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Spring Comfort Food: Lemon Mint Risotto

Hunker down with this comforting bowl of creamy risotto:

Lemon Risotto with Mint

Here is what I think about risotto: A good risotto should be creamy, but not gummy or soupy. The rice should be tender with a little give to each bite (al dente). Any accompanying ingredients should be minimal without muddying, and, ideally, they should reflect the season.

This risotto checks all of the boxes. It’s firmly planted in spring with a lemony brightness and pucker that cuts through risotto’s inherent richness. Flecks of fresh mint and lemon zest add color and the whiff of garden-fresh flavor. The finished risotto is creamy and elegant, without being heavy. You can easily dig into a steaming bowl of this risotto and call it a meal, but it also makes a simple starter or side dish to meat and fish.

When making risotto, there are a few rules to follow for success. For a traditional risotto, you will need to purchase arborio, an Italian rice grain that’s known for its high starch content which is key to a creamy risotto. Be sure to lightly toast the rice grains in the pan before adding any liquid. This step creates a protective shell around each grain, which prevents the rice from bursting or becoming soggy while cooking. And, yes, you must continually stir the rice while it cooks. This prevents the rice from sticking to the pan, and it will help to release the starch from the rice grains, which develops the risotto’s creaminess.

This may sound labor-intensive, but the process should only take 20 to 25 minutes, and it will allow you to take pride of accomplishment in the finished result. It’s also a window of time when the only task at hand is to concentrate on the rhythm of stirring – which in itself might be considered a simple pleasure – yielding delicious results.

Lemon Risotto with Mint

Active Time: about 30 minutes
Total Time: about 30 minutes
Serves 4 to 6

6 cups chicken stock (or vegetable for a vegetarian option)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small yellow onion, finely chopped, about 1/2 cup
2 cups arborio rice
1/2 cup dry white wine
1/2 cup (packed) finely grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon finely chopped mint leaves, plus more for garnish
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest, plus extra for garnish
1/2 teaspoon salt, or more to taste
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1. Bring the stock to a simmer in a medium saucepan. Reduce the heat to low and keep warm.

2. Heat 1 tablespoon butter and the oil in a deep skillet or pot over medium heat. Add the onion and sauté until soft and translucent, about 4 minutes. Stir in the rice and cook until the rice is well coated and slightly toasted, stirring constantly, 1 to 2 minutes.

3. Add the wine and stir until the wine is absorbed, about 1 minute.

4. Add 1 cup stock and stir until the liquid is absorbed. Continue adding the stock, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring until the liquid is absorbed before adding the next 1/2 cup, until the rice is al dente, and the risotto is creamy. (Depending on the age of the rice, you may not use all of the stock. Older rice requires more liquid to cook.)

5. Stir in the cheese, lemon juice, mint, lemon zest, salt, and pepper and taste for seasoning.

6. Serve immediately, garnished with additional mint and lemon zest.

Improvised Ma Po Tofu

Feed the craving for homemade Ma Po Tofu with this fast and easy recipe:

Homemade Ma Po Tofu Soup

I call this soup Improvised Ma Po Tofu, because, when the craving strikes, and you have no intention to shop for specialty ingredients on a frigid Sunday night in your PJs, you improvise. For this soup, I used a David Tanis recipe in the New York Times as a template and dabbled with the ingredients I had, while adding extra smidges of this and that to ramp up the flavor and spice to my taste.

With that said – and in the spirit of planning ahead – I recommend preparing yourself for any future nocturnal cravings with two Asian condiments I relied on for this recipe. These ingredients add lip-smacking flavor to a smattering of dishes, Asian or otherwise. They also have a long shelf life and can easily be tucked away in your refrigerator, so they are worth the effort to purchase.

The first condiment I recommend is gojuchang. It’s a Korean fermented hot chili paste, which adds a smoky kick of heat, mild glutinous-rice sweetness, and that elusive umami flavor to sauces, marinades, and soups that makes them positively addicting.

Another useful ingredient is fermented black bean and garlic sauce, which has a murky, almost meaty quality that adds depth and savory flavor to stir-frys and marinades. Both of these staples can be found in most well-stocked supermarkets or in specialty shops, and they can be stored in your refrigerator for up to a year.

And while we’re talking about cravings, I’ll add that once the ingredients for this soup are assembled, you can whip it up in a matter of minutes. This is a close to instant gratification you can find on a PJ-clad wintry Sunday night.

Ma Po Tofu

Active Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Serves 2 to 4

1 ounce dried Porcini mushrooms
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 large red jalapeño chile, seeded, chopped
2 tablespoons fermented hot chili paste, such as gojuchang
1 tablespoon fermented black bean and garlic sauce
2 tablespoons grated fresh peeled ginger
1 large garlic clove, minced
1 cup plus 3 tablespoons chicken or mushroom stock
2 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
15 ounces semi-firm tofu, patted dry, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 to 2 teaspoons sugar, optional
4 scallions, white and green parts thinly sliced

1. Bring 1 1/2 cups water to a simmer in a small saucepan. Turn off the heat, add the mushrooms, and let steep for 15 minutes.
2. Heat the oil in a skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Add the chile, fermented chili paste, and black bean sauce and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the ginger and garlic and sauté until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the mushrooms and water to the wok. Stir in the 1 cup stock, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Slide the tofu into the soup, reduce the heat to medium.
3. Whisk the 1 tablespoon cornstarch with the remaining 3 tablespoons stock. Stir into the soup and simmer until the soup is hot. Taste for seasoning and add sugar, if desired. Stir in the scallions and serve.

Mortar and Pestle Guacamole

 Tap into your inner caveman with this guacamole recipe:

Homemade Guacamole Recipe

My favorite kitchen tool is my stone mortar and pestle. It sits proudly on my kitchen counter, holding its own in a caveman-esque sort of way, flaunting its primal elegance in between the stove and the espresso machine. It’s smugly confident in its weight and kitchen hierarchy (deemed decorative) while my food processor and standing mixer are banished behind cabinet doors (deemed clutter). New kitchen techniques are awe-inspiring and futuristic, yet my mortar is old and wise with a lineage extending as far back as the Old Testament. Sous-vides, anti-griddles, and smart ovens may be cutting edge, favored by professional chefs and culinary buffs, but my mortar has a stellar history as an essential tool to Native Americans, ancient Romans and Greeks, medieval pharmacists, and home cooks spanning the ages. It is the embodiment of simplicity and timelessness, pleasingly tactile and massively elemental. And it’s affordable.

What can you do with a mortar and pestle? You can grind, pound, and smash to your heart’s content (a useful method of expression these days), making pestos, pastes, sauces, dips, dressings, and marinades. You can grind seeds into powder. (I assure you that the results of lightly toasting cardamom, cumin, or coriander seeds, and then grinding them to a fine powder in a mortar will yield results unparalleled by the pre-ground versions.) The mortar is also the perfect place to smash garlic with sea salt, adding fresh-cut herbs, such as rosemary, thyme, sage, basil, and mint. Crush the garlic first with the salt, then add the herbs and bruise them by giving them a few turns with the pestle to release their juices and flavor. You will be left with a powerful, aromatic paste you can smear on meats and poultry before roasting.

