Author: Lisa

Lamb and Cauliflower Shepherd’s Pie

This dish has two components – the lamb mince and the cauliflower mash. For the mash, one large cauliflower was steamed with salted water until it was quite soft. I then chopped it into large chunks and placed it into the blender along with about 1/4c of cooking water and 1/4 of coconut milk.

Blended until it was smooth and creamy. Added salt, pepper, and garlic to taste.

The mince is ground lamb sauteed until it is cooked. Sliced onion and diced carrot were added and cooked. Bone broth gravy was added to coat the mixture. The mince was put into the bottom of single-serving pie plates

And it was topped with the cauliflower mash

Baked at 350 for 15 minutes, then broiled until browned

This was incredibly good – next time, I’ll brown the cauliflower mash more.

Coconut (Cauliflower) Rice

I made cauliflower coconut rice this afternoon – a 10oz package of the frozen cauliflower rice, heated in a little coconut oil until it was warm. Then added some garlic, salt, and black pepper. Finally stirred in about 1/4 cup of coconut milk and cooked until the liquid had boiled off.

Spaghetti Squash

I made spaghetti squash tonight – cut in half (although I’ve since learned to cut it the short way instead of the long way to get longer strands), rubbed with olive oil and salt, set for ten minutes, then roast at 375F for about 50 minutes. Once they were tender, I pulled the strands apart, added a little butter, pepper, and garlic.

Getting Cert Info From Host

An OpenSSL command to retrieve the cert chain from a host and parse out the CN and expiry info

[lisa@linux05 ~]# openssl s_client -connect 10.5.5.75:443 -servername lisa.rushworth.us -showcerts </dev/null 2>/dev/null | sed -n ‘/BEGIN CERTIFICATE/,/END CERTIFICATE/p’ | openssl x509 -noout -subject -startdate -enddate -nameopt RFC2253
subject=CN=lisa.rushworth.us
notBefore=Sep 2 03:28:34 2025 GMT
notAfter=Dec 1 03:28:33 2025 GMT

IBC Pumpkin

We are using the cage from an IBC tote for firewood, so there’s a spare large plastic square. We got some RGB solar lights to put inside & cut out shapes from a black plastic garbage bag. The shapes are adhered to the tote with rubber cement. When lit up, we’ve got a jack-o-lantern.

Ender 6

We finally have the Ender 6 printing – you need to keep the fan on any time the hot end is heating (or it clogs up), low retraction (2mm), and adjust the z offset as it prints the skirt (or brim, we’ve switched to using a brim to ensure adhesion)