Jun 25, 2014
I use to inhale Kraft Mac & Cheese as a kid, no lie. But, now it’s time to throw out that blue box of chemicals and weird powdered cheese and be an adult!
A food eating adult!
A food eating adult who loves a healthy take on macaroni and cheese! I mean, there are tons of ways macaroni & cheese has been changed and updated and reinvented, why not a way in which someone who can't have dairy, wheat, soy, yeast, canola or fun enjoy it?
This is pretty simple to make – sloth is one of my favorite sins, after all.
What You Need
Optional
What You Do
A food eating adult!
A food eating adult who loves a healthy take on macaroni and cheese! I mean, there are tons of ways macaroni & cheese has been changed and updated and reinvented, why not a way in which someone who can't have dairy, wheat, soy, yeast, canola or fun enjoy it?
This is pretty simple to make – sloth is one of my favorite sins, after all.
What You Need
- Sweet potato – for me, I used half of a large tater. I think a whole, large sweet tater could feed a lot of people.
- Onion
- Garlic power or a couple garlic cloves
- Olive oil
- Sea salt
- Warm/hot non-dairy, non-flavored milk (or just water)
- Fresh chives (to taste)
- A bunch of kale
Optional
- Anything you would like to dress up your mac & cheese with!
- Chilli powered for a kick
- Daiya Cheeder Cheese (vegan, soy free, wheat free, yada yada - it IS rich in chemicals and stuff so if you can and want to do real cheese, do it!)
- Breadcrumbs
- Salsa
- Tomatoes
- Bacon (if you roll that way)
What You Do
- You’re going to want to roast that sweet tater. I molested mine with olive oil and cut it up into hunks to speed up the cooking. Pop it in the oven (or a toaster oven) at about 400 for anywhere between 25-45 minutes based on size. You want it to be warm and smushy. Don’t worry if it burns a little. I also added an onion which I quartered and separated. Onion is great.
- Boil up some noodles, ya noodle! I used elbow rice noodles. You could really even use some zuke noodles (that’s slang for zucchini noodles which you can eat raw and involve just shredding out a zucchini in whatever way you want)
- Do a little dance.
- Blend your flavors! When the tater is done, pop it and the onions into your food processor and add a touch of olive oil, the garlic, sea salt, kale and chives (and anything else you want blended in there). Blend until it’s smooth. It will be super-thick, and that’s fine! Add in water or your non-dairy, non-flavored milk to make it the consistency you would like. If you are using the Daiya Cheese or any other type of vegan cheese, add it now. You can warm it up in the microwave if things got too cold for it to melt.
- Put the mixture over your noodles of choice. Add any toppings you would like – savor!
Jun 18, 2014
Another one of my designs made it to jacket! I had done this logo a while ago because my team doesn't have a good one - seriously, we don't. We have logo we use for a set of classes we no longer teach, but, nothing legit for our team.
We also need to get Disney out of the corporate world - everything has to be a fat, rounded cartoon. I understand people like cartoons, but, I would like to stand behind a symbol that gives me some credibility with adults.
A big BIG shout out to Promotional Images who were the people who got my design on the jacket and did a bang-up job dealing with the madness that comes from two to three layers of management all wanting a say in everything. I strongly recommend them!
See my other graphical adventures here:
We also need to get Disney out of the corporate world - everything has to be a fat, rounded cartoon. I understand people like cartoons, but, I would like to stand behind a symbol that gives me some credibility with adults.
A big BIG shout out to Promotional Images who were the people who got my design on the jacket and did a bang-up job dealing with the madness that comes from two to three layers of management all wanting a say in everything. I strongly recommend them!
See my other graphical adventures here:
Jun 11, 2014
A friend and I trucked into Philadelphia to the Franklin Institute for Science After Dark for their CLUE®: Forensic Science Meets the Classic Mystery!
If you remember, I went to another one of these, Franklin Institute MacGyver Night. It was pretty fun.
