lympicita’s Profile
Recent Comments
Tastespotting - what happened?
I SO miss Tastespotting. Although since it's departure, I have found myself eating less in the afternoon.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a site just like our dearly departed Tastespotting, with the all the food porn pictures that linked back to blogs, AND had a handy search function.
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
If I had a garden, I would love to grow just about anything. Apricots, herbs, figs, beans, potatoes, salad leaves, spinich, pumkpkins, figs and garlic. You can tell that I am an urbanite with green belt intentions. Ohh arrr.
Question of the Day: Microwave! Huh! What is it good for?
I love to use my microwave for cooking popadoms. I don't like to deep fry, because, well it makes you put on weight.
A gal at work told me that if you put spray oil on one side of the popadom and cook on high, it will come out almost as good as if it had been deep fried.
This is almost true. You actually don't need spray oil at all.
Also, I do sterilise my dish washing sponge in there.
See more comments by lympicita ยป
Recent Posts
lympicita hasn't written a post yet.
Recent Favorites
lympicita hasn't favorited a post yet.
Recent Polls
lympicita hasn't answered any polls yet.
Recent Quizzes
lympicita hasn't taken any quizzes yet.
Recent Comments | Response to Comments
In Videos: How to Make Rice Cooker Bread from 'Yakitate!! Japan'
I want to get a rice cooker to try this.
Tastespotting - what happened?
I SO miss Tastespotting. Although since it's departure, I have found myself eating less in the afternoon.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a site just like our dearly departed Tastespotting, with the all the food porn pictures that linked back to blogs, AND had a handy search function.
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
If I had a garden, I would love to grow just about anything. Apricots, herbs, figs, beans, potatoes, salad leaves, spinich, pumkpkins, figs and garlic. You can tell that I am an urbanite with green belt intentions. Ohh arrr.
Question of the Day: Microwave! Huh! What is it good for?
I love to use my microwave for cooking popadoms. I don't like to deep fry, because, well it makes you put on weight.
A gal at work told me that if you put spray oil on one side of the popadom and cook on high, it will come out almost as good as if it had been deep fried.
This is almost true. You actually don't need spray oil at all.
Also, I do sterilise my dish washing sponge in there.
tips on becoming a meat eater again with out painful problems??
The quality of food that you eat has a direct impact on how healthy you are. My advice would be to make sure that you eat high quality organic meats with the least amount of curing and processing.
Carosone has some good advice, start off with small portions of meat initially.
Also, you would be wise to keep an eye on your sources of protein. As a vegetarian you will be used to getting protein from somewhere other than meat or fish. Just be sure to reduce the non-meat proteins when you switch back to eating meat. You wouldn't want to put your health at risk by gaining weight.
Tastespotting - what happened?
From the front page:
"we're just marinating a bit longer, but tastespotting will be back shortly..."
Tastespotting - what happened?
The site also mentions a new site they're working on: Liquorious in alpha, devoted to, you guessed it - drinks! This may tide some of you over for a bit.
Tastespotting - what happened?
WAIT! DONT WORRY! I just went on to the tastespotting website and it says that the site will be back up and running shortly!!! I am sooooo happy now!!!!
Tastespotting - what happened?
Thanks for taking into account my concerns, both FP daily and gawker are looking good and even though I have asked my hubby if we could take up the void left behind when TS left ('would love to, but seriously, we don't have the time'), I am glad someone is. Just hoping it/they will be close to as good as TS was. :)
Tastespotting - what happened?
@fotocuisine Regarding Food Gawker, we are definitely rejecting submissions. The photo quality will continue to increase (to get onto Food Gawker) as the quantity of posts increases.
As far as image resizing is concerned, we are just cropping and not resizing similar to TS. The occasional pixelation that you are seeing is due to a reduction of image quality to 94%. We just upped it to 96%. Since we aren't monetizing the site currently and paying for hosting on our on dime, we need to stay wary of our hosting bandwidth usage. We hope to not reduce image quality in the near future.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who has visited the site. The response has been really positive so far!
Tastespotting - what happened?