You can make guacamole, a perfect crowd pleaser, just in time to make for your Super Bowl party. Serve with chips, and you have one-stop-shopping in a primitive vessel. If you don’t have a mortar, then simply combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and mash with a fork to achieve a chunky consistency.

Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Makes about 2 cups

1 small red or green jalapeño pepper, stemmed and seeded, finely chopped
1 garlic clove,  chopped
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup cilantro leaves, plus extra chopped leaves for garnish
3 to 4 large ripe Hass avocados
2 tablespoons coarsely grated yellow onion with juice
Juice of one lime
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt, or more to taste
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 to 3 dashes hot sauce, such as Tabasco (optional)

1. Combine the jalapeño, garlic, and red onion in a mortar. Press on the ingredients with your pestle, and grind them around the mortar in a circular movement, 3 to 4 times. Add the cilantro and gently bruise the leaves with the pestle.
2. Add the avocados, yellow onion, and lime juice and mash to form a blended but chunky consistency. Mix in the cumin, salt, black pepper, and hot sauce, if using, and taste for seasoning. Serve garnished with additional chopped cilantro.

Balsamic Braised Chicories

The Cold Season’s Answer to Vegetables:

Balsamic Braised Chicories

A spoonful of sugar helps the bitterness go away.

When the weather is frigid, and the garden has hunkered down for the winter, it’s time to turn to chicories. These leafy vegetables are our cold-season friends, packed with vitamins and nutrients, and winter’s replacement for sweet summer greens. While chicories are also referred to as “greens,” whites, reds, and purples may be more accurate descriptions. This broad group of leafy “greens” includes endive, escarole, frisée, Treviso, and radicchio.

Chicory leaves are hardy and often bitter, so it’s best to lean into their robust qualities, rather than pretend they are a substitute for mild-mannered lettuce. Team them up with equally strong flavors: sweet and sharp dressings, astringent citrus, smoky bacon, fruit, and nuts. And don’t be shy about using a little sugar, which will nicely offset their bracing bitterness.

Thanks to chicories’ sturdiness, they are great for braising, which is an appealing (and warm) way to get your veggies in the dead of winter. Braising will tame their strong flavor, and with a little extra sugar, amplify their natural sweetness.

Balsamic Braised Chicories

Active Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4 to 6

1 1/2 pounds chicories, such as endive, radicchio, escarole

1/4 cup chicken (or vegetable) stock
1/4 balsamic vinegar
1 to 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 to 3 thyme sprigs, plus extra for garnish

1. Trim the bases of the chicories. Halve the endives lengthwise and cut the radicchio and escarole into wedges.
2. Whisk the chicken stock, vinegar, sugar, lemon juice, and salt in a small bowl.
3. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Arrange the chicories, cut-side down in the skillet and cook until they begin to soften and brown, about 5 minutes, turning once.
4. Pour the balsamic mixture over and around the chicories, and scatter the sprigs over. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to medium-low. Cover the skillet and simmer until the chicories are tender, 6 to 8 minutes, turning once or twice.
5. Remove the lid, increase the heat to medium-high and cook until the liquid is reduced and the chicories are slightly caramelized.
6. Discard the thyme sprigs. Season the chicories with additional salt to taste and serve warm, garnished with fresh thyme.

Good Morning Scones

These currant scones are guaranteed to get you out of bed in the morning:
Currant Scones with Lemon

If it’s not broken, then don’t fix it. This pertains to great recipes, baking techniques, and, more specifically, these scones. I discovered this recipe years ago, published by Cooks Illustrated/America’s Test Kitchen, and it’s a keeper. Since then, I have made these scones countless times with only the tiniest of tweaks. And, like any tradition worth repeating, these dense, moist, and crumbly scones have become a part of our breakfast rotation.

The technique is specific: the ingredients should be as cold as possible. And, while the method has steps that dance around this requirement, the good news is that the scones can be formed and cut, and then frozen in advance of baking. Simply pop them into zip-lock bags, and freeze for up to 1 month. The morning of serving, remove the scones from the freezer and bake them frozen, adding an additional 5 minutes or so for baking to compensate for their chilliness.

The original recipe calls for blueberries, which are a lovely springtime addition. I am partial to currants, so often add them instead, along with a generous sprinkle of lemon zest.

Currant Scones

Active Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Makes 8

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup (8 tablespoons) frozen butter, plus 2 tablespoons melted butter for brushing
1/2 cup dried currants
Turbinado sugar for sprinkling

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon zest, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl and stir to blend.
3. Whisk the milk and sour cream in a separate bowl and refrigerate while you grate the butter.
4. Coarsely grate the frozen butter and place in a bowl. Freeze for 5 minutes and then add the butter to the flour mixture. Quickly mix with the tips of your fingers to combine. Pour in the milk and stir until just combined.
5. Transfer the mixture to a floured work surface and knead several times until the dough holds together in a ragged ball. Roll the dough out into a 12-inch square, adding a little flour as needed. Fold the dough 3 ways into a rectangle, like a business letter, using a metal spatula to lift the dough from the surface as necessary. Fold the short ends of the dough into the center, overlapping, so you have an approximate 4-inch square. Freeze the dough for 5 minutes.
6. Roll the dough out again on a floured surface into a 12-inch square. Sprinkle the currants over the dough, lightly pressing them in to adhere. Roll the dough up into a tight log, then press into a 12 by 4-inch rectangle. Cut the rectangle into 4 equal sections and then cut each section on the diagonal to form 8 triangles.
7. If freezing, place the triangles in one layer in a large zip-lock bag, press the air out, and freeze for up to 1 month. When ready to bake, remove from the freezer and proceed with the next step.
8. Transfer the triangles to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush the tops with the melted butter and sprinkle with the turbinado sugar. Bake on the middle rack of the oven until the tops and bottoms are golden, about 20 minutes (or 25 to 27 minutes if frozen).

Mashed Root Vegetables – A Colorful and Healthy Alternative to Mashed Potatoes

These Roots are Smashing

Mashed Root Vegetables

Root vegetables are fall and winter’s best-kept secret. Packed with nutrients, natural sugars and starch, the humble root is a healthy and flavorful substitute for the ubiquitous russet potato, and a superb way to get your vitamins and nutrients in the cold weather season. A good peel of skin reveals a rainbow of antioxidant-rich colors ranging from magenta to ochre to buttery yellow, sure to brighten any gray day – and your holiday table.

Feel free to mix and match roots, such as sweet potato, parsnip, rutabaga, carrot, celery root, and of course the dependable russet, to your taste and preference. Try to choose a balance of sweet and savory roots for even flavor and mash them to your desired consistency. It’s ok if the mash is a little chunky – it provides a pleasant texture. This recipe calls for a combination of sour cream and Greek yogurt in the mash, which creates a balance of smooth richness and tangy lightness. So long as you use a combined amount of one cup, you can opt for all of one or the other.

Mashed Root Vegetables

Active Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Serves: 4 to 6

3 pounds mixed roots (such as 1 pound each of sweet potato, celery root, and rutabaga)
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup whole milk Greek yogurt
Freshly ground black pepper

1. Peel the root vegetables and cut into 1-inch chunks. Place the vegetables in a large pot with 2 teaspoons salt and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to medium and simmer until the vegetables are very tender, about 20 minutes.
2. Drain the vegetables and return them to the pot; cool 5 minutes. Add the garlic and butter and mash with a potato masher until the butter is melted. Add the sour cream and yogurt and continue to mash until the ingredients are blended and the mash is to your desired consistency (I like mine a little chunky). Add 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, taste for seasoning, and add more if desired.
3. Spoon into a serving bowl and serve warm.

