Kitlas

Barilotti, cilantro pesto, and Kale with garlic greens

Josh Kitlas — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:55:55 +0000

Very happy with how this turned out. I was a bit concerned about the cilantro pesto (EVOO, garlic, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes) but it turned out OK. I’m so used to eating it in Mexican food that I never considered it for a pesto. Got the Barilotti pasta at Wegmans.

Kale and garlic greens are good usually and this was no different.

Not the best image, but you get the idea

Churrasco with chimichurri rojo and citrus salsa

Josh Kitlas — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:24:17 +0000

The salsa stole the show on this one.

Recipes

Meat

1 1/2 lbs flank steaks
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
3 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons garlic, minced
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
salt

Directions

Slice the steak against the grain at 45 degree angle into 1/4″-thick strips.
Combine remaining ingredients.
Toss meat slices into the chimichurri to coat.
Thread onto metal skewers.
Grill.

Salsa

oranges
tomatoes
red onions
fresh cilantro

Curried Shrimp and Pomegranate Rice

Josh Kitlas — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:38:29 +0000

Kes made this one. Quite delicious.

Shrimp was make with curry powder and rice (jasmine) incorporated pomegranate seeds and sliced almonds.

Shortbread Cookies

Josh Kitlas — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:52:19 +0000

I awoke this morning to the aroma of shortbread cookies. I imagine heaven can’t be much better. The sweet smells of shortbread!

Shortbread Cookies

Tagxedo

Josh Kitlas — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:55:16 +0000

If you like Wordle, you’ll love Tagxedo. The short of it is, Wordle creates beautiful word clouds and Tagxedo turns words — famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters — into a visually stunning word cloud with words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

You can make some pretty interesting interactive graphics with their tools and it was one of a handful of web-based tools that was able to handle the 212,338 characters that comprised the 13,719 tweets generated in support of the recent #140cuse conference.

Here are some examples:

Thumbnail
http://www.tagxedo.com/image/97e721280bf2413f

Complete
http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/97e721280bf2413f

Player
http://www.tagxedo.com/art/97e721280bf2413f

Cheesecake

Josh Kitlas — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:10:53 +0000

Somehow defying physics and logic, Kes managed to create and cook this cheesecake without the help of a baking dish. That is the crust you are seeing and only the crust. And yes, the supernatural cheesecake was delicious.

Cheesecake

Banana bread

Josh Kitlas — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:16:08 +0000

If you think it looks like we are feasting on some new baked good each day, you are just right. Banana bread! Plus some closeups of the scientist at work.

Banana bread

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken and Yellow Rice

Josh Kitlas — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:14:37 +0000

This was DELISH

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken and Yellow Rice

Recipes

http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/20530-Roasted-Lemongrass-Chicken

http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/3274812-Yellow-Rice

French Bread and French Toast

Josh Kitlas — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:04:11 +0000

More Kes, more outstanding baked goods.

French Bread and French Toast

Red Velvet Cake

Josh Kitlas — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:58:30 +0000

More amazing baked goods from Kes.

Red Velvet Cake