I presented a session yesterday on Windows Azure Storage at the Utah Code Camp Fall 2010. It was a great code camp – thanks to all the organizers, sponsors, presenters and attendees! I’m looking forward to the next one in the spring!
If you are interested in seeing my presentation or the simple Azure Queue sample that we looked at you can get them from my SkyDrive.
Hope you enjoy, and let me know if you have any thoughts or questions.
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, and a holiday weekend to boot! I decided that today would be a good day to give some of the recipes from Cooking for Geeks a try (written by Jeff Potter, O’Reilly 2010). While I haven’t read the entire book, and this is the type of book that I don’t expect to read cover to cover, I have found it very interesting to browse through the recipes and have several that I want to try in the future.
I have really found it interesting to review several of the recipes and read some of the text around these recipes. This isn’t a ‘normal’ cookbook – it is very interesting to learn the ‘science of cooking’ instead of simply having a prescribed set of inputs and tasks. The back cover of the book states that it “inspires you to be inventive in the kitchen and piques your curiosity about food”. While I have chosen to not be adventurous in my first outing with this book I already have some ideas about what modifications I’d like to try with some of the recipes! I do believe that I will find the book to be “Tan excellent and intriguing resource if you want to experiment with cooking”.
So what’s coming for dinner tonight? ‘Slow-Cooked Short Ribs’ (page 191) and ‘Mac ’n Cheese’ (page 117). I am going to go ahead and try to steam some fresh green beans (straight from my dad’s garden) using the microwave as described in ‘Quick Steamed Asparagus’ (page 196).
I’ll add some pictures once dinner is ready – next time maybe I’ll make enough to invite you over!
We just finished dinner – here are some thoughts and photos…
We doubled the recipe for the Mac ‘n Cheese, it was great, but a little too runny, until it set up some. We did not add the bread crumbs on top either. Next time we’ll do some extra pasta as well. I also let it go a little too long in the oven – but everyone liked it! It was also quite a bit simpler/more straight forward than some other made from scratch Mac and Cheese recipes that I have made in the past.
The short ribs were a big hit as well. I cut them in half so that they fit a little better in the slow cooker. We let them cook for about 5 1/2 hours.
And here is the final product – all ready to eat!
We’re looking forward to trying some more of the recipes – and do some some experiments with them!
