Filed under: Grains, Recipes, On the Blogs

As I mentioned in a previous post, I love everything Rosemary. And I’m always looking for new ways to make pasta (especially since I’ve cut down on pasta in general and heavy sauces specifically), so I’m always happy to find a recipe where I can combine the two.

Like this recipe for Spaghetti with Rosemary from The Silver Spoon cookbook. Does that look great or what?

For the record, we never called it “pasta” when I was growing up. Never. It was always “spaghetti.”

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Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Sugar

Unlike some of the awesome bloggers on Slashfood, I am embarrassed to admit that I am not a baker/pastry chef by any means. In fact, the entire process of baking boggles me - from the frustration of measuring to the aggravation of having to use 82 separate bowls (but why do I have to mix the milk and the egg in a separate bowl, can’t I just immediately add them to the butter and sugar?), baking and I typically don’t see, well…eye to eye (pun definitely intended).

Not believing me when I told her I couldn’t bake, my mother, a baking whiz, got me a super-cool cookbook, Claire Crespo’s Hey There, Cupcake, filled with almost too-adorable-to-eat cupcake recipes and decorating techniques. So, with a sudden streak of confidence, I poured through the book until I found a recipe that looked doable: the Eyeball Cupcakes. They’re rich vanilla cake with a delectable buttercream icing.

Take a look at my unique step-by-step process in the gallery below (unique essentially because I do not own a mixer and I ran out of vanilla extract halfway through, forcing me to call my mom in a panic). Check it out.

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Filed under: Science, Farming, Vegetables, Fruit, On the Blogs

The nice thing about shopping at local farmers’ markets is that they rarely mar their product with stickers that are hard to peel off and leave an unappealing, waxy residue.

But during the winter, many of us have no choice but to buy the stickered fruit. So, we should at least know how to identify our fruit by its sticker, right?

Ideal Bite kindly provided this short but effective tutorial:

• A four-digit number means it was conventionally grown
• A five-digit number beginning in “9″ means it is organic
• A five-digit number beginning in “8″ means it was genetically modified.

…and now you know.

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Mutsugoto is an interactive installation that invites couples to experience an intimate communication over a distance created by Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis and Matthew Karau.

Begin by laying on the bed and wearing the special ring. As you relax and think about your partner, gently move your hand around your body. These movements are traced on your own body as well as your partner laying in the other bed. Twinkling spots give a hint of where your partner is drawing. If you follow your partner’s movements and your strokes cross, the lines will react with each other and reflect your synchrony.

Don’t forget to check the beautiful video of Mutsugoto. This is the first time I’ve seen ambient remote communication being that beautifully achieved and that sensual.

In 2003 Tomoko Hayashi created Intimacy is a series of accessories for people who exist in a long-distance relationship. The accessories are a combination of ties or undergarments with jewelry such as necklace or ring. Each accessory encloses jewelry inside and is heat-pressed to make an embossed pattern of the jewelry on its surface. Lovers can take the jewelry out to give it as a gift to their lover in a distant location. This allows lovers to share the memory of the object remotely and feel close to each other. The embossed pattern will fade away little by little (through pressure, moisture or heat) with daily use. When they meet again, the lovers can recreate the pattern by pressing the piece with a very hot iron.

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This December, ENESS stopped the public in their gift grabbing tracks with an alternative celebration of light at Melbourne’s QV square. A digital carpet took over the square after dark and compel interactive connectivity between friends and strangers. Abstract messages and images that overlay the surface responded to activity and the public was responsible for designing the space with colorful particles of light as they play through the square.

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