A cure for hiccups

I’m not sure exactly why I had the hiccups all day, maybe stress from getting ready to get married 3000 miles away while a tropical storm also packs its bags for your wedding location, but this was the cure. Enjoy…

More food

Yep, another food post. Tonight we made prosciutto and goat cheese stuffed chicken, heirloom and mâché salad, and a nectarine and blackberry crisp.
Pictures after the jump.

Happy Birthday Emily!

Classic BLTs

I promise this isn’t going to turn into a food blog, but lately, I’ve had time to cook and time to cook means I’ve been trying new stuff, which makes me excited to then blog about it. I was in Providence, RI last week for a conference and on my flight back, I actually read the inflight magazine. I’m not talking about skymall, which is something I typically only pick up for take off and landing while I can’t be watching videos on my ipad/ipod/prohibited during takeoff and landing electronic device. This inflight magazine is the one that actually has articles, many of which are actually fairly well written I might add. At any rate, this particular issue caught my mind because it was dedicated to the sandwich. In fact, it had a lengthy section on the BLT, and of course, this made me crave a BLT, so tonight I followed their instructions to see if in fact there was something to all this BLT hubub, I mean a BLT isn’t really a complex sandwich, so could I have been getting it wrong all these years?

The players: Bacon (of the turkey variety in this case), Tomato (nothing fancy with these guys either although I wanted heirloom), and lettuce (romaine, which was recommended against in the article). Also pictured, bread (ciabatta rolls from Trader Joe’s). Not pictured: Mayo, because it can’t take the heat (ha I kill myself).

The Prep
Cut tomatoes and lettuce, cook turkey bacon, slice and toast bread on one side only (a good tip I hadn’t tried).

Assembly
Mayo on both bread slices in a thin layer, lettuce, bacon, tomato from top to bottom.

The Final Product
Delicious!

The Verdict
OK, the article did have some decent points. First, toasting on one side prevented mayo seepage, but didn’t make the bread brittle and scratchy on the outside. Also, apparently I have been getting the order wrong. Bacon in the middle allows for a nice flavor envelope to enter your mouth, without a ton of mayo building up on the bacon.
This was definitely the best BLT I’ve had in quite a while. The only thing that could have made it better was avocado.

Fancy Cooking

So I’ve been slacking, what’s new. Anyway, I had two meals recently I took pictures of to blog about and then never did. Here’s the first one. This is a blue jack quesadilla with tomatoes and fresh basil. Yes it was quite delicious. I don’t think this really requires a recipie.

Stuff I see at work

This was a first:

Usually it’s more of this:

A quick rant

Mark Remy has a good rant here that at least makes me believe that i’m not completely nuts.

Until I read the above I thought I was nuts. What’s with all the kids these days riding around on bikes with bad-fitting brain buckets? Really, what is a helmet going to do on the back of your head?

Maybe with less small families, nobody is learning how to take care of kids while they’re young still. Or maybe society is really just getting dumber. I dunno. I really actually don’t care. What I do care about is kids having helmets that fit their dang noggins.

Happy 4th of July!

so close

I’m sitting here in our campus copy center waiting to get my thesis copied. It is a whopping 61 pages total, and I need 10 copies before 4 PM. Of course you had to expect it to come down to this after all the work I’ve put in over the last year just to get my research done. One thing I wasn’t expecting was the cost of all this. I have color plates in my thesis, so it’s going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 bucks for the copies and then another 100 dollars to get it bound. The library should pay for the copies they keep and the department should pay for the copy they get as well. That is about 30 dollars in binding right there.
In other news, I got an iPad for graduation. It is what I am typing on right now, and let me tell you that steve jobs wasn’t lying when he said it was magical. This may be a topic I discuss in greater depth later.

For all you Glee fans

And even if you’re not. Since last night was Lady Gaga on Glee, I figured I’d share this video of an actual glee club doing Bad Romance. Oh and it’s all guys. Enjoy.