I’ve got two options today. One is a corned beef, the other is more or a Montreal-style beef. Start with a couple chunks of cow.These are pretty lean, just what we want. Did I say lean? Well, there’s not a huge amount of marbling, true, but this fat cap has …
It’s honestly not much of a story, I just wanted to contrast the three. The top is a basic brine, the bottom right has a brine for corned beef, and the bottom left is a brine for a more Montreal-style beef. Basic Brine This is about as simple as a …
I’m trying a new recipe for making ham. Not ‘cooking ham’, but for converting an unsuspecting chunk of pig into something pink and delicious. It’s actually pretty simple. I’m starting with an eight-pound picnic shoulder, shown below, and a dry brine mix (kosher salt, brown sugar, pinking salt). I coated …
I look back, and I find that of the good teachers, I not only remember who they were, but what I learned in their classes. That is, what specifically I learned. I mean, I remember somewhat of history and chemistry, of French and cooking… but that’s just information. I’d have …
I was asked by a colleague on the bus (hi Ian!) about systems testing. After bending his ear for about an hour I promised to write some notes, so here we are. Before going further, I must admit that what I will describe here is something of my platonic ideal. …
I’m at the point where complex prerequisites can be parsed and resolved. Prerequisites: Spell Focus (conjuration) or Skill Focus (Spellcraft) and Alertness feat or Arcane Strike feat, Weapon Focus. This is contrived — the original is just “Spell Focus (conjuration)”, but I wanted to see if I could do something …
Not paleo, but I thought I’d log it anyway. I was asked today if I had a recipe for potato soup. I have to admit that I don’t, but I’m pretty sure I can come up with one. This is in fact based on my clam chowder recipe, making changes …
I tried Sara’s barbecue sauce recipe. I think I had a little too much onion (all of a smallish one, rather than half of a largish one). I can’t imagine why anyone would add orange juice, as it was it was sweeter than I want. A few substitutions. Ingredients small …
A little over eleven years ago I had a need for an OCR library for a project at work. The commercial ones we had available weren’t doing what we needed (such as “not crash”, “read characters accurately”, and “be reasonably priced”) so I did a little digging around and found …
As a youth, I studied the languages of the earth so I could better understand the people around me. Now I study the languages of math and it’s slang dialect physics so I can better understand the universe.
— Arienna Lee
