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Welcoming Fall: Sweet and Spicy Harvest Curry
A long, slow simmer gives this curry a thick, sweet sauce.
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 apple, chopped
1 large carrot, sliced
1/2 cup vegetable broth
1 8oz can kidney beans
5 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 tsp pickled green peppercorns
1/2 tsp whole cumin seeds
olive oil
salt
curry powder, or your own signature spice blend. I used: pepper, chili powder, ground cumin, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, cardamom, turmeric.
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Beth Ann's no-nightshade pasta sauce
I made this today for the first time in years. When I was a teenager, I was looking for a non-tomato pasta sauce because I am allergic to tomatoes. Beth Ann, a family friend, developed this sauce because nightshades aggravate joint conditions like arthritis and therefore her husband couldn't eat them. In the years since she passed it on to me, I've mislaid the original recipe but the spirit of the meal is easy to recreate. [more]
Today I discovered READ ME: A Bloggers Disclaimer.
I like it when somebody writes up a detailed discussion of etiquette as it applies to new technologies. I never seem to run out of new questions, though.
When is it appropriate to offer spelling and grammar corrections, and how are they best conveyed? (I offer them up as gently as possible only when the piece is polished and/or impassioned enough that it looks like something intended to stick around. Most journals are ephemeral and spelling corrections are really just silly.)
How about factual corrections?
What do you do if you think somebody's alluding to you in their journal? This is sort of the extended version of the real-life "Are you mad at me? You're frowning." I admit to a pang every time I see a friend post in a journal that they're pissed off at some unnamed person...maybe it's me! As far as I know, it's never *been* me, but I always wonder anyway. If I'm really worried, I'll send off email..."That wasn't me, was it? I don't think I do that, but if I do, please tell me!"
hmm. more journal etiquette issues?
visitors
y'know, I appreciate you all, but you people who search for 'sev' and then browse my pictures and then cast votes on my journal entries...Leave a more lasting impression and talk back! Positive feedback & information about what you like tends to encourage me to write more.
Yeah, that means you, the one from Newport News who just surfed through, too. Whoever you are.
For years I've used analog to analyze my webserver logfiles. It's robust and fast, but one thing sets it apart from any other logfile analyzer I've used: analog's author, Steven Turner, has a Ph.D. in statistics and it *shows*.
People keep talking to me about webalizer, though. I could tell it was easy to use, because I kept having conversations that went like:
"I'm having trouble with my CGI, can you help me?"
"Are you seeing errors in your server logs?"
"What are server logs? Do you mean these?"
...and they'd proudly display their webalizer reports.
Okay, so this is one of those things that doesn't require you to understand anything about logfiles to use. Combine that with the wealth of information I saw on the reports, and the pretty eye-candy chart graphics, I wondered if it wasn't time for me to make the switch. I've been spending a little time polishing and updating, and the statistics help me focus more energy on pages people actually visit.
Webalizer is pretty and accessible, but analog is flexible and powerful and gives me data I just can't see how to expose in webalizer. Most likely, I will go back to what I've been doing over the past few years: run a report once or twice a year, learn a thing or two about how people use my site, and then go back to not caring. But if you care to read about my observations about each program anyway, read on... [more]
cheshire cheese
today's munching cheese: English Cheshire.
It's a very crumbly aged cheddar, with a texture nearly like wet chalk -- not the very firm, resiliant cheese most people think of when "cheddar" is the subject. The wedge I got doesn't have a rind, but it does have a whitish bloom on the outside.
It's very sharp and salty, and has a more complex flavor than I usually expect out of cheddar.
And it's peach-colored.
yum.
I really meant to spend a leisurely morning reading magazines and drinking coffee, really I did.
But the second magazine I picked up had an ad for Sim City 4 -- already! It's not supposed to come out until November! As I'm sure was intended, the ad caught my interest and now I'm spending a leisurely morning reading articles about Sim City 4 on EA's website. Oops!
crushed tomatoes
surprising (to me, at least) lesson of the day: crushed tomatoes, at least the can of them I bought, have more in common with tomato paste than they do with diced tomatoes.
that wasn't at all what I was expecting. Especially given the picture on the can.
I think I will try this recipe again one day using diced tomatoes, instead.
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