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US Senate Inaguration Recipes

J.Wo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:27:00 +0000

The US Senate held an lunch today to celebrate President Obama’s inaguration, and posted the recipes. The luncheon is held for most inagurations, and is served with “cuisine reflecting the home states of the new President and Vice President”.You can download the recipes in PDF form.The Lunch:

First Course: Seafood Stew
Second Course: Duck and Pheasant with Sour Cherry Mash and Molasses Sweet Potatoes
Third Course: Apple Cinnamon Sponge Cake

Note: First found on Lifehacker

Facebook Page for We Eatt

J.Wo — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:36:01 +0000

If you have a facebook account, show your fb friends that you’re a fan of We Eatt. Just find the weeatt facebook page and click “become a fan”.

When you do, facebook will add an item to your newsfeed like the following example:

The We Eatt Facebook page is located at http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Eatt/40837489703 or just search fb for “We Eatt”.

Happy Holidays from We Eatt!

J.Wo — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:58:38 +0000

We wish your family a safe and deliriously happy holiday season, including a Merry Christmas a Happy Hanukkah (and any other holiday you may celebrate). Enjoy good food, good friends and great wine!

Have a happy new year, and we’ll celebrate We Eatt’s 1 year birthday in January 09!

Thanksgiving Recipes on We Eatt

J.Wo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:48:26 +0000

The most popular recipes on We Eatt today have been Thanksgiving recipes. Here’s a rundown of some of our favorites:

Breads

Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Pumpkin Spread

Sides and Casseroles

Dressings

Turkey

Alton Brown Roast Turkey (on food network)
Paula Dean Deep Fried Turkey (on food network)

Pies and Desserts

To find more, you can search for Thanksgiving, view all tags with thanksgiving, or explore the sides.

Good luck tomorrow, and thanks for using We Eatt.

Upgrading Servers

J.Wo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:21:01 +0000

We’re adding capacity to our We Eatt servers tonight (12 Nov 2008), so you may experience a little downtime during the transition. We’ll be updating our Status page when we start and end the migration, so check over there if we’re down over here.

The new server will have more memory; we love and highly recommend SliceHost for your web needs.

Downtime Explained

J.Wo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:18:29 +0000

Sorry for the downtime on Sunday, October 12, 2008. We Eatt was unavailable for about an hour.

Our provider logged that we were using up too much memory, which caused them to reboot our server.

We updated at status.weeatt.com and will post a technical explanation there.

We hope this doesn’t happen again

Economy Encouraging Cooking at Home

J.Wo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:34:23 +0000

It’s not just us! We’re cooking more at home now than we ever have; the economy is encouraging (and sometimes forcing) families to spend less time and money at restaurants, but more time at home cooking. We couldn’t be happier! I think the more we know about food and about cooking, the more we appreciate what restaurants do to put quality food consistently on our plates.From the article:

It saves you a lot more money if you just buckle down and focus on eating at home

And cooking magazines and Web sites are booming even as magazine sales overall have suffered.

About 45 percent of Americans are eating out less this year to save money

Hurricane Ike - Looking Back

J.Wo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:26:33 +0000

It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Ike hit Houston. Over 80% of the city now has power and things are returning to normal.We Eatt was able to weather the storm with no performance problems, which is pretty cool.It’s designed to be self sufficient, and for the most part is (save the rare service restarts that we document on http://status.weeatt.com).Thanks for using We Eatt, we love having you here!

Hurrican Ike - Impact on We Eatt

J.Wo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:03:41 +0000

We’re based in a suburb just outside of Houston, which is in the direct path of Hurricane Ike. We should be fine, but there might be a period of time (1 day to 2 weeks) where we don’t have any power. You can view an interactive map of Hurricae Ike.
www.weeatt.com will be fine though; it’s stored in a datacenter provided by SliceHost (they’re awesome), and they’re states away from us.

However, if the site goes dark, and we don’t have power, we probably won’t know about it for a little bit.

You can check status.weeatt.com for updates as we have them.

Restarts and Future Updates

J.Wo — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:40:07 +0000

We had to restart We Eatt this afternoon (August 8th), and I decided to implement something I’ve been procrastinating against. Anytime we have any minor blips, such as Slicehost DOS attacks (check), weird rails erorrs (check), and site upgrades (check check).

You can view any status changes on http://status.weeatt.com. We use Tumblr for this service, so if our server(s) die, you can still go there to get the information.

We’ll also post information about upgrades and planned outages there too.

We Eatt on.