Category: Skills
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The Weekly Feast – Buran
A Middle Eastern, medieval recipe for meatballs in an eggplant yogurt sauce. Take eggplant, and boil lightly in water and salt, then take out and dry for an hour. Fry this in fresh sesame oil until cooked; peel, put into a dish or a large cup, and beat well with a ladle, until it becomes…
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Prepping – RTE Meals
When I prep, I store a variety of types of meals. I have a lot of rice and beans, as I can make those into dozens of different meals with very different spice pallets. There’s one type of meal that I do store at least a few of, for emergencies. That’s RTE, or Ready To…
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One step forward …
Tuesday I picked Ally up at The Fort at No 4. On the way home, we stopped to do some banking and pick up some groceries. As we were walking to the bank I said, “Oh, it is closed.” “Why?” “Because it’s Sunday.” “Huh?” I then got home and posted “Tuesday Tunes” to show up…
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The Weekly Feast – Tourtière!
Tourtière is one of those iconic dishes that gets served in Northern areas. While it hales originally from France, it was popularized in Quebec, Canada. Early settlers made Tourtière frequently, and it’s a filling and very tasty pie. I don’t normally like French Canadian stuff, but Tourtière and Poutine are acceptable. Ingredients: pie crust 2…
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