And so it begins. Or perhaps ends
And so it begins. Or perhaps ends. It does seem to at least be the successful conclusion of a chapter. Today at noon Irene and I dropped off Colin Schwarting as he is shipping out to US Marine Corps...
Author: Edwin Voskamp
(sigh) Google’s finally decided to force Nest devices to require
(sigh) Google's finally decided to force Nest devices to require a Google account. Even a separate Google account's too much, so there go the Nest cams. More work for privacy. Meh, no more monthly...
Extra-Creamy Scrambled Eggs (J. Kenji López-Alt)
These are based on a recipe by J. Kenji-López Alt of Serious Eats and its Food Lab fame, and associated books. He developed it for a New York Times article he wrote. It is clever in that is uses a...
The Virtual Ambercon 2021 Gamebook is out!
The Virtual Ambercon 2021 Gamebook is out! You can make your game choices. You do need to log in and have a membership to Ambercon 2021 to be able to make your game choices. As we have more members...
Mmmm, flambéing the Steak Diane sauce
Mmmm, flambéing the Steak Diane sauce. I think the exhaust hood does t handle heat as well as advertised.
Valentine’s Day dinner
Valentine's Day dinner: Steak Diane, steakhouse creamed spinach, twice baked potato casserole.
The baklava set up nicely
The baklava set up nicely. It's a bit rich (6 cups of nuts, 2 cups of sugar, 3?sticks of butter, pound of phyllo dough, and assorted), so after a handful of pieces we're considering options.
Steak Diane
Irene's favorite dish, I make it on her birthday as the house rule is the birthday person gets to pick the meals. It's a neat dish, with the flambéing and the extensive mis-en-place required. Steak...
Homemade baklava. 20 layers of phyllo dough…
Homemade baklava. 20 layers of phyllo dough, walnuts, peanuts, rose oil, cardamom, cinnamon, honey, three sticks of butter.
Valentine’s Day brunch
Valentine's Day brunch. Irene made Dutch babies, I made French omelets with chives and Mimosas.