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You Want to Eat This Sandwich

All the deliciousness. All of it.

Devere’s Irish Pub has these delicious BLTs that I tell everyone about.  They use their own housemade Irish bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, and mayo, just like any other BLT. But, then you can have a fried egg put on your BLT too. I looked at that option many a time before actually trying it. I wish I hadn’t wasted all those opportunities! I am the last person who’d have thought that a fried egg on any sandwich, let alone a minimalist masterpiece like the BLT, was a good idea. I was wrong and so are you. The egg adds so much flavor and depth!

Stop whatever it is you are doing right now, go home, make yourself a BLT, fry an egg, combine them, and eat it. I’ll be waiting here when you want to thank me for giving you the idea.

For something even more decadent try the grilled cheese and egg sandwiches in this month’s (April ’11) Bon Appetit. That is the sandwich seen in the picture above: pancetta, provolone, arugula, green onions, and a fried egg on sourdough bread. Truly, to die for.

Time to Get Planting! Spring Garden 2011

Down among the seedlings

It’s been a little iffy these past few weeks but I think it is safe to say Spring is finally here! Spring is the herald of many things (one of the best being Easter candy; I’m looking at you Cadbury egg) what it means in our household is spring cleaning and spring planting. The cleaning is all mostly done (I’ve just got to steam clean the carpets) so, that means it’s time to get our hands dirty in the garden.

Before we could plant we had to take everything else out. The winter garden still had celery, spinach, chard, arugula, and carrots in it; they all had to go:

After harvesting, all the greens had to be cleaned
Tiny carrots are yummy. I think we grew them too close to each other
Once cooked all this spinach will fit in a one measuring cup
Arugula is delicious. This was previously unknown to me

We kept the celery in the garden because it seemed so happy and I have no idea what to do with 4 heads of celery… Once the winter plants were out  all the ready compost out of our composter and went in, along with a bag of manure fertilizer, and soil to revitalize the plot. Then we laid out where we were going to put everything. Learning from last year we picked up fewer tomatoes and zucchini plants and got more cucumbers. We’re also attempting beans again this year to see if we can do better than the single green bean pod we got last year.

 

tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, eggplants, basil, parsley, peppers

 

Everything in its place.
I swear I helped put this garden in. It wasn't all D.

 

 

Beer traps in Sluggo spread. It begins!

I’m hoping that we do get a lot of produce this year. D and I are both looking forward to learning how to can and pickle vegetables! I’m still trying to figure out what to do with all the celery. As it is we’re putting it in absolutely everything.

It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Give This to Help Japan!

The above animation can be yours as a program or screensaver for either Macs or Windows if you give absolutely anything to the Americares Foundation which is raising money right now to help those caught in the on-going disaster in Japan.

This is a really nice piece of pixel art and you can proudly show it off on your desktop and do something nice for those in need!

via Ted Martens’ Blog

 

So This is a Smartphone?

old, broken shiny

Here in California it is finally spring; and, since it is I dusted off the bicycle and took a quick 36 mile ride to next town over. It was a lovely ride and I’m really excited about cycling this year through summer and into fall. As you can tell by the picture at the top though, this isn’t a post about cycling.

The ride was good but uneventful. All the way until the end when while stopped at a stop sign in town. I leaned the wrong way with my foot clipped in and fell, SMACK, right onto the curb and right onto my phone. That is what you see up top there. That old LG Shine (I think that’s what it was) wasn’t a very fancy phone. It couldn’t do the Twitters, or the Facebooks, or the Foursquares. It could accept phone calls and send texts and that is really all I needed it to do. With the cracks on the screen it can’t even do those simple tasks.

So, I ended up getting a new phone:

new, complicated shiny

That is a HTC Inspire 4G, and Android phone. It is apparently capable of many, many things. I’m not really quite sure how it all works, it didn’t come with a manual. I can find tutorials for it on-line though! So that is nice. The Inspire does do the Twitter, and the Facebook, and the Foursquare, and a lot of other stuff too, I think.

Like, I said it I’m not quite sure how it all works. I’ll figure it out, I hope.

Don’t forget that I’m giving a book away this week! You can find all the details here.

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