1/2 cup warm water
1 package dried yeast
3 tablespoons sugar
6 eggs
1 pound unbleached all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 pound unsalted butter, cut in chunks
Note that eggs and butter should be at room temperature.
Combine the water, yeast, and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer for 5 minutes.
Add the eggs and beat on medium speed until well [...]
It’s been said that the formative years of Americans can be dated to their memories of Saturday Night Live eras. I’m pegged to the late ’80s/early ’90s, and, perhaps for that reason, Sting, despite all the albums before and since and all the pop trivia around him, is irrevocably associated in my mind with [...]
One of those Cooking with Google moments, where I have leeks and chicken thighs from Westside Markets. This is derived from a Julia Child recipe. It’s somewhat instructive as to how one does ragouts:
1 or more c. chicken broth
2 tbsps. olive oil
1 large leeks (white and tender green parts only, quartered lengthwise, washed, [...]
We’ve just signed a new 1-year lease on our apartment. The rent didn’t change, and so there wasn’t much incentive to look for another place to live. What would cause us to look more seriously (as opposed to the non-serious sports-pages way New Yorkers continuously look at real estate)?
Our thinking was that a [...]
The main hard drive on the workstation has been running out of space for the past few months, and the limits of semi-draconian purging has reached its limit. Basically, the storage demands from the digital camera (4-6MB files for each shot), along with the NYT Electronic Edition downloads that are piling up, pushed the [...]
The battery on my old Treo 180 is nearing its end. While the phone has never great on battery life, I’m now only getting a bit over a day on standby and some minor usage.
The battery, though, looks like it’s easy to replace: Handspring Treo Battery Installation Guide. About $30, and they throw [...]
Gizmodo is hiring an editor. After some encouragement from friends, I’ve sat down and wrote up the requisite three Gizmodo-like stories on tech products and thrown my hat into the ring. I don’t have much by way of recent gadgets — the TV is probably the newest, fanciest thing (or maybe the Tivo) [...]
We were in Madison, Wisconsin, for most of the weekend. Grace was presenting an abstract at the MARC 2005 conference held there this year, fulfilling the research-during-residency requirements for her program. While she was at the conference, I spent my time wandering around the capitol and sitting at coffee shops using their WiFi. [...]
I have to proclaim the total awesomeness of Sage, a feed reader for Firefox. My long-ago attempt to slap one together in PHP hasn’t been touched in close to a year because of the inconveniences that come from page loading as well as my lack of skill in reasonably formatting the output. Sage [...]
Here’s a basic banana bread recipe that uses yogurt and baking soda for some of the levening:
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup soft [...]