I got it working on my site. The Tasting Menu site uses tables for layout and I used CSS. Which means if my post is shorter than the date block is pushes over the next entry.
I also made the time big instead of the day of the month.
Here’s what the index.php code looks like.
<div class="meta">
<div class="dateSquare">
<div class="date-big">
<?php the_time() ?>
<br/>
</div>
<div class="date">
<?php the_time('l'); /* day of the week */?> <br/>
<?php the_time('F'); /* full month of the year */?> <br/>
<?php the_time('d'); /* day of the month */?> <br/>
<?php the_time('Y'); /* Year */?><br/>
<hr/>
<?php the_category() ?>
<!--?php the_author() ?-->
</div>
</div>
I may do a little editing in the near future to change the format a little.