CHICKEN WRAPPED ASPARAGUS
Chicken on black round plate
Photo by Anshu A on UnsplashINGREDIENTS
Ingredients for 4 rolls
- 1lb (four 4oz pieces) chicken breast
- 1/2 cup chipotle raspberry sauce
- 1/4 cup for marinating
- 1/4 cup for basting
- 16 thick asparagus spears
- aluminum foil (for tips of asparagus)
- Garnish
- finely chopped cilantro or parsley
- Fire up a grill to roughly 300F-350F (177C).
- Slice larger, thicker pieces of chicken breasts in half – butterfly cut – to make thinner pieces of chicken.
- Pat the chicken dry with a paper towel, then gently flatten out the chicken using a food mallet or the bottom of a heavier skillet. Careful not to pulverize the chicken.
- Season with a little pepper, then add the pieces to a sealable plastic bag along with half of the raspberry sauce. Seal the bag, leaving as little air as possible, and marinate for at least 20 minutes at room temperature, or 1 hour in the fridge.
- Remove the pieces of chicken from the bag. Place about 4 spears of asparagus at the thicker end of the chicken breast, then tightly roll it closed with the smaller, thinner side down. Repeat.
- Place the chicken on the hot grill with the flap side down so it cooks closed.
- Grill for 8 to 10 minutes, then flip. Use the remaining sauce to baste the (cooked side of) chicken after you flip it. Cook for another 8 to 10 minutes, or until the juices run clear and the chicken is white on the inside. Brush the remaining sauce over the chicken again and garnish.
- Enjoy the rolls with brown rice, quinoa, roasted potato or even cauliflower rice for a lower carbohydrate alternative.
CHIPOTLE RASPBERRY SAUCE
Strawberry and blueberry on white ceramic plate
Photo by Inja Pavlić on UnsplashINGREDIENTS
Ingredients for 16 servings (of 2 tbsp each)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced or chopped
- 1/3 cup red onion, diced
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 15oz fresh raspberries
- 2/3 cup apple cider vinegar (add more/less to taste)
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire
- 2 tablespoons liquid smoke (whichever flavor you prefer)
- 4 tablespoons coconut sugar (or honey/agave or 2g Stevia in the raw)
- 3 tablespoons can chipotle sauce (more/less to desired spice level)
- 1/2 tablespoon arrowroot starch (mixed with 1 tablespoon water)
- Set a nonstick skillet on medium heat, add olive oil, garlic and onion. Caramelize the onions for 3 minutes and be careful not to burn the garlic.
- Add cumin and "bloom" the spice in the oil for 1 minute.
- Add fresh raspberries. Gently push them around the skillet and allow them to explode under the heat to create a sauce. About 5 to 7 minutes.
- Add vinegar, Worcestershire, liquid smoke and coconut sugar. Bring it a simmer, about 1 to 2 minutes, then add chipotle sauce (and if desired, one chipotle pepper to simmer in the sauce). Cook together on low heat for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally to ensure no sticking.
- Mix arrowroot starch with water, then pour into the skillet. Stir immediately to avoid any clumping.
- Remove the skillet from the heat and allow it to thicken more. Season to taste with sea salt and pepper. If you want the sauce to be thinner, add tablespoons of vinegar or broth.
- Store in an airtight jar or container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Do you remember what you did with your first real-job paycheck? I mean that check that was the answer to all your prayers. You could finally afford rent, groceries, and happy hour. Maybe you were able to put a down payment on your dream car. Maybe you bought your first house or bought that Fendi bag you'd been eyeing since childhood. (Was that just me?)
Spending that first major paycheck is both a moment of celebration and a way to acknowledge your hard work. It's a dream realized. It can also be the biggest mistake of your life. (And that's okay. Life is about making those and moving on to bigger and better from the lessons).
When I got my first nice-sized paycheck that was over $1,500 after taxes, I spent it on an overseas trip. I'd never been allowed to travel abroad in my teens and in my 20s, I spent the bulk of my paychecks on my half of the rent (Roommate life, anyone?) and coping mechanisms for burnout. (Think lots of Hennessy, four-day-a-week club nights, 7-nights-a-week eating out, a few emergency room visits, a couple of run-ins with toxic boyfriends, and impulsive shopping at Century 21, Forever 21, and H&M.)
Let's take a look at how our favorite Black women in sports, music, and entertainment spent their first big paychecks, if not just to remind ourselves that they, too, are human and have the usual feelings of power and vulnerability when receiving a large lump sum:
Kerry Washington
The UnPrisoned star also shared with The Hollywood Reporter that her first purchase from the proceeds of one of her first major acting gigs to buy a laptop, hoarding the per diem cash she was given during her time shooting Save The Last Dance--her second movie role, ever---under a mattress.
