There's a bit of story about what I'm working on that I find that I don't mind sharing. I put it behind the cut tag because it's a bit long...

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New Evidence That Dark Chocolate Helps Ease Emotional Stress

a clinical trial published online in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed.

The article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111123612.htm

Since I'm busy during the week, I only really started yesterday (I signed up Wednesday)
but I am now officially caught up to their daily progression : 12320 words.
Yah- Hoo. Celebrating by going to bed....

I made these to go with split pea soup.

1 1/2 C general purpose flour
1 C blue cornmeal
1 1/2 t baking powder
1 t baking soda
4 oz (1/2 Stick) butter
1 1/4 C milk
1 egg
1/2 C corn (thawed from a bag of frozen corn)
1/2 C diced ham

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

Thaw the corn if frozen, and fry it with the ham in about a tablespoon of oil until it browns a bit.
then leave it out to cool a bit while you do the rest.
mix the flour, cornmeal, baking powder & baking soda
melt the butter and mix with the milk and egg
Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients, fold in the corn and ham, spoon into greased muffin tins
bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes

What the people in my office found in thier inbox this morning...



It was from me, of course...

Beans and Mice Rice

Yellow came first

( Yellow )

then Green came along

( Green )
and Purple met its end in the bellies of the throng

( Purple )

Yellow, green and purple, crimson to come!

( Red )

Extreme Geek warning. I wrote this up today, so I'd have it ready in case I needed to explain some code that I just checked in, but I wanted to post it somewhere. I warn you, if you don't use MS SQL it will probably make no sense...

( So. You want to get multiple statistics from a table, but, because of the costs associated, you don't really want to run a seperate query for each one... )

I did put it in a cut tag, you don't have to look at it.

I've served Ragout from the recipe stealthcello 's mom gave her at several house concerts we've hosted, because once it's set up in the morning, you can do other things to get ready, and it has no specific serving time, so anyone that's hungry can just serve themselves.. Anyway, I got a crock-pot at Value Village, and came up with a new thing. I noticed that one of the food containers I bought is just about the same size as the crock pot, so the next time, I made stew, I made a double batch and put half the makings into a container & froze it. Later that month, I pulled out the container and dropped the frozen slug of stew into the crock pot before I left for work, and we had what was left of it for dinner (some people couldn't wait.) Anyway, here's both the original recipe with stealthcello 's clever remarks, and a version with my modifications:

( Beef Ragout )</div>If you don't have a crock pot, they can be found pretty commonly at value village, for between $2.50 and $8.00. There are little 1-2 person ones too, so you can make a big recipe and have it last a long time...

I thought I'd better post the explanation and recipe, since s00j posted about the bacon chocolate...
s00j introduced stealthcello to this bacon chocolate stuff, a commercial bar that's milk chocolate and bacon. It's definitely an intersting combination, so I thought about what I would do differently if I were making it, and decided that If I were making it, I'd use dark chocolate instead of milk, and prosciutto ham instead of bacon.
I won't put the recipe in a cut tag, because it's really short:
Ingredients:
   4 oz bittersweet chocolate (I use Callebaut or Scharffen Berger) If you like sweeter things, use dark instead
   6 oz prosciutto, deli-slices (a package of what you find in the grocery store, or the costco pack for a double recipe)
Instructions:
   Lay the ham slices out flat on a broiling pan (or a cooling rack on a baking sheet,) in a 400 degree oven.
   Turn the ham when it starts to brown on top, and take them out when they're browned all the way through and starting to get crunchy.
   Press the cooked ham slices between paper towels to remove as much of the grease as you can.
   crumble the ham in a mixing bowl (mince the bits that don't crumble.)
   Melt the chocolate in the microwave, mix the bacon bits in the chocolate
   Pour into molds or spread onto waxed paper on a baking sheet, Cool.

We end up calling it bacon chocolate because it tastes very much like bacon, and it's easier to say than prosciutto chocoalte...
 

 From my june 27 07 posting as measurethrice:
I was asked after the last house concert for my bread recipe. It's more sort of notes, but I turned it into a recipe of sorts for the posting. 

I use a bread machine because I've never been able to get the dough to rise. My best tips for the bread machine are to pour the oil or melted butter across the bottom of the machine, which helps keep it sticking to the paddles, and always warm the liquid before pouring it in, which helps it rise. Oh, and always use a spatula to scrape down the sides when the dogh starts forming to avoid the stuff sticking to the sides from baking a ring of unmixed bread ingredients into the sides of your loaf...

From my march 17 07 posting as meaurethrice: 
The chocolate fondue that stealthcello was talking about is    Of course I always overdo everything, so I had to make a double recipe, which is probably enough for 8-10 people. Even with siouxiequeue & suddenlynaked  helping, we still have half of it left.

From my march 8 07 posting as measurethrice:
stealthcello  and I had [info]siouxiequeue and sidhefire over for crafty stuff and dinner. I made mushroom lasagne and thought I'd post the recipe.
I've made it for gaiaconsort crew backstage before and people generally think it's OK.