Prepare ahead:
The mash may be prepared up to 1 day in advance of serving. Cool completely and transfer to a buttered gratin dish. Cover and refrigerate for up to 24 hours. Remove from refrigerator 1 hour before serving.
To reheat, heat the oven to 325°F. Dot the top of the mash with about 1 tablespoon of finely diced butter and cover with foil. Bake in the oven until heated through, 30 to 40 minutes.

Cranberry Orange Trifle for the Holidays

A Festive (and Do-Ahead) Dessert for the Holiday Table:

Do-Ahead Cranberry Trifle Dessert

This billowy cranberry trifle will carry you through the holiday season. It’s a great do-ahead dessert with impressive results: orange-infused pound cake blanketed with layers of cranberry compote, whipped mascarpone cream, and candied walnuts. Each bite is light and airy with the pop of sweet-tart cranberries, and the satisfying crunch of cinnamon-dusted nuts, so be sure to get a little bit of everything in every spoonful.

Don’t let the length of this recipe deter you. It’s composed of several separate short recipes for each component that can (and should) be prepared well in advance of assembling. And the entire trifle can also be assembled in advance of serving, which leaves you plenty of time to wrestle with that turkey.

Cranberry-Orange Trifle with Candied Walnuts

Assembly Time: 20 minutes
Makes one large trifle, serves 8 to 10; or 8 individual trifles

1 loaf Orange Buttermilk Pound Cake (recipe follows)
Cranberry Compote (recipe follows)
Candied Walnuts (recipe follows)
Orange Mascarpone Cream (recipe follows)
Finely grated orange zest, for garnish

1. Cut the pound cake into 3/4-inch cubes. Set aside a few whole cranberries from the compote for garnish.
2. Pour a thin layer of cranberry compote into the bottom of the trifle dish or individual serving glasses. Arrange a snug layer of pound cake over the compote. Top with a layer of cream. Sprinkle a few of the nuts over the cream.
3. Repeat the layering process, finishing with a layer of cream and nuts. Garnish with the reserved cranberries and finely grated orange zest.
4. Serve or cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to 6 hours before serving.
Optional: Lightly brush each layer of pound cake with Cointreau or Gran Marnier for an adult version of this dessert.

Orange Buttermilk Pound Cake
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Makes 1 loaf

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3 large eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup buttermilk

1/4 cup fresh orange juice
1/4 cup sugar

1. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Butter a 9-by-5 inch loaf pan. Line the bottom with parchment and butter the parchment.
2. Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and set aside.
3. Cream the sugar and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in the orange zest and vanilla.
4. Add half of the flour, then the buttermilk, and then the remaining flour, mixing to combine after each addition.
5. Pour into the loaf pan. Bake until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes clean, about 55 minutes.
While the cake is baking, make the syrup. Combine the juice and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Simmer until the sugar dissolves, and then remove from the heat.
Remove the cake from the oven and transfer to a rack. Pierce the top of the cake all over with a skewer and brush with some of the syrup. Cool 10 minutes and then invert the cake onto a rack. Brush the sides of the cake with the remaining syrup and cool the cake completely.
Note: The pound cake may be prepared up to 2 days in advance. Wrap with plastic and refrigerate until use.

Cranberry Compote
Active Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Makes about 1 3/4 cups

12 ounces cranberries, fresh or frozen
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt

Combine all of the ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the cranberries pop and release their juices, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and cool completely.
Note: The compote may be prepared up to 2 days in advance. Refrigerate until use.

Candied Walnuts
Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Makes about 1 1/2 cups

1 1/2 cups walnut halves
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking tray with parchment. Spread the walnuts on a separate baking tray and bake 10 minutes.
2. Heat the sugar over medium heat in a small saucepan. As soon as it begins to dissolve, stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar liquefies and is amber in color.
3. Immediately add the walnuts, salt, and cinnamon and stir to coat. Remove from the heat and spread the walnuts on the parchment-lined baking tray. Cool completely, and then break into coarse pieces.
Note: The nuts may be prepared up to 1 week in advance. Store at room temperature in an airtight container.

Mascarpone Cream:
Active Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Makes about 3 cups

8 ounces mascarpone cream, chilled
1 1/2 cups heavy cream, chilled
1/4 cup sifted powder sugar
1 tablespoon Cointreau (optional)
1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest, plus extra for garnish
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Add the mascarpone to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a wire attachment and mix on medium-low speed to soften.
2. With the machine running, slowly add the whipped cream and mix to combine. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until soft peaks form.
3. Add the sugar, liqueur (if using), the orange zest, and vanilla, and beat until stiff peaks form.
Note: The cream may be prepared up to 6 hours in advance of assembling the trifle. Cover and refrigerate.

Apple and Oat Muffins

Add a little apple to your morning muffin:

Healthy Apple Oat Muffines

I don’t bake muffins often, but when I do, I try to make them healthy. This way they are on hand for an easy breakfast or a snack. My issue with muffins, is that they often resemble mini-cakes, packed with sugar and fat. To some extent, this can’t be avoided if you wish to eat a muffin that doesn’t resemble a hockey puck or bird food. But I adjust, reducing some of the sugar and fat and adding healthy grains or cereals, fruit and nuts to the batter. I also add grated fruit, which is a key ingredient for natural sweetness and moisture.

Grated apple is the star of this muffin recipe, which also includes raisins, chopped nuts, and oats for extra fiber. As muffins go, they are reasonably healthy, while sufficiently naughty to indulge a craving for something moist and sweet. You can tweak this recipe if you like – just make sure to follow the ratios. In place of apple, try adding grated carrot, zucchini, or pear; and bran can be substituted for the oats. There’s no need to peel the fruit. The nutrients in the skin add a little extra healthy boost – I’ll take my small victories where I can.

Apple Oat Muffins

Active Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Makes 12 (2 1/2-inch) muffins

1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs, room temperature
1/4 cup unsulphured molasses
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup old-fashioned oats
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins
1 medium sweet and crisp apple, such as Honey Crisp, grated, about 1 cup
1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Oil a 12-muffin tin (or line with paper liners).
2. Mix the sugar and oil in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in the molasses and vanilla, and then mix in the buttermilk.
3. Whisk the flour, oats, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Add to the sugar mixture and mix on low speed until just combined, without over-mixing. Stir in the raisins, apple and walnuts, if using.
4. Spoon the batter into the muffin tin or paper liners, filling them. Transfer to the oven and bake until a tester comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, and then remove and cool the muffins completely on a rack. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.

Herb and Cheesy Hasselback Potatoes

These baked potatoes are not a hassle:

Cheesy Hasselback Baked Potatoes with Parsley and Garlic

I can’t think of a better way to prepare a potato than hasselback-style. You may have seen these baked potatoes, with their distinctive accordion pattern. Thinly sliced, but still intact, the flesh is exposed while creating a cascade of ridges and edges ready to crisp. As the potato bakes, a flavorful basting sauce dribbles into the potato, flavoring the interior while hastening the browning of the skin. Apparently, you can have your baked potato and your crisps and eat them as one.

