These Chocolate Truffles with a chocolate caramel center make the perfect edible holiday gift. Here’s the recipe: https://www.letseatcake.com/dark-chocolate-truffles/
Congratulations Rebecca of Letseatcake.com for having the winning submission December 24, 2018!
Aliens? Or Alien Impostors? Finding Oxygen Might Not Mean Life, After All
“This doesn’t mean that finding an Earth-like world with an oxygen-rich atmosphere won’t be incredibly interesting; it absolutely will be. It doesn’t mean that finding organic molecules coincident with the oxygen won’t be compelling; it will be a finding worth getting excited over. It doesn’t even mean that it won’t be indicative of life; a world with oxygen and organic molecules may well be overflowing with living organisms. But it does mean that we have to be careful.
Historically, when we’ve looked to the skies for evidence of life beyond Earth, we’ve been biased by hope and what we know on Earth. Theories of dinosaurs on Venus or canals on Mars still linger in our memories, and we must be careful that extraterrestial oxygen signatures don’t lead us to falsely optimistic conclusions. We now know that both abiotic processes and life-dependent ones can create an oxygen-rich atmosphere.
The hard problem, then, will be disentangling the potential causes when we actually find our first oxygen-rich, Earth-like exoplanet. Our reward, if we’re successful, will be the knowledge of whether or not we’ve actually found life around another star.”
If you were looking for life around a planet orbiting another star, how would you do it? Your first inclination might be to look for something just like Earth: an Earth-mass planet with Earth’s size and Earth’s orbital parameters around a Sun-like star. You might then go a step further and try to examine its atmospheric contents. If you found a large amount of oxygen and organic molecules in the same atmosphere, you might conclude that you’d found it: a world beyond our Solar System that was inhabited. But that’s not necessarily the case!
SHRIMP STUFFED PORTOBELLO MUSHROOMS 🍄😍
INGREDIENTS:
4 medium portobello mushrooms
2 tablespoons butter
½ cup onions, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
½ pound peeled and deveined Louisiana shrimp, chopped
½ cup breadcrumbs
1 egg, lightly beaten
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 pinch red pepper flakes (optional)
1 tablespoon chopped basil
¼ cup grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese, grated
8 whole cooked Louisiana shrimp
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
DIRECTIONS:
Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 425ºF.
Remove the stems from the mushroom, set aside. Wipe the mushroom caps clean with a damp paper towel. Chop the stems.
Heat the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. When the butter has melted, add the chopped mushroom stems, along with the onion, and garlic and cook for 6 to 8 minutes or until tender. Add in the chopped shrimp, breadcrumbs, beaten egg, salt, lemon juice, basil, and the pinch of red pepper flakes (if using). Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring as needed until the shrimp turn opaque.
Place the mushroom caps, stem side up on a baking sheet. Divide the shrimp mixture among the caps and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
Allow the mushroom caps to bake, uncovered for 15 minutes.
Top with 2 cooked shrimp per mushroom cap and sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving.
Source: Jo Cooks
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