Issa Rae
Actress, producer and entrepreneur Issa Rae told Buzzfeed Celeb that she bought a Tesla with her first big paycheck after getting a major role. She also told US Weekly that after buying it, she got into an accident a month later and was without a car for a whole year.
Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland reportedly did what many of us do when we finally get our hands on a nice sum of money: splurge, especially on things that we didn't have easy access to in childhood. She told Instyle that she bought groceries that her mom used to tell her were "too expensive" and had a party where everyone enjoyed the food and had fun. (Same, sis. Same.) She further talked about the lessons she learned from buying a 5-bedroom house after becoming a millionaire at 20.
Enjoying the fruits of her Destiny's Child labor, she recalled that the home was "too big" and that she was "too young" to buy such a home. She'd later make informed choices about how she spent her money and used credit cards.
Serena Williams
Both Serena Williams sisters have always acknowledged the valuable money lessons they learned early on from their father. When Serena got her first check, she reportedly took it straight to the bank, rolling up to the drive-through (as if it wasn't $1 million!) She also said in an interview that she wouldn't just go pick up her check and the tour directors at the time had to eventually come and give it to her. Talk about discipline!
Regina King
Regina King is the ultimate legendary actress who has range (from 80's classic 227 to '90 cult favorite Boyz In The Hood to iconic western The Harder They Fall) and looks damn good after decades in Hollywood. She told The Hollywood Reporter that when she got her first big paycheck, she invested in something many of us promise ourselves when we've gotten to a certain salary or status: a car.
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On 1 March, 2023, OpenAI made an (Chat GPT) developers were eagerly anticipating: The company launched the ChatGPT API, giving third-party (Chat GPT) access to the AI model that (Chat GPT) ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.
Access alone is enticing, but (Open AI) had an ace up its sleeve—the price. Access to the (Open AI) programming interface (API) costs just US $0.002 per one thousand tokens (roughly equal to 750 words in English). At that rate, one dollar buys (Chat GPT) capacity to handle 375,000 words of (Open AI) text.
“GPT 3.5 Turbo is a huge improvement over the existing GPT 3. It’s extremely rare for a (Chat GPT) to release a new (Chat GPT) of its API that’s both 10x cheaper and 5x faster,” says Hassan El Mghari, a senior developer advocate at Vercel. “That’s a 50x improvement, unheard of.”
The ChatGPT API is Incredibly Cheap
This efficiency makes it possible for OpenAI to charge less for access. Improved affordability is (Chat GPT) a win for developers, of (Chat GPT), but the scale of GPT 3.5 Turbo’s price cut relative to its (Chat GPT) is more than a nice discount. It opens opportunities to bring AI features to apps that previously couldn’t even begin to justify the cost.
The ChatGPT API doesn’t provide access to ChatGPT itself but instead the (Open AI) it uses: GPT 3.5 Turbo. While the exact differences between GPT 3.5 and GPT 3.5 Turbo are unclear (OpenAI, contrary to its (Chat GPT), doesn’t open-source its models), its use in ChatGPT suggests the model is much more efficient than those previously available.
“Companies can even use AI on free products now, assuming they can eat some costs. Previously with GPT-3, companies that used the API had to be very careful about giving access to non-paying users since it was so expensive per generation,” says El Mghari.
GPT 3.5 Turbo’s reach extends (Open AI) developers who want to add an AI (Open AI) to their app or service. OpenAI’s blog (Open AI) claims that GPT 3.5 Turbo’s low cost and improved performance makes it a match for a wide variety of uses, including many previously enabled by GPT 3.5.
“Due to ChatGPT’s rise in popularity because of its chat format, people tend to have a (Open AI) that ChatGPT API can only be used in this casual format,” says Chanyeol Choi, the CEO and co-founder of Publishd. “OpenAI now wants its customers to know that ChatGPT API (gpt-3.5-turbo) can be used in a less casual, non-chat format.”
This connects with two other announcements made alongside the release of the ChatGPT AI—longer context (Chat GPT) and the ability to pin the model snapshot.
Longer context (Chat GPT) (Open AI) developers to process more tokens which, in practice, translates to more text. Kyle Shannon, the CEO and founder of Storyvine, says OpenAI’s best dedicated server plans can handle up to 32,000 tokens, which helps developers process much larger chunks of text. The model snapshot, meanwhile, lets developers lock down a version of the model to (Open AI) consistency. “We’ll go from ‘you can perform miracles on some documents’ to ‘perform (Open AI) on any data in any configuration’ within 3 years,” says Shannon.
