http://joro.geodar.com/diary It's about my life Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:39:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Officially, today is my first day at my new job. I started work in UBS A.G. - Investment Bank in the IT Equities department. We spent most of the day, today, listening to various presentations and speeches. I am saying officially, because I started last Monday as I had to ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/07/21/581/ There is one problem when frying tomatoes. Usually they are cooked in a pan and after the are done, everything around it is covered in tomatoes. And because the idea is for the water to evaporate it is not convenient to cover the pan. That's why I decided to make ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/24/580/ Both Dary and I love to skate, but the skates we have in Bulgaria are quite old and beaten up, at least mine are, so we decided to get ourselves new ones. Hers are Rollerblade Spiritblade III - 2008 (left on the picture), mine are K2 Moto - 2007 (right ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/19/579/ Nothing fancy, just a few prompts and use of Net::SMTP::SSL and Authen::SASL http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/19/578/ The easiest way to cook it is in a rice cooker, because it can monitor the temperature when the water is absorbed. Water needed for cooling long white rice: 1cup rice in 1.5cup water; 2c. rice in 2.75c. water, 3c. rice in 3.5c. water. Brown rice needs a little bit more water ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/19/577/ Cast iron skillets are very durable, very heavy and disperses the heat very well. With it you can cook on high heat, in the oven, on the stove top, in the grill or basically anything that emits heat. When you buy a new cast iron cookware it has to be ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/18/576/ I've picked a few video podcasts that I like to watch. But because there is a lot of info there, quite some time ago I decided to start archiving them and make them accessible from everywhere I have internet. That involved a simple web page and converting every episode to ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/18/575/ While choosing look for: moisture, bright color, even cut (for even cooking) and NO ODOR! The best cut is around the spine of the animal. The further from the legs and the head, the more tender. Ribeye or prime rib cuts are very good Store at the bottom of the fridge ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/17/574/ For quite some time now I've been watching various food and cooking shows on the food network and other channels and they do teach quite a lot. However without practice I forget many things, so I decided to start writing them down. And using my blog, they could be useful ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/17/573/ Around January this year, while we were in one of the big stores here, we found ourselves next to the puzzle isle. So we decided to get a puzzle for ourselves. Of course, typical for us, we wanted the most complicated one. For 10 bucks we ended up getting The ... http://joro.geodar.com/diary/2008/06/16/572/