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weekend update
Lovely weekend - Saturday included Fry Crawl, which was an ill-fated attempt to zero in on the best french fry in Chicago. Sadly, the first two places didn't open until late, and the line outside Hot Doug's took about an hour (thank goodness we had warm blankets in the car!) Still, we did get french fries cooked in duck fat, and had a great time ( Read more... ) -
another squash win
I commented to Rick last night, "I love cooking squash! It comes with a snack inside [i.e. the seeds, which toast up quickly] to tide you over while you wait for it to cook ( Read more... ) -
squash success
Dinner last night was very satisfying. I took a red kuri squash, quartered it, and cleaned the seeds. The seeds (with some oil, salt, pepper, and a bit of spice blend) toasted while the oven was warming up (until they started popping). While that was going on I rubbed two quarters of squash with olive oil, and sprinkled them with salt, pepper, ( Read more... ) -
Cribbage and Noddy
So a couple of conversations at Pennsic led me to idly wonder about the history of the game of Cribbage (which gets played extensively in our camp). A couple googles later, it seems that Cribbage is just slightly out of period for the SCA, but it is based on a Tudor game called "Noddy" which is apparantly exactly the same except for not having a ( Read more... ) -
a really fascinating article
OK Cupid studied a huge subset of their members and came to some really interesting conclusions about Republicans, Democrats, and how Republicans cohere but Democrats don't (also some cool stuff on social/economic views by age, and some really cool graphs, and... oh, just go look at it:)
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/03/30/the-democrats-are ( Read more... ) -
Don't you think?
Don't you think that there should be parties all over the world on March 14, 2015, all of which feature pie as a major portion of the refreshments?
EDIT: As is usual with my absurd ideas, the internet is way ahead of me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day -
Bread
Have I really not posted about this before???
Over the holidays, we tried out some bread at Tom & Meredith's from the cookbook "Artisan Bread In 5 Minutes A Day". We liked it so much we told Rick's mom about it, and she surprised us with a copy of the book a few days later.
This book has seriously changed my relationship with home-made bread. We ( Read more... ) -
Archaeology geekery
The ruins of Pompeii are now viewable on Google Street View. !!!
Just go to Google Maps, type in "pompeii italy ruins", drop the little dude on a street, and start exploring. :) -
looking for suggestions
I am looking for a really attractive hammer/mallet and chisel. Preferably stainless steel or brass (or wrought iron!) or something like that. Preferably not one of those horrid pink or flowery or otherwise girlified tool sets. Any ideas where I could find such a thing?