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Ingredients
Instructions
- Start cooking brown rice (1 cup rice with 2 cups water, I add a little olive oil).
- Start cooking quinoa (1 cup quinoa 2 cups water, I added a little vegetable stock, it is not likely necessary).
- The sauce: In a small sauce pan add all ingredients minus the 2 tablespoons cornstarch and the 1/4 cup cold water. I cooked on medium heat until it started to boil.
- In a separate small bowl, mix cornstarch and 1/4 cup water until is entirely disolved. Then add to the sauce pan. It will thicken up pretty quickly and you will want to stir it. If it’s too think add more water. Turn heat to low or turn it off.
- Prepare vegetables to your liking. I used the above because that is all I had in the fridge, get creative! This recipe, does not require you to cook your vegetables, so do not feel the need to stir fry them.
- When rice and quinoa are complete, add to your bowl, then add vegetables and lastly spoon some teriyaki sauce on top. I found that a little went a long way!
Inspired by
If you have ever had a meal from FRESHII, I would recommend it. The first time I was there, I picked up their menu and I have been using it for ideas ever since. They use, predominately, fresh ingredients. This recipe, for the most part (except for the sauce), is original, but I would not be telling the truth if there was not inspiration from else where. The sauce came from the following link.
Closing
The dish was a fun one to make. It is pretty quick except for preparing the rice, and that is not too bad if you plan ahead of time. I cut the vegetables a little larger than I would the next time. Also, the sauce recipe above I was able to freeze into two dishes after the meal was over. A little forewarning that the sauce jellies a little after being frozen, but still tastes really good!
OpenSSH
This is big! This is not just the OpenSSH client, this is the server, too! For years, you had to add work arounds to get OpenSSH Server installed. Most recently, the Windows Subsystem for Linux allowed a user to add support through BASH (which is cool in itself!), and before that through Cygwin. However, this is no longer the case, you will be able to install through the feature wizard in Windows. Follow this blog post from msdn to get the details!
Closing
I am extremely excited about this for more than one reason.
- OpenSSH is a powerful tool, the flexibility for which you can do with it is quite boundless.
- My projects that I have been working on, would benefit greatly from this.
- I will add, the time is nigh, and I feel I will be able to showcase it!
Cabbage Vegetable Soup
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion (sliced)
- 5 carrots (chopped)
- 4 celery stalks (chopped)
- 1 green bell pepper (chopped)
- 12 cups water
- 2 cups cabbage (chopped)
- ¼ dried splitpeas
- 1 15oz can of chickpeas (undrained)
- Vegetable broth base powder
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Salt, if necessary
Instructions
- In a large soup pot heat olive oil on medium high
- When oil is warm, sauté onions for 5 minutes. Then add carrots, followed by celery and bell pepper. Continue cooking until the onions are golden brown.
- Add water, cabbage, dried splitpeas, and chickpeas. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium low. Add vegetable broth powder as specified for 6-8 cups water (I did not need to add the full allotment)
- I did not measure, but I liberally applied black pepper and salted a little bit.
- Let cook for about an hour and a half to two hours, then feel free to serve!
Closing
The soup has a mild flavor I found quite enjoyable. I would like to include, this is a different soup than I traditionally prepare. With that said, most of my vegetable soups consist of what I have on hand. The next time I make this, I would substitute the chickpeas with a bean. Give it a shot!
Current projects
Before bringing this website up, I was working on two projects. One was a game where I was trying out the features of .Net Core from the console. What came from that was the budding of a new framework (initiated from an Open-Spaces Session from ThatConference) that I am currently writing and then plug into the former. I am not yet ready to share these two projects, but it has been a while since I have worked on them. Getting back into the groove, so to speak, can be hard after being away from something for so long. It really matters not what the project is, whether it is software or repairs/improvements on the house! It is about getting to the ritual of working on something, or doing anything. Sometimes life gets in the way, and puts you on a different trajectory.
Closing
Today, I get back to that groove of working on my projects. I am hopeful that the framework will be complete enough that I can share it, because I feel it can be useful for others as well.
Have you ever struggled getting back into the groove? I am sure you have, and I wish you luck on getting back into it!
GitHub Pages
Static website engines are bit of a craze for the last few years. Many are aware of GitHub Pages, which supports a number of static website engines. It works really, really well. Particularly if you are looking for a free solution to keep your blog with your code (heck it is managed through Git!). It has HTTPS for the github.io domain name. It even supports custom domain names. Did I mention it’s free?
What a minute?
Why am I talking about GitHub Pages and not what the title of this post is about? AHH! Right, something that I failed to mention is that GitHub Pages has a great bargain, you get all of the above. However, unless you proxy your custom domain through something such as “Cloudflare” there will be no support for SSL/TLS, in fact this solution is not even true security!
GitLab Pages
What if I told you, there is a way to get all of that and a bag of chips!? Yes, with GitLab Pages, you CAN get everything that GitHub Pages offers but also allow you to add a custom domain name with a SSL/TLS Certificate, and if you follow this little post you can configure it yourself with a free TLS certificate from Let’s Encrypt. You can get all of this through their [Free] Community Edition account. Also, another boon over GitHub’s offerings is that you can also maintain a private repo for your website.
If you did not want to create a new account for signing in, they even support using third party authentication which includes using GitHub as a provider!
Closing
I searched, and waited, to see if GitHub would support what I was looking for and it just did not turn up. I would like to thank GitLab for their services. I will likely be adding my future projects to GitLab as well.
Seasoned Code