This time, it was something totally up my alley! Forensics! Few people seem to enjoy this little interest of mine, but, I wasn't going to go alone. I took a good friend of mine and we were able to get into the city without any problems. It was much nicer out that during MacGyver Night, which made a world of difference.
The even is adults only - which is amazing. I enjoy people who have and love their kids and all that, sometimes I just don't want to be around them. It's adults only because there is alcohol served, so, there is a good amount of toasted people. Six of one. . .?
The Game
At the start, you get a little card with all the weapons, rooms and people on it. You have to go around the museum to find everything and what is left, that's the murdered! Sort of like a live-action Clue. Some of the employees and/or interns were dressed up as the Clue characters like Mrs. White and Mr. Green. If you saw them, you could cross them off.
Each area of the museum had a name tapped to the floor - like dinning room or kitchen. And then, there were bright orange weapons hidden around - like a rope or candlestick.
It was cool!
The Exhibits
I like how they have "real" people running the tables. Like master/PhD students, police officers - more on that level than people in the ivory tower of education. Everything is also hands on.
For example, there was a guy who was an anthropologist who did facial reconstructions from skulls and he tried to teach us how to make an ear. Mine was bad, his was good. He had some information and pictures of skulls they found and how they reconstructed them based on math and art - and then the picture of the person when s/he was live. Amazing!
There was a blood splatter exhibit - and the lady said she taught something close to it but not exactly just that. Because it's not really a "science" - sorry Dexter fans, it's a piece of a larger group of study. She did have some interest facts about how if you see two patterns, the person was hit three times. And the math of figuring out what happened. She said the blood splatter was used mostly when more than one person was killed at a time only to figure out order of events. This could then be used for or against a survivor. But really, a lot more goes into it. Also, after 7 feet, a blood drop doesn't change size when it hits something.
I was not as interested in the chemical stuff. They did have a guy who showed how an acid reacts to (a body's remains) baking soda based on different soil samples. Like when someone might have dropped a body on the beach, they can use the scrapping from the shoe and test it. It was cool, but, less. . .I don't know. . .less interesting to me.
They had a handwriting exhibit and some presentation that was very loud about drinking clubs or something. It was too loud and crowded for me. I know they were talking about the 21 Club and it made me wish I could get all fancy for a night on the town in a place where everyone else is also fancy.
They also opened up the observatory so you could go outside and see their telescope - and Jupiter - and they had some other telescopes set on various buildings and landmarks around Philly. My friend was pretty interested in that - but he wanted to really see all the colors and swirls of Jupiter and that wasn't going to happen.
What I found awesome was their 3D printer! What?! I knew about them, never saw one. It was really cool! Some of the objects take a couple hours or days to make, but, they made some candlesticks and stuff - and one piece, interlocking items. Very cool!
I did skip the "live show" which was about autopsy. I popped my head in to see it thinking it would be as cool as the BOOM! Show (can't find link). It was not. It was a little lame with two girls making those un-funny, sweeping jokes about. . whatever. One was pretending to be the body and the other would come up and say, "Now, to remove your brain!" and the other girl would say, "No, not my brain!" and then the other girl would say, "I thought you were a body! Shhh! Be a dead body!" and. . .that was funny.
The Results
A stellar time. As always, I tend to get tired after a full day of work and then getting into the city and running around with all those people. I did pretty good, though. On the way back to the train station, I got a good "view" of Philly
I really would like to keep going to these events! I can't wait for the Science of Carnivals.
If you remember, I went to another one of these, Franklin Institute MacGyver Night. It was pretty fun.
This time, it was something totally up my alley! Forensics! Few people seem to enjoy this little interest of mine, but, I wasn't going to go alone. I took a good friend of mine and we were able to get into the city without any problems. It was much nicer out that during MacGyver Night, which made a world of difference.
