Cooking: Lemon Butter via Tasty Kitchen
This is the second time I've posted about this delicious lemon butter. It is so wonderfully fresh, especially during this drab time of the year. I decided to live on the wild side, and opted not to use a double boiler, instead cooking it over low heat and stirring constantly. It came out just fine, and was a lot less finicky to make than last time. If you are going to make this lemon butter, though, do invest in a microplane of some sort -- it will make zesting the lemons immensely easier!News: Safeway in Discussion for Possible Sale via Progressive Grocer
This past year has been pretty rough for Safeway; last year, the company divested itself of 72 stores in the Chicago area, some of which have been picked up by competitors like Whole Foods. Even with those underperforming stores gone, the company's 2013 sales hadn't grown at all compared to 2012 numbers, and any same-store increases in sales were eaten up by decreasing fuel sales. Basically, Safeway is going nowhere, and in the highly competitive grocery industry, that's bad news. Getting rid of underperforming stores is generally speaking a good thing for short-term performance, but the affects of backing out of entire geographic areas may come back to bite them. With all this going on, Safeway has announced that it is in talks to be bought out by a private investment firm of some sort. According to this article, the firm is Cerberus Capital Management (though this fact isn't officially confirmed), which has some pretty significant
experience in the grocery industry all ready, so all in all, the sale might be a good move for Safeway.
This Computer Game Lets You Stomp Peasants with the Famous Monty Python Foot via Yahoo! Tech
For those Monty Python fans, a bit of light amusement. You play the giant foot from Monty Python, squashing peasants and knights. This is a simple, though entertaining, game. Go play it!
(imgs via Wikipedia, Yahoo! Tech)
