February 2011
3 posts
Things I learned this week...
…. about cooking. First and foremost, get yourself a good cookbook! This week I was given a copy of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. Much to my surprise, it was as much fun to read as it was to actually prepare recipes.
I discovered that the reason my roast beef was over cooked last week was not because my thermometer is broken, but because I cooked it to 160° instead of...
Cars, Cars, Cars
I have always been fascinated with cars. Started when I got my first Lincoln Continental Mark I diecast car as a six year old. Not too long after that, in the late 50s, my dad would take me every year to the Ford Rotunda for a test drive in this year’s new models. I still remember my first ride. It was once around the track in a 1960 Mercury Monterey in September 1959. Now 50 years later,...
technology
well, now that I have a voice activated text feature on my keyboard lets try this blogging thing again. I have a lot of thoughts, but my keyboard skills are lacking, which obviously makes blogging very difficult. Well, I think that difficulty has just disappeared. I am pretty sure that I can do 60 words per minute or more with this headset. So today we are going to try it out.
I guess this will...