Russet potatoes, large Yukon Gold potatoes and sweet potatoes are all fair game for hasselback-style. The key to the prep is to first thinly slice a piece of each potato base lengthwise to stabilize them, so they won’t wobble or tilt while baking. Then cut thin slices crosswise, 1/8 to 1/4-inch thick, nearly to the bottom without cutting through the base. A trick to doing this is to lay 2 chopsticks, or 2 thin cutting boards lengthwise on either side of the potato, to act as a buffer for the knife as it cuts through the potato, and prevent it from reaching the work surface.

Then, brush the potato all over and in the crevices with a melted butter basting sauce, and continue to baste the potato once or twice while it bakes. About halfway through the baking process you can gently fan the slices to spread the potato further open to expose to the interior. If some of the slices break off, no worries! They will be delicious chips on the side.

Herb and Cheesy Hasselback Potatoes

Active Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Serves: 4

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt, plus extra for finishing
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus extra for finishing
1/4 cup finely grated Gruyère or Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup chopped fresh herbs, such as parsley, mint, and/or chives

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Cut a very thin slice lengthwise from the bottom of each potato to stabilize the bottom. Cut each potato, crosswise, as thinly as possible, 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick, to about 1/4 inch from the bottom, without piercing the base. Place in a baking pan or cast iron pan.
3. Melt the butter with the oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the garlic, salt, and pepper and remove from the heat. Brush the potatoes all over and in the crevices with some of the butter mixture.
4. Transfer to the oven and bake until the potatoes are tender and beginning to crisp, 45 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the size of the potatoes, basting once or twice with the butter. In the last 10 minutes or so of cooking, sprinkle with the cheese and continue to bake until the cheese is melted.
5. Remove from the oven and immediately brush all over with the remaining butter. Season with additional salt and black pepper and sprinkle with the herbs.

Farmers Market Potato Salad

Tasting Potatoes, Danish-style

I discovered this fresh and light-handed salad years ago when I lived in Denmark. Most likely it was at one of our frequent family gatherings, seated outdoors at a long wooden picnic table in the shadow of a thatched roof farmhouse with the summer sun hanging, as if caught on the hook of the horizon, refusing to sink as the evening set in. It was certainly summer, because that’s when new potatoes are at their peak in Denmark, and considered not only a staple but a delicacy to be greedily devoured.

I was smitten by the salad’s restraint, simply tossed with oil and vinegar, and generously layered with freshly snipped flowering sprigs and herbs from the garden. As an American, my experience with potato salads to that point had been the heavy-handed mayo and egg sort, tasty for sure, but more of a cloak and disguise to the mild-mannered potato. I would prod a fork through those murky salads swathed in cream, sugar, and oil in an attempt to fish out any intact morsel of potato, which by then had no flavor except that of the coating with which it was blanketed. The Danish potato salad was delightfully different, and appropriately Scandinavian in its understatement and use of fresh ingredients, celebrating the humble potato with a confetti of garden herbs. Most importantly: I could taste the potato.  And when the season’s newest potatoes are available, delicately sweet and faintly redolent of butter, there is nothing as sublime as the taste of potato.

As you can see, I chose blue potatoes for this salad, since I love their unusual color and how they contrast with the flowering yellow mustard greens I found at the farmers market. You can also use yellow or red new or small potatoes. The combination of herbs is up to your taste and whatever might be growing in your garden or stashed in your fridge. If you can find flowering mustard, add it to the mix or use it as a garnish, since it adds a nice peppery bite and vibrant color to the salad.

Danish Potato Salad with Garden Herbs

Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes plus cooling time
Serves 6

3 pounds new potatoes or small potatoes (red, white, or blue), washed
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3 cups fresh herbs, such as parsley, mint, dill, chervil, chives, tarragon, coarsely chopped
Flowering mustard sprigs for garnish

1. Place the potatoes in a large pot. Cover with cold water and add 2 teaspoons salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Partially cover the pot and cook until the potatoes are fork tender, but not mushy, 10 to 15 minutes depending on the potatoes. Drain the potatoes and let stand for 5 minutes to cool slightly.

2. Cut the potatoes in half or large bite-size pieces. Add the potatoes, the oil, vinegar, scallions, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and the black pepper to a large bowl and stir to thoroughly combine. Cool to room temperature.

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TDWI Speaker: Claudia Imhoff, President of Intelligent Solutions

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014

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Today’s BI environments have split personalities. They must support the production of routine reports and analyses used every day for decision-making by line-of-business employees, and yet, also enable data scientists and data crunchers to “freewheel” through the data in an unplanned, experimental fashion. What magic is this? How can implementers create a sustainable BI environment with these two seemingly contradictory purposes? Does one replace the other? What are the technological requirements for this new world?

This Webcast will unveil the extended data warehouse architecture (XDW), and demonstrate that it’s not magic—just a logical, well-thought-out addition (not replacement!) to the traditional data warehouse architecture so that each user’s requirements are easily supported.

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On Monday the 3rd, the others will notice that your energies of affection and sympathy attract them to you. Your passion and vitality are shown without hesitation. Your initiatives are in luck.

On the 4th, Tuesday, your close relatives will help you in matters that must be settled today. Your vitality and empathy will help you achieve what you want.taurus weekly horoscope 3rd to 9th august 2020

On Wednesday 5th, your balance will bring up situations that you need to solve. And your vitality and energy will draw others to you. And you will manage to solve all your challenges in an auspicious way.

Thursday, the 6th, is a special day to resolve family issues and to find a solution for them. Finally today your impulses will be aimed at finally solving certain pending issues and also positively.

On Friday the 7th, through dialogue you should solve unresolved issues for quite some time. Your generosity and magnetism will ensure that you have a magnet to attract everything that needs to be resolved soon.

And the weekend; On Saturday you will notice that you should reach agreements with the couple in the way you handle financial issues, and on Sunday you can focus on yourself and everything you need to explain to your loved ones.

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Your relationships, your exchanges, your movements, and your ideas are challenged by powerful influences of rebellion or resistance. Tensions are likely if you don’t soften your positions or if you don’t allow others the freedom to speak, act, or think.

The passing of time allows you to go to a lull. Whether short-lived or not, don’t burn your energies endlessly looping events around. If the time is not conducive to dating, don’t make a big deal out of it, it’s not negative. This first week of August is calm, take the opportunity to rest. Protecting yourself from tension is a very good thing.

Temporary lack of motivation or more serious crisis? What is certain is that this professional week does not promise to be full of fantasy! On the contrary, sulking from colleagues, hassles of all kinds, untimely delays, in short, the party will be somewhere other than your work! Nay, you have lived through others and your morale is in hardened steel! Roll up your sleeves, boost your concentration, and believe in your potential, especially this week!

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Outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com (formerly known as GetAFreelancer) has hit a milestone: 2 million professionals have registered for its service to date.

That’s up from 1 million in October 2009.

The Sydney, Australia-based startup says the 2 million users (which I seriously doubt are all active) hail from 240 countries. The largest country represented is the United States, with over 21% of users. Second to the U.S. is India, with 19%.

Following the top 3 countries, in order, is the UK, Pakistan, Canada, the Philippines, China, Bangladesh, Romania and Australia.

