Toasted Cheese Sandwich
Lately it seems to be all the rage on Food Network with people like Rachael Ray and her tasty 30 Minute Meals or on late night TV commercials with Ron Popeil and his “Set it and forget it” food processors to make a quick and easy meal.
The other day my friend Doug posted about bread and it reminded me of a fun food project that I documented a few weeks ago and forgot to post, so without any further delay, it’s time for project Toasted Cheese Sandwich, the perfect blogger meal.
I wanted to come up with something to share with my dedicated readers and fellow bloggers that had to do with food… hey we all get hungry and I know most of us don’t have a lot of free time on our hands, so I came up with a tasty sandwich that we could all make with little effort.
My yummy sandwhich can be made in 5 minutes or less with ingredients that most have already in hand.
What you’ll need is the following:
- Bread (Oroweat 100% Whole Wheat)
- Mayonnaise (Best Foods)
- Cheese (Kraft cheese slices)
- Toaster (Oster 2-Slice)
- Plate
- Butter Knife
Feel free to make substitutions as needed.
Ok, now we have all our supplies ready to go. The first step is to make sure your toaster is set to medium so we don’t burn the bread. My toaster is set to 4 which seems to work nicely. Now that the toaster is set, drop in two slices of bread:
While the toast is being toasted I suggest opening the two slices of cheese to let them become room temperature which will help make them soft and ready for the upcoming steps.
After approximately 1-2 minutes, your bread will pop up from the toaster, nice and warm, ready for the next step which is to place a small amount of mayonnaise on the bread as seen below:
Ok, so now we have two slices of bread, toasted and warm with a light spread of mayonnaise ready for the next step.
While the bread is still warm, it’s time to place the cheese on the bread like so:
Bam! Ok, fine I’ll pay Emeril Lagasse his nickel for using his catch saying. BAM! BAM! BAM! hehe!!
Hang in, we’re almost done. The last step is to place the two pieces of bread together, cut in half then eat:
Yes folks, a tasty toasted cheese sandwich is less then 5 minutes. It’s a pretty basic sandwich but again, the idea behind this is for people who are in a hurry and can’t spend 30 minutes or more to whip up a meal. It’s better then not eating at all.
DOS Emulator for Palm OS released
A new DOS emulator (still in development) lets you run real DOS applications on your Palm OS device, including your Treo smart phone.
It’s the Palm OS port of the well-known DOS emulator DOSBox. It doesn’t only emulate an x86 CPU but also a DOS environment, so you can’t install another x86 operating system.
You can run many DOS apps / games in this DOS environment, even Windows until 3.11 and maybe even Windows 95 / 98.
I love it when people find ways to run old software applications on new devices.
Since I’m a long time Palm user, I’ll need to keep an eye on this cool new project.
Help spread the word about the DOS Emulator for Palm OS when you get a moment: Digg It
In other news, we’ve updated our guide to Blogging E-Metrics Simplified today, so be sure to grab the latest version.
While you’re over at digg spreading the word about the DOS Emulator for Palm, help us spread the word about our guide to Blogging E-Metrics Simplified too. Digg It.
Thanks for your support!
Blogging E-Metrics Simplified Updated
Due to the great response of the Blogging E-Metrics Simplified guide that Doug and I put together, we’ve updated it today with more information, links, screen shots, graphs and a slew of other details.
It even has it’s own dedicated page now which you can find via my projects page so you can keep up to date with the latest in Blogging E-Metrics.
Help spread the word: Digg It
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Blog E-Metrics
I’ve put together a very simple guide to e-marketing in general for Geek With Laptop readers. I’m sure there are some guides coming that will be more explicit with regard to Blogging and E-metrics, but I’d like to take a stab at it utilizing some of their overall guidance.
This article is meant to be an overview and in no way comprehensive… if you think a more comprehensive guide is warranted, let me know.
Perhaps I can write a more comprehensive guide that incorporates more blog, analytics, and ranking technologies.
This guide is specific to WordPress, Google Analytics, and Feedburner… all free and industry standard packages.
This guide to Blogging E-Metrics Simplified is a basic overview of:
- How to implement web analytics into your blog using Google Analytics.
- How to implement feed analytics into your blog using FeedBurner.
- How to measure your blog’s impact using Google Analytics.
- How to improve your blog’s impact.
Article Download: Blogging E-Metrics Simplified.
Oh, and don’t forget to Digg It.
Happy Blogging!
-Doug Karr
Guest Blogger for GeekWithLaptop.com
Guide to Weblog Comments
I was doing some research on some basic rules for people commenting on forums and blogs in general and found a decent article titled Guide to weblog comments and wanted to share since we’ve all seen comments go crazy from time to time on various forums as well as on our own sites or blogs.
A couple of the points from the article I’d like to highlight are things that I see a lot around various sites and forums and I’m sure you do too:
Stay on topic.
Bloggers enable comments on specific posts to hear more about the content of the post. Don’t change the subject. There’s nothing more annoying than seeing a comment on a post about Hurricane Katrina that reads, “By the way, do you know anything about turtles?”
Don’t comment for the sake of commenting.
Commenters who only say “First!” or “Nice site” on an open thread have no business hitting that “Post” button at all. Further, only spammers comment for the sake of adding their name and URL to a web page. Useless comments will gain you the reputation for being a useless commenter.
I suggest that my readers take a look at the article to see some of the guidelines that are pretty good food for thought and maybe start to use them in your daily work and personal life while commenting around the internet.
You can also download the complete guide to weblog comments from my project page.
Deal or No Deal
Since the past few days have been filled with high tensions and tons of emotions about the 5th anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to find something fun and low key to share with my readers for some peace and relaxation.
Tonight I found an online version of the popular television game show Deal or No Deal:
It’s very addicting, just like the real game show. I’ve been playing it for close to an hour now.
For those of my readers who are not familiar with the game show:
Hosted by Howie Mandel, “Deal or No Deal” is an exhilarating hit game show where contestants play and deal for a top prize of $1 million in a high-energy contest of nerves, instincts and raw intuition.
Each night, the game of odds and chance unfolds when a contestant is confronted with 26 sealed briefcases full of varying amounts of cash - ranging from a measly penny to $1 million. Without knowing the amount in each briefcase, the contestant picks one — his to keep, if he chooses - until its unsealing at game’s end.
So if you’re looking for a little online fun, check out the online version of Deal or No Deal. Let me know if you win the million dollars. The most I’ve won so far is $75,000.00 and I have yet to take the deal offered from the banker.