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Things I won’t work with
August 25th, 2010Simple Tomato Sauce Receipe
August 16th, 2010http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/01/tomato-sauce-with-butter-and-onions/
Serves 4 as a main course; makes enough sauce to lightly coat most of a pound of spaghetti
28 ounces (800 grams) whole peeled tomatoes from a can (San Marzano, if you can find them)*
5 tablespoons (70 grams) unsalted butter
1 medium-sized yellow onion, peeled and halved
Salt to taste
Put the tomatoes, onion and butter in a heavy saucepan (it fit just right in a 3-quart) over medium heat. Bring the sauce to a simmer then lower the heat to keep the sauce at a slow, steady simmer for about 45 minutes, or until droplets of fat float free of the tomatoes. Stir occasionally, crushing the tomatoes against the side of the pot with a wooden spoon. Remove from heat, discard the onion, add salt to taste (you might find, as I did, that your tomatoes came salted and that you didn’t need to add more) and keep warm while you prepare your pasta.
Serve with spaghetti, with or without grated parmesan cheese to pass.
Tasty Cheeses
May 30th, 2010Here are a couple of tasty cheeses I had recently. Noting for future reference.
mango ginger stilton – cow milk, studded with ginger and mango
delice pommard – goat milk, chevre rolled in mustard husks
black diamond – cow milk, aged two years
Belkin KVM suck
May 5th, 2010I have a Belkin Omniview SOHO 2 port DVI-USB KVM switch. And it sucks. It sucks donkey cock. The ports on the back are much to close together, to the point that it is actually hard to get all 3 DVI cables connected. Then, once you do get it connected, it will spray a nice bit of stack on any webpage that is black text on a white background, or similar. The static will just be on the text, making it hard to read.
I replace it with an IOGEAR MiniView DVI KVM, GCS1782, and could not be happier. It has a better form factor,and enough space on the back for all the connections. It also has way more connections, 7.1 channel audio, and an auxiliary usb connector.
“Your Desktop has improved, now level 7.”
New Art for the place
March 6th, 2010Derby Extra – 7 am and back
February 10th, 2010I used a Derby Extra. I didn’t like it that much, but had nothing against it. I swapped to a 7am next, that thing didn’t seem to get a very close shave. I swapped that one back for another Derby Extra. I cut the heck out of my face, and it sucked as far as closeness went to. I’m now back on Wilkinson Sword, and I have to say its marked improvement in smoothness and closeness of shave. I really need to get around to trying some of those wicked sharp japanese blades i’ve read about.
Godzilla Statue in Tokyo
February 2nd, 2010
- Me with Godzilla
- Location of Statue
7am
January 19th, 2010I switched out to a 7am blade and shaved last night, using my new Sandalwood Taylor of old bond street. It does have a nice sandlewood sent. The shave was ok, but it could have been better. I was doing it blind, as I had left my mirror at home, so I don’t know how fair this is to judge the blade.
Dorco
January 19th, 2010Last week I switched to a dorco blade. It was very sharp on the first use, but I knicked myself twice. They were a bit worse then my normal cuts too. I got 3 uses out of it.
White Elephant!!!
January 6th, 2010My White Elephant