Freelancer.com indicates that over 890,000 projects have been posted on the marketplace so far, from projects as simple as designing a website (~$200) or logo design (~$30) to stuff like “Design of a Fully Functional Dune Buggy” ($268) and “Composition of a Rap Song to help Chinese Students Learn English” ($102).

The company says some of its most prolific users are making hundreds of thousands of dollars thanks to its platform.

Earlier this year, Freelancer.com acquired virtual content marketplace Freemarket.com. And just last week, they purchased LimeExchange, adding another 80,000 freelancers from around the world to its userbase.


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As per Netflix help center, User can download preferred TV programs and films on the Netflix application to view offline later. This innovation is possible on the Netflix app for iOS or Android and other devices. After times of doing on people’s choice lists, Netflix has lastly has run its most oft-desired feature: the capability to download movies and programs for offline watching.

This shows most of the people will watch their favorite films and shows offline at a convenient time. It is pretty to watch videos without internet. In this easy tutorial, we will explain how a user can download Netflix videos to watch on the offline, but also how a user can switch video quality and other behaviors.

There is possiable. First, the possibility to download movies or programs is not possible for the entire Netflix list, however, still somewhat some particular subset. A big portion of the offline list combines Netflix unique shows simultaneously with some other preferred list.

By default, the Netflix app command video downloading hardly when you correlated to Wi-Fi, which is the best thing to achieve. You probably need to move that option allowed, but if you hold a huge data pack or an unlimited package, then you can surely set it off in App Settings > Wi-Fi Only.

Select Favored Quality before downloading any videos and TV shows from Netflix

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  • Touch the symbol in the top-left edge.
  • Move down and hit on “App Settings.”
  • Touch “Video Quality.”

From there, you can select the “Standard” choice or view in excellent quality with the “Higher” right.

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The first point user should enter the Netflix app by singing in, it presents a dialog displaying the download figure used to start a download. Further important, at the base of the pop-up, is a loop that leads the user to view all the films and TV programs can download at present.

Choose it! Do not bother if you shut the prompt before seeing it, there is an additional Ready for Download section placed in the search part of the app.

Downloading a movie is as simple as hitting on the download key and making the app observe attention of the support. Ideally, the user needs to hold a Wi-Fi features network when performing so.

Alternatively, you can constantly watch for the download button when surveying the Netflix list. You can install the download feature by beginning the menu and according to App Settings and picking within the standard and great Video Quality. High quality occupies more storage of space.

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If a user on Android that there is a feature to download movies and TV shows to Android smartphones. With the help of Smart Downloads, the feature allows users to set an automatic download on Android externally damaging your mobile system or your local space. With Smart Downloads allowed, the phone will automatically remove the previously seen episode and displace it with the following episodes.

So that Android is ready to download movies and TV shows for offline watching. The download needs section only when an associated Wi-Fi interface is inside approach, and Netflix will not accept more space from the smartphone Android, as it closes the last episode for the current episode. And protecting Android devices from hackers

Android users hold a Smart Downloads set up the option to download videos they prefer. When allowed the option of smart download automatically delete the TV show episodes after watching and there are chance download remaining episodes without interaction of the user. Android users can allow and disallow the function of the app by starting the Netflix app and moving to App Setup. Move the Smart Downloads turn to the On or Off state.

A download state bar will seem on the cover when a current episode downloaded and informed to users when downloads completed. You strength not required to divide from that Wi-Fi network before your following episode is over.

How to Download Netflix movies and TV shows on Computer (Windows 10)

If you are preparing visit any place shortly, or if you are working to stay in the city with the bad internet network, however, the user can have the videos accessible on Netflix.

With the option to download movies and TV shows which user preferred to watch while user traveling or visiting the place where an internet connection is poor can use the choice to download what users love and view it offline. Before performing an action, check your computer to work more fast and reliable for preventing any obstacles while downloading.

We want to look out the archives of films and TV programs accessible for confined download. This shows you will not get all the content accessible on Netflix when viewing while you are online. However, do not bother, the museum of offline viewing content is engaging huge.

First, you want to proceed to the Windows Store and download the Netflix app. Another point. You cannot begin the browser on Windows 10, enter Netflix by a sign in and download movies and TV shows.

Conclusion – Netflix has now implemented some chosen titles to download. The user can download it on the computer (only windows 10 with the Netflix app for windows) or other Android and iOS platforms.

They will receive download from the equal store wherever the user has installed the Netflix app. The downloaded lists cannot transport to other devices. The user can view downloaded movies only on that appropriate device.

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Mashups, authorship, and audience

At the BLSCI Symposium last week (see the previous post for more info), I had the good fortune to work a bit with Gardner Campbell, including attending his afternoon workshop titled “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World”. The main thrust of the talk was that Web 2.0 technologies, and in particular the phenomenon of open APIs and the mashups they allow, call into question our notion of what constitutes the (or even an) audience for the content that we produce. It is through the lens of the author that one can really see this at work.

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Here’s how I would reconstruct the argument. Communication – I’m thinking primarily here of linguistic communication, but it could be the case with other kinds of conventionalized communication as well – works because of a set of assumptions that the author (a term I might for the moment apply broadly to anyone who “authors” an utterance with communicative intent) has about his audience. If I say “Gee, it’s cold in here” because I want you to close the door, I am assuming, among other things: that you are a sufficiently competent speaker of English, that your hearing is functioning properly, that you will grasp the “literal” meaning of my sentence (i.e. that the ambient temperature in the room is too low for my comfort), that you will assume that I must have uttered the sentence not just to inform you of my beliefs regarding the temperature of the room but to make you close the door, that you like me well enough to want to make me more comfortable, that you are physically able to close the door. And so on, ad nauseum. More generally, the communicative gesture that an author chooses to make (a gesture like an utterance) will depend on his beliefs about who or what his audience is. (None of this is very new or very original, of course.)

We might think of certain kinds of authorship, such as writing a book or painting a picture, as less direct than the kind of authorship described in the foregoing paragraph, because the author is separated further from his audience and, as a result, has less information about them. When I write a book entitled Gee, It’s Cold In Here, I make some of the assumptions discussed above, but some I do not. Using Twitter is probably something like this, as you might be justified in making some assumptions about your audience (you know the handles of your followers, for instance), but it’s impossible to judge the potential scope of this audience, or to know many details about most of them.

When an author’s work is mashed up after the fact, his connection to his audience is so indirect that you might call it altogether disconnection. I might send a tweet, something like “boonebgorges: Gee, it’s cold in here”, with the intent to get a rise out of my Twitter followers. Let’s say it gets pulled into Twistori (perhaps the tweet should have been “I hate how cold it is in here”…). Think about the people who now view this tweet in its new context. Not only do I not know who they are, but I had never really even considered the possibility of their existence when authoring the original tweet. In this sense, whatever assumptions I had originally made about my audience have been entirely subverted by the reuse of my work. There is a sense in which I am no longer the author of what I wrote: I didn’t code Twistori, I didn’t conceptualize the potential visitors to, etc. As with any remix – from DJing to quilting to objet trouvé art – the idea of authorship being vested in a single individual has been overthrown (if it was ever that simple even in the case of more traditional authorship).

