again, thanks to sam the cooking guy
ingredients
- 1-two pound london broil
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped fine
- kosher salt and pepper
- 1 sourdough baguette
- ⅔ cup horseradish sauce
- 4 oz arugula leaves (or spring mix lettuce)
- olive oil
been watching some sam the cooking guy lately… i think i can tackle these…
bacon-wrapped scallops
ingredients
- 1 lb sea scallops, defrosted
- 12 slices of pre-cooked bacon
- 1/4 cup teriyaki sauce
- 2 skewers
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
on the topic of “figuring things out wrt coding” — i was working on converting a site to wordpress and was trying to figure out how to get a home page movie to appear ONLY on the home page (easily).
so i looked around and found out there was a wordpress function called “is_front_page()”
so, along with a nifty fade in/fade out script, i created this in the header.php file:
<?php
if ( is_front_page() ) {
echo "
<div class=\"hpmovie\">
<div id=\"xlide\">
<img src=\"wp-content/themes/[THEMENAME]/images/5.jpg\"
alt=\"\" />
<img src=\"wp-content/themes/[THEMENAME]/images/11.jpg\"
alt=\"\" />
...
</div>
</div>
";
}
?>
so basically, if it’s the home page, it’ll write stuff to the page… boom
so this won’t make sense to any of you, but i was pretty proud of myself when i made this. i used various xsl elements to basically have the page pull data from an xml document:
xsl
...
<xsl:variable name="readmore">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@readmore != ''">
<xsl:value-of select="@readmore" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
See all <xsl:value-of select="@title" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<div style="font-size:8pt;">
<a href="{@url}"><xsl:value-of select="$readmore" /></a>
</div>
...
this is a sample of the xml that it pulls:
<page id="..." title="Newsletters" url="newsletters.asp" thumbnail="include/media/images/products-newsletters.gif" description="blah blah blah">
so since there isn’t a title attribute to this node, it’ll default to the title. on the page, it’ll say “See all Newsletters”
i made it myself! yay