If you’re looking for a way to enhance the flavor of your food, you won’t go wrong by adding a bit of mushroom powder. Mushrooms are an excellent natural source of glutamates, the compound responsible for the umami flavor. If you are hesitant to use MSG in your food (and you shouldn’t be…), you can … Read more
Culinarily, potatoes tend to be classified as either waxy or starchy (sometimes called mealy), based on their moisture and starch content. Each type is good for some things and bad for others. Knowing the difference between them can help you choose the potato that will be most successful for a given application. Waxy Of the … Read more
This recipe is not meant to be a prescriptive list of ingredients, but more loosely about the technique itself. Use bone-in, dark meat for this recipe and it should result in tender chicken that readily falls off the bone. Not recommended for boneless chicken or chicken breast. The vegetables make it a great one-pot meal … Read more
This is an Italian celery soup that I stumbled on years ago when I inexplicably had a surplus of celery and no idea what to do with it. The bacon and tomato paste give it lots of umami and the rice makes it hearty enough to stand as a meal on its own. Cook time: … Read more
Add power to activate. Active components require a power source to affect a circuit. As the name would imply, a voltage regulator maintains a consistent voltage, below the supply voltage rail. They come in several form factors, and are available for both positive and negative voltage, but all essentially do the same thing: dump … Read more
Add power to activate. Active components require a power source to affect a circuit. Operational amplifiers (op amps) are a basic component used for a variety of voltage manipulation purposes. The standard configuration for an op amp has one noninverting input, one inverting input and an output. An inverting input will produce the opposite … Read more
Passive components don’t require additional power to affect the signal path. Or, another way to look at it is that they cannot use additional electric sources to affect the signal path. Resistors are the most common component in DIY synth design. As the name implies, they provide resistance in a circuit by acting in … Read more
When thinking about circuit design, there are two really, really high-level categories to consider: through-hole and SMD. Through-hole is the traditional component style that has conductive leads that are fed through holes (roll credits) drilled in a circuit board. The leads are then soldered to conductive pads that surround the hole, and the remainder is … Read more
Mamelons are little bumps on the cutting edge of your incisors (front teeth). Everyone has them when their teeth first erupt–it’s what helps the teeth break through the gums. For most people, mamelons naturally wear off through usage, over time. Some poor kids mamelons… I filed mine down, because I hated them. But, … Read more
I recently had LASIK procedure to correct my myopia (i.e., nearsightedness). Prior to that, I learned a few fun facts about eyes and prescriptions for eyes. Visual Acuity When people think about their vision, they often think of it in terms of a comparison to an ideal “20:20” vision. But, really this just means “normal” … Read more