I made braised shortribs and roasted parsnip today. I also made a baked version of tostones. Steam the plantains (cut the ends off, steam or microwave for ~3 minutes per plantain), cut them into rounds, then squish into a flat nugget. Lightly coat with salt and olive oil, then bake at 425. 10 minutes, flip, and ten more minutes. It could use some sort of sauce, but they are very similar to potato nuggets.
Expanding a qcow2-backed system disk (host + guest) — guest volume is lvm and xfs file system
HOST (resize qcow2)
GUEST (grow partition, PV, LV, filesystem)
Saute 4 cloves of garlic in 1/2 cup olive oil. Add salt and 1 lb of medium shrimp (peeled and deveined). Cook for a few minutes until the shrimp is cooked. Add 1 Tbsp of lemon juice and 1 tsp of lemon zest. Toss with cooked garbanzo spaghetti. A quick, and tasty, meal.
Our Exchange server was refusing mail
451 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX5
Attempts to send mail would connect, send data, and then hang for a few seconds before returning the tempfail error.
Looks like there’s “sender reputation” data stored at .\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\data\SenderReputation that is used. Since I’m not actually doing filtering on the Exchange server, stopping the transport services, moving the files out of the folder, and then re-starting the services rebuilt the data and allowed mail to send again.
About 1.5 cups of mashed cassava
1 cup cassava flour and 2 tsp salt
Mix together and add enough vegetable stock to make a dough — it rolled out very nicely, cut into nuggets and smooshed with a fork.
The gnocci was boiled for about three minutes in salted water then fried in olive oil to crisp up. They were really gelatinous after boiling. I think it would have been better to sit and dry before frying.
You can run lsof -p with a comma-delimited list of PIDs — but you can also transform the pidof output into a comma separated list of PIDs. Which means you can run lsof for all of the PIDs associated with a specific program. In my case, it’s rsync …
lsof -p “$(pidof rsync | tr ‘ ‘ ‘,’)”
Found a neat pair of methods that were added in Python 2.5 — it’s like split/index except it handles breaking the string into two elements for you. A tuple is returned with the part before the separator, the separator, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, element 0 and 1 are empty strings.
C:\Users\lisa> python
Python 3.13.3
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> test = “This is a string | with pipe characters as | delimiters in the string”
>>> print(test.rpartition(“|”)[0])
This is a string | with pipe characters as
>>> print(test.partition(“|”)[0])
This is a string
>>>
On my thought that the banana ketchup would make a good barbecue sauce, I cooked some pork this evening with the banana sauce. It is pretty good – although I might want to use a little less vinegar next time.
The idea was to make a pizza-like meal without any wheat, tomatoes, or refined sugar. This crust didn’t work so well, and the sauce is more of a barbecue sauce than a tomato paste.
The dough was the Paleo Baking Flour from Bob’s Mill — recipe from the back of the bag. I added some ground flax seed. It was something, but didn’t hold up as a pizza crust.
Sauce was a “banana ketchup”
Heat olive oil in a pan, add onion, garlic, and ginger and saute until onions are translucent. Add mashed banana and stir. Mix in remaining ingredients except water. Cool over low heat for at least 15 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Blend in a food processor until a smooth puree forms.
Fresh “sausage” – cube pork, sprinkle with salt and fennel seeds. Allow to sit for at least 15 minutes. Grind, saute until cooked.
Topped the dough with sauce, fresh sausage, and cheese (still working on a good AIP cheese replacement!). It was good, but not pizza.
Anya made a turkey silhouette from a black trash bag, and we glued (rubber cemented) it to our holiday IBC. The solar LEDs inside will illuminate it tonight. I think the turkey turned out wonderfully – she asked me a few times if I’d know it was a turkey. But, once we saw it on the plastic square, she loved it too.
