gorirrajoe

Dec 09

2020

Sheet Pan Pizza

got the original idea from sam the cooking guy. it’s super tasty no matter what toppings you add to it… a couple lessons learned from it though:

if buying a 1 pound dough ball from the store, definitely take it out of the fridge to get to room temp — it’ll help the process of stretching it out
actually, if you’re using a large sheet pan, definitely get 2 pounds of dough to properly stretch it to the edges. made that mistake and had to downgrade to the smaller sheet pan

Oct 15

2020

Instant Pot Chicken Broccoli Mac & Cheese

the only tough part about this recipe is having to grate the cheese block, which is preferred. i guess if you get pre-shredded cheese, it won’t melt as nice and you’ll get clumpage.

otherwise, it’s a super easy recipe that’s all done in the instant pot. you’ll have food for two people for 2-3 days

Jul 17

2020

Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff

comfort foods are the best foods. they’re an awesome treat every once in a while…

it’s creamy, meaty, noodley, and ALWAYS hits the spot

Jul 16

2020

WordPress: Disable the Gutenberg Editor

i’m not here to judge — change is tough. but i will say that gutenberg makes the content creation experience so fun

that said, you might have a site where gutenberg isn’t necessary (a bunch of metadata options for each page/post type)

so instead of installing an older version of wordpress (v4.9.*), use this function to disable gutenberg and revert to the classic editor

Jul 16

2020

Gutenberg: Modify Image Block Markup

i admit that i was afraid of upgrading to the new gutenberg editor… either preventing my site from upgrading to v5.0 or even adding a function to keep the classic editor alive.

in developing my site, i wanted to include performance enhancements. namely, lazyloading using lozad. however, out of the box, the image block markup looks like this:

Jul 10

2020

i absolutely love the sous vide method of cooking — especially for red meat. the tri-tip cut can be difficult to grill since it’s got different thicknesses from end to end. some parts will be perfect, some will still be under temp… it’s stressful.

sous vide to the rescue!

Jul 09

2020

Salsa Verde Casserole

this recipe came from our local trader joe’s — had no idea they did such a thing. pretty smart of them since you get everything you need right there. this is super easy to make and it doesn’t take much time at all!

Jul 08

2020

White Beans with Spinach & Sausage

this soup is definitely a staple in our house. this makes enough for 2 nights (for 2 people). serve it with some rustic-ass bread

Jul 07

2020

Improving site performance using Lighthouse

as mentioned in my previous post, i used lighthouse to create reports to show the status of four important stats: performance, accessibility, best practices, and seo

Initial report

here was the initial report created on launch day

Lighthouse report — initial launch day lighthouse report

“all green” (90-100 scores) was the initial goal