Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I'm no longer on Twitter, but I check in on friends who are still there and no where else (I'm happy to help you move to Mastodon, you know).

Nice to see some of the places on Twitter haven't changed.

This Week's Meals - Zelda Spectacular (1/3): Yeto's Superb Soup.

I love going on about this one because you wouldn't think pumpkin, feta cheese and salmon would work, but it absolutely does. Atleast when the salmon is fresh. And didn't go bad in the fridge. Oi. Had to go out and buy another salmon filet.

# Yeto's Superb Soup

Cucco's Kitchen
9.0 servings

2.0 pounds canned pumpkin
4.0 cloves garlic
0.5 cup white onion (chopped)
1.0 cup carrots (chunked)
2.0 whole potatoes (chunked)
1.0 cup celery (chunked)
4.0 cups fish stock
8.0 oz feta cheese
1.5 cups heavy cream
salt
pepper
1.3333333333333333 pounds salmon

1 - Cut onions and garlic.
2 - Add 2/3 of the garlic and onions into a pot with some olive oil and cook until brown then add in pumpkin and add fish stock. Cook at a simmer covered for 20min.
3 - Add in your goat cheese and heavy cream.
4 - Peel and cut your carrots potatoes and celery into chunks.
5 - Add some oil to a pot and add the rest of the garlic till it browns.
6 - Add the veggies and sauté them for 10 min.
7 - Then add in the puree and cook on low heat for 10-15min.
8 - Cut your salmon and add salt and pepper inside the cuts.
9 - In a pan on med-high heat add the salmon and cook skin side first for 4-5min.
10 - Flip, cook for 3 more min and then flip back to skin side.
11 - Take off heat and rest for 3 min.
12 - Cut your salmon into pieces and add to your soup.

#zelda #thisweeksmeals

Computer Generated Jenn watches "Computer Generated" Max Headroom.

The latest iteration of "Saturday Sci-Fi Theater" is now:

10:30PM-11:30PM - Night Gallery
11:30PM-12:30AM - Star Trek: The Next Generation
12:30AM-1:30AM - Max Headroom

I adore Max Headroom. I really loved the sadly shortlived cyberpunk genre of TV Sci-fi. It's kind of funny how close we ended up getting to that.

I loved how the production had the show as 25fps film, but any video screens and POVs from cameras were 60fps.

Also, Amanda Pays as Theora? Baby Jenn's Trans Goals.

Tonight's ST:TNG is "Family." One of the reasons I thought Season 4 of TNG really did stand on it's own was that this was one of the few episodes that I didn't think TOS could do, and was so different from the original Star Trek, but so right for Next Generation.

An episode that explored family with so many characters so deeply. It was an Star Trek episode only TNG could so.

Out and About

You can keep your Runts. My fruit flavored hard candy is Rascals:

For anyone wanting the Kolache Recipe, here it is, courtesy of Mrs. Nettle of Fredericksburg Texas.

# Kolatschen (Kolaches)

Fredericksburg Home Kitchen Cook Book
16.0 kolaches

0.5 cup milk (scalded)
0.5 cup sugar (dough)
1.0 tsp salt
0.5 tsp mace
0.5 whole lemon rind (grated)
2.0 packages dry yeast
0.5 cup warm water
2.0 eggs (beaten)
0.5 cup butter (melted) (dough)
4.5 cups flour (dough)
0.3333333333333333 cup sugar (streusel)
2.0 tbsp flour (streusel)
2.0 tbsp butter (cut into chunks and chilled) (streusel)
1.0 tbsp preserves or cream-cheese ricotta filling

Kolache:

1 - Combine milk, sugar, salt, mace and lemon rind. Cool to lukewarm.
2 - Stir yeast into warm water; let stand 5 minutes.
3 - Add to milk mixture. Stir in eggs and margarine and enough flour to make a soft dough.
4 - Knead on lightly floured board until smooth and elastic.
5 - Cover, let rise in warm place until double in bulk.
6 - Punch down, cover and let rise for 30 minutes.
7 - Shape into 2 inch balls, flatten slightly and place on greased cookie sheets 2 inches apart.
8 - Cover and let rise 30 minutes.

Streusal:

9 - Combine all streusal ingredients and mix together with fingers. Cover and refrigerate until needed

Baking:

10 - Make a large depression in each ball with fingertips, fill with preserves of your choice.
11 - Sprinkle kolaches with streusal.
12 - Bake at 375 degrees F, about 20 minutes or until golden.

My friends...I gotcha kolache.

The first batch browned a little more than I wanted, but at least that let me know o should take the second batch out sooner than later.

