Handy cooking technique: the supersweat

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Maybe it’s a par-braise? Not sure. In any case, here’s the essence: When you’re cooking something that has it’s own residual moisture, use that moisture (instead of additional fat) to help cook the items by putting a lid on your pan. 2 good examples I’ve used this on recently are mushrooms and onions. Toss a [...]

So sick of keys

Monday, April 13th, 2009

I was almost asleep when I got a text message that jolted me awake. To settle back down I decided to sort out my keys. It’s pretty amazing what I have to carry right now: 11 real keys 2 battery powered keyless remotes 1 RFID tag for a coded door 1 gym bar code tag [...]

Embroidered lab coat fun

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

My colleague, Mr. Rice, has a first name starting with ‘D’. This means his chat username at work is ‘drice’. At some point it was noted that you could read that as ‘Dr. Ice’ and a nickname was born. To celebrate his third year with us I got a embroidered coat made.