Last night stumbled arcross this blog, Kalyn’s Kitchen, looks like it has lots of great recipes and ideas I would like to try. Starting with this one, although first I will need to make a trip to Penzey’s.

Rosemary Salt
(makes about 4 cups)

3 cups sea salt crystals
1 1/2 cups dried rosemary (cracked rosemary is best)

(If you don’t have cracked rosemary, measure rosemary and put into food processor with steel blade attached. Process about 2 minutes, until rosemary is broken into small bits.)

Combine salt and rosemary in food processor and process with steel blade less than one minute, until salt and rosemary are well combined. Don’t process too long. You want this to still have a slightly chunky texture.

Suggested uses: Use sparingly, as you would regular salt. Sprinkle on fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, or avocado. An excellent seasoning for eggs, potatoes, butternut squash, or chicken. Delicious on any type of roasted or grilled vegetables.

Call it. My problem is I almost always leave my phone on silent. Very cool service though, and they leave you a nice voice mail.

I need to restart my computer, but first I will post these links (so I can find them again)

• Plastic Bag Tutorial (good way to re-use plastic bags - although I don’t really sew so I am not sure I could really use this for anything)
• Dinner in the Sky (pretty crazy, I would totally do it)
• Pack and Find (website to help keep track of all the stuff you pack away. Haven’t tried it yet but plan to)

BBC’s annual 100 things we didn’t know last year. I swear I knew some of these things more than a year ago (for example the milk in tea thing) but I can’t prove it.

Buzzillions
Based on real buyer feedback, they help you find, compare, and decide on the right product. Users are guided to similar consumers by asking how they will use the product and what sort of consumer they are (”Getting Started, Casual User, Professional, etc..).

Kayak
Know when to fly - compares low airfares and shows when it is cheapest to fly. Many useful tools for narrowing down your search by price, time of day, and so on.

BugMeNot
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).

RetailMeNot
A catalog of online coupons posted and reviewed by users. The coupons vary from sites like JCrew to Amazon to ebay. And they have a nice Firefox plug in.

How Stuff Works
Pretty self explanatory.

I was hoping to go for a quick walk over lunch today, but it is raining yet again. Good for the garden and lawn, not so good for outdoor exercise (although Sunday evening I walked despite the rain, and got wet).

So, instead, some links I found interesting: The Curse (or power) of Low-fat Labels and What Does 200 calories look like?

McDonald’s forced to shut from lack of patronage in healthy town and Research Shows That Tea Can Help You To Focus. I am glad to say I drink tea everyday and do not eat McDonald’s food.

Here is a link to the NATC Flight Explorer. It shows you all the flights currently in the air, and helps us appreciate what a difficult job air traffic controllers have. You can also zoom up on cities, such as Minneapolis.

Where were you 15 years ago today? August 6th, 1991 the World Wide Web was born. I was 13 that year, and had no clue anything such as this was brewing. BBC has a cool story line and more details.

Why not? CatsinSinks.com.