This batch also has a cream cheese-ricotta filling and proper spaetzel topping and let me tell you...it's not Weikel's, but it is damn good.

The Star Trek pages are now sort of up as a test of the content template: http://dolari.net/test/startrek

This is an old template I've had designed for a while. Section Navigation on the left, site navigation on the right, content in the center with a banner up top and disclaimers on the bottom. I think it works.

It seemed a little monochrome having everything in flat turquoise, though (my previous versions had nice see-through background gradients that wouldn't work in a dynamically changing table), which is why I decided on adding backgrounds to the pages. I tried a V'Ger blue background, but that made it MORE boring. Using the wormhole from TMP with it's red really made the blue pop.

The links to the Star Trek pages work, but take you to broken sites, so don't click those.

What do you think?

More feedback, more fixes. Even MORE feedback may make for even more fixes, so please feel free to critique.

Off the bat, I'm making these pages for Desktop Viewing, Mobile Viewing is secondary. I hate to do that, but I'm just not that good at putting sites together that can dynamically change. I'm cheating that by allowing the tables themselves to dynamically resize themselves. It works, although it's not ideal.

First up: http://dolari.net/test

I've upped the font size on the text to make it more readable. I'd forgotten that the reaosn I used small sizes was for labelling images, which I'm doing with alt-text and tooltips, and was using it for main text. I did, however, make the "small print" very small.

Text colors and are now gold on the main page, instead of grey/black for stuff that isn't done yet. I'm hoping the [Soon] labels and that the text links don't light up are enough to signal that those pages do not yet exist. The Poop Orange for Alexandria is now dark green. Here's the thing about those colors. Each section of my website is based on a color. That color? Chun Li's outfits in SSF2T. I'm out of colors. So for Voices of Authority and Alexandria, I tried some Street Fighter Alpha colors. But a bunch of those are ALSO the same as her SSF2T colors. Im thinking of duplicating the color schemes, just making them 50% darker at this point for any new section.

There is now a background to the page, jsut to break up the monotony of the black. I actually had this as my Livejournal background, but for some reason, it would stop working after a few weeks.

Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Thanks to some feedback and my own I HATE HOW THE TEXT LOOKSness, I've made a few changes to the proposed main landing page. Let me know if it works for you. That Supposed-To-Be-Orange-But-Its-Poop-Brown is NOT working for me.

http://dolari.net/test.

Hey y'all. Website is getting a bif update in January and a clean-up. Here's a quick shot of what the front page would look like.

I'm going for a much cleaner look to the site, but keeping the color schemes I've had since Day One. It's a little Windows 8, but I still think it looks okay-ish. It also should be dynamic and resize to the size you want it be within some limitations both small and big.

I checked it out with my phone and while it works great in a horizontal alignment, the vertical alignement is not the best.

1) Does this work for you technically? Image wise? Nothing cut off, broken, scrambled? (The links are all broken, so please don't worry about that)

2) Does it work for you aesthetically? Does it LOOK nice?

http://dolari.net/test

Does anyone else see a hand?

ANYONE ELSE?!?!?!

The Jenn's Grocery List Challenge: Create ONE dish that uses every ingredient on the list in the amounts listed. Including the wire fasteners and gas.

GO!

Recipe Review:

Wild Rice Soup: While I messed this up by not cooking the rice before I added it, it did cook in the soup and soften up nicely. This came out GREAT and I would totally do it again. The soup is nice and creamy, and the wild rice (wether it was how I made it or nice) give a nice chewy bite. Absolutely would make again. :)

Fettucine with Cream Sauce: Eh, it's good. The cream sauce is very thin, but tasty, and oddly contains no cream (cottage cheese and ricotta only). If I could thicken up the sauce it'd be fantastic, but otherwise, pretty decent. Good, would make again.

Mushrooms Italiano: I freaking messed that up big, and therefore it is disqualified from reviewing. Note to self: CAREFULLY read the recipe instead of skimming it for what you need to cook.

Nanos (Sponge Bread): This bread came out so much better than I thought it would. A good chewy, yet very slightly crunchy crust, the crumb is fairly dence but tasty and the cheese gives it a salt so that you don't even need butter on it. Cheddar Cheese may not be Roman, but it works in this bread.

Looking like next week won't get over freezing very often. TIME FOR THE YETO'S SUPREME SOUP.

This Week's Meals (3/3): Some Kind of Stir Fry Thing.

I literally didn't have pan big enough for everything, realized this was a recipe for stuffed mushrooms not sliced mushrooms and it all went sideways.

But it is now a nice, if thick, mushroom vegetable stir fry. Now I have 2.5 pounds of mushrooms to figure out what to do with.

I may have miscalculated the portion size for these meals.