mandolin cutter into thin slices

Coat cast iron skillet lightly with oil and start placing potato slices in a spiral around the skillet

Drizzle oil, garlic powder, sea salt, and paprika over the potatoes

Cook in over covered for 30 min

Uncover and cook for additional 25 min or until all are golden brown

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It's official. The world needs to prepare itself for another Talaiver. Coming Oct 28 2013

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My drive for better technology in education comes from my amazing mother. Check out this interview she had done regarding the awesome work she does with Longwood University and her students.

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My Family

I love my family. I know that is a fairly generic term that is often thrown around. Seriously though the Talaiver family is amazing. I just love that we may not be together all the time or have the traditional modalities of most families, yet we still connect with each other using whatever we can. Google Hangout, Twitter, and even just email helps us all stay connected. Note to those outside the family, once you get CCed into something, you are in a circle of trust. For example, even setting up this blog, we have a chain of emails and tweets going back and forth about what it should look like and operate as. Then we started planning subdomains for each person. The web creation doesn't stop with personal blogs either, even for stuff like Thanksgiving we are setting up a cloaked site to help plan the dinner menu. What other family would use web architecture to help plan a family holiday? That is why I love my family. I am wondering though if soon that will be how the next generation of the family unit operates.