Once authorship becomes decentralized, so too does audienceship. Let’s say that you are one of my Twitter followers. You saw my initial tweet in its original context, in your Twitter timeline. Let’s imagine further that you are checking out Twistori at some later date and see my tweet repurposed in the Twistori timeline. Who, at that moment, is the audience for my tweet, and why? Are you the audience, because the tweet was originally written with you in mind? Are you the audience, because you’re now reading the tweet on Twistori? Is no one the audience since no one can be definitely picked out? There is a certain amount of self-selection that has to happen; the reader must construct an audienceship around himself. Reading a disembodied, mashed-up tweet written by a stranger, you could imagine yourself as a friend of the original tweeter, as a viewer of a piece of abstract art, or any number of other things. When you get enough people – enough intentional actions – between you and the original producer of the content, you have to make decisions for yourself about what kind of audience you are a part of, if any.

Anyway, this is all very interesting to me, and I have some thoughts about whether there are – or should be – any “right” answers to the questions of how to circumscribe authorship and audience. I need some more time to think about that, though.

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Colorful tradition takes Main Campus

The South Asian Student Society is holding its annual Navratri Garba celebration on Oct. 17.

At Navratri Garba, there are powerful sounds of Raas music, traditional Indian dancing, popular Indian food and vibrant colors.

Students can partake in a celebration of Navratri Garba, hosted by the South Asian Student Society, on Oct. 17.

“As one of Temple’s premiere multicultural organizations, everything that we do is focused on enriching the student body with the different cultures of South Asia,” said Abhinav Gabbeta, a senior biology major and president of the South Asian Student Society.

 The Garba Raas, a traditional dance originating from Gujarat in West India and Mumbai, is performed when celebrating Navratri Garba. Navratri refers to the nine nights during which the festival is typically celebrated.

 “Basically, those nine nights are supposed to be in Hinduism, where the goddess Durga fights and conquers evil,” said Janeni Nayagan, a junior biology major and public relations chair of the South Asian Student Society. “It’s also supposed to be reverent respect to the ultimate divine creative power, which is sort of the divine power and creativity.”

 The South Asian Student Society hosts at least two major events a year, normally one each semester. The student organization represents eight different countries in South Asia: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

 “We represent all of those countries, but we are still open to all races,” Nayagan said. “Anyone can be a part of the organization – it just takes interest in the group and the festivals and holidays from the different countries.”

 Last year the society brought the Garba back to Temple for the first time in years. Gabbeta said the group has been working on the plans for this event since school started.

 “We will have a brief ritual, delicious food, colorful dresses, lively traditional music and of course lots and lots of interactive dancing,” Gabbeta said.

 The Navratri is celebrated in several different ways. Some perform the Garba, others set up Golu steps, or a small set of steps where religious idols are placed, and often families gather  to have huge dinners. Group members said it is one of the most important festival for many Hindus around the world.

 “This is an event I have been going to since I was little,” said Nirali Patel, a senior secondary education-mathematics major and secretary of the South Asian Student Society. “It was great fun, because you get to dress up and wear the fancy outfits and jewelry.”

At meetings before the event, the South Asian Student Society will teach basic Garba moves for those who want to get a head start on the learning process before the Oct. 17 event. The courses are called “Teach me how to Garba.”

 “A lot of us don’t know how to do Garba Raas on our own, but we could pick it up instantly,” Nayagan said. “It’s very easy for anybody to pick up, really. You don’t have to be a good dancer to participate in a Garba.”

 Traditional food and drinks will be served. Frooti Mango juice, a popular drink in India, is on the menu. As for food, Samosa Ki Chaat, another well-known Indian item, will also be available.

 “It is a great social event to meet new people of different cultures coming together and just dancing all night long,” Patel said.

 The society is encouraging all members of the student body to try something new, members of South Asian Student Society said. They emphasized the fact that attendees don’t have to be from one of the eight countries they represent to participate in the festivities. All are welcome.

 “This year we plan to take it to the next level and establish Temple’s Garba as one of the best in the entire Philadelphia region,” Gabbeta said.

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Black Arts & Cultural Funding and Justice Resource Hub

Throughout this resource hub, we aim to amplify funds and resources that explicitly center Black artists, cultural communities, and experiences. Additionally, we borrow a lens from the BIPOC project1 that centers Black and Indigenous folks - whose experiences shape relationships for all ALAANA/POC people’s relationships with white supremacy culture – as another dimension of resource and financial investment intended to realize justice.

This hub is curated with the intention of identifying and amplifying funds and resources that support Black artists, culture, and communities. We recognize that this is an incomplete list that we expect to evolve and hope will expand.

Funding for Black Artists and Cultural Communities

Funding for BIPOC Artists and Cultural Communities

Advocacy, Movements, and Networks

  • Black Social Change Funders Network - A network of funders committed to creating thriving Black communities by strengthening the infrastructure for Black-led social change.
  • Black Philanthropic Network at ABFE - A group of nine regional affinity groups whose focus is to support philanthropy in Black communities and that is in alignment with ABFE’s mission to promote effective and responsive philanthropy in Black communities.
  • Invest/Divest from the Movement for Black Lives - The Movement for Black Lives launched the Vision for Black Lives, a comprehensive and visionary policy agenda for the post-Ferguson Black liberation movement, in August of 2016.
  • Invest/Divest created by Funders for Justice a Program from Neighborhood Funders Group - Addressing how we “reallocate power and resources back to our safety, back to our health, in ways that help us thrive, and that don’t criminalize or dehumanize us.”
  • Black Lives Matter Arts+Culture - uplifting Black artists, educating Black communities on the intersection of art, culture, and politics, and disrupting the status quo of the art world by uplifting emerging Black artists who speak audaciously, who are unafraid, and who stand in solidarity with the most marginalized among us.
  • The Center for Cultural Power - a women of color, artist-led organization, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature.

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I snapped this picture of a sink at a pub back in May. Wikipedia tells me that there is no correlation to the slang word crap and Thomas Crapper, inventor of water closet improvements and the floating ballcock. The similarities between his name and the euphemism are completely coincidental.

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I guess this is the same as someone named John Singer growing up to be a musician. Some things are just your destiny.

I’m grateful for his inventions, even if its provided him with a legacy I wouldn’t particularly want to have. I wonder if he would mind or if he’d be proud.

We seem to have very little control over these things. You have to work hard at something to achieve, but you don’t always get to choose your genius. All one can do is focus and channel  effort. In the end we have little control over our creativity. If you manage to catch opportunity and inspiration at the same time, it would just be wrong not to take it.

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12 steps to great white paper project management

A white paper project is a complex undertaking, with many moving parts.

Here are 12 steps to an effective white paper project.

We created each of these steps after going through a painful experience with a white paper that went off the rails

A few were never even completed, despite my best efforts.

So consider these best practices that will help guarantee success.

You can think of these 12 steps in three phases:

  • Planning
  • Production
  • Promotions

These three phases will take you all the way from clarifying a foggy idea to promoting your finished white paper.

For best results, your marketing team should focus first on Planning (Steps 1 through 4).

Then leave the actual Production (Steps 5 through 10) to your white paper writer and designer.

Of course, you should wrap up the project carefully when the time comes (Step 11).

And while your writer and designer are working, your marketing team should be working up all the Promotions for the finished white paper (Step 12).

