A few weeks ago I learned how to make Chicken Chasseur, which is a French dish that is kind of like a stew with a chicken cut into 8 pieces. Tonight I did pasta inspired by that recipe using thigh meat that I cut into small pieces.
I decided to write a random blog entry today because I haven’t written in a while. So here’s what the name Yoshinoya means when you break down the Japanese.
It breaks down like this: Yoshi-no-ya.
- Yoshi is some dude’s name
- No is a word that indicates possession
- Ya indicates that it is a store
So basically it translates to Yoshi’s store (restaurant).
If this is news to you, you’ll probably notice now a lot of restaurants that end in “ya”…. Honda Ya, Bento Ya, Sushi Ya, Osaka Ya, Erobi Ya, Viagra Ya. Wait…
I just bought her recent album Archandroid and it’s awesome. One of those albums that remind you that there are still unique artists out there.
I made one of our favorites lately – gyudon. It’s easy to make, and it’s a lot healthier than Yoshinoya because I can remove a lot of the fat from the meat before I cook it, and I also skim the fat off the top before serving.
I have to eat it with some greens like Mom always said but can’t forget the shichimi pepper and beni shoga!
Here’s a good recipe if you’re interested in making it for yourself:
I just finished a small project doing some renovations for Work Wheels USA. Their previous web development company created a content management system (CMS) for them, but Work needed some additional functionality and customization so they contacted me.
The challenge with this type of project is having to go through somebody else’s code to modify it. At the same time, I have to be able to mimic the current site so that everything flows nicely in terms of code AND in terms of the user interface. In other words, to a normal website visitor, it can’t look like somebody came in later to do a patch job, and to a programmer looking at the code, things need to be consistent so you don’t need to learn how to read coding styles from two different people.
Lucky for me, the people who previously developed the site for them did a great job with the programming, as their code was very legible and organized. I even picked up a couple of organizing techniques from them that I’m already using right now at work.
The most noticeable thing I created for Work Wheels USA is a rotating front page slideshow. These rotating slideshows are super hot these days. Even though I don’t think they are very good for search engine optimization (SEO), they grab a human’s attention and allows for presenting multiple content in a single area.
The other things I created were just to allow them to swap out certain images and content here and there, things you will probably never notice because for the most part they look the same right now.
This site is programmed in PHP, which isn’t what I work in mostly, but I dabble a little in it, and it’s nice to know how easy it was for me to get acquainted with it and even finish a PHP project in such a timely manner.
My goal in the next few months is to really get my hands dirty with PHP and .NET. I’ve been holding myself back for far too long programming in classic ASP (10 years!!). It’s time to start get relevant with today’s popular technologies.
Anyway, this one is done. Time to start working on a few others I have sitting around waiting for me! I’m looking forward to the Joomla project I have coming!
Before and after. I think I should skip dinner.
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