My Discovered Recipe

Karen is visiting with Teandra and Mark, with Kiki and her kids. I've got to admit that if Karen didn't live with me in Rio Rancho (RR) I would soon move. Chantel came and visited after her church meetings on Sunday. I was pretty excited when I came home from my meetings and saw her car in the driveway. I told her that I was planning on cooking the spinach that was left with some hamburger. When we told Karen that she suggested that we use the feta cheese that she'd bought to go with the spinach. Karen may feel OK just throwing everything together and cooking it, but I don't, especially when it involves baking. So I sorta got a recipe online and tried it. It turned out pretty good.

Here's the online recipe.

1 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen chopped spinach
4 eggs
3/4 c. cream
1 1/4 c. milk
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. parsley, chopped
1/4 lb. Feta cheese, crumbled
1 quiche crust (pie crust)
3 tbsp. fresh grated Parmesan or Romano cheese

Drain spinach and squeeze out as much moisture as possible; it should be fairly dry. Mix the eggs, cream and milk. Add the salt, pepper, lemon juice and parsley. Stir in spinach and Feta cheese. Fill quiche crust and place the grated cheese on top.

Bake at 375 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out dry. Cool for 10 minutes before serving. Can also be served at room temperature.

Here's what I did different. I used fresh spinach that I cooked. We had a pound of spinach so I took out what I thought was about 10oz of it. I was going to mix one cup of cream with a cup of water, but when I got the cream out to use it looked like it was on the edge of going bad so I used all of it which turned out to be about 1.75 cups and then .25 cup of water. I also cooked about a pound of hamburger with onions and bell peppers with greek seasoning. We didn't have any Parmesan or Romano cheese so I used the Goulda that Mom had bought. I didn't use a crust but poured the whole thing into a baking pan and cooked it for 40 minutes. I think it turned out pretty good, and Goose agreed. I've got a ton of it to eat for the rest of the week now.

My newest "first" blog

Everyone once in a while I sit down and decide that I'm going to start blogging more seriously. I have a lot on my mind and I like to rant so maybe I should give my wife a break and rant on line. While that is true I also would like to learn more about what web programming. One day I would like to think that I could retire from the Lab, spend more time with Karen, go on a mission – things like that – and being able to make a living programming would be really really cool.

I would really like to learn to program on the web. Actually I like programming on almost anything but it looks like the future is the web. I would also like to learn to program on the Mac/iPad/iPhone which is Objective-C. A few years ago I got interested in looking at running a web page as part of a Wood Badge Ticket. I tried to get a web site set up using Expression Engine (EE). My idea there was to set up a site that my wife and kids, primarily, but whoever wanted to could have gotten involved, and that we could use it as kind of a central clearing house of information for the whole family to stay connected. The only problem with that is that there are tools that do these kind of things already (like this site) that would allow us to do the same thing, only way better. I learned a lot with that experience but the thing that I really want to do is to do development, the programming that lies behind the beautiful web sites. Also, since I have remarkably little artistic talent that's probably a good thing.

So my last great thing to try is Ruby on Rails programming. I'm liking it, and it turns our that there are a few things that remind me of EE, which makes sense, since Rails and EE are both frameworks. Well I guess EE is more of a content management system (CMS) but it reminds me of a framework.

I'm pretty sure on that I'm settled on working on Ruby on Rails, and I'll be using our family as a resource in developing it. I hope that everyone that reads about it is excited. I'll bet that no one can guess what the first thing that I'm going to try and develop is going to be. I'll wait and see if anyone can guess.