Ciro

Dragonfly, shouldn't you be concentrating on yoko's ass instead of Lennon's penis????

Tilapia Piccata 4 tilapia fillets 3 oz of dry white wine The juice of 2 lemons and two extra lemons cut into wedges. 1 tablespoon chopped parsley salt to taste 2 tablespoons capers Some flour 4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons oil Preheat over to 450° F. Put the flour in a large plate, dust the tilapia fillets, shake the excess flour and set aside. In a large skillet put the 4 tablespoons of olive oil (or peanut oil, whichever you like) when nice and hot brown the tilapia fillets 2 minutes per side. Remove the fillets and drain the excess oil. With the wine, deglaze the skillet, add the butter and capers. Put the fillets back in the skillet put it in the oven and bake for 5-8 minutes. When ready, remove the tilapia from the skillet put them in warm serving plate,add the lemon juice salt, black pepper,and parsley back in the skillet. Mix the liquids well with a wood spoon, and pour it over the fillets. Serve it with wedges of lemon on the side.

Hi! Peri. This is one of my favorite dish. At my restaurant, we serve it with ziti pasta. You could also boil some vegatables , like zucchini, broccoli and add them as side dish. Broccoli dipped in a mixure of flour and water and then fried is also a good side dish that could go well with the chicken terragon. ps If you don't like mustard, substitute it with 3 table spoons of tomato sauce, and you would have the rose' sauce, which i like it a lot. You could also use tortellini instead of ziti. I suggest to try the original recipe first. Let me know! Ciao.

About, Julie Delpy as Dagny? :twitch:

I am still in love, after 22 years, with the first woman I loved in my life: My wife Francesca This is our favorite song that I like to sing to her. JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (Billy Joel) Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair You always have my unspoken passion Although I might not seem to care I don't want clever conversation I never want to work that hard I just want someone that I can talk to I want you just the way you are. I need to know that you will always be The same old someone that I knew What will it take 'till you believe in me The way that I believe in you. I said I love you, and that's forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are. Ciro D'Agostino

Thank you for your kind words Kat, I will

I downloaded some pictures of me singing at a friend's wedding. Ciao

>>Ciro, I have some questions for you. Have you ever experienced this yourself with someone via the internet? If not, then it is difficult for you to have an opinion that will hold water, considering you have no experience with it or firsthand knowledge of it. I agree, Angie! >>I also found it interesting that you say true romantic love is like a straight line, which starts and never ends. Romantic Love or any form of love is not unconditional. This is one of the areas where a lot of people make the fatal mistake in thinking that there is Unconditional Love; ie, that you will love them forever no matter what they do to you. Did I say that? I never mentioned unconditional love, or love someone forever no matter What she does to me. >> Can you give me an example of Unconditional Love or as you say it, true romantic love is like a straight line, which starts and never ends? Are there any examples you can give me where this Unconditional Love romantically or otherwise would apply? Yes! I can give you an example: If Leo would have returned to Ayn Rand the love she felt for him, they would have loved each other for the rest of their life, and both would have made love speaking to each other in Russian and no philosophy or Hugo verses were needed while having sex, but unfortunately he didn’t love her enough, so she left Russia and came to America where she met Frank, who wasn’t Leo. If she had come to America with Leo , Nathaniel Branden would have never had a chance with her. He would have never existed for her, and the love between Ayn and Leo would Have been a straight line ended only after their deaths. Does it make sense to you? Angie, I just wanted to express my personal opinion, my whish is to be wrong in what I have said. I whish you and victor the best, and that both of you could live happy together. And this comes from the bottom of my heart! Ciro.

