Kickin Cauliflower
I head of cauliflower
1/3 cup peanut or almond butter
1/3 cup hot sauce (I used TJ's)
1/3 cup Tamari (soy sauce)
Mix all three liquids together in a small to medium crock pot. Break the cauliflower up into small pieces and toss them into the sauce and stir until all are coated. Cook on low for 3 hours or so. This is SPICY.
I was inspired by Peas and Thank You's cauliflower recipe. But lazy...and wanted to use my crockpot. This is so spicy. If you like hot, give it a shot.
Thursday Citizen's Police Academy...
Hostage negotiation and becoming a police officer.
Our
fourth night learning all about law enforcement in our fair city was as
fascinating as the rest of them have been. The Lt of the hostage
negotiating team explained how to talk people down from some
pretty horrifying thought processes.
There are apparently two major
schools of thought on negotiating. The NY style (as in New York) is the
talk until the situation is resolved style. Talk. Talk. Talk. The LA style (bet you can figure that one out) is
shock and awe. He mentioned a large SWAT truck with a smiley face on the
front driving through walls and taking care of the problem. Our city
prefers the NY gentle version of handling conflict. I’m thinking talking
to a crazed person might be as scary as a monster truck making a drive
thru window out of a wall. The LA style might be cheaper, though,
some talk-a-thons take HOURS. Sometimes there are fails, no matter how they try. They lost a negotiating phone to gunshot wound when
the would-be suicide decided to go ahead and follow through. The truck
route wouldn’t have likely stopped that outcome, either.
Becoming
a police officer. Starts out pretty benign. A physical test that
borders on ridiculously simple. Our instructor assured every one in the
room, including the sixty-year-olds, would be able to pass it.
The written test with it’s thirteen pages certainly separates the men
from the boys and the girls from the women. Pass that and the wannabe
gets to run the city’s pet and ramped up version of the physical test.
Pass that and
it’s on to the oral interview. Survive? Moving into the psych evaluation
and the lie detector test. When that’s all said and done and the
wannabe is still one of the few standing, they get a conditional “offer”
then a physical.
After 14 weeks at the Iowa law enforcement academy
they return to do two more weeks of intensive training to be one of our
city’s finest. Finally a cop? Sure, after 17 more weeks of Field
Training…and a year of probation. No wonder a hundred applications nets
two to three keepers.
