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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: Recipes
I forgot to take a picture of this dish - so Physioprof, shut up :-) I don't even pretend that this is an authentic mexican mole. It's something that I whipped together because I felt like a mole, and...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:37 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Recipes
Lately, friday's have just been too busy for me to get around to posting a recipe. So I decided to switch my recipe posts to saturday. I'll try to be reliable about posting a recipe every saturday. I tried...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:10 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Recipes
My wife is chinese. So in our house, comfort food is often something chinese. For her, one of her very favorite things is dumplings, also known as pot-stickers. They're time consuming to make, but not difficult. They're really delicious,...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:04 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Recipes
About a month ago, I decided to make a nice special meal for my wife for mothers' day. I asked her what she wanted, and she said duck. This made me happy, since I consider duck to be one...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:49 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Recipes
I do all of the cooking in my house; my wife amazing at baking, but she's just totally lost when it comes to cooking. But given my commute, it's hard to start making a nice dinner when I get...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 5:46 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Recipes
It's been a while since I posted a recipe, and last week, I came up with a real winner, so I thought I'd share it. I absolutely love beef short ribs. They're one of the nicest cuts of beef...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:20 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Recipes
(Note: I've changed the transliteration of the name of the dish since the original version of the post. I think it's now the correct pinyin transliteration. Please correct me in the comments if you know, and it's still wrong.) Today...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:20 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Recipes
This is a recipe I created just a couple of weeks ago. I saw a beautiful Angus beef flank steak on sale, and wanted to find something to do with it. I came up with this idea of stuffing...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:03 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Recipes
This is an interesting recipe, in a very unusual vein for me. Homemade tonic water. I hate tonic water. I really despise the stuff. But like a lot of people, I have some strange twitchy muscle ticks, in my...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:02 AM • 25 Comments •
Category: Recipes
This is a complicated recipe. It takes a couple of days to do properly, and works best done with a slow-cooker. But it's worth it. It's a Taiwanese dish - a spicy beef noodle soup. It's pretty much the...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:08 PM • 10 Comments •
