SRDas

skinnylatte, 3 hours ago to random

I love that I can casually make chawanmushi in the instant pot like it’s NBD (really easy once you’ve done it a few times). It’s one of my favorite things to eat and I hate paying so much money for them at Japanese restaurants

dgar, 6 hours ago to random

Hi. I’m. William. Shatners. Speechwriter.

SRDas, 7 hours ago to Pittsburgh

They've changed some of the routes, so I ended up on the wrong bus and got off downtown at not my usual spot and had to walk a bit to get to the train station. So here you too can enjoy some nice downtown (or dahntahn as they say in) #Pittsburgh buildings in this lovely blue sky weather

Old Church with two towers and tall skyscraper and blue sky with high white wispy clouds
Old Church with tower and spire with tall skyscraper in 3 buildings behind and blue sky with high white wispy clouds

boozyANDsour, 2 days ago to cocktails

Tonight's #aperitivo #aperitif is a #virginbloodymary

150ml tomato juice
15ml lemon juice
16 drops of Tabasco
8 drops of Worcester sauce
Half barspoon of horseradish sauce
A pinch of salt
Grounded pepper to taste

Shake&Strain in a tumbler with a big chunk of ice and garnish with a lemon twist.

Just what you need to be satisfied without getting fat.

@drinkstodon

#cocktail #cocktails #mixologist #mixology #homebarista #homebar #drink #drinks #food #drinkporn #mocktail

Mecojoni

SRDas, 2 days ago to food

Light lunch - "tiffin" perhaps
Uppuma and sambar

South #Indian #Food

SRDas, 2 days ago to baking

It is risen!
And after the 2nd rise this morning, ah - soft as a baby's bum

Partner gets busy with dough this Saturday morn...
[developing thread 1/n]

#Baking #Cooking

boozyANDsour, 3 days ago to cocktails

Tonight's #aperitivo #aperitif is a great cocktail from the prohibition era: #betweenthesheets

30ml light Cuban rum
30ml cognac
30ml triple sec
10ml lemon juice
A scant barspoon of simple sirup
3 drops of saline solution

Shake&Strain in a chilled coupe and garnish with a lemon twist.

I love brandy cocktails, and I love rum, so this one is one of the best I've ever made myself.

@drinkstodon

#cocktail #cocktails #mixologist #mixology #homebarista #homebar #drink #drinks #food #drinkporn

Mecojoni

SRDas, 4 days ago to random

Cooking in the kitchen and Kid1 called black pepper - 'sneezoning'
and now I'll never get that term out of my head

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to food

LA food diary.

Some of you know I’m a big fan of LA food. I think that dollar for dollar you get a tremendous amount of cuisines, varieties of foods, in this melting pot which feels to me like it has far more immigrant and working class food than the Bay Area. Even the density and quality of ‘fancy food’ is high!

I’m keeping a record of my LA 2024 discoveries.

#Food #LAfood #LosAngeles

SRDas, 5 days ago to art

File under #homeschool #Art I suppose
Been a while since she did some henna - last was in 2023 while in Japan*. Kid2 worked on Mom's hand this afternoon
#Henna

*https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/110999285418574017

Palm side up hand on a table with intricate henna covering almost the whole hand, palm
Palm side up hand on a table with intricate henna covering the whole hand, palm up to the wrist. A henna cone/tube is next to the hand

TatianaIlyina, 6 days ago to academia

Just learned that a very promising early career scientist in my discipline has left academia, not seeing a desired career future for herself here. That company is lucky to get her. Yet, it saddens me enormously that it is often the most dynamic, brilliant, curious once, who are challenging status quo, committed to diversity and making our world a better place, who are leaving #academia.

What are we doing wrong to make academic careers so unattractive for the best young minds?

Bronwyn, 7 days ago to random

My student (8 years old) is thinking of “bad ideas that sound good” (we’re working on ideas for that and “good ideas that sound bad” (controlled burns for forest fires).

What other ideas do you all have?

snarkysteff, 7 days ago to random

So, I had surgery.

All those food issues I’ve increasingly suffered over the last 3-4 years now appear to be the result of a bowel blockage caused by surgical scar tissue that has formed since 2017.

I nearly waited too long to investigate & I am so grateful my surgeon pressured me to let him do surgery.

He operated laparoscopically and WAS DONE IN 45 MINUTES.

I lost 120 pounds trying to solve food-related issues, but if I had not, this quick surgery could not have been possible.

SRDas, 8 days ago to Japan

Kid1 uses their blue steel (aogami) (#1 😳*) that I picked up at a hardware store in Shimabara #Japan to make short work of some cabbage for knife practice.

#TeachYourChildren #KnifeSkills #Cooking

*Wasn't on the cards (they have ok knives) - but couldn't pass up

SRDas, 9 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

SRDas, 9 days ago to food

Been 20+ yrs and even tho partner and I saw it a few times then, we can't seem to remember too much by way of specifics/details.
Rewatching now and it's the overall treat we recall. Hilarious too

#Food #Movie #Japanese
#MovieNight

Two people sitting and reaching out towards bowls of raamen in front of them
Chopsticks picking up pork from a bowl of ramen. Subtitles say Caress it with the chopstick tips

SRDas, 2 months ago to science

I don't talk about the #Science /work stuff I'm doing, just sheepish really (even if it is pretty cool). But here's a nice article that previews the @CarnegieMellon Cloud Lab that will soon go online here in #Pittsburgh with oversight by the Emerald Cloud Lab. I'm quoted a bit but I like this article mainly because I got the query from a student & it's in the student run paper: the Tartan.

CMU Cloud Lab to bring remote science into mainstream

#Automation #programming

https://the-tartan.org/2024/02/19/cmu-cloud-lab-to-bring-remote-science-into-mainstream/