If you’ve ever had gout, you’ll know the line-up of suspects in that cartoon all too well: the throbbing big toe, the swollen ankle, the knuckle that won’t bend. The usual advice is to cut back on high-purine foods — but “eat fewer purines” is a lot easier said than cooked. What do you actually make for dinner on a Tuesday? What I needed was a low-purine meal planner.
(more…)Category: Home, Food & Garden
Recipes, meal planning, cooking, plants, garden design
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Landscape design with Claude: My front-yard border looks great!
Claude and I make a great team: I constructed a prompt for a front-border planting scheme; Claude designed a layout and recommended a list of plants; I drove to the garden centre, purchased them, and arranged for a landscaper to plant them. I can recommend landscape design with Claude!
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Vibe-Coding with Claude: A personalized cocktail-recipe generator
A cocktail is a symphony of gustatory, olfactory, and visual pleasures, garnished with fun. As a newbie to the mixology world, keen to expand my cocktail repertoire, I sought some help in devising a few new ones. So, I vibe-coded a personalized mixology app. Time to crack open the drinks cabinet!
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Cooking with Claude: Harissa-spiced fish and shrimp tagine
As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In my case, it was a tagine, staple of Middle-Eastern cooking, rather than a pudding that was being eaten. And the proof in question was whether a Claude-generated recipe actually worked.
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A personalized recipe generator
Fed up with following the same old recipes? Me too. After stewing on the issue for a while, I decided to put together an appetizing prompt, and have Claude rustle up a personalized recipe generator app for me. In my mind’s eye, I could picture the tasty new dishes I would soon be preparing using my favorite techniques. So, Claude, let’s get cooking…
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Designing a planting scheme for a front-yard border, using Claude
Large language models seem to be pretty good at a lot of things. But, do they have green fingers, and can they find their way around a garden center?
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