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Recipes

These are the recipes I have made multiple times and like enough to recommend.

• Baked Potato
• Berry smoothie
• Black Beans Only took my Instant Pot 6 hours on the slow cooker setting.
• Blueberry muffins I usually add 2.5-3 cups of blueberries instead. If I am making mini muffins it bakes in 15 minutes. I use frozen blueberries that I wash but do not thaw. I don't make the streusel. I'm experimenting with replacing 1/2 to 3/4 of the butter with canola or coconut oil.
• Cacio e Pepe
• Cajun Chicken and Sausage Gumbo (video) Use a green bell pepper like the video instead of a red bell pepper like the blog!
• Ceaser Salad
• Chicken Adobo
• Chicken and Skirt Steak Fajitas I double the onions, still use 1 red bell pepper, and 2 poblano peppers instead of green bell peppers. I also broil the meat on a wire rack on the baking sheet. Pat the meat very dry!
• Chicken Drumsticks I cook this on 425 the whole time, for just 40 minutes and rotate it once about halfway through
• Chicken Stock
• Chicken Tinga
• Chinese Chicken Thighs
• Coffee
• Daal (written recipe) We use our instant pot for 1 minute, with 3 cups of liquid. Once the instant pot finishes, we let it depressurize for 5-10 minutes before using the quick release. I saute the onion and aromatics in the instant pot, it does a good enough job and then you don't need to clean a skillet.
• Dirty Rice
• Exotic Chicken and Rice (written recipe)
• Ginger Fried Rice
• Green Chicken Enchiladas We use El Pato red sauce, and usually poach 3 chicken breasts instead of doing a rotisserie chicken.
• Guacamole
• Hash Browns
• Honey Sriracha Chicken Wings
• Loco Moco
• No Knead Bread
• Pancakes and blueberry technique
• Peanut Chicken Curry (I like it less thick, using 4.5 cups of chicken broth, and always end up needing to simmer the vegetables for an hour)
• Pickled onions or jalapenos
• Pinto Beans (I skip the baking soda and only cook for 35 min, when I did it the original way the beans disintegrated. Usually serve it with Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning)
• Pinto beans (I like it without the lime juice and with hot sauce instead)
• Pizza Dough (Neopolitan style)
• Pizza Pan Recipe
• Pork Chile Verde (Chicken thighs are great too! I usually use 4. If sear chicken thigh, pressure cook for 20 min)
• Pork Diablo Tenderloin
• Queso
• Red Beans and Rice
• Sauteed Mushrooms (Made this without butter, still great)
• Shakshuka
• Shrimp Etouffee
• Spaghetti Aglio e Olio (Spaghetti with oil and garlic)
• Spicy Caramel Chicken (I use 4 hot peppers)
• Steamed salmon
• Steel cut oats (I use 4:1 liquid to oatmeal ratio)
• Tomato Bisque
• Tomato Sauce

Dessert recipes

• Mocha Pot de Crème
• Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (I always use less sugar in this)
• Chocolate Cake
• Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting (Also great with less sugar)
• White Almond Cake (This is basically a fancy white cake)
• Peanut Butter Frosting
• Chocolate Chip Cookies (I usually use about 250g of chocolate, one dark chocolate bar and one milk chocolate bar)
• Cheesecake (I like pulling this at 140-142 degrees. Also there are probably simpler good recipes for cheesecake so this one might not always be recommended)
• Hot Chocolate (I usually use 1 cup of sugar)
• Peanut Butter Blossoms (I sometime use Reeses instead of kisses)

Foods for babies

• V Almond butter mixed with water or milk
• Apple Sauce (My baby loves it with nutmeg or cinnamon)
• Bananas
• Butternut squash
• Carrot Puree
• Chicken Puree
• Peanut butter mixed with water or milk
• Pear Puree

Misc stuff I like

• Andy Puddicombe TED talk on meditation. Meditation seems to mean a lot of things to a lot of different people, but I find that taking minutes and just counting my breaths up to 10 and down to 1 on repeat erases my nervous energy. Additionally, I used to get really stressed before interviews, but if I count my breaths beforehand I don't- I feel really calm and alert and the stakes seem lower and obstacles are more in proportion. I recommend watching this video, and trying it.
• My favorite video on the internet
• I also love this video
• Pretty simple bodyweight workout routine
• Vimtutor if you want to learn vim. This was half of how I got comfortable with vim. The other half was watching youtube videos and having friends recommend plugins. It also helped me to map escape to 'jk', because that doesn't come up in English that much (ever?) and its way more fun than hitting the escape key.
• Netgames.io is a simple website that looks like it was designed for mobile and works on desktop, and has a good selection of group games to play online.
• TigerTruckStop.com is a website for a gas station in nowhere Louisiana. The gas station's selling point was that it had a live tiger in a cage outside (who didn't look very happy). This website destroys me because of the pettiness of its tone ('activist busybodies'), the way it brags about getting a special exemption from the governor, and the way it begs visitors to sign petition. Also it is the most 90's html website ever (although I don't have room to talk).
• RectangleApp is the best window manager I've used (although I've never paid for one). I used Spectacle until it was no longer supported and RectangleApp has more intuitive default controls and more options.
• Brave Browser is a browser built off of chrome's engine (which means you can use chrome extensions if you use those!) and is really user friendly and privacy focused. The best part is it comes with a good adblocker so you don't have to install one separately and manage the extension. You don't need to be very internet savvy to use brave at all.
• Youtube DL is a tool for downloading videos or audio from youtube. I like using it because I try not to go on the internet on weekends, so I have to download my videos in advance (I like having to think about what I want to watch/listen to instead of just taking suggestions because I am bored). The options '-x --audio-format mp3' will download audio only.
• TED Talk about Dementia
• Lecture on deconstruction/simplicity in machine learning. A really engaging lecture from Killian Weinberger from Cornell on writing papers for machine learning algorithms.
• Baby haircut

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