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I know that the news has had many reports of flooding in Missouri and the rest of the Midwest. Just wanted to say that the city of St. Louis is fine; most of the really bad flooding is either on the edges of the metropolitan area or in outlying rural areas that are generally [...]

As discussed here previously, we’ve been attempting to reconfigure our favorite recipes in a meatless style. Last week we did further testing on veg adaptations of baked rigatoni with béchamel.
In this attempt, we removed the half-pound of prosciutto (as before) and replaced it with

about a quarter pound of cremini mushroom caps, cleaned and thinly [...]

The LA Times’s article about the Wikimedia Foundation’s funding (read it quick before it goes to archive) has reanimated the undead prospect of advertising. It’s one of the oldest topics in Wikipedia circles, and it spawned one of the earliest project forks, and it still won’t die.
Proponents of ads-on-wiki argue that ad content won’t [...]

Over the weekend Fred and I finally celebrated our first wedding anniversary by going out for a nice dinner. We arrived at the restaurant and perused the drink menu, with my eye immediately landing on “Cucumber martini” with Hendrick’s listed as the first component. I am a gin boy, and I enjoy Hendrick’s, [...]

Last night was the first attempt to re-do some of our favorite recipes in a more vegetarian style. I think this’ll probably work best if you can see where we started — my adaptation of Giada de Laurentiis’s baked rigatoni with béchamel.
Baked Rigatoni with Béchamel, non-veg style
Béchamel — makes four cups
5 tbsp unsalted butter
1/2 [...]