"Victor, what I am saying is that it takes more than internet messages and phone conversation before we can say to be in love with someone." Ciro, >>Why not? Just because it didn't happen to you? It’s all it took for us, and, conceivably, thousands of other people. I just introspected, and yes I have validated to myself that I am in love. You have not proven otherwise. How can I prove that you are not in love with Angie? Who am I to tell? what I am saying is that I don't agree with your view of love. For instance, have you considered the fact that she has a child and that he needs as much love as you do and, even more, from his mom? are you able to love her kid as much as you love her? etc...etc...or he is not in the picture? hum? >>>You have merely reasserted your position—that people don’t fall in love via the internet—and you have not offered anything substantially new to say that would make me think otherwise. I say that people can fall in love everywhere, even on the moon, but do they know then what it takes to be committed to a serious relationship? >>You didn’t present any argument other than a mere assertion. There are no “rules” when it comes to matters of the heart, but that is not to say that love is causeless: love is a response to values. This response alla Rand is plain BS. >>Let me ask you this: have you ever experienced an intense admiration or dislike for a person without having ever met them—be it a celebrity or an other individual in the cyber world? Admiration, yes! but not intense How is that you are able to experience those emotions—but whereas love is exempted from the catalogue? Because, love is an intense emotion >>Do you deny, for example, that MSK and Kat love each other? How can I know? >>Do you deny that MSK feels an intense admiration for, say, Barbara Branden—long before he had the pleasure to meet her? Linz, and many others felt the same way about Barbara and they changed, why? Only time can tell! >>Angie has tried to make her feelings clear, and has only now offered testimony of people who are happily married having met in the cyber world. Who are these people, do you know them personally? >>I would ask you to revaluate you assumptions as to what is possible between two people, not to assume that a strong connection and emotion for an another is not possible via the cyber world--merely because you are yet to experience it. OK! >>Question: how do you define love? Not alla Rand, as you define it, but this way: Oh Love ! ©1995 Frank Sant'Agata Love comes in all sizes, shapes, and senses; It sings "Everything is well" It glorifies the world you see We all want it and we all have wondered where to find it We search high and low, we wait with patience But love eludes us; or comes for awhile and leaves. Oh love, where are you now? I'm here. I'm always here. Here within you. I don't take leave and return as a great surprise when you least expect me. I don't hide in the deep reaches of your everyday strife in wait for the right moment to reward you when I think you are deserving. You simply turn your back towards me and keep my presence unknown to yourself. But I'm always here. When you stop to smell a flower, watch a child, feel the Sun's rays on your face, you become aware of my presence. Whenever you greet a friend, help a stranger, give a gift, you see me then. I communicate through your senses. If you sense something you like, I am awakened to you. You want more of this, you say. But when there is something you do not like, I am absent from your awareness! There is so little that you like, and so much you dislike in your world. You made it that way. There are so few persons that you love. There are so many you would avoid. You were taught through the ages that some people were okay, others not so good; You were taught by your ancestors of long ago to accept some things; reject others. Now passed down through the ages, it is your legacy. Or is it ? Must you accept teachings that are not based on truth ? How do you know if they are true or false beliefs ? This is easy. You simply ask if they came to your teacher through love or fear. I can assure you, if they were love based, they came from me; But if they were made from fear, they came from a part of you- that is not a part of me, and never will be! I am like light and fear is like darkness. If you turn me on, darkness leaves immediately; But darkness has not the same power over me. There can be an abundance of darkness and a tiny light. And where that tiny light is, the darkness can enter not. And so it is with fear. If a tiny bit of love exists, fear is locked out. And when fear is present, love cancels it out immediately. What are you afraid of ? That you will not have love ? Then, by that very fear, you have turned your back on love! Look my way, I am with you always. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. It is not I who forsake you when you think you are without love, but you who forsake me. When you ask where love is you have forgotten; Love is within you. Love is you. Love is.

By telling people that they can’t fall in love via the internet, you place yourself in the outlandish--and audacious--position of telling people that they don’t really feel as they do. How would you like to be told what emotions you are feeling and not feeling? Victor, what I am saying is that it takes more than internet messages and phone conversation before we can say to be in love with someone. Or else we have a different idea in regard to what being in love means. In addition to that, I think that true romantic love is like a staight line, which starts and never ends. If it ends, it doesn't mean that we cannot fall in love with someone again, we can, but, it will not be like someone, who falls in love with a person once and forever. You cannot eat your cake and have it too! CD.

