Month: May 2002

dinner

Potato Gatto

I have made a few modifications to this recipe.

First as vegetarians, salami isn’t going to work for us, but LightLife Gimme Lean sausage works just fine. I also use buttermilk in the potatoes. I never have the high-end mozzarella around, but the regular kinds work well: gruyere works well too, and I intend to try a smoked mozzarella sometime.

The full 40 minutes of baking is worth doing: you want the cheese to be molten . . . .

low tide excursion

The lowest tide of the spring comes this weekend: -2.7 feet today, -3.0 feet tomorrow. Amazing varieties of marine life on display, from sea stars (more than a foot across) to anemones, clustered on decaying wooden pilings. Some crabs, lots of snails. A moon snail the size of a baseball (photo to come).

We’ll be heading out again tomorrow: simply amazing and totally free. The water must be pretty clean to support so much sea life so close to urbanization.

I wish they wouldn’t do this

Googlebot hits each page twice, presumably to work around dynamic content: I understand the reasoning, but it would be useful if that “feature” were disabled when the ‘bot realizes the content-length is identical on the repeated requests.

Surely, we expect robots.txt to be static?
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0” 200 0 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0” 200 0 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000057.html HTTP/1.0” 200 6115 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000057.html HTTP/1.0” 200 6115 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.220 – – [25/May/2002:21:23:41 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000004.html HTTP/1.0” 200 5388 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.220 – – [25/May/2002:21:23:41 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000004.html HTTP/1.0” 200 5388 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
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dinner

Tonight, homemade pizza on the grill. This seems to be common here in the Northwest. It works really well, especially with a pizza stone on the grill.

Home made dough for the crust, home made marinara sauce, veggie pepperoni, spinach, and cheeses on one, sundried tomatoes, spinach, and cheeses on the other. Nice and crisp and browned on 9 minutes.