How to make Creamy Mashed Potatoes with coconut milk (instead of milk)

Here’s another “Cooking with Geoff” recipe episode from Vancouver BC Canada.

Geoff from geoffmobile.com shows how to make a creamy version of mashed potatoes with coconut milk instead of dairy milk. This recipe is 100% vegan and vegetarian!

They’re a great accompaniment to round out a delicious meal. Serve with gravy and your choice of protein and vegetables.

Music:

Quorra by Occluded Front
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Song that Never Was (Imogen Heap Remix) by gpeters
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Joy by Geoff Peters Trio
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Technical notes:

Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-HX9V with manual white balance

Audio recorded on a Zoom H1, with sennheiser Lapel mic.

Narration Audio processed in Audacity. (Used SC4 compressor, split tracks to mono, Hard limiter, and Amplify effect).

In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. side-chain compression was used to perform audio ducking of the music track underneath the narration, using “Molot” compressor VST Plugin, 2 instances of the “64 bit 2 channels Molot 0.3 version” VST plugin in the “mono mode with external side chain signal” mode were used directly in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 to perform the side chain compression.

Get the free Molot compressor VST plugin here: vladgsound.wordpress.com/downloads/

Thanks for watching!
Cheers,
Geoff

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Cora restaurant in Coquitlam BC Canada – great breakfast and lunch. petit-déjeuner au Vancouver

Geoff from geoffmobile.com visits Cora Restaurant in Coquitlam BC Canada (a suburb of Vancouver) and enjoys a great breakfast / lunch.

Cora – Coquitlam
3025 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC Canada
phone: 778-285-8577
Restaurant web site: www.chezcora.com

Note that the restaurant closes after lunch is done. The restaurant closes at 3pm on Monday to Thursday and 4pm on Friday to Sunday (they’re **only** a breakfast or lunch place!).

The restaurant also has many other locations across Canada including Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. For the Greater Vancouver area, Cora just opened a new location in Richmond BC Canada and a location in White Rock BC Canada as well.

Shown in video:
-Interior of restaurant
-Orange juice – great, better than the Keg restaurant’s orange juice :)
-Crepe Omelette with Ham and Cheese – called a “crepomelette” on the menu
-Fruit – it was really sweet and juicy. Their pineapple and kiwi rocks!
-Sourdough Toast (contrary to my comment in the video, it actually wasn’t dry: it had a nice buttery flavor, but I don’t like toast so much in general so that is why I made the comment).
-Crepe Omelette with Spinach (vegetarian)

Thanks for watching!

Cheers,
Geoff
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Technical notes:
Filmed on a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX9V with manual white balance set.
Edited with Adobe Premiere pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow).

For more videos about restaurants in Vancouver please visit my site geoffmobile.com or please subscribe to my channel :)
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Make your phone read a book aloud to you! Text to speech for ebooks on Android.

Geoff from geoffmobile.com shows his process for making his phone read books (ebooks and other text such as web pages, blogs, emails, etc.) aloud using Text to Speech (TTS) on Android.

Yes, you can make your phone read a book to you, using your headphones, or even in the car. And what’s more, you can create the book yourself using text from any web page.

Here’s the process, using an Android smart-phone and a PC or Mac desktop:

1. On your desktop, find the article you want the phone to read. Save it as a HTML file from the web site, or as a RTF file.

2. Install Calibre, a free ebook creator software. You can get it from: calibre-ebook.com/
It works on both Mac and PC.

3. Using Calibre, open the HTML or RTF file you saved, and select the “Convert” option to convert it to EPUB format.

4. Put the EPUB file you created on your Android phone. You can do this by emailing it to yourself (and then use the Opera mobile browser on your phone to download from your email to your phone), or you can connect the phone to your computer using the USB cable, and then transfer the EPUB file by copying it to the phone).

5. Install the free Android application called “FBReader” as well as the “FBReader TTS Plugin”. You will need both of these applications for it to work. You can get them from the Android Market (Google Play store) or from their website: www.fbreader.org/

6. Using FBReader on your phone, open your EPUB file. View the page of the book you want to start reading, and then go to the menu and choose “Speak”.

7. That’s it! Also note that if you go into the Accessibility settings on your phone, you can change the voice and language to other options such as British English, French, German, etc.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Have fun and please let me know your comments!

p.s. the article that my phone was reading is: “Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing” by Cory Doctorow, posted January 2012. A great article, I highly recommend it. Article link: boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

Cheers, :)
Geoff
geoffmobile.com

Technical notes:

Camera : Sony Cybershot DSC-HX9V (manual white balance)
Audio: Zoom H1 connected to lapel mic under my shirt
Audio processed with Audacity (I used the SC4 compressor and Amplify effects).
Video edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow). Audio synced with video using Pluraleyes from Singular Software.

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