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Sicilian Pizza
Pizza is always a good meal, and homemade pizza isn’t too hard to make (dough and all) and much tastier than any frozen pizza or chain. I was never a huge fan of Sicilian pizza because the tomato sauce was too chunky – but when you make your own sauce you can make it as smooth as you want.
Pikes Peak Ascent Attempt - Part 1: History + the Start of a Plan
I’ll be visiting Colorado in a few weeks and one of the things I like to do in a new area is go for a run. It’s a nice way to see the place and get your bearings. In Colorado one of the planned stops is Pikes Peak and when looking up some information on it I learned there is a trail that goes to the summit so I thought it’d be a good idea to run up the mountain when I see it.
Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo II
Alright another pasta dish. Actually another fettuccine alfredo dish. But I like it better than the other one. There are some differences in the recipe itself, but possibly most notably I changed the cheese used to actually be parmigaiano reggiano rather than pecorino romano. The real test would be to make the old recipe with parmigiano and compare it to this recipe with parmigiano, and for good measure also make them both with pecorino. But even I have to admit that might be too much pasta.
2010 - Ironman France
I have wanted to do an ironman distance triathlon (2.4mile swim/112mile bike/26.2mile run) ever since I found out about them as a child watching the Hawaii race on tv. I grew up swimming, had a running background from high school and got into biking not long after graduating college when a co-worker signed up for a triathlon and I thought that sounded like a good idea so I joined him. That first year I only did one triathlon, an olympic distance (1500m swim/40km bike/10km run), but I still had the ironman goal in the back of my mind, and a little less than two years after my first tri, I completed ironman France. I chose France because I wanted to leave the country and it lined up with training time lines and I took a bit of French in high school so maybe I’d remember some of it? I also considered New Zealand, but with a March race most of my long bike rides would have to be done in the winter and riding inside for just one hour is boring enough, 6 hours would be pushing the limits of sanity.
Acer Aspire E5-575G-53VG Laptop
Time for a laptop! I’ve always avoided them because a desktop is so much more powerful and upgradeable for the same price, and a smart phone filled my need for mobility. But something has to be said for the combination of power and mobility a laptop offers, and while a phone can be a fine substitute for some things, sometimes you need a bit more. So now I have a laptop.
Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo I
I know, I know, another pasta dish, well get used to it, I like pasta. It’s quick (usually), it’s easy (most of the time), it’s delicious (almost always) and there are so many different dishes to choose from. Also note the “I” in the title, since there are about a million and a half recipes for fettuccine alfredo I am already planning ahead because I will make multiple versions. Anyway, this is a lighter fettuccine alfredo recipe (
Spinach and Ricotta Pasta
This is a recipe from https://www.budgetbytes.com/2015/05/easy-spinach-ricotta-pasta/) that I double to make it work with 1lb of pasta (#end)). It really is one of the few ways I will enjoy spinach – covered in ricotta or some other type of cheese. Plus it’s pretty quick, doesn’t have a whole lot of ingredients and gives you something to do while waiting for the water to boil.
Raspberry Pi Home Server - Part 2 - OpenVPN and more
In my first raspberry pi post I described how I set up the raspberry pi to block ads using Pi-hole. But there were some other things I was running:
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Raspberry Pi Home Server - Part 1 - What is it and what can it do?
What is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi)? it’s a small (think credit card size), cheap computer with some interesting options for tinkering and learning. You can do many things with it, like set up a https://retropie.org.uk/) to play old arcade or console games, set up a https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/magic-mirror/) or https://www.google.com/search?q=raspberry+pi+projects). It really is pretty neat.
Ricotta
So this isn’t true ricotta because that’s made with stuff that is left over from making cheese, and I used whole milk and heavy cream. But the end result is pretty similar, and a bit better than ricotta you find at the grocery store, and it’s pretty easy to make. I’d make it all the time, except as I mentioned, it’s made using whole milk and heavy cream which means I’d have to work out twice as much to make up for it. Anyway, as for other ingredients just a little vinegar (or other acid – I might try lemon juice next time) and salt.
Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
So it has been quite a while since my last post. I moved to a new apartment and didn’t really try any new recipes for a while, and now that I’m settled I started trying some new things again. This time around is pancakes with apple and cinnamon, it was the first time I made pancakes from scratch (which is surprisingly easy – I don’t think I’ll be buying a premade pancake mix any time soon). Just some flour, baking powder an egg, milk and some butter for the basic pancake and an apple and cinnamon for the added flavor part.
Macaroni and Cheese
So October was a pretty busy month for me, quite a few races and gone pretty much every weekend so I was strapped for time and didn’t really have the time for experimenting in the kitchen. I’m back home after some successful races and I found a Mac and Cheese recipe with cottage cheese as one of the ingredients – I’m a big fan of cottage cheese so I had to try it out. I was in a bit of a rush to get to the store and mistook sour cream for cream cheese and didn’t realize until the mac and cheese was in the oven… Anyway, here are the ingredients I used: