Rachel Nancollas

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FWD: "Paneer" Tika Masala

Does Indian food sound like it would be hard to make? It is! Unless you take a zillion short cuts like I'm going to suggest here. The ingredients for this recipe are most easily obtained at Whole Foods. Sometimes Whole Foods actually has Paneer, but it's

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Fast Weekday Dinners: The Disclaimer

Here's a new blog type I'm trying called Fast Weekday Dinners (FWD). A lot of people advertise "fast weekday dinners", but I don't think they're actually fast enough. When I get home from work, I literally want to be able

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Orange Marmalade

Winter canning usually does not hold a candle to summer canning when there are tons of delicious fruit and berry jams to be made. However, orange marmalade is delicious and one of the cheapest and simplest preserves you can make. One of the great things is you don't

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Veggie Meatballs with Spaetzle and Mashed Cauliflower

Surprise! This may look like a shortbread castle (and it is!), but this post is actually about a delicious dinner I made a few months ago. I've always loved veggie meatballs, but sometimes the typical spaghetti and meatballs gets a little old. Recently, I tried making spaetzle and

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Eggnog French Toast

Happy Eggnog season! Whatever solstice celebration you're observing, most people can get behind eggnog. I actually didn't like eggnog for a long time because I thought it was too powerful. However, I have come to really enjoy it in recipes - like this french toast. I

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Circuits

Diodes: Part II

This second exciting installment of diodes gets down the nitty-gritty of semiconductor physics (literally sand - geddit?!). However, since my E&M/Calc III is a bit rusty, I'm going to gloss over a more rigorous mathematical treatment and focus on a more high level description. If

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Circuits

Diodes: Part I

For many designers, diodes seem like the simplest part of your circuits. After all, they just block current from passing in one direction, right? Well, it turns out there's a lot more to diodes than meets the eye! This blog entry is based on a great chapter I

MISC

The Haight: 1967 and 2017

With the 50th anniversary of the summer of love, here are a few interesting landmarks of the Haight and what they are today. Very few of the shops and destinations at the center of the summer of love exist today in large part because when the summer of love ended

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Chia Seed Pudding Parfait

Chia seeds are pretty in right now - they're like almonds in the mid-2000s. In some regions of the internet, scientists estimate that chia seed pudding recipes outnumber cat photos. How will this blog stand apart from the myriad of chia seed pushing posts? Where's the

Circuits

Selecting Output Capacitor for Buck Converters: Ripple Current Edition

Were you fooled by the post picture? Surprise! This is a circuits post. This beautiful sunset is just to give you a taste of the beautiful derivation that is to come... How often have you been in this situation? You've found yourself the perfect buck converter for motherboard

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Vegetarian Meatloaf

[Edit 10/21/18 - after reading about meatloaf in The Food Lab, I decided to add some mushrooms - it was a big improvement and I've updated the recipe below] [Edit 11/17/18 - after reading a recipe on Smitten Kitchen, I've also updated

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Matcha French Toast with Coconut Mango Sauce

A few months ago one of my friends had a South East Asia themed dinner party. Japan is more Eastern than South Eastern Asia, but I went ahead with a matcha-based recipe because I had been given a challah earlier that day and this was the only way I could

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White Bean Tomato Stew

Here's a quick recipe with no photos. The post photos is totally unrelated, except that this would be a good recipe for a snowy day (not that we really have them here in San Francisco). When I make it again, I'll try to take some pictures

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Latkes

Hanukkah fell on New Year's this year, so we had a pretty awesome Hanukkah party. We had nine people, so it was pretty important to have enough latkes. Unfortunately, as you can see from the picture, we may have over prepared on the potato front. Here's

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Carrot, Sweet Potato & Goat Cheese Quiche

This year, I received a garnishing set for Christmas/Hanukkah. I was initially at a loss as to what to do with twelve specialized (think corn kernel remover) kitchen tools, but in the three days I've had it at home, I've already used four of the

Circuits

Input Control Circuits: Hysteretic Comparator

Connecting your circuits to the outside world is one of the most important and most terrifying things for a circuit designer. It is both what makes your circuit useful and also the time an unsuspecting user plugs in that out-of-spec power adapter from Joe Schmoe's House of Crappy

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Tea Party - Part I

This weekend we hosted a tea party for some our friends. We started doing tea parties when we found an adorable tea set at Goodwill for super cheap. If you’re interested in having some nice dishes for entertaining, but don’t want to spend $50-$100/place setting, I’

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Granola - Part I

When the container of rolled oats hit its second birthday I decided it was time to do something with them. I’ve never had a great oatmeal made with rolled oats, so I decided to try my hand at granola. Joy of Cooking had a basic recipe which I adapted