Homemade Spanish Rice

 

Ingredients:

Vegetable Oil

Salt

Black Pepper

Cayenne Pepper

White Rice

Water

Butter

Mini Peppers

Onion

Tomato Sauce

3D Printing

So our blender broke last year. The only thing that needed to be replaced was the connector between the motor and the blade. This past summer Anthony drew up the replacement part on Solid Works and printed it off on a 3D printer. We tried it with the blender but the blender sheered off parts of the connector.

Tonight, Anthony reconfigured the printing instructions so that the replacement connector part would no longer be hollow. He tried printing the part with our new 3D printer. This second new replacement part was solid, and it worked when we tried it with our blender!

Unfortunately, the smoothie we made in the blender did not work. We had planned on a banana peach smoothie but the peach was rotten inside. We switched our plan to a banana nut smoothie. The outcome chewed like raspberry walnut vinaigrette, and tasted like banana bread batter- nasty.

 The Sheered 1st Replacement Part

 

Printing The 2nd Replacement Part

 

Banana Nut Smoothie

 

2nd Replacement Part Still Intact After Blending

Fries

Now fries are another Garland tradition that Anthony introduced to me. I believe this tradition typically included cheese and meat for toppings. My version this evening revolved around a split pea and ham soup inspiration due to the absence of traditional Garland ingredients in our freezer and refrigerator on this cold night.

Fries

Thick Cut Fries

Shredded Mozzarella

Green Sweet Peas

Lunch Meat Bologna

Chopped Onion

Black Pepper

 

Engineering 101 With Daddy

This evening Shastya got to observe Daddy assembling a new 3D printer from Baoyan Automation. Daddy continues to work on software for this printer. Mommy worked on some of the editing for the manual. We set the new 3D printer on a table next to our 2D printer.

 

 

 

 

Thick Toast

 

Thick Toast

Bread

Eggs

Milk

Cinnamon

Brown Sugar

Vanilla