Another Bread I get side-tracked on recipe sites. After finding Brown-eyed Baker, I was looking around and found a bread recipe. I still looking for something reliable and fluffy. (It can’t be me, right?) I’ll probably try it, tomorrow, but now it’s permanently linked, in case I don’t get to bread.
Author Archives: Mark
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch
Strawberry Turnovers Fleet Farm sells very yummy dried strawberries. The turned biscuit experience had me thinking about pastry. Guess what! I made pastry: Strawberry turnovers. My Joy of Cooking is still packed, somewhere, so I turned to the Internet for a starting point. I found an apple turnover recipe that looked good at Brown-Eyed Baker.Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch”
Computer Speakers
Those count, right? Very non-stereo, but there is no room on the right side of my desk for one of those. There will be upstairs – I’m building it into the desk space; they’ll hang on each side of the monitor. As always, it was an adventure with a simple solution. Why do they alwaysContinue reading “Computer Speakers”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch
Pancakes count, right? I made Good Old Fashioned Pancakes (and I’m sad I’ve lost allrecipes.com, but auto-play video is unacceptable). I substituted egg nog for milk. The reason the post makes the Learning 2 Bake title is: Much as with cookies, viscosity is a key property of pancake batter! Although in reverse: One wants veryContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch
Bread My bread collapsed, today. I think it was from having it on the stovetop while the oven preheated. I’ve had many successes with this recipe. I shorted the flour a bit for a moister dough, but it was still workable and it rose just fine before preheating the oven. We’ll see… Update: I’m changingContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch”
Logstash Up
This is getting easier. Logstash is running and so is the Prometheus exporter for it. Kibana, on the other hand, is a nightmare. I can’t get it do anything other than spew security warnings. I made them go away – by adding “basic security” to Elasticsearch and Kibana – and it broke all the logstashes.Continue reading “Logstash Up”
Gone Public
It’s not quite ready, but at the request of an interested party, I made the github repository public. One more (successful) rebuild-from-scratch and I’m calling it good. In addition to getting Pulsar Manager running, finally, I wrote (trivial) tests for both Pulsar and Cassandra. They work! BLEK is still missing. Jaeger is a possibility. But,Continue reading “Gone Public”
Idea: Turned Pie Crust
Thinking about those turned biscuits, it occurred to me that pie crust could be turned to make it flakier. Not enough to create “pastry”, but maybe twice. I’d bet rolling out on the deck (on a table, not the deck, itself) in the winter would solve the “butter melts” problem, too. Now, I just needContinue reading “Idea: Turned Pie Crust”
Rebuilt!
A few bobbles, but I rebuilt the whole thing from instructions. About three pages of instruction-update notes, which I will deal with later. It’s bed time, again. [WordPress did want larger featured images]
Kamikoto Knives
Merry Christmas to me! The first thing I’ve ever purchased from a web-site ad. There was a bit of a problem with delivery, but Kamikoto customer support dealt with it excellently (UPS also did an outstanding job: They called me when they couldn’t find the address. “623” got transposed somewhere along the line – possiblyContinue reading “Kamikoto Knives”
Marked Up 