Behold the Wake N’ Bacon alarm clock. You put a frozen slice of bacon in the clock the night before, set your alarm, and wake up the next morning to the delicious scent of bacon. This is good idea although I probably like bacon as much in my sleep as I do when I am awake. I could easily see myself grabbing the bacon and falling back to sleep immediately. (via Serious Eats)
Time Magazine’s Joel Stein asked six famous chefs to come up with a gourmet family meal for under $10. He writes about his experience with Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio, who cooked the meal at Stein’s house. Colicchio comes up with a menu of pork loin and spaghetti with a tomato, zucchini, eggplant, onion and fennel sauce.
I was inspired after reading the article and made the meal myself. I have to say, it may be one of the best recipes I have ever prepared. I’m very impressed he came up with it on the fly, especially with the price restriction. Stein talks about the amount of oil Colicchio uses, so I made sure to be liberal with the olive oil. I definitely used alot. But it tasted great.
Here’s the recipe. The only thing I would add; the fennel takes longer to cook than expected, so make sure to cook it for a couple of minutes before adding the onions.
The Global Rich List will let you know where your wealth ranks against the entire world. You may be suprised. (via Accidental Creative)
A lucky group of students from Broad Run High School in Virginia got to hear their graduation speech from Patton Oswalt, an alumni of the school. The speech is full of great nuggets. On advice and life lessons:
Advice is everywhere in this world. Your friends, family, teachers and strangers are all happy to give it. A lesson is yours and yours alone. Some of them take years to recognize and utilize. My lesson was this – experience, and reward and glory are meaningless unless you’re open and present with the people you share them with in the moment.
On the trappings of “cool”:
Reputation, Posterity and Cool are traps. They’ll drain the life from your life. Reputation, Posterity and Cool = Fear. Let me put that another way. Bob Hope once said, “When I was twenty, I worried what everything thought of me. When I turned forty, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me. And then I made it to sixty, and I realized no one was ever thinking of me.” And then he pooed his pants, but that didn’t make what he said any less profound.
Check out the whole speech over at his website.
Miles Anthony Benjamin Robinson - Buriedfed
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Two great videos for two songs I can’t get enough of lately.
The latest short film from PES.
A calendar with a bubble to pop every day. This may be more tempting than an Advent calendar. (via Buzzfeed)
Count me as one of the people who somehow never learned how to use this device. The Kitchn explains how.
