This dish was inspired by the “Great Grains” item at Flying Star. Check out theirs if you like this one. Serves six as a side, or four as a main course. The leftovers are also delicious cold.

These fajitas come out tasting a lot like chicken fajitas.  Even more than usual, everything in this recipe is “or to taste.”  The following makes enough for about 8-10 fajitas.

These aren’t your mother’s grilled cheese sandwiches, but they are delicious. The main point of the yogurt is just to bind the other ingredients together, so you should be able to substitute with something else without changing the flavor.

When I cook something without using a recipe and it turns out unexpectedly well, I often forget what I did and can never recreate the dish again.  I think it’s time to fix that by writing down a few recipes and other adventures in cooking.  I may also document …

The Turkey Creek hot springs are a nice little set of hot springs in the Gila Wilderness, but finding them is a bit challenging.  If, like me, you thought the description in the guidebooks would get you there, this entry is for you.  Start with the guidebook, but hopefully this …

With the recent release of Fedora 14, it was naturally time for an upgrade.  In the past, I have typically erased and done a fresh reinstall for each OS upgrade, but this time I decided to try out Fedora’s preupgrade tool.  In theory, it’s a simple, straightforward wizard …

My old Dell had a BIOS option to automatically turn itself on at a specified time every day.  Combined with a nightly cron job to shut the computer down after its backups had finished, this let me have an “always on” computer (in the sense that it is on whenever …

Out of the box, the Pre does not support self-signed certificates for email (and maybe other purposes).  There’s no simple way to make it work, but based on piecing together various threads on discussion boards, the following process seems to work:

1. Get a copy of your certificate (not the …

Now that I’ve owned the Pre for over a day, I thought it would be appropriate to post my impressions.

The good:

• It’s pretty.  This is hands down the prettiest phone I’ve ever used, both physically and software-wise.
• Managing multiple open apps.  Having used PalmOS-based smartphones for …

Japan had a lot of the things we were expecting, and also some surprises (of course).

Things we saw:

• Trains
• Mountains
• People, people, people!
• Skyscrapers
• Girls in anime costumes
• Men with massive hair in unnatural colors
• Fish
• Temples, shrines, and castles
• Ninja maze (complete with English-speaking ninjas!)
• Vending machines that …