The rest of this article goes into more detail on every step.

Architect looking at blukeprints to signify planning your white paper

Phase A: Planning

You would never build a house without a plan, right? So never jump into writing a white paper without a plan.

Step 1: Sponsor a kickoff call with all reviewers

Gather your writer and everyone who will need to approve the finished white paper for a 45- to 60-minute conference call.

This is when you do the overall planning for the project.

Review all the items listed on this page. Make sure you find a consensus on every item. Resolve any differences before moving on.

For more on these all-important kickoff calls, see White paper must-do #1: Hold a kickoff call.

If leading that conference call seems intimidating, you may need some help with that. We provide that in our planning service, which we’ve done for dozens of companies.

We’ll drive that call and help you drill down to all the most important details. After the call, we create a written plan for you.

Step 2: Make a list of all reviewers

This is one of the most important parts of a white paper plan.

Why does this matter?

Because there’s no better way to derail a white paper than to allow a “hidden reviewer” to pop up late in the process.

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Consider their limited perspective on your project:

  • They may not understand what a white paper is
  • They may not know what you’re trying to achieve with your white paper
  • They’ve missed all your initial discussions
  • They’ve never read the plan or executive summary

A late-arriving reviewer often has many irrelevant comments. But they can have a lot of weight to throw around, especially if they’re higher in the org chart than anyone else on the project.

That’s why, at That White Paper Guy, we charge $500 extra for any new reviewer who pops up after the kick-off call and initial planning stage.

We want this penalty to motivate all our clients to put together that list, and not leave anyone off.

For more on difficult reviewers, see 4 wild beasts that can ravage a white paper, and how to tame them.

And for a checklist you can circulate to your reviewers to help them focus, see How to get great reviews for your white paper.

Step 3: If your writer asks for something, get it to them quickly

That’s one of your roles in the project: To support your team to do their best work.

If you let their requests for information or guidance languish in your Inbox, you are gambling with the outcome of your project.

Attend to their requests as though they were a prospective customer ready to spend millions with your company.

After all, your white paper is going to attract prospects like that, right?

Step 4: Don’t interfere with the creative process

During the Production phase, you may be tempted to jump in and start discussing your pet marketing phrases, fonts, and design details.

Leave this to your writer and designer. They bring a fresh set of eyes to your company and your offering.

They are a proxy for any new prospect. Listen to what they have to say. At least for now.

You can tweak their work later.

Phase B: Production

Now it’s time to move into Production, where the white paper is actually created.

Step 5: Request a draft executive summary

This will take your writer some time.

Most writers say it’s the hardest part of the project. After all, the executive summary sums up the gist of your argument in one very concise page.

But it’s quick and easy to review. And, it’s much faster to tweak a 1-page outline than rework a 10-page draft.

Once that’s approved, your writer saves a lot of time because they simply expand the summary into the full-length paper.

For more on executive summaries, see White paper must-do #2: Create an executive summary early.

Step 6: Gather all comments promptly

When your writer delivers the first draft white paper, circulate it to all reviewers with a deadline for their comments.

Give them a week, two weeks at the most.

Be sure to follow up and get comments back to your writer in a timely way.

Believe it or not, sluggish reviewers are the most common hold-up during a white paper project. It can easily take weeks to get all the comments back from all your reviewers.

During those weeks, your writer will move on to other projects. When you finally finish up your reviews, your writer has to rekindle their excitement and remember all the details of the project.

That can detract from their motivation, your timelines, and the final results. So don’t let this process drag on.

Step 7: Help your writer make sense of the comments

It’s your responsibility to resolve any conflicts of opinion, not your writer’s.

Consolidate and review all comments. Some reviewers will contradict each other.

Clarify any unclear, contradictory or controversial comments before you hand them to your writer.

I remember one white paper I wrote using GDocs, where the reviewers kept inviting more reviewers to look at it.

Eventually, we had almost 20 reviewers all cramming in their comments.

I’d never heard of some of those people. And their comments were all over the map. One even asked, “Why are we doing a white paper about this anyway?”

Finally, I had to ask my client for help.

We both pulled up the draft on our screens and got on the phone. She ran through all the comments in half an hour, sorting out who I should listen to and who I could safely ignore.

We even rewrote some passages on the screen together.

That was one of the most productive review sessions I ever experienced, thanks to her help.

After experiences like this one, I started charging $500 for each new reviewer that popped up after the planning phase.

Step 8: Find or create rough graphics

Direct your team to include rough graphics in the second draft of the white paper.

Graphics can be hand-drawn sketches scanned in. Or roughs put together in PowerPoint, which has a lot of basic drawing tools. Or quick results from SmartDraw, which I’ve always liked.

For stock photos, you can download comps for free to see what people think before you shell out for the real version.

Including visuals in the second draft will help reviewers visualize the final results. And it gives them a chance to comment on the rough visuals.

For more on cost-effective graphics, see affordable graphics for a white paper.

Step 9: Gather final comments

When your writer delivers the second draft, circulate it to all reviewers as before.

The second draft should incorporate all earlier comments and include rough graphics.

Tweak the title to make sure it’s compelling.

Remember: No new reviewers!

Your comments on the text should be minor at this stage.

I always know a well-managed project when the second draft comes back with no major comments, only half a dozen little fix-ups.

Step 10: Get final deliverables and sources

Get the final text. Ask your writer for sources and do a quick spot check of them. If you are using a designer, direct them to create the final pages.

Proof the final PDF from the designer, since white papers are almost always distributed as PDFs.

Insert metadata in the PDF for SEO.

For more details on using metadata, see Metadata: the best-kept secret in white paper SEO

Step 11: Attend to payments, permissions and post-mortem

Make sure to process payments for your writer and designer. Request any permissions for quotes or excerpts from published sources. Check that all stock images were properly purchased.

If desired, hold a post-mortem with your team to confirm what went well and see how you could work together more smoothly next time.

During any post-mortem, keep it positive. One way to do that is to focus on processes, not personalities.

For more on this step, read White paper must-do #3: Wrap up the project properly

Phase C: Promotions

Now it’s time to implement all the promotions you planned earlier.

Step 12: Launch your promotional campaigns.

Get your marketing team to launch their promotions to help publicize your white paper.

Many suggest promoting your white paper just like a mini-product release. Write a press release, etc. etc.

No matter how wonderful your white paper is, it won’t succeed if your intended audience never hears about it.

For ideas on promoting your white paper, see 18 must-do’s to promote a white paper.

This is a basic outline of what can sometimes be a lengthy journey.

Good luck publishing your next white paper!

What best practices have you developed to create a better white paper process? What parts of the process have been a struggle? Tell us about it in the Comments below.

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About Gordon Graham

Worked on 300 white papers on everything from choosing enterprise software to designing virtual worlds for kids, for clients from Silicon Valley to Switzerland, from household names like Google and Verizon to tiny startups with big ideas. Wrote White Papers for Dummies which earned more than 50 5-star ratings on Amazon. And named 2019 Copywriter of the Year by AWAI, the world's leading training organization for professional copywriters.

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Constellium designs and manufactures value-added aluminium products and components for a broad range of applications, primarily in the aerospace, automotive and packaging markets.

The lean journey for Constellium began in 2012, one year after its creation as a standalone company. Constellium has some 8,500 employees and 22 sites across the world, including manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and Asia.