The even is adults only - which is amazing. I enjoy people who have and love their kids and all that, sometimes I just don't want to be around them. It's adults only because there is alcohol served, so, there is a good amount of toasted people. Six of one. . .?
The Game
At the start, you get a little card with all the weapons, rooms and people on it. You have to go around the museum to find everything and what is left, that's the murdered! Sort of like a live-action Clue. Some of the employees and/or interns were dressed up as the Clue characters like Mrs. White and Mr. Green. If you saw them, you could cross them off.
Each area of the museum had a name tapped to the floor - like dinning room or kitchen. And then, there were bright orange weapons hidden around - like a rope or candlestick.
It was cool!
The Exhibits
I like how they have "real" people running the tables. Like master/PhD students, police officers - more on that level than people in the ivory tower of education. Everything is also hands on.
For example, there was a guy who was an anthropologist who did facial reconstructions from skulls and he tried to teach us how to make an ear. Mine was bad, his was good. He had some information and pictures of skulls they found and how they reconstructed them based on math and art - and then the picture of the person when s/he was live. Amazing!
There was a blood splatter exhibit - and the lady said she taught something close to it but not exactly just that. Because it's not really a "science" - sorry Dexter fans, it's a piece of a larger group of study. She did have some interest facts about how if you see two patterns, the person was hit three times. And the math of figuring out what happened. She said the blood splatter was used mostly when more than one person was killed at a time only to figure out order of events. This could then be used for or against a survivor. But really, a lot more goes into it. Also, after 7 feet, a blood drop doesn't change size when it hits something.
I was not as interested in the chemical stuff. They did have a guy who showed how an acid reacts to (a body's remains) baking soda based on different soil samples. Like when someone might have dropped a body on the beach, they can use the scrapping from the shoe and test it. It was cool, but, less. . .I don't know. . .less interesting to me.
They had a handwriting exhibit and some presentation that was very loud about drinking clubs or something. It was too loud and crowded for me. I know they were talking about the 21 Club and it made me wish I could get all fancy for a night on the town in a place where everyone else is also fancy.
They also opened up the observatory so you could go outside and see their telescope - and Jupiter - and they had some other telescopes set on various buildings and landmarks around Philly. My friend was pretty interested in that - but he wanted to really see all the colors and swirls of Jupiter and that wasn't going to happen.
What I found awesome was their 3D printer! What?! I knew about them, never saw one. It was really cool! Some of the objects take a couple hours or days to make, but, they made some candlesticks and stuff - and one piece, interlocking items. Very cool!
I did skip the "live show" which was about autopsy. I popped my head in to see it thinking it would be as cool as the BOOM! Show (can't find link). It was not. It was a little lame with two girls making those un-funny, sweeping jokes about. . whatever. One was pretending to be the body and the other would come up and say, "Now, to remove your brain!" and the other girl would say, "No, not my brain!" and then the other girl would say, "I thought you were a body! Shhh! Be a dead body!" and. . .that was funny.
The Results
A stellar time. As always, I tend to get tired after a full day of work and then getting into the city and running around with all those people. I did pretty good, though. On the way back to the train station, I got a good "view" of Philly
I really would like to keep going to these events! I can't wait for the Science of Carnivals.
Jun 4, 2014
I think being my friend is sort of like riding on the back of a bicycle being driven by a drunk Western Grey Kangaroo. I think it is equal parts exciting, horrifying and smelly. I am also not sure what person would want to be part of this type of situation.
This is probably why I can't have friends.
Unless they agree to text only in pictures and hash-tags like my buddy Melissa!
Let's dig a little deeper into this situation - sure hash-tags and selfies are all the rage these days, but, there is a great deal you can learn, too.
This is probably why I can't have friends.
Unless they agree to text only in pictures and hash-tags like my buddy Melissa!
Let's dig a little deeper into this situation - sure hash-tags and selfies are all the rage these days, but, there is a great deal you can learn, too.
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