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For Christmas Eve dinner, I like a dish which combines simple rustic flavors with little prep and cleanup. The big meal after all will be Christmas dinner. For the last couple of years, we’ve got some Christmas Pasta from Cost Plus, and whipped up some of Rachel Ray’s Christmas Pasta sauce. Takes one pan and […]

Stepping back from podcasting and intellectual property for a minute, I noticed that Lisa Williams posted a link to her husband’s pot roast recipe. Pot roast is another one of these recipes that has gotten short-changed in recent years, mainly because people don’t do a very good job of it, despite the fact that it’s […]

It’s cold (or what passes for cold in California) and rainy today, so it’s time to cook up something healthy and delicious. Here’s my recipe (such as it is) for home-made Chicken and Dumplings, inspired by a similar recipe that I saw on Rachel Ray’s 30 minute meals. Nothing about this meal is cast in […]

It seems that large inflatable SpongeBob Squarepants figures have been hot items in the world of petty theft. People are apparently stealing them from rooftops in significant numbers. Perhaps sending the wrong message, Burger King Corporation has been threatening those responsible for their return with a years supply of Whoppers. A Whopper of course is […]

I’m as obsessive compulsive as the next guy (actually, I’m twice as obsessive), but even I am amazed at the dedication that resulted in this site full of Gingerbread House Patterns. Cool tips for a neat holiday craft!

Where your host rambles and meanders through the topics that seem appropriate on a Saturday. Links from the show: I use lots of command-line tools to process and convert video files. Some of the more important ones are mplayer, transcode and ffmpeg. All three are useful and powerful, but have steep learning curves. Still, for […]

Today is kind of a rainy, wet day, and I am stuck at home. My son is off doing something, and my wife is in class all day. A perfect time to cook! I was watching food porn this morning on the Food Network, and caught Emeril’s Orange Pumpkin Soup which sounded just like the […]

What more of an intro do you need to this link? Fairy’s Strange Junkfood Tribute: How to Make Fried Oreo Cookies! In trying to find an image to go with this (I purloined them from foodsubs.com ) I googled for images and found that all manner of dogs, cats, rabbits, polar bears, ferrets, and guinea […]

I can’t really believe that I’ve been blogging for over two years, and I haven’t gotten around to posting about one of my passions in life: cooking (well, eating is the passion, cooking is the skill). The inspiration for tonight’s dinner was Ming Tsai’s Ginger Fuji-Apple Chutney. I first heard about the recipe while watching […]