hi, internet. i am having a summer!

the, um, plurality of my waking time is spent working on rust. this is really a blast, and i keep having to rehearse the argument for why i'll be happier in the long run being a grad student. today i finished (sans some final touches) my major project, which is rebuilding the task (== unit of parallelism) ( Read more... )

i was in philadelphia this weekend! most of the time i was eating or sleeping or walking around, but i spent a little more than four hours running also.


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you guys, vegetarian november starts on tuesday! masqueradestar posted about what's going on and the rules for it over herethe point of the challenge is to learn how to make dishes that are less meat-centric. i am already pretty good at making my meals have vegetables in them (and non-meat protein sources, and so on), and usually even not meat at the same time, ( Read more... )

i went with ntan1, aleffert, feis, and slizyboy to la folie.

slizyboy brought his camera; i really need to get one of my own, if i hope ever to get better at plating (here's looking at you, masqueradestar).

we arrived in jack's van and climbed out to greet the valet in our assorted "business casual" wear. when we said we were here for la folie, the valet took another look at the van and made a ( Read more... )

painful and arduous as this week was for the most part, it has been a great success on the food front. for all the times i found myself in shadyside with (a) a bike, (b) plenty of carrying capacity, and (c) nothing to do besides travel back home, i couldn't resist going to giant eagle (and whole foods and trader joe's) a bunch of times on impulse ( Read more... )

the everything-is-wrong / nothing-is-wrong wave appears to be becoming pretty standard. good food has been the only invariant, an island in stormy seas. (i'm wary of it turning into a depressive indulgence - specifically, treating myself at restaurants - but that worry doesn't stand when i get around to cooking for myself.) another recipe may be ( Read more... )

among all the goals i set for myself this semester, i think the one i most completely succeeded at is learning to bake and cook with more of a connection between what i imagine in my head and what comes out at the end. my bread-making technique has gotten much better (thanks to zmccord for constant motivation); my confidence in what i make on the ( Read more... )

it's been a while since I've posted a recipe here! usually I only post when I've done something sufficiently clever, and most of my cleverness lately has been manifesting in tiny additions to existing recipes. but today in a fit of "what can I even use" I invented a soup that is really damn good.

1/2 medium white onion
5ish cloves garlic (1/4 to 1/2 ( Read more... )

well, it is time to cut unnecessary sugar intake out of my diet for two weeks. i mentioned earlier that my body has been telling me more explicitly what it needs, including food-wise, but apart from knowing when i ought to be eating what, i've generally just been eating more of everything without worrying about it - and honestly also i've been ( Read more... )

i have just undergone what must be a rite of passage as a baker, which is that, having spare egg yolks from separating eggs, i thought, "i'll make pastry dough! what will i do with it? i'll just fridge it and figure that out later."

so um. what should i do with it?