Silliness

So I read Cracked.com a lot and this one was stupid, but also funny and food-y: Omelets and Super-Sharks.

Recipe Generator

I discovered this a few weeks ago and thought it was funny, and I just remembered it again now. It's a recipe generator with a junior high sense of humor. The recipes don't look like links, but they are.

Warning, this website contains foul language and may literally insult you. ;)

What the fuck should I make for dinner?

Poaching eggs

Oh, oh, oh: here's something I can contribute. Have you seen these? PoachPods. They're a little expensive, but we got some and they're awesome. They're incredibly easy to use, easy to clean, and make perfect poached eggs every time. (This morning, for example, we had poached eggs on toast with cream cheese and a little Pickapeppa Sauce. Mmmmmm.)

From my Programming Connections

Recently, my feed reader has received several posts from Joe Pastry, with plenty of great tips for desserts and other fabulous-sounding foods. The odd part is that they come from an acquaintance introduced to me through my work on Parlance; we're only connected in case we ever start active development on a web front-end.

This is on top of Joseph Hall's entries in the Utah Open Source Planet, which dives into cooking on an irregular basis, as well as ruminations on an ideal recipe storage program. This year has also seen a Summer of Pie there, with more description than real recipes for (you guessed it) pies.

Then today, I get a kohlrabi dish via Planet Python, which usually discourages non-pythonic posts. I'm beginning to think there's a deeper connection between geekdom and cooking. Or is it really just baking?

Saturday Pancakes

My favorite sister is visiting for the day, so we made a double batch of pancakes this week. I remember making double batches for just the two of us back when we were first married, but now I can't figure out how we ate so much.

In other news, a Food and Cooking Q&A site is now in beta. I've used other sites with the same model, and it really is the best way to get great answers to your questions quickly. Granted, it depends on having a community of experts willing and able to answer the submitted questions.