My friend Carolyn is getting an advanced degree through W.S.U Tri-Cities. One of the things she’s currently working on is a project that involves the use of an electric field to speed up bone regeneration. In the future, they hope to have biodegradable implants that could be placed at the site of a bone break…
Category: Personal Projects
Brownie King
My last two pans of brownies have been my best ever. Modesty has no place in describing the awesomeness of these batches of cookie/cake goodness. If I had scaled up production, I could have created world peace. The first batch was on Easter where we cellebrated the new . I was invited to an early…
April Fools Cake
This year I played a prank on the whole building. It happened in two parts. The first part was more of an anti-prank in that it was actually not a prank at all but everybody thought it was one. Here’s what happened: The night before, I made a cake. A nice white cake (from scratch)…
The Mobius Panorama
A few months ago I hit on the idea of the mobius panorama. I can’t remember exactly why I thought about it, but it was an interesting idea, and I spent the next few hours thinking about how it could be done. There are a few things about the panorama that have to be true…
Sweet and Sour Pork
Last night I tried a new recipe: sweet and sour pork. The book said it would take 30 minutes, but it was my first time trying the recipe, so it took a little longer. Boy was it worth the effort, though. There are a few separate things that need to happen; preparing the batter, frying…
The Tomato Rose
There’s a garnish trick I’ve been wanting to try for a while, and I finally got around to doing it today. It worked fantastically well, and gave me a very attractive rose made out of tomato. They’re actually surprisingly easy to make. Here’s the process, from left to right: First, start with a tomato. I…
A culinary cure
Bummed from my disappointing week and feeling the effects from skipping too many meals and eating irregularly during the week, I devoted some time on Saturday evening to making a good dinner. I had a mango and two plantains that I had purchased for experimentation, and they were starting to get the point of either…
An invention of mine
Here is a video of something I put together not too long ago. It’s me using a laser pointer to control a mouse on my projector. I have a projector that I hooked up to my computer. I also hooked up a webcam and wrote some software that analyzes the camera image to pick out…
Mmmmm. Sushi.
Last week I went to a new place called Sushiya with some friends. They had some pretty tasty sushi, and I felt inspired. This weekend I created some masterpieces at home. While I really love raw fish, it’s not easy to acquire and I don’t think I’m capable of handling it safely enough to not…
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
4 Tablespoons butter 1 cup dark brown sugar 1/4 cup pineapple juice 5-7 pineapple rings (or you could use tidbits artfully arranged) 1/2 cup milk 8 Tablespoons butter (they get used for different parts) 1 egg 1 1/2 Cup flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup sugar Preheat oven to 400. Get…