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BBQ Butterfly Cornish Hen (salt free recipe)

The end result looks like it is about to go into battle, and tastes like it too!

Last weekend I rotisseried Cornish hen for my family (and regrettably didn’t blog about it) so when I was asked to prepare Cornish hens for this weekend I decided to try out a different method.  After some googling, I decided to butterfly them (sometimes called spatchcocking) and then BBQ them and the results were wonderful.   Not only was the outside crispy and well spiced, the inside was moist (yes, even the white meat) and delicious!

Butterflying is a technique that requires removing the spine and then flattening the meat.  This allows for the meat to lie flatter on the cooking surface and thus get cooked evenly and quickly.  You can see a slightly horrifying but very helpful demonstration of the technique in this video.  The recipe I used was slightly different than the one in the video but very similar.

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It’s a Cold, Code War

The news about Flame and its relatives being confirmed as a US/Israel coordinated attack on Iran has mostly been taken with the same awe that a Tom Clancy novel might instill in a reader.  We have the President(s) as our Jack Ryan, approving a massive long term software-based intelligence gathering/ infrastructure-crippling mission that keeps our … Continue reading It’s a Cold, Code War

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Do CAPTCHA’s Offend You?

This can be frustrating sometimes.

This summer I am off in the far away land known as Connecticut at the Research Experience for Undergraduates at Fairfield University. Thankfully, the wonders of the series of tubes allow me to blog from this desolate land.

When I tell people that I am doing research in the field of Computer Security they think of hackers and viruses and guns and Global Thermonuclear War.  Sadly, my research group is only focusing on the topic of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).  Though it may sound boring in comparison, I actually have gotten pretty excited about it and will attempt to share some of that excitement.

For those of you who don’t know, a CAPTCHA is the name assigned to those annoying tests that you need to take when signing up for an account (an example can be found in the upper left corner of this post).  The basic idea is that only humans should be able to pass these tests so that spammers and other bad people cannot go around and write a script to create 7 million email accounts in 3 seconds for the purposes of spamming us.

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