Author: Awais

Easter dinner isn’t as fixed as other food-centric holidays (looking at you, Thanksgiving). You can go classic with honey-baked ham or a roast lamb leg—or lean into spring with lighter fare and bright, fresh sides.Jump aheadAccordionItemContainerButtonThat flexibility is part of the fun—but it can make menu planning a little overwhelming. Consider this your guide to building a complete Easter dinner, with mains, sides, salads, and breads to help you pull it all together. Our advice? Go big. Mix a few classic Easter recipes with new favorites, fill the table, and make it a meal worth repeating year after year.

(CFD) is often seen as a black box of complex commercial software. However, implementing a solver “from scratch” is one of the most powerful ways to learn the physics of fluid motion. I started this as a personal project, and as a part of a course on Biophysics, I took it as an opportunity to finally understand how these beautiful simulations work. This guide is designed for data scientists and engineers who want to move beyond high-level libraries and understand the underlying mechanics of numerical simulations by translating partial differential equations into discretized Python code. We will also explore fundamental…

In my previous post, Prompt Caching — what it is, how it works, and how it can save you a lot of money and time when running AI-powered apps with high traffic. In today’s post, I walk you through implementing Prompt Caching specifically using OpenAI’s API, and we discuss some common pitfalls. A brief reminder on Prompt Caching Before getting our hands dirty, let’s briefly revisit what exactly the concept of Prompt Caching is. Prompt Caching is a functionality provided in frontier model API services like the OpenAI API or Claude’s API, that allows caching and reusing parts of the…

Feeding a crowd for dinner? You probably don’t want to make a bunch of different dishes (it’s not Thanksgiving!) but you also don’t want people to leave the table hungry. For me, a no-brainer crowd-pleaser is almost always baked pasta. It’s easy to find all the ingredients at the supermarket—and they’re affordable.But: I do have one qualm with classic iterations of baked pasta. They’re cooked in too deep a vessel. Most baked pasta recipes will have you assemble everything in a baking dish, so the top gets crisp and the rest of the casserole is soft. This means, for the…

Picture the ideal take-out pizza: tangy sauce, gooey cheese, glistening pepperoni cups, a few shakes of dusty oregano and crushed red pepper flakes. It’s all I ever really want on a Saturday night, even if I’m having people over. Somewhere between abandoning the craving for the sake of entertaining and actually just ordering a pizza lies this sheet-pan pasta. Boasting all of the flavors of a good pie with the works, this one comes together easily—with far less effort than most pastas deemed worthy of a dinner party.Unlike most baked pasta sauces, made in a pot on the stove, you’ll…

For 25 years, we’ve built websites for humans who click, scroll, and browse. That era is ending. I’ve been in website optimization for 15+ years, and this is the biggest shift I’ve seen since mobile. And honestly, I think it’s way bigger than that. The internet is undergoing its most significant transformation since it began. Your website now has two audiences: humans and AI agents. The agents are already here, shopping, researching, booking, and making decisions. The question is whether your website can serve them. This is the first article in a five-part series on optimizing websites for the agentic…

Step 1Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.Step 2In a bowl, toss 2 ripe plantains, peeled, diced, with 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, 1 tsp. kosher salt, ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper, and ½ tsp. smoked paprika until coated. Spread the plantain evenly on the prepared pan.Step 3Roast until tender and golden brown, about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly.Step 4In a large bowl, combine one 15-oz. (425 g) can black beans, drained, rinsed, 1 red bell pepper, diced, ½ large red onion, diced, ½ bunch of cilantro, chopped,…

The thickness of buttermilk varies widely from carton to carton. You may need to adjsut the amount you use for a given recipe. Photo by Travis Rainey, Prop Styling by Tim FerroWhat’s the best buttermilk for baking?Cookbook author Cheryl Day calls herself a “buttermilk purist.” When she bakes, she uses cultured buttermilk made with nonhomogenized, additives-free whole milk. “It’s low-temperature, vat-pasteurized,” she says, and praises its rich mouthfeel. “I buy it from a local dairy with happy cows.”Those details make all the difference. Commercial cultured buttermilks with lower fat and additives don’t have that “rich, pure flavor,” Day says. “There’s…

If your law firm’s referrals aren’t converting, validation may be the problem. Referred prospects don’t go straight from recommendation to contact. They research, compare, and verify what they were told — on your website, in search results, and through AI tools. These are your highest-value leads — pre-sold through trusted recommendations and expected to be your easiest conversions. But when that validation falls short, even they lose momentum.  This is the referral validation gap: the moments during online research when trust is broken rather than built. Here’s where referral validation fails and how to fix it. While this article focuses…

For years, I avoided events that revolved around food, and I didn’t like to let people see me eat. Even eating with my peers was an obstacle for me when I was in treatment. I thought people were looking at what I was eating and judging it, and I felt self-conscious about being messy or using my hands. Sometimes I still struggle with those feelings.On the other hand, it was cooking with others that really helped me become more comfortable engaging with food in a social setting. I remember one specific evening when some friends came over and we decided…