Re-: to do again. -actuate: 1. To put into motion or action; . 2. To move to action
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You know, I’d rather cook than blog.
Which is saying something because I enjoy blogging. For my personal blog I could post almost everyday, even from work, because I’d just just jot down what ever is on my mind.
But now I’ve have this cooking blog and I want to make it cool. To do that really [...]
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Tonight for dinner I decided on pasta. I went to the Good Eats Transcript for pasta and took some notes.
Then I got some chicken breasts out of the fridge and cut them into cubes. Put a little olive oil and garlic in a non-stick skillet. Liberally salted the chicken and cooked it till brown. I [...]
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Professional Cooking
Wayne Gisslen; Buy New: $40.95
Was at Half Price Books last night and ran into this book. I thought it was cool because it was text book, and the recipes are given in metric and by weight.
So I impulse bought it for $30. Minus my wife’s 10% discount because she’s a teacher.
Haven’t used or read [...]
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I watched Good Eats tonight and got inspired. Didn’t look that hard to make yellow cake and I think I have all the ingredients. The Mrs. is at the book store with the eldest. I’m a little bored….
Well, let’s just go see if I have the ingredients. Yep. Got the cake flour left over from [...]
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I’ve started a second blog dedicated just to cooking. So there won’t be any more cooking posts on Reactuate. I’m still looking for a name, but right now the blog is a sub-domain of reactuate.
http://cooking.reactuate.com/
One different thing about this blog is it isn’t on Nucleus. My oh so awesome web host, Dreamhost, just added the [...]
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I just signed up for the Essential Knife Skills class at Sur La Table. It is January 5th, and I thought I wouldn’t be able to go because I’m going to MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. But it turns out the expo is the 10-14, so the 5th was fine.
Hey! The 14th is my birthday. [...]
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If I’m ever king of the world, Kershaw is going to make me a katana. If I’m ever transported to a fantasy world - the kind with elves, not nubile females - I hope this knife is transported with me.
This is my wife’s Christmas present to me. A 10″ Kershaw Shun Chef’s Knife.
I think it [...]
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This weekend I made two batches of Ice Cream from scratch. I used a recipe from Alton Brown’s Good Eats.
The recipe at the Good Eats site isn’t quite the same as the transcript of the show. What I have here is my understanding of how it should be.
This weekend I made two batches, one lower [...]
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