Iron Chef

This week we had an amazing ward activity, Iron Chef Olympics. Personally I am a big fan of Iron Chef on the food network and lately I have been baking a lot, so when I heard that we were doing an Iron Chef activity to make desserts I was really excited. My excitement only increased once I found out what the secret ingredient was, Peanut Butter Captain Crunch.

Each team was made up of the FHE families and my FHE family is awesome so as soon as we found out what the secret ingredient was we took off running to my apartment and started thinking of ideas. We shot off a bunch of tasty peanut butter ideas and finally settled on a delectable concoction. We made a crust from the peanut butter crunch, butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon. We layered it with chocolate pudding, another crust, and topped it with a homemade chocolate sauce, vanilla cream sauce, and a strudel made from the peanut butter crunch. All I can say is, delicious. Iron chef is awesome.

Shaun White

If any of you have had been watching the Olympics I hope that you were able to watch the men’s half pipe final this week. It isn’t often in sports that you have an athlete that is way above the rest of the competition, but that is the case with Shaun White. This was shown in the men’s half-pipe final this week where he blew everyone out of the water. All the athletes were spectacular, but Shaun White was able to do the tricks better and fly higher than everybody. In the half-pipe competition they take the best score out of two runs. After his first run Shaun had already won by a few points. But rather than take a conservative victory lap he went all out, landed an amazing trick never before seen in competition, and improved his score from 46.8 to 48.4 (out of 50 WOW!). I was going to post the video of his run but NBC has is copyrighted so just follow the hyperlink at the end of this and be amazed.

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I don't think the hyperlink is working so just copy and paste this (I know not as cool but I am still figuring out this blog thing)

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=d924411a-bea6-4fd8-b485-f58dc5238dfe.html

Lockout?

As I was watching the news Friday I was surprised to hear of a possible NFL lockout for 2011. I couldn't believe my ears. Was I really hearing this? No professional football for a whole year? My mind raced back a few years to when, because of salary problems, there was no professional hockey season. Could we have that same thing happen for what I consider a much larger sport? Just think, that would mean no Superbowl!

Now I lived in Massachusetts and am a New England Patriots fan but I can't say that I follow professional football as faithfully as BYU sports or the Boston Red Sox. So what got me was not the fact that I personally would not be able to watch football, but the reasons behind the possible lockout. NFL teams say that they are loosing money because players' salaries are so high. The teams want to keep the salary cap, which is set to expire, and give the players an 18% cut in salary (according to the article I read). The article that I read on ESPN.com (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4887844) said that this would mean an average loss of $340,000 for each player. After a bit of math I learned that this means the AVERAGE salary is $1,888,889. I'm sorry but if you are making that much you have no room to complain.

So a word to the NFL players. Get over it! You make more than almost everybody in this country. Maybe taking an 18% pay cut will be a reality check for you (if you can call making $1,550,000 reality). Hold off for a year before you buy your new yacht, it will be good for you. Learn how the rest of us feel.

Well, there you go, my first opinionated article of this blog.