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My original web site was a home-grown hunk of PHP that wrapped directories of text files in (circa version 4) HTML and CSS. The web has evolved a lot since 2003, though, and creating my own mechanism for templating simple content into responsive, beautiful HTML 5 and CSS just isn't a project I've got time for. Luckily, I found Bolt — a free CMS that's inline with all the things I've wanted to do in a CMS. Maybe now that I don't need time to write a CMS for myself I'll actually take time to add some content!
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If summer vacation were a hill, we'd be coming down the other side now. With more days behind us than ahead, it's nice to take a look back and see what I've accomplished thus far. As winter gave way to spring I stopped…
As a kid, every once in a while a tub of slightly shaggy-looking pink spread would appear in our fridge. It would get smeared on crackers or buttered English muffins and disappear pretty quickly. This magical stuff was…
Dinner tonight: homemade sweet Italian sausage slow-grilled over mesquite wood with a side of homemade fettucini. How do I know it was delicious? Juliet asked for seconds and thirds. Over the past few years I've work…
From a WinExpert Selection kit containing juice and skins of Argentine Malbec grapes to produce 6 gallons of wine. For Christmas 2015 my wife gave me a wine kit — she knows me so well! I'd produced a Moscato earlier in…
Ever bought prosciutto? Or (uncooked) salami? They're salumi, the results of the Italian craft of salting and curing meats. A few years ago my wife bought me a book on the topic.
To date, I've produced several bat…
To date the only product I've cold-smoked is pork belly. For Christmas 2014 I purchased a 14 lb belly, salted it, and cold-smoked it (in my home-made apparatus) over a combination of apple and cherry wood.