Victor: Can people connect and fall in love before actually meeting? The answer is a resounding YES. I disagree, Victor, Romantic love, like everything in life, must be created, and that, requires time and testicles, that is, to be commited and being a man. People, who come from previous bad experience and marriages, should be more couscous when talking about romantic love. Especially those who believe in polyamority. Most of the time they confuse infatuation with romantic love. Best Ciro

My first Newberry's. Three Cry Babies. Ciro

This is my number one favorite painting by Michael Newberry. Artemis Bravo, Michael!

Michael, what can I do? that's how felines are: UNPREDICTABLE, they will attack you when you least expect it. Kat, your eyes have never fooled me, I always knew that you were not a kitten but a tiger instead. Enjoy your twinkies now! you won't get any meat recepies from me for a least a week!! Ciro

I accidentally deleted my previous message!! Brant you write: My real motivation for coming here like I have is so that when I visit your restaurant you don't turn me into part of the menu! Brant, I promise! it will not happen. BTW, next month, Michael Newberry is coming from New York to visit me, he is also delivering some of his beautiful paintings that I bought for my new restaurant, and if you will visit me around Christmas, you will have a chance, beside the good food, to admire great art. Ciao Ciro.

Michael, How can you welcome on your forum a guy who smeared you all over the places ? am I missing something here? Ciro.

An elderly Italian man is sleeping on the side of the road on a pile of hay. He is awakened by a wealthy man on a motorcycle who asks for the time. The old gentleman has a donkey next to him and by simply feeling the donkey's testicles, he tells the man on the motorcycle the time. This gentleman on his return trip spots the old man again and, thinking the old man was just lucky, asks him again. To the wealthy man's surprise, the old man is exactly correct again about the time. watch the video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=24...+time&hl=en

It wonder why Frank never used wine bottles or beer bottles to mix paint? B)

I wonder if at the book signing, beside cheese, any BEVE_RAGEs were offered. Ciro.

Serenity or calmness of mind comes with wisdom. It is the result of a long and patient effort of being able to have a good self-control. Having a good self control is also an indication of a better understanding of our experiences and thus a better control of our thoughts and its operation. When man has a better understanding of himself, he is able to understand others as well, and ceases to fuss and fume, and doesn’t get irritated at every little thing, because he has learned how to govern himself. He has learned how to adapt himself to others, and they in turn feel that they can trust him. A calm strong man is always loved and respected. In my life, I have witnessed many men destroying their life and turn all that which was once sweet and beautiful in bitter and ugly-by explosive temper. Calmness is power. Ciro.

http://www.the-undercurrent.com/index.php?p=/000120.html The purpose of morality,” she wrote in Atlas Shrugged, “is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” I agree with what Ayn Rand writes here but, what we feel after achieving such purpose? Is it serenity that one feels or what? She only talked about happiness, but that, is a feeling that comes before serenity! Serenity is a state of mind that goes way behind happiness. Ciro

COZZE ALL'ARANCIA Rich, this is one of my favorite recipe. I hope you like it. 2 lb of mussels, 2 big oranges, 1 glass of dry white wine, some finely chopped parsley, salt, black pepper Wash the mussels under fresh running water, and with a brush clean any incrustation on the shells. Put the mussels in a pan, add the wine, the juice of the two oranges, (keeping on the side the skin of one orange) some salt and black pepper. Cover the pan, and bring the mixture of wine and orange juice to a boil. When the mussels are all open (discharge any closed one) drain the mussels in a container and save the cooking liquid. Put the mussels in a serving plate by eliminating one part of the shell. Reduce the remaining liquid in a small pan, add the parsley and the orange peal, both finely chopped together, adjust to taste, and pour the finished sauce over the mussels. Ciao Ciro.

Barbara looks very elegant as always. CD

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http://www.jeffbeal.com/Pages/FILMS%20Pages/AYN%20RAND.html Great music by Jeff Beal. Barbara leaves is my favorite. Ciro