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So I've had this idea for a while, and since I've got nothin but free time I think I'm gonna make it happen.
I want to make a blog called "Cheap Date", and it'd be about recipes around $5 for 2 people, maybe with special occasions costing more, or having dinner party type recipes as well.
I've been doing some research, and so far all I've found about cheap food has been gross: "a piece of bread, + ketchup + american cheese = pizzza!" Or some guy rambles on about how to make a grilled cheese in a 3000 word essay. (http://www.bloglander.com/cheapeats/ ) Food like this is important, sure. I've made my share of toaster oven delights, but I don't really think people need to read about them.
The other kind of cheap food websites are about cooking for a family of 4, assuming theres a stay at home mom to bake bread, soak beans, and make 3 square meals a day, all while shootin' snakes and bringin' em home for supper. http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm Ok, confession: I actually I kinda like this website, and also Pioneer Woman's website, but they just don't fit my lifestyle. http://thepioneerwoman.com/
The closest thing I've found has been this book "Cheap and Easy: A Cookbook for Girls on the Go" which sounds great. It talks about ingredient recycling, recipes mostly from fresh or unprocessed ingredients, and they dont' take complicated equipment. The thing I can't stand about this book is the constant "Sex in the City" type puns! Like, omg I'm a single girl, so I need meals to seduce men? Really?
These recipies are gonna be cheap, but not stoner food. They're gonna be healthy (but maybe not low-calorie), and they're gonna be fresh and geared towards 20 year olds.
I'm gonna work on some wireframes today, and maybe get the template designed by this weekend. After that comes the hard part-- content.
On the docket so far:
- Black Bean Burgers
- Super Veggie Pasta Sauce
- Bean Chili
- Stir Fry
- Whole Roasted Chicken with Garlic Potatoes
- with leftover recipes:
- chicken quesadillas
- green chile and chicken stew
- Homemade Pizza
- Homemade Bread
- Bean and Cheese Enchiladas
- Chili Con Carne (more $$$)
I'll also feature posts on tips like: planing a week's menu, ingredient recycling, planing for leftovers, kitchen equipment, how to buy stuff cheaper, and how to make food look pretty.
Would anyone like to be a partner with me in this? I can make an account for you, and you can post at your will. |
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Aug. 27th, 2008 @ 10:22 am
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It's been a while since I've written here, and SO much has happened.
-moved out of Chasewood, went back to nova
-moved Reed (aka my storage locker) out of the Village, went back to nova
-moved out of home, drove to Texas for 4 days
-moved into our apartment
-6 days after moving in, flew to Philadelphia
-Made a wedding cake, went to Bryan and Christy's wedding
-flew back to Austin
And yeah, thats pretty much it. There are lots of details, and photos to share, but maybe I'll do that later.
( rambles ) |
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Apr. 17th, 2007 @ 08:38 am
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I know some of my high school friends that I haven't talked to in a while might still be on LJ.
I'm safe, Reed is safe.
I can't get back to sleep so I LJ.
( I wanna wear orange and maroon. ) |
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Mar. 1st, 2007 @ 03:03 am
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So I've got a bunch of work due tomorrow, or today, as it's currently 3 in the morning. This therefore is the obligatory, wasting time LJ post.
So I'm writing this paper for my environmental ethics class about nuclear waste containment. In summary it's a good thing cause you don't want this shit lying around just anywhere.
In New Mexico (my home) the US government has started the WIPP, Waste Isolation Pilot Project where they are storing the highest level of radioactive waste, categorized as Transuranic Waste. It's pretty friggen' hazardous for about 10,000 years. This waste, unlike other kinds of high level waste can potentially explode if water is trapped inside it, since it could hydrolyze water creating hydrogen-> creating boom. This place has been designed and located in such a way that the biggest risk to it not reaching that 10,000 year safety mark is future human drilling or excavation. So they're designing icons and markers to tell people in the future that there is some nasty shit buried here. They've got radio frequency markers, magnetic markers, and they plan to build giant friggen blocks 25ft tall of stone engraved with warnings in various languages and pictograms such as this:
Ok, so yeah, I'm a graphic designer, and my standards are pretty high. It's uglyness aside, Would this shit scare anyone away? Imagine you couldn't read any of the languages this is written in, but there are 40 of these giant stone markers arranged around a square permitter and they may seem to want to scare you away, with a person that may be burping or taking a nap. But what does it usually mean when someone is trying to shoo you away? It means some AWESOME shit is nearby and they don't want you to have it. Egyptian tombs warned of curses. Skulls and grimaced faces decorated mayan temples. They didn't want us all up on their shit, but we took it anyways.
Yeah, people in the future are fucked.
Ok, I should really get back to work... |
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A strange series of events caused me to google image search for "baby lobster". The results were quite interesting.
( pictures below the cut )
Today in Maya I made an Easter Island Egg Beater Bunny.
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(This deserved it's own entry, so read the last one for the explination.)
Lisa was born a male, but chooses to live his life as a woman. And by life I mean, unlife, being as Lisa is an organicaly challenged squeaky lobster.
Lisa, Celia, and I had a lot of fun in Penn Station with some of our friends.
(not for the broadbandly challenged)
( Read more... )
May. 27th, 2005 @ 02:39 am
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Sep. 26th, 2004 @ 01:05 pm
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