@fotocusine: thanks for the input... though right now I'm not thinking I'll ever make mine that similar to tastespotting. I wouldn't be able to keep up with it! And I plan on rejected photos that I don't like, too, and maybe getting some dialouge going about what makes a good photo.
About the resizing, I'm going to nix it. Yesterday I thought I'd make all the photos as near to 500 px wide so it looks uniform and clean, but I check the site on a PC today and it looked crappy.
I do like food gawker a lot for its tastespottingness. Great job, Chuck!
Tastespotting - what happened?
2 things about these tastespotting copies:
okey, I love that all these tastespotting copies are coming up but,
1. i liked that they rejected stuff, and i know it ticked people off, and would leave me scratching my head as to why some stuff was up and some wouldn't (they rejected two of mine that kinda made me rethink some stuff) but i LIKED that. and i think that is what needed in a replacement.
2. Tastespotting either requested a 250x250 pixel photo or they would cut 250x250 out of your picture, they didn't resize.
these posted links above seem to be resizing or shrinking to fit in an area that they don't fit, therefor the pictures are pixalated (spell?) and look bad.
Tastespotting - what happened?
I spent the weekend making my own tastespotting replacement since my wife and I pretty much can't live without it. I'm trying to expand upon the idea and have already added a few new features that tastespotting never had, like voting, comments and the ability to save your favorite posts. Hopefully it will get us through this dark time without tastespotting.
If anyone has any ideas or features that they would have liked to have seen on tastespotting, please drop me a line and let me know.
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
Oooh...so tough. Do we have to pick just one? Heh, I would go with tomato and basil plants so I could have endless supplies of Capresi salad ingredients...Mmmm...
Oh. And for the non-existent impossible kind: a sushi tree.....I would like endless amounts of sushi too.
Hillary
Chew on That
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
I would love an avocado tree, a mango tree and a cherry tree. And a gorgeous man servant tree.
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
I second the bacon tree idea!
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
Some coconut palms would be perfect! But that is not going to happen in the Northeast...
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
meyer lemons would be awesome. also, i would love and endless supply of fresh thyme. i use it everytime i cook.
then again, scallions are endlessly usefull and fresh parsley, chives, or chervil.
yeah, a huge herb garden thats what i would want. plus the lemons.
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
The ingredients to make salsa -- jalapeno and regular chile peppers, tomatoes and onions! Also, cucumbers and basil. (Cucumbers cost a lot at Bay Area super markets.) An apple tree sounds cool. And a palm tree for my husband.
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
an avocado tree. and a gigantic raspberry bush. plus a money tree.
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
Dish washer
ok, I mean Meyer Lemon Tree
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
Leave it to us SE fans to come up with unique & funny answers! Love the money tree, beer garden & bacon tree ideas!
I'd add coconut grove & a banana tree to my yard.
What other culinary plant would you have growing in your backyard?
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
mmm, a buffalo mozzarella tree!
Realistically though, a wildly flourishing basil plant (my backyard doesn't get much sun, so nothing I plant ever succeeds) and a carrot patch (I can eat a 2 pound bag a day)
Someday, I would like to have a _____ growing in my backyard
Isn't there such a thing as a beer garden? I'd like to grow one of those.
tips on becoming a meat eater again with out painful problems??
I didn't eat any meat other than fish for 15 years, when I decided to begin eating meat again I didn't have any problems at all. I agree that if you have a balanced diet you should be able to process any type of protien with out any issues. I also believe that when people get "sick" from eating meat for the first time or "by accident" it COMPLETELY mental.
And might I add that I am so incredibly glad that I decided to introduce meat back into my diet. Not only am I happier, so are my friends and family that always felt that they had to cater to me.
tips on becoming a meat eater again with out painful problems??
I was vegan, and as I introduced animal-based products back into my diet I had no issues at all, and I thought I would. My advice is to take baby steps until you know your body can handle it. I am thinking that you'll be fine, especially since you have been taking meat of some form.
Recent Posts
lympicita hasn't written a post yet.
Recent Favorites
lympicita hasn't favorited a post yet.
Polls
lympicita hasn't answered any polls yet.
Quizzes
lympicita hasn't taken any quizzes yet.
I want to get a rice cooker to try this.