Comments for Le Blog de Doruk Akan

Comment on Making Yogurt by Hagana

Hagana — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:35:02 +0000

Can you give at least a sense of quantities of milk to use?

Also the towel thing and even the oven thing seems pretty superfluous – if you’re right about making yogurt being as forgiving as you say it is… tell you what, I’m gonna use some greek yogurt as a starter, some Silk plain soymilk as the milk, cover it at room temperature on top of my counter, and get back to you with the results.

Of course, this could also be a recipe for a disaster…

Comment on Making Yogurt by dorukakan

dorukakan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:53:59 +0000

Well… a quart of good milk costs about what? 4.50 at most? This is organic whole milk. Regular milk is cheaper. That makes a lot of yogurt. Think of that whole quart turned into yogurt. I know that the Stonyfield small cups cost a dollar each and Dannon cups cost about 75 cents each. I feel like the amount of yogurt is at the very least 10 of those cups. You definitely cover the costs with the amount of yogurt you make. The added expense is when you add extra stuff like fruit but in all honesty most flavored yogurts are disgusting. We just don’t admit it.

There is also the issue of whether you eat that much yogurt. If you are like me and eat a lot it makes sense economically because you can keep using the previous batch as a starter for the next and all you pay for is the milk. If you don’t eat much yogurt then it doesn’t make as much sense.

Comment on Making Yogurt by emily

emily — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:58:22 +0000

is it cheaper to buy your own yogurt? i think i looked into it once and milk is so expensive that it was more cost effective to buy yogurt. of course, then you might have gelatin or other nasties mixed into it.

Comment on I Love Rap – You May Not Know Edition by dorukakan

dorukakan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:46:15 +0000

I might do this bi-weekly or di-weekly or whatever the word is for once every two weeks – at least until I run out of stuff to post.

The Pete Rock/CL albums are capital-C Classic. Mecca and the Soul Brother is even better than the Main Ingredient… in my opinion. Look for a cut off that album in a Classic tracks post I’m planning.

Comment on I Love Rap – You May Not Know Edition by zirafa

zirafa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:05:20 +0000

You *should* start a rap blog.

I’m pretty sure I have the same Pete Rock & CL Smooth “Main Ingredient” CD you burned for me in high school. And I’m pretty sure I listened to it last week. A game changer for me…I mean, Pete Rock had enough good beats that he’d fade in and out with some throw away random beat that would be someone else’s single. WTF?

Anyway keep postin tracks!…these are all awesome

Comment on Top Four: Animated Series by Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:44:53 +0000

Excellent site, keep up the good work

Comment on Barcelona beats United by Joe Camacho

Joe Camacho — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:05:06 +0000

It did look like a stroll in the park for Barcelona (save the first 10 minutes). And as for their midfield, it’s ridiculous — Xavi and Iniesta NEVER get caught on the ball. Any team, whether club or country, would kill to have a midfield like that, and this is coming from a die-hard Gerrard fan. I am so glad they won — and it wasn’t even close.

Take that Sir Alex! Chew some more gum while you’re at it!

Comment on Soccer Classics by dorukakan

dorukakan — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:18:53 +0000

I’m definitely going with Brett Favre. Ferguson at least has the excuse that he’s been a top-notch manager for 25+ years. Brett Favre had about three years as a great QB and a bunch of years as kind of fun to watch. Also, I’m not sure Ferguson gets as much a pass as you might think. Sure some media love the guy and United (Soccernet leads the list) but others hate him because he doesn’t talk to them. As for Favre… can you imagine if TO (one of the top 3 in his position for far longer than Favre was top 3 in his) pulled the same shenanigans? He’d get crucified… Favre on the other hand has somehow “earned the right” to waste an NFL team’s offseason AND playing season…

As for slow left-laners, I’m developing a system that the government and auto makers should adopt to rid the roads of the pestilence of crappy drivers.

Best of luck on the test.

Comment on Soccer Classics by Joe Camacho

Joe Camacho — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:35:49 +0000

Hey man, this is my first time on this site. Quite the blog you have going. Anyway, the highest compliment I can pay you is I spent an hour and a half reading through a lot of your entries, and I’m supposed to be studying for the hardest and most important test of my life (USMLE Step 1).

By the way, random thought, but who is more loved by the media, Sir Alex Ferguson or Brett Favre? Ferguson boycotts entire press conferences in protest of bad scheduling by the FA (like Man U doesn’t have good enough reserves), and nobody complains. Brett Favre could take a crap, wrap it in tin foil, put a couple of fish hooks on it, and sell it to the media as earrings. And then retire from selling earrings, only to unretire again. Ughh…I don’t know who I hate more.

PS. Slow left-laners are the worst. Especially when flanked by equally slow, but not slower, right laners.

Comment on Mr. Woodson and Spaghetti by dorukakan

dorukakan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:41:00 +0000

For some reason, I never got to play SimAnt in that class. I’m not sure why. In fact, I can’t remember what I did in that class besides touch-typing.

You know, maybe Mr. Woodson’s spaghetti was really really good.