items from the mind of an idiot savant

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I’ve been working on this small site. I wanted to do it with as much CSS as I could since I don’t have a lot of experience with it. I didn’t use tables at all, and I used <BR> tags sparingly. Once I had most of my code complete and tested in IE win, Firefox and Safari, I opened it up it IE Mac just to see. There were a few minor issues.

I don’t think any would notice or even care, about these minor display bugs in IE Mac, buf if I could resolve them easily, I should. I used the IE Mac CSS comment hack to fix it. Basically you define a class definition for IE Mac, and then redefine it for the others putting a comment block around it so IE Mac ignores it. Like this.

.myClass {attribute: value_For_Mac_IE;}
/* ignored by IE Mac \*/
.myClass {attribute: value_For_Other_Browsers;}
/* */

I’m sure all you css masters already know this, or even better, know how to avoid having to use this trick, but I’ve never had to use it before. I’m glad we could share.

I know 2 entries in a row. Back off, I’m catching up.

Jenny actually tried this time. I think she’s starting to care a bit more. She made a pasta casserole with meat and veggies. She also made a nice basic salad. I’m not a huge casserole fan, but It was good. I’m just so proud of her that she wanted to do it, she set out to do it, and she did a good job. She must have been wrapped up with the casserole, that I guess she forgot to make some garlic bread or antyhing. At the last minute we just toasted up some wheat bread as a side.

For my turn, I set my goals a bit higher. I wanted to try making something my mother always cooked. I skimped on making the couscous . I just bought that instant just add water stuff. I also made humus from scratch. I made this last second adjustment before pouring it out of the food processor, and I must have done something good. The humus was almost exactly like my mothers. It was a bit salty, but other than that it was great. I also made this middle eastern meat and potato stew thing that turned out to be just like my mothers. I was so ecstatic at how things turned out, that I took my leftovers to my folks the next day and they ate them and loved it. Actually I’m rather amazed that little old me made that. To be honest, I don’t think I be able to repeat the success.

Melanie cooked the other night. She was running late and we ended up eating at about 9:30. I hope the fact that by the time we ate, I was starved didn’t affect my taste perception. She made rice with edamame and vinegar. It was nice with a little subtle taste of vinegar. She made mushrooms sautéed in white whine and lemon juice. She also made asparagus wrapped with turkey filets. Everything was good, but those mushrooms were out of this world. It think the three of us were just sitting there eating the rice and turkey, disappointed that we had finished the mushrooms. I was so ready to tackle the two of them and steal what mushrooms they had left on their plates.

Round 2 winner: ME! for my humus. Fine, Melanie’s mushrooms. I’m still dreaming about them now.

I was going to post a picture of the humus, but I couldn’t stop eating it.

I’ve been meaning to catch up on some blog entries. Mostly about my cooking New Years Resolution. I actually got a couple of friends together and started a cooking club where we take turns cooking. It’s been going fairly strong since the first of the year. Here’s the brief overview of what I forgot to tell you about.

Jenny cooked first. She made a “Pot” Roast in the oven. I guess that makes an oven roast. It was a large piece of meat. It was a bit overcooked on the outside, and a bit raw on the inside. We cut the cooked meet off and threw it back in the oven before finishing the rest off. Good thing is nobody got sick. Bad thing is Jenny cheated and used prepackaged spices.

I cooked next. I made turkey enchiladas, spanish rice, and salad. I cheated a bit on my spanish rice. I just threw some rice in the rice cooker and poured in a cup of Pace Picante sauce on top. I made a few mistakes with the enchiladas. I ran out of meet, so I made some with just cheese. I also didn’t make enough sauce to cover them, so some turned out a bit dry. I thought they were a bit spicy, but Jenny and Melanie seemed to be impressed. YAY ME!

Finally it was Melanie’s turn to cook. We were a bit overwhelmed with the fact that she can really cook. She made a really cool salad that was basically half an avocado, with bacon and watercress on top and a simple lemon dressing. It was good. She also made thai beef in the broiler that was good. As a side we had hot water cornbread, which if I understand it correctly, is deep fried cornmeal lumps.

Round 1 winner: Melanie with the avocado salad thing.