whatever grabs my attention
Ever since I got an InstantPot a few years ago, I’ve been trying to find the best butter chicken/tikka masala type recipe I could find. There are no Indian restaurants within 30 miles of me and I miss the cuisine. I’ve tried half a dozen out until I decided to start averaging ingredients between them …
Continue reading “Perfect chicken tikka masala made in the InstantPot”
Leslie Harpold was a magnificent person famous for lots of great things on the early internet and many people know her as the person that wrote the definitive Thank You Note how-to as well as her annual advent calendars each year. I was lucky enough to know her a bit and got invited to a couple …
I'm walking down the snacks aisle at Costco today during our bi-annual trip and I couldn't help but notice the extreme sizes of chip bags. You can buy several pounds of tortilla or corn chips in bulk, but there's one bag at the end of the aisle that jumps out at me for its sheer …
Oh shit: Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89. Anyone that knows me knows that I’m the biggest fan of this man’s invention. I can’t think of a more fitting tribute than imagining Father Guido Sarducci/Lazlo Toth is spreading jam on a McMuffin, just for you, inventor guy.
I’m a big fan of cupcakes, huge fan. 30lbs overweight fan. Anyway, a couple months ago, my wife gave her students some cupcakes and someone BLEW MY MIND with a simple hack that solved one of cupcakes’ few failings: sometimes there’s just too much frosting, they’re too tall for your mouth, and/or the frosting/cake mix …
Continue reading “What if cupcakes could somehow become more awesome? HOWTO”
I linked to the Egg and Muffin toaster a while back and since I recently got an amazon gift certificate, I decided to pick one up. I love egg mcmuffins — egg mcmuffins without meat to be precise. While I spent much of my youth eating at McDonalds, when I went strict vegetarian after high …
I’ve read Fast Food Nation and seen Supersize Me, so when I’m out running errands and feeling hungry, I go to a drive through with a healthy level of guilt. While visions of my clogged arteries danced in my head, I pulled into a drive through the other day and was immediately greeted by the …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 