WordPress and MailChimp

WordPress and MailChimp

Mail Chimp is a full featured mailing list service that helps you stay in contact with your readers or customers. It provides lots of tools for analyzing how your message is reaching folks and you can design beautiful email templates that match your brand. With all...
iPhone Apps that have slipped away

iPhone Apps that have slipped away

Lots of really interesting photo manipulation tools have been created by independent developers, but once they are purchased (for $.99) there is no recurring revenue stream, so no incentive to update an app as Apple moves forward with the platform and changes occur in...
A Few Favorite WordPress Plugins

A Few Favorite WordPress Plugins

These are some of the plugins I enjoy using when building WordPress websites WP Help – A great plugin designed to create a collection of posts only visible from the dashboard. I use it to document things about the website. Envira Gallery – The free version...
Spice Islands Spaghetti Sauce Seasoning

Spice Islands Spaghetti Sauce Seasoning

This spice mixture was a staple of my father’s spaghetti recipe, so I was really distressed to hear it had been discontinued by the Spice Island folks. The excellent website site Epicurious has a copy of the mixture recipe from the spiceisland.com website and...
My Dad’s Spaghetti Sauce

My Dad’s Spaghetti Sauce

Many Sundays at our house my father would make spaghetti. The fragrant scents of tomatoes, garlic and red wine would fill the house for hours while the sauce simmered to perfection. This isn’t really a recipe that you type up and give to someone. It’s best...
Southwestern Minestrone Soup

Southwestern Minestrone Soup

This is based on a fairly classic Minestrone recipe modified with the New Mexico adage “it’s always better with green chile”. And I just really like pinto beans better than kidney beans 🙂 1 T olive oil 1 C chopped onion 4 ribs celery 3 cloves garlic...