Pear Bread
Sort of like banana bread, but better!
Best Cocoa Brownies
Servings: 16 larger or 25 smaller brownies
Source:
Alice Mendrich’s Bittersweet
Ingredients
10 tablespoons unsalted butter
1¼ cups sugar
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus 2 tablespoons
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs cold
½ cup all-purpose flour
⅔ cup walnut or pecan pieces optional
Directions
Position a rack in
About that Apple tablet
So they announced the “iPad” today. (Insert menstrual joke here.)
It’s 10″ with a 9.7″ diagonal 1024×768 pixel 4×3 aspect ratio screen. They say it’s 1/2″ thick and about 1-1/2 pounds.
The OS is basically a slight evolution of the iPhone/iPod Touch
Weather in Kansas
The snow we got Christmas Evening is finally beginning to melt. I can see grass in my back yard. My front yard (north side, sloping downhill) is still covered.
Kittie TV is back on, and my two cats are excited. They’ve been bored not having the bird channel on
Sherried Sardine Toast
Good food.
Sea Glass Look and Feel 0.1.3 is released
We’re still nowhere close to complete, thus the low version numbers, but this is the first version that looks decent on a non-Mac. The transparency doesn’t seem to work on Linux (at least not on my Ubuntu 9.10 system), but the window corners are rounded on Windows.
Time to profile engineers
So Spencer Ackerman has an amusing tongue in cheek post:
http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/12/29/time-to-profile-engineers/
Most of the terrorists have been engineers.
As a non-engineer, I have no problem. (First they came for the engineers…)
Christmas Duck
Servings: 4
Source:
Alton Brown
Ingredients
1 duck
1 tablespoon kosher salt per pound of duck
Directions
Turn wings under, and butterfly the duck.
Rub one tablespoon of kosher salt per pound of duck into the duck on both sides. Place duck on
oven broiler pan with paper toweling in
Maple Marbled Cornbread
I got this recipe from Vegetarian Times. It's vegan.
We are so cooked
So I’m reading James Hansen’s Storms of My Grandchildren, which is about global warming. He’s an optimist and believes that people in power will eventually do the right thing, or that they care about billions of people that aren’t them.
I used to be optimistic. I