Recipe search site

Check out cheffy.com, a recipe search site with lots and lots of options. I tried "what can I make with these ingredients" for the ingredients "potato" "onion" and "egg", and it found spanish omlette, though the recipe was sort of shabby. But a number of other recipes looked fine, so at least it could be a first filter for what recipes I should be looking for.

Their search for "what recipes exclude these ingredients" has more dietary exclusions than I've ever seen before. (Citrus-free, Cow dairy-free, Gluten-free, Wheat-free, Egg-free, and Yeast-free? 155 matches.)

It's beta, and a bit clunky-feeling at times, but I will definitely play with this some more.

From epi_lj.

Transit, & Steal a Keeper

A Transit Strike in NYC is in its second day with no clear indication it'll end soon, which I guess means we won't be toodling into NYC to visit my Aunt or see the sights while we're on Long Island. At least, flying into LaGuardia, we should be able to go East on the island with no problem. I hope this goes OK. It may be stressful, what with family and more family.

In other news, the founders of Looney Labs, creators of super-cool card-games Fluxx, Aquarius and Chrononauts, are moving to Canada next spring. They describe some of their reasons for moving here. I think this is interesting for a few reasons. For one, their little games company is apparently expanding by this move, which is neat. For another, I believe they are the very first people I've heard of applying for Permanant Residence status in Canada primarily because they are fed up with the US. There have certainly been lots of stories about how lots of people have considered it, but there haven't apparently been so many people who actually did it. Since we didn't move to Canada for that reason, though it has certainly been a factor in our medium- to long-term plans about whether we're likely to stay here, I do wonder what we would be doing instead if we'd stayed in the US in 2001.

There are lots of thoughts going through my head about working for change from within the US, versus fleeing and feeling a bit powerless from outside the US.

(The title comes from a card in Looney Labs' game Fluxx BTW.)