03 Jul 2011
Posted by Dave under Dave's Thoughts
Archive for the Tag 'Food&Drink'
17 Apr 2011
Posted by Dave under Dave's Thoughts,Mr. FixIt
That’s a good cuppa joe!
For a guy that didn’t really care for coffee about a year ago, I seem to have come a long way! Not sure if “progress” is exactly the right word, but we now have a 5 appliance kitchen. Yep, the frou-frou coffee/espresso machine that served as payment for my final invoice from my previous client is now a built-in appliance in our kitchen. On Wednesday, a friend with a table saw gave me a hand cutting down a white melamine vanity cabinet to fit in the space between the counter top and the microwave shelf.
The idea was to maintain the basic structure of the vanity cabinet in order to keep things square and to avoid the need to do any edge banding. It almost worked. We worked slowly and steadily double checking all the cuts along the way – until the very end when we lost focus. The problem was that I needed to raise the microwave shelf about 1-5⁄8 inches, but when we cut the top off the cabinet we forgot that meant notching each side. The front 7 inches of each side panel of the cabinet needed to be 1-5⁄8 inches taller than the back. Oops! It took a bit of effort, but I ended up patching in a small rectangular piece into each side below the shelf. So I ended up having to dowel and edge band the new box before I was done. There is a kerf line that will need to be touched up with a little paint as well.
The under cabinet lighting was also an interesting twist to work around. The light is a fluorescent, so not too hot. Since the installation instructions for the coffee machine suggested a ventilation gap at the back of the cabinet, I decided to cut the microwave shelf about an inch short to allow air circulation. The microwave is now back-lit, it looks a little odd so we might have to figure out something else, but for now it all works.
It really does make a nice cup of coffee – come on over and I’ll make you one!
26 Mar 2010
Posted by Dave under Family,Mobile Blogpost (iphone)
Ginger Beef
Tonight we headed out to celebrate my youngest brother’s birthday. Scott is 0x27 this year (that’s hexadecimal in case you’re not a geek – base 16 counting). We had a nice evening over Chinese food at the Ginger Beef restaurant. We were joined by some cousins and went back to Gram and Gramps place for birthday cake afterwards.
13 Oct 2008
Salsa!
We spent Saturday evening dancing about the kitchen chopping, slicing, stirring, simmering and canning this year’s batch of fresh salsa. Despite the less than perfect growing conditions and the hailstorm that thumped most of the garden in August, we managed to harvest enough tomatoes for about 7 or 8 litres of salsa. We picked up the extra ingredients on Saturday afternoon and got busy in the kitchen after dinner.
Garden tomatoes and other salsa ingredients