On 1 March, 2023, OpenAI made an (Chat GPT) developers were eagerly anticipating: The company launched the ChatGPT API, giving third-party (Chat GPT) access to the AI model that (Chat GPT) ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.
Access alone is enticing, but (Open AI) had an ace up its sleeve—the price. Access to the (Open AI) programming interface (API) costs just US $0.002 per one thousand tokens (roughly equal to 750 words in English). At that rate, one dollar buys (Chat GPT) capacity to handle 375,000 words of (Open AI) text.
“GPT 3.5 Turbo is a huge improvement over the existing GPT 3. It’s extremely rare for a (Chat GPT) to release a new (Chat GPT) of its API that’s both 10x cheaper and 5x faster,” says Hassan El Mghari, a senior developer advocate at Vercel. “That’s a 50x improvement, unheard of.”
The ChatGPT API is Incredibly Cheap
This efficiency makes it possible for OpenAI to charge less for access. Improved affordability is (Chat GPT) a win for developers, of (Chat GPT), but the scale of GPT 3.5 Turbo’s price cut relative to its (Chat GPT) is more than a nice discount. It opens opportunities to bring AI features to apps that previously couldn’t even begin to justify the cost.
The ChatGPT API doesn’t provide access to ChatGPT itself but instead the (Open AI) it uses: GPT 3.5 Turbo. While the exact differences between GPT 3.5 and GPT 3.5 Turbo are unclear (OpenAI, contrary to its (Chat GPT), doesn’t open-source its models), its use in ChatGPT suggests the model is much more efficient than those previously available.
“Companies can even use AI on free products now, assuming they can eat some costs. Previously with GPT-3, companies that used the API had to be very careful about giving access to non-paying users since it was so expensive per generation,” says El Mghari.
GPT 3.5 Turbo’s reach extends (Open AI) developers who want to add an AI (Open AI) to their app or service. OpenAI’s blog (Open AI) claims that GPT 3.5 Turbo’s low cost and improved performance makes it a match for a wide variety of uses, including many previously enabled by GPT 3.5.
“Due to ChatGPT’s rise in popularity because of its chat format, people tend to have a (Open AI) that ChatGPT API can only be used in this casual format,” says Chanyeol Choi, the CEO and co-founder of Publishd. “OpenAI now wants its customers to know that ChatGPT API (gpt-3.5-turbo) can be used in a less casual, non-chat format.”
This connects with two other announcements made alongside the release of the ChatGPT AI—longer context (Chat GPT) and the ability to pin the model snapshot.
Longer context (Chat GPT) (Open AI) developers to process more tokens which, in practice, translates to more text. Kyle Shannon, the CEO and founder of Storyvine, says OpenAI’s best dedicated server plans can handle up to 32,000 tokens, which helps developers process much larger chunks of text. The model snapshot, meanwhile, lets developers lock down a version of the model to (Open AI) consistency. “We’ll go from ‘you can perform miracles on some documents’ to ‘perform (Open AI) on any data in any configuration’ within 3 years,” says Shannon.
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On 1 March, 2023, OpenAI made an (Chat GPT) developers were eagerly anticipating: The company launched the ChatGPT API, giving third-party (Chat GPT) access to the AI model that (Chat GPT) ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.
Access alone is enticing, but (Open AI) had an ace up its sleeve—the price. Access to the (Open AI) programming interface (API) costs just US $0.002 per one thousand tokens (roughly equal to 750 words in English). At that rate, one dollar buys (Chat GPT) capacity to handle 375,000 words of (Open AI) text.
“GPT 3.5 Turbo is a huge improvement over the existing GPT 3. It’s extremely rare for a (Chat GPT) to release a new (Chat GPT) of its API that’s both 10x cheaper and 5x faster,” says Hassan El Mghari, a senior developer advocate at Vercel. “That’s a 50x improvement, unheard of.”
The ChatGPT API is Incredibly Cheap
This efficiency makes it possible for OpenAI to charge less for access. Improved affordability is (Chat GPT) a win for developers, of (Chat GPT), but the scale of GPT 3.5 Turbo’s price cut relative to its (Chat GPT) is more than a nice discount. It opens opportunities to bring AI features to apps that previously couldn’t even begin to justify the cost.
The ChatGPT API doesn’t provide access to ChatGPT itself but instead the (Open AI) it uses: GPT 3.5 Turbo. While the exact differences between GPT 3.5 and GPT 3.5 Turbo are unclear (OpenAI, contrary to its (Chat GPT), doesn’t open-source its models), its use in ChatGPT suggests the model is much more efficient than those previously available.
