The Beckyan Deli

The Beckyan Deli

  • New Year’s Resolutions

    The more the merrierOriginally uploaded by R Stanek Last year I made two New Year’s resolutions — see more live music, and go to the beach more often — and I kept both of them. Hooray! So here we go for this year: Floss every day. Upload one picture a week to Flickr. Now, that…

  • AOL and a blast from the past

    I’m back from my epic blog hiatus because I couldn’t stop laughing at this post on AOL revamping its image. See if you can spot what’s wrong with this: Although the AOL logo itself will be constant, the backgrounds will change continuously in an effort to suggest the breadth of AOL’s content. Hundreds of backgrounds…

  • Pumpkin Pie

    The first pie that I learned to make is one of my favorite: good old pumpkin pie. I don’t make it as much as I would enjoy, since a certain unnamed person for whom I do most of my cooking doesn’t like pumpkin. But come Thanksgiving, Pumpkin Pie is a Rykoff family tradition, and sorry…

  • Ultimate Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    A couple of weeks ago, Becky said “I’d like some oatmeal raisin cookies”. And seeing as I can’t feed Sam directly, I do my best to oblige her requests. Of course, I looked for a Cook’s Illustrated recipe first. And I found this online, which purported to be the Cook’s Illustrated recipe from 1997. (I’m…

  • Apple Muffins

    While she was pregnant, Becky needed lots of continuous food input. And it doesn’t seem to be slowing down now that she’s breastfeeding Sam. So I made lots of quick snack foods, including dozens and dozens of muffins. I adapted this apple muffin recipe from Alton Brown’s basic muffin technique. They’re apple-y and tasty and…

  • So much for a clean program

    After reading this article about how Ohio State is by far the strongest program in the Big 10, Eli commented that it was no surprise, calling Tressel the dirtiest coach in the Big 10. And of course, later that day, the story of NCAA violations at Michigan broke. I’m not sure what’s more annoying: the…

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies

    I’ve always been one for the good ol’ Toll House Cookie recipe. It certainly has withstood the test of time since its invention in the 1930’s. But there is always room for improvement. I like my cookies mounded and chewy in the middle, but I’ve never figured out how to do this consistently. One option…

  • Sad Days in California

    Everything about the arguments about Prop 8 in front of the California Supreme Court is making me grouchy today. Let me enumerate: It’s a reminder that 52% of voters decided to take away the right to gay marriage, after 5 months of couples getting married and society not collapsing. It seems so freaking obvious that…

  • No astronomy for average Americans!

    Someone apparently showed John McCain — and by “John McCain”, I mean, “one of his aides” — how to twitter. So we’ve been treated to a list of his Top 10 Porkiest Projects in the 2009 Omnibus Spending Bill. Most of them are science projects, but nothing makes me more irate than his #2 pick:…

  • Ponzi Scheming on the Beach

    The other day there was a new report on an investigation into a possible Ponzi scheme, this one run by R. Allen Stanford, a “flamboyant Texas billionaire” who claims to be related to Leland Stanford (Jr.) (but that also seems to be a fraud). The key point which has led to this investigation is: Several…

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