For a young company, we have a long history. In one sense, Constellium has been in business for over a century. It was therefore important to embed lean into the business and drive change and transformation throughout the company as a way of improving performance and efficiency. The aim of this massive transformation through lean is to make Constellium the best and most profitable company in our industry.

On the basis of a deep analysis of the company and its processes, we organised our change around three pillars: lean tools, organisational changes in our Autonomous Product Unit manufacturing sites (or APUs) and lean leadership. Our CEO Pierre Vareille and our VP lean Yves Merel were the driving force of this lean transformation at Constellium.

Since the beginning of the process we have recognised our people were the key success factor in developing a continuous learning and improving culture. We consider every Constellium employee – independent of their role – accountable for the environment and the health and safety of our employees and everyone else on our sites. But we needed to reshape the mindset of our leaders – many of whom are excellent engineers and technical experts but uncomfortable or unfamiliar with the softer management skills. This meant changing the way our second-level managers and frontline leaders behaved. Because of the nature of our industry, many of these were used to process-orientated and technical work rather than human interaction and supportive management behaviours, but it was crucial they focused on this side of their role as well.

At the most straightforward level, this is about reducing waste and inefficiency in workplace interactions. Any conversation between colleagues or a manager and his team is important to the business, regardless of whether these are formal meetings or informal conversations about a project. When these do not go well, they impact the productivity of the business, and ultimately reduce the likelihood of achieving lean objectives; continuous improvement and improved performance. With effective training, sharing of values and practices, people can make the difference.

Process and programme

After a six-month analysis of the business and analysing the people needs coming out of this, one of the biggest gaps we identified was frontline managers did not feel in control enough of the day to day situation they and their teams were facing (and saw themselves as firefighters). What’s more half of the frontline managers had difficulty positioning themselves as leaders. It was therefore crucial to change leadership behaviour of the critical 350 frontline mangers in our business to drive the lean transformation process. These leaders are very important to us as they add direct value to our customers, so were prioritised accordingly.

We partnered with talent management consultancy DDI to design and deliver a lean leadership curriculum to tackle the challenge. We wanted a developmental journey that would create a climate to better embed lean into the business, and create a common leadership language to give our managers the skills for coaching and communicating they needed. We also needed a delivery partner with a global capability, who could equip and certify our own people top lead training programmes but also customise their standard tools and training modules to fit our needs. Lastly we needed development to be adapted for different cultures and countries across our business.

The programme was based on giving leaders better communication and “soft” management skills, such as structuring effective conversations, and engaging and challenging staff in a positive way. The development journey included structured tools within four modules to help our leaders increase their impact in areas such as:

  • Effectiveness in delivering feedback
  • Confidence when faced with having difficult conversations
  • Better relationships at multiple levels, geographic areas and business units.

This resulted in significantly changed relationship between these managers and their direct reports.

“The implementation of the four training modules was critical to start the lean transformation and to support change. With these common communication tools, the daily work of supervisors as been greatly aided. The fact those managers for APUs trained their teams allowed better collaboration in the factories.” Sylvain Künzi, director of human resources.

To achieve the biggest impact possible we adopted a “train the trainer” approach, where senior frontline managers and leaders in each APU were themselves trained as teachers in line with lean principles. They were then tasked with taking their new communication and management skills back to their teams. This helped ensure people felt ownership and responsibility for the change, rather than it being perceived as an HR initiative.

In total, around 50 leaders were certified as trainers by DDI through eight sessions around the world, and they took the training back to a further 350 key managers in the business between October and December. Combined with another training programme that has been cascaded to around 5,000 of our team, we have seen training hours in the business rise from 3,000 hours in 2012 to 10,000 in 2013-14.

Becoming a trainer for the first time to his or her direct reports is an engaging, challenging but also sometimes concerning change for an APU manager. But the certification process and the easily applicable content from the courses helped increase their confidence. We knew our APU managers were not all starting from the same base level of experience, so gave additional focused support to those that needed it through a DDI certified trainer and paired them up when starting the process with their direct reports.

Initially, we were cautious about how enthusiastically frontline leaders would embrace their role as teachers, and how much they would enjoy coaching others. A positive surprise has been APU managers coming back to us and telling us how proud they are of this responsibility. They are more satisfied with their work than they were in the past.

To ensure sustainability, we completely integrated the leadership modules in the context of the lean transformation, using application examples from the day-to-day routines of our frontline managers. This customisation of the content is key to ensuring its relevance.

The backing of our CEO was also a critical success factor. He joined each of the eight train the trainer sessions for a live conversation and recorded a four minute film in four languages explaining directly to frontline managers what he expected of them.

For us, the biggest impact has been giving APU managers training and development on non-technical concepts and processes. They have embraced these soft skills and are much more effective at problem-solving and leading their teams. This is a far more efficient methodology and is driving the lean transformation of our business. We now see our managers being far more proactive with suggestions to help improve the business and problems that should be and can be solved at a lower level are now no longer being elevated further up the business. Our frontline APU managers are directly adding more value to our customers. This change of leadership behaviour is an essential part of our lean transformation process, as without it the rest will not happen.

The result of this work has been a four-point increase in our employee engagement and satisfaction scores, between 2012 and 2014. Training and development has become the second biggest lever for driving employee engagement in the business.

All this means we have become much more of a learning organisation. Learning and training are now seen as core parts of our management responsibilities, which was not necessarily always so before. We have to keep investing in the leadership skills of our employees, but the return on investment in an engaged workforce who are far more able to contribute actively to solving the day-to-day issues and problems in the business.

Creating a standardised set of tools and leadership principles has supported our work with lean. These are backed up by our leadership principles and values. At a corporate level, we have been able to set the ground rules of a lean leadership culture we wanted to implement by standardising the way to deliver feedback, increase confidence with challenging conversations and give managers a framework for communications.

This work hopefully illustrates successful lean goes beyond the parts of the manufacturing process that are purely technical or about workflow and system processes, and into the people side. The role of leaders is a vital part of ensuring efficiency and driving lean into the business; they set the culture and without them embedding lean principles into the organisation would be impossible.


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Thank you so much for joining us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?

I know how Snapchat was being used as a medium for people to share their lavish lifestyles, and since I worked as an off-market property dealer in London, I was well aware of the kind of luxury that London housed. I simply wanted to give that luxury and opulence a platform to be displayed and appreciated.

Which tips would you recommend to your colleagues in your industry to help them to thrive and not “burn out”?

Always stay humble and remember why you started out! My aim is to motivate people to push themselves for a life they desire, not discourage them or divide them.

None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story?

I am grateful to my parents. They worked hard, day in and day out, to provide a better lifestyle for me.

How have you used your success to bring goodness to the world?

I think by starting this page 5 years ago and giving people the space to share their happiness, while motivating other people to chase their dreams simultaneously.

Do you have a favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share a story of how that was relevant to you in your life?

“Never believe you are above or below anyone. Keep a humble spirit.” -Brendon Burchard

This quote resonates with me because I saw my parents slowly make their way into a better life with hard work and determination, never by putting other people down or coming in the way of their success. In this dog-eat-dog world, humility and patience is your best friend.

How can our readers follow you on social media?

They can follow on my Instagram (@mr_rkol).