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Finished Cupcakes

3 days ago
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For my daughter's fifth birthday (today), I made cupcakes. These are very much from scratch--as my mixer is currently down, I stirred/mixed everything by hand. I have mad baking skillz.

You may not be able to tell from my less-than-mad piping skillz, but the pink character on each cupcake is Hello Kitty.

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I hope her and her friends like them.

Inaugural Bake

4 days ago
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The appliances in my house were all installed about fourteen years before we moved in. Counting our eleven years here, they would be twenty-five years old. However, one by one, we've replaced them.

The oven was never what we regard in top shape. The clock showed "6:20" for eleven years. The self-cleaning function wouldn't work. However, it worked well enough, so we lived with it. As I learned to bake, I got pretty good at adapting my recipes for my oven--adding as much as twice the recommended bake time.

Then, last Sunday, I set out to make bagels. I had shaped the bagels and started the second rise, and went to start boiling some water. I turned on the burner, and heard the gas, but didn't hear the "tick tick tick" of the igniter, and there was no flame. At the same time, my wife was getting something out of the fridge. No light.

Twenty minutes of panicked troubleshooting and calls to parents later, and we determined that it was the oven. We knew we'd need to replace it, so we had a decent feel for what was out there. We kinda shrugged, and figured we'd get a fairly low-end one. We don't know how much longer we'll be in the house, and were shooting for fit-to-purpose.

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We did a bit more than that.

We looked around, and I fell in love with one that was about 50% more expensive than we were expecting. It has a center griddle, a convection oven, and at least one high-power burner. This is on top of things like "self cleaning works," "the clock is not stuck at the same minute" and "I might be able to cook something in the time the book says." However, it was a stainless finish, and all the other appliances in our kitchen are white.

We walked around the store, made a few more calls to parents, and talked. I started to lean towards going back to the original, fit-to-purpose plan. My wife could see my enthusiasm. She talked to the sales guy. A version of the stove was available in white, for about $100 cheaper.

We talked some more. We walked around the store.

Ultimately, we went ahead and got the upgraded stove.

So far, I've made a quesadilla on the griddle, and popcorn on the burner (it was not until a Friday night that I was able to do anything with it).

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Today, I'm making cupcakes for my daughter's birthday tomorrow. They came out in roughly what the recipe suggested. Clearly, I'm going to have to re-learn how to bake.

First inaugural cupcake tasted...yum!

Trinity and Sausage

Oct 17, 2009
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The Trinity is celery, bell pepper, and onion. I use red bell pepper instead of the traditional green. I dice them as I don't like big hunks of peppers in my bowl.

This will be cooked in the skillet until the skillet until the onions are translucent, the boiled with the beans for another hour.

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Pretty Bay Leaves

Oct 17, 2009
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Next step in red beans and rice.

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Preparations

Oct 16, 2009
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Good red beans and rice require an overnight soak.

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Granola Bars

Oct 10, 2009
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My daughter and I made granola bars last night. Problem: she says they are too sticky. I think they are good.

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French Silk Pie Maddness!

Sep 26, 2009
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Puffy Tacos, Take Two

Sep 8, 2009
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Second attempt at puffy tacos. I opted not to do red cabbage slow, but I did use corn masa (more traditional). I even made tortilla chips to go with it. My wife described it as heavenly. Yum!

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Developement Server?

Aug 29, 2009
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Many of you know I'm a fan of Chipotle. Not only do they make the most excellent burritos, they sponsor a bike team. So, I was quite excited when they released an ordering application for the iPhone. I don't do take-out from there too often, but, with the addition of one to Fountain Square, it happens a bit more. Plus, it shows where you can find their restaurants while on the road.

I was nosing around preferences for something else, I noticed there was a section for Chipotle. The application was fairly straight-forward, so I was curious what options could be set.

A Best Practice for Information Technology is to fix bugs and create functionality on development ("dev") servers. The changes are migrated to a staging environment, which should be the exact same configuration as its final resting place, production. The end users (consumers in the case of eCommerce) would usually only interact with "Prod."

Why is there an option to "Use dev. server?" The default is set to yes--why are we doing that? Also, why would my orders go to a lab? Are they going to turn me into a mutant.

My guess is that they were developer options that were left in by mistake. Or, they are planning for the next release. At the end of the day, so long as I get burrito goodness, I'm happy.