Tuesday evening, I had the amazing opportunity of being part of XMarx’s Cold Weather Vegetarian dinner. I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome it was. On the menu:
Goat-Gouda stuffed sweet peppers with citrus mojo.
Moroccan eggplant “pulled pork” sammy. Pickled H20melon, Jicama. Tempura bok choy tips.
Cannelloni of kabocha squash, oyster/shitake mushroom, spinach-ricotta. Mushroom/baby heirloom tomato brown butter.
Peanut butter semifreddo sandwich with coconut-fruity pebbles soy milk.
Ok, so the food was even more delicious than it sounds. You never know what you’re going to eat until its put in front of you, or where/what time the event will take place until the day of. It was like a super exciting, mystery dinner. There were a total of 12 seats, and our group made up half of that. We snuck in a chance to chat with the chefs and founders. Their passion was really admirable, and inspiring. These dudes seriously need a James Beard nomination.
One of the chefs, John Bowers, has a fantatastic food blog. Check it out:
I attempted to create a grown-up version of the classic, and I’m super happy with the result. I used ground turkey thigh instead of beef, and made my own ketchup-y, delectable, sloppy joe sauce. No high-fructose corn syrup in this one!
I serve up these Joes real sloppy, on mini challah rolls.
(This post uses formatting and features not visible in the Tumblr Dashboard. If anything below doesn’t make sense or looks plain ugly, consider viewing the post on my website. I love the Dashboard, I hate the Dashboard.)
Did you know you can do 3D transformations on objects in Webkit-based browsers? What I mean is, you can take an IMG or a DIV or, well, anything, and translate, rotate, or scale it in 3D space, along three axes.
I intended to make a standalone iPhone game that would demo this but other things got in the way, so I’m sharing what I have in hope that you can learn a bit about next-generation CSS and Javascript. Hit http://mrgan.com/pandy on your iPhone to try it out, then hit the same on your computer to have at the source code.
A few notes:
This will look fine on Safari on your desktop, but you can only interact with it on the iPhone, because I’m detecting touch events, not clicks.
Move your finger around to rotate the cube. (Many thanks to Andy Matuschak for help with the arcball!)
This whole thing was done quick and dirty, so don’t fault Webkit or the iPhone for bugs and performance; that’s all on me :)
This is in no way based on the awesome-sounding WebGL technology, which aims to make 3D way more powerful on the web.
Nothing to do with canvas either! Just some DIVs rotated in 3D space.
I’ve always loved mac+cheese out of a box (kraft), but I haven’t come across a homemade version as satisfying. With many homemade versions, the sauce tends to break, and what’s left is a greasy, grainy, mess.
After experimenting and testing about a dozen recipes, I came up with my absolute favorite. Organic mild cheddar and fresh oregano keeps it clean and fresh.
Happy belated Thanksgiving btw. I hope it was filled with lots of incredible food and laughs. I’m so thankful for all the ridiculously supportive, lovable people in my life. You make my life hilarious, and there isn’t anything better than laughing ‘till it hurts.
Tuesday December 1st 2009
We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.
