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First sous vide eggs; ThriftyVac
I’ve had the Nomiku for a couple of weeks now. Last weekend I tried what is supposed to be one of the most difficult tests: soft boiled eggs. I set the Nomiku for 145°C and plopped in some eggs to serve on a stir fry. I let them go for just about an hour. […]
Catching up on CFB
Didn’t blog championship week, as the Badgers and Ags were out of it. Stanford is back in the Rose Bowl, after beating Arizona State in Tempe. The Cardinal will play Michigan State, who thwarted Ohio State’s effort to get to the last BCS championship. The big new in CFB, however, is the Mack Brown out […]
Belated CFB Week 14: War damn eagle, I guess
Didn’t post in a timely way over the Thanksgiving weekend, even though it was an eventful one for College football 2013. The big news, of course, was Auburn upsetting the Crimson Tide by running back a missed FG attempt at the end of the game, after Nick Saban had argued to get one more second […]
Sous Vide Flank Steak Experiment
My long-awaited Nomiku arrived just before Thanksgiving. I did some experiments over the holiday and this weekend I’m going to test it for flank steak. The purpose is to examine the effect of sous vide time on the cooking of flank steak. Recipes online advocate 16-48 hours, but if less time works, then less advance planning is […]
CFB 2013 Week 13:Death Valley Daze
2-1 as Stanford and Wisconsin won but the Ags got blown out at LSU. Stanford, Wisconsin, and A&M all played 2:30 Central starts today. I mostly watched the Ags, but flipped over to a bit of Big Game and a bit of the game for Paul Bunyan’s axe. A&M went into Baton Rouge as a […]
Cardinal sin
Stanford dominated Oregon in week 11 and took control of the Pac-12 north. So… what happened when they went down to play USC on Saturday? Of course, they lost and handed the lead for the Rose Bowl back to the Ducks. Ouch. USC started fast, scoring on their first three possessions (TD, TD, FG). Stanford […]
CFB 2013 week 11: If a Tree falls on a Duck…
My teams (Stanford, Wisconsin, and TAMU) went 3-0 this week. Stanford’s win was the biggest and the most unexpected in terms of both the result and the way it happened. I got home on Thursday in time to watch some of an ugly OU-Baylor first half and switched with trepidation to the start of the […]
Week 10 cfb: UTEPid win drops Ags in the BCS
Despite grant writing and paper revisions, I managed to get my sports fix this past weekend while my collaborators were taking their turns with the texts. Stanford was off on Saturday, prepping for next Thursday’s highly hyped game with the Ducks. Badgers won a slugfest with Iowa, pulling away late. The Ags played UTEP at […]
Week 9: Shouldering the load
Saturday was a big sports day. We had work and visitor distractions, but I did manage to watch most of the Aggie game and the end of the Stanford-Oregon State game after the wild ending of the World Series game 3. Vanderbilt at A&M started at 11:20AM. The big question going into yesterday was whether […]