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Website Overhaul!

By Teresa Ingalls

frontpage.jpgWelcome to the new look!

What’s New for You?

1. Twitter updates- You can now see our current status updates in the right sidebar.

2. Archives- a more streamlined and user-friendly approach to finding past articles.

3. Categories- You can search by a post’s theme by selecting a category from the drop menu on the left. They are also now listed at the end of each post.

4. Currently Reading- Our books we are reading now link to Amazon where there is more information about them.

5. Comments- the most recent comments are now posted on the right for easy viewing and conversation.

6. Recent Photos- enough said.

7. Not only can you subscribe to our website and automatically be updated when we post something, but you can also subscribe to the comments on the site now. So if you comment and want to know that someone responded, just subscribe and you will automatically be updated.

8. Three Columns! On the left you will find information that is more or less static. On the right you will find the most up to day information. In the middle you find what you really came here for.

What’s New for Us?

The Back End- This is the stuff you’ll never see. Our first website design was built by our friend, Tom Greever. Then we moved to Wordpress. That was during seminary. And we have been using the same theme the entire time. We just changed the picture and the colors around a bit. But things have advanced a lot since then and it was time to move on up to a theme that was a little snazzier.

Our new theme means it will be easier for us to add new features and update the site.

We hope you like the new design and feel. It was about time the site became more real time and social networky.

July 2nd, 2009 | Category: Update, Web | One comment

A Chef’s 6 Essential Kitchen Tools: The Workplace

By Clayton Ingalls

496808_26483369.jpgIn the first article about my chef brother’s essentials he talked about his home kitchen. Today he will talk about his professional kitchen. Below are his 6 essentials for his workplace and one completely inessential item.

6 Essentials
1. 8” Chef knife
If it is sharp and the only knife you have, you can do most things with it.

2. Towel
Helps keep yourself and work space clean.  And it’s good for grabbing hot pots and pans.

3. Vita Mixer (blender in steriods)
This will puree anything and is good for emulsification, sauces, and soups.

4. Standing Mixer
It saves time with cakes, batters, mixing anything that needs to be mixed and does it 10 times as fast.

5. Non Stick Pan
It’s good for searing anything that needs a good crust, ie. flaky white fish, scallops, duck breast, chicken breast, and roasted meats.

6. Butter and Bacon
Everything is better with both.  Put them together and forget about it.

An Inessential Item
1. Microwave
Something to add is what not to have in a professional kitchen.  With all of the equipment in a professional kitchen if you cant figure out how to do your job without a microwave, you’re an idiot.  You should work at Applebees, which is not a professional kitchen.

July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Family, Food | One comment

Just Cute

By Teresa Ingalls

There are always random photos that don’t make it into a story. Here are a few cute ones of Autumn over the last couple of months that just had to be posted.

July 1st, 2009 | Category: Autumn | Leave a comment
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