I am a huge fan of Pho, a Vietnamese noodle soup. In Northern Virginia we were spoiled by having tons of fantastic Pho bowl restaurants. My favorite, Pho Bowl, was in Landsdowne center off of Beulah St in Alexandria.
Tampa, unfortunately, does not have many Pho restaurants. And none have wonderful owners and delicious Pho like Pho Bowl in VA. So we decided to try making it ourselves. We found numerous recipe’s online but we wanted one that did not require days to create the broth. Finally we found a recipe that one could make in a crock-pot.
I grabbed the list of ingredients and went to our local asian market. That place was packed! But fortunately, there were some nice folks there that helped us find the ingredients we needed so we went home dumped it into the crock-pot and waited.
It wasn’t long before our impatient kids exclaimed, ‘It smells like Pho!’ Soon we were all huddled around the crockpot sniffing the mixture… Mmmm, yes it did smell good!
It tasted good too! I suspect we will be cooking a lot more Pho in the future. Who knows, maybe one day we will be able to have fantastic Pho like we enjoyed at Pho Bowl!
Tags: crock-pot, Pho
I am still excited about openmolar. The story behind it’s development is very interesting; you should give it a listen. The author describes his motivation in a tllts podcast episode 290.
Neil, openmolar’s author, recently made a screencast of the program. It is an excellent intro to the features of the program. Check it out on tinyvid.tv.
Openmolar uses PyQt. I was surprised at how easy it is to build a gui. I picked up a great book on PyQt called Rapid Gui Programming with Python and Qt. It is a stellar book. Summerfields writing style is conversational; which is very rare for a computer book. I actually enjoy reading it. You should check it out if you are into PyQt.
Tags: openMolar, PyQt, python, Qt