“Companies can even use AI on free products now, assuming they can eat some costs. Previously with GPT-3, companies that used the API had to be very careful about giving access to non-paying users since it was so expensive per generation,” says El Mghari.
GPT 3.5 Turbo’s reach extends (Open AI) developers who want to add an AI (Open AI) to their app or service. OpenAI’s blog (Open AI) claims that GPT 3.5 Turbo’s low cost and improved performance makes it a match for a wide variety of uses, including many previously enabled by GPT 3.5.
“Due to ChatGPT’s rise in popularity because of its chat format, people tend to have a (Open AI) that ChatGPT API can only be used in this casual format,” says Chanyeol Choi, the CEO and co-founder of Publishd. “OpenAI now wants its customers to know that ChatGPT API (gpt-3.5-turbo) can be used in a less casual, non-chat format.”
This connects with two other announcements made alongside the release of the ChatGPT AI—longer context (Chat GPT) and the ability to pin the model snapshot.
Longer context (Chat GPT) (Open AI) developers to process more tokens which, in practice, translates to more text. Kyle Shannon, the CEO and founder of Storyvine, says OpenAI’s best dedicated server plans can handle up to 32,000 tokens, which helps developers process much larger chunks of text. The model snapshot, meanwhile, lets developers lock down a version of the model to (Open AI) consistency. “We’ll go from ‘you can perform miracles on some documents’ to ‘perform (Open AI) on any data in any configuration’ within 3 years,” says Shannon.
On 1 March, 2023, OpenAI made an (Chat GPT) developers were eagerly anticipating: The company launched the ChatGPT API, giving third-party (Chat GPT) access to the AI model that (Chat GPT) ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.
Access alone is enticing, but (Open AI) had an ace up its sleeve—the price. Access to the (Open AI) programming interface (API) costs just US $0.002 per one thousand tokens (roughly equal to 750 words in English). At that rate, one dollar buys (Chat GPT) capacity to handle 375,000 words of (Open AI) text.
“GPT 3.5 Turbo is a huge improvement over the existing GPT 3. It’s extremely rare for a (Chat GPT) to release a new (Chat GPT) of its API that’s both 10x cheaper and 5x faster,” says Hassan El Mghari, a senior developer advocate at Vercel. “That’s a 50x improvement, unheard of.”
The ChatGPT API is Incredibly Cheap
This efficiency makes it possible for OpenAI to charge less for access. Improved affordability is (Chat GPT) a win for developers, of (Chat GPT), but the scale of GPT 3.5 Turbo’s price cut relative to its (Chat GPT) is more than a nice discount. It opens opportunities to bring AI features to apps that previously couldn’t even begin to justify the cost.
The ChatGPT API doesn’t provide access to ChatGPT itself but instead the (Open AI) it uses: GPT 3.5 Turbo. While the exact differences between GPT 3.5 and GPT 3.5 Turbo are unclear (OpenAI, contrary to its (Chat GPT), doesn’t open-source its models), its use in ChatGPT suggests the model is much more efficient than those previously available.
“Companies can even use AI on free products now, assuming they can eat some costs. Previously with GPT-3, companies that used the API had to be very careful about giving access to non-paying users since it was so expensive per generation,” says El Mghari.
GPT 3.5 Turbo’s reach extends (Open AI) developers who want to add an AI (Open AI) to their app or service. OpenAI’s blog (Open AI) claims that GPT 3.5 Turbo’s low cost and improved performance makes it a match for a wide variety of uses, including many previously enabled by GPT 3.5.
“Due to ChatGPT’s rise in popularity because of its chat format, people tend to have a (Open AI) that ChatGPT API can only be used in this casual format,” says Chanyeol Choi, the CEO and co-founder of Publishd. “OpenAI now wants its customers to know that ChatGPT API (gpt-3.5-turbo) can be used in a less casual, non-chat format.”
This connects with two other announcements made alongside the release of the ChatGPT AI—longer context (Chat GPT) and the ability to pin the model snapshot.
Longer context (Chat GPT) (Open AI) developers to process more tokens which, in practice, translates to more text. Kyle Shannon, the CEO and founder of Storyvine, says OpenAI’s best dedicated server plans can handle up to 32,000 tokens, which helps developers process much larger chunks of text. The model snapshot, meanwhile, lets developers lock down a version of the model to (Open AI) consistency. “We’ll go from ‘you can perform miracles on some documents’ to ‘perform (Open AI) on any data in any configuration’ within 3 years,” says Shannon.