Amit's Blog

San Francisco

Joining the Twitter conversation

I’ve longed debated the value of Twitter, but now it has a chance to prove itself. The thing about Twitter is that it allows real time conversation with anyone/everyone. As opposed to IM where you can send a message to a friend, Twitter lets you send public messages that anyone can read. I’m also able to use their search feature to find messages with certain keywords.

Today my keywords are ORD and O’hare. I’m watching people “tweet” live about the status of the airport and their flights. I’m finding several others who are in the same boat as me. Both SFO and ORD are experiencing delays, but my airline and every other source is slow to update me. Let’s see if Twitter can help get me the information I need.

Chocolaty Chocolaty Chip Cookies

Snow day!

Food while we babysit

I figured Taruna earned some good homemade chile con queso and guacamole after a long day of babysitting.

I think Jet feels at home now

All he does now it walk around meowing all day.

A Very Kerbey Friday

My holiday has officially started and I’m ready for it!

Thursday – over to Shane and Monika’s for a Thanksgiving feast! I’ll be making Pumpkin Gnocchi and Panettone Dressing. Everything’s bought and the pannettone bread is in the oven baking as we speak.

Friday – This is a key day. It’s my laziest of all days this weekend. I’m forgoing the 5am shopping madness and waking up when I want to. I throw on my new robe (how I’ve missed one), and start a walk down Memory (a.k.a. Kerbey) Lane. First off, there will be over sized pancakes stacked high, and then for lunch will be my take on Kerbey Queso (w/ guacamole), and after I’m done with that some Mag Mud!

Saturday/Sunday – Sleep!

Cardamom Carrot Cake

Major thanks to Chef Roben for being my sous-chef and teaching me how to make caramelized sugar!

The batter:

The cake:

The finished product (still needs more walnuts but I’ll do that later):

A real recipe manager

I’ve started collecting all my recipes into a physical folder so I can be more organized. I found myself researching online solutions that might placate my needs, but couldn’t find anything. I’ve decided to write my own product to handle my needs. In the meantime, I’m going back to handwritten notes in a folder to collect my recipes and I’ll move them over later.

Here’s a form I’m putting together to collect other people’s ideas for an ideal recipe manager.

First Snow

I just experienced the first snow fall of the season and it’s gorgeous. I’m going to take this time to put up some Christmas lights I found packed away.