If you haven't already figured out I am not posting daily as I originally set out. Many times it's not because I am not doing stuff, it's just that when I do have a free moment I want to do something and not post. I have been trying to figure out ways that I can spend less time posting since when I do post I like to include as much information as possible and pictures are something I think are necessary to help tell the story. I have found an app called Lightroom and I really like it so far. I am able to adjust the camera so I doing less modifications afterwards with the goal I am able to just snap and post.

Next, for a while I was wondering why not a single person has posted on this project or my light switch project to only realize I haven't done the same. Going forward I am going to make an effort to comment at least once a week on a project I am following. Even if it's a simple as a couple words of encouragement.

I figured I would post a great meal I made over the weekend. I love finding ways to make a meal that you typically don't do a home easy and taste just as good. For me I miss really good east coast Italian food and Seattle has a couple good places but its not the same and its typically a fancier restaurant and not your corner pizza shop. One dish I love is chicken parm and Trader Joe's has a pretty good already prepared version in their fresh food case. I think the chicken breast they use are a little too think and you don't get a proper chicken to breading to cheese to sauce ratio. My solution was to use their already prepared chicken tenders and then top with cheese and sauce.

The steps are rather simple:

1. Prepare chicken tenders per the instructions in a glass baking pan however set a timer for the lower time listed since we will be cooking the chicken a for plenty of time to melt the cheese. For the TJ's brand I used the time was only 15 minutes for the first step. TIP: Put some parchment paper down in your pan first and clean up is a breeze.
2. Remove from oven and generously top tenders with parmesan cheese. Return to oven until cheese is melted, around 5 minutes.
3. Remove from oven and generously top with marina sauce and more parmasan cheese. Return to oven until cheese is melted, this may take up to 10 minutes since you are also warming up the sauce.
4. Remove and let cool for 5 minutes then serve. I typically like to serve over a bed of angel hair pasta and some steamed vegetables.

Now onto other things I have been working on. I have been slowing printing a Valentine's gift for my wife who is a high school science teacher. I have been printing up bits and pieces of it over the last week and up until today it was just weird 3D printed shapes.

In the end its suppose to be a single molecule of phenanthrene, which looks like a heart. The carbon are colored in red and the hydrogen are white. I was originally going to print it in red however wasn't able to find a cheap PLA red that I could get in time. I ended up painting white PLA with red arcylic paint which turned out amazing and is the first time I ever painted a PLA print. I would recommend buying a mutli-color paint set and just painting your prints rather then buying tons of filament. Here is the project files on Thingiverse. I will post pictures of the final product.