Cooking for Nerds – Preliminaries

It's no secret that I happen to have a little bit of ADD when it comes to personal projects. As of this entry, I have 4 projects running: 2 comics, a portfolio redesign, and a cooking site. The comics are interesting challenges – I'm a decent illustrator, but I've never done anything besides one–offs or short series, and never had to maintain a consistent style. Also, I haven't drawn regularly since college. My portfolio redesign is an experiment building a site optimized for iPhone/iPad-style touchscreen browsing using jqTouch and my current site's portfolio assets. The cooking site is a larger endevour into content creation.

Coming Soon (again)

I have to put my plans to restart the Cooking for Nerds section on hold, but for a great reason – my company wants to produce something similar as an iPhone app for a potential client. How great is that?

So what's next, then? I'll continue the poster/book cover design exercises because they're so fun. I'm also going to work on an iPad and iPhone optimized version of my portfolio using jQTouch (a version of JQuery optimized for the iPhone, with additional functionality to mimic a native app). Last, I'm flexing my gritty/noir illustration skills by working on a graphic novel with a friend.

Good, Cheap, Fast.

When it comes to design, development, and pretty much anything else, you can quantify your work in a project by picking 2 of the 3 adjectives in the title.

But, if you're eating on a budget, you can find plenty of ways to stretch that. Idea #1: Pasta alla Puttanesca, a.k.a. Whore's Pasta. Sounds nicer in Italian.

Cooking for Nerds.

The title is a bit misleading. Really, it's cooking for people who haven't cooked before, and are just starting out on their own, or are getting sick of microwaving meals and getting takeout.

Cooking isn't hard - you simply need to be able to follow instructions and plan ahead of time.

Before you find a recipe though, take stock of your kitchen.