The next chapter was on salads. I went ahead and skipped the standard vinagrette recipe for now and went onto the caesar salad. The salad seemed like a good accompaniment to the following chapter: B&B Chicken. This gave me the excuse to finally purchase the roasting pan we’ve been talking about picking up for years. [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Leftovers: Alton Brown Masher Cakes
March 30th, 2010
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While sitting at my mothers house about a year ago, I watched her make a sort of potato pancake using leftover mashed potatoes and saltine crackers. This was something new she had come up with – and it was delicious. Reading Alton’s recipe for Masher Cakes, I was instantly reminded of my mother’s creation. I [...]
Alton Brown Egg Breakfasts
March 29th, 2010
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I generally don’t eat breakfasts in the morning. If I do, I usually have an egg sandwich made in our magic breakfast machine. My next assignment, however, was to make a couple of egg dishes. I’m more of an eggs over easy kinda guy, while Emily tends to prefer scrambled eggs. Coincidentally, those were the [...]
Alton Brown Pan Seared Rib Eye & Mashers.
March 23rd, 2010
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Tonight was the start of my Alton Brown Cooking Project. Since the first recipe was just a pan seared rib eye, I went ahead and made the second recipe – mashers. It should be noted that the recipes in the book are slightly different than the ones posted on the website. The Pan Seared Rib [...]
The Alton Brown Cooking Project
March 18th, 2010
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While I have a very open mind and am open to trying new things – I’m often just a creature of habit. Often times, if I have few or no restrictions, I feel suffocated and just go with old standbys. This is especially true with food. I can’t tell you how often I just don’t [...]
Raptr Review
March 13th, 2010
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Raptr is a service designed to track your gameplay habits and trophies/achievements, and a few of my friends and I have been using it for a few months now. Taking a page from Google, it’s been in Beta since September of 2008. Unlike GMail, it doesn’t feel like a finished product. Personally, I’m tired of [...]
Final Fantasy 13 – Initial Impressions *Updated With Bonus Gripe!*
March 10th, 2010
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I picked up Final Fantasy 13 for the PS3 last night. Between trade-ins, trade-in deals and two $25 gift cards from E-Rewards surveys, I was able to pick up the game, strategy guide and put $5 down on Transformers: War for Cybertron and still have $8 left on my gift cards. Sweet deal! After LOST, [...]
Oh my god, that’s butter!
March 8th, 2010
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Today was our annual trip to the Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL. It’s our annual “undo all our exercise day” where we eat all sorts of horribly delicious foods that should probably come with a free trip to the emergency room. Here are the major highlights. Click the thumbnails to view the larger versions. [...]
Ghost In The Machine
March 1st, 2010
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The big application I’ll be working on for my job will be extremely expansive and far too large and complex for all of the components to be embedded. To prepare for this, I started playing with the ModuleLoader class on Friday. I had a working understanding of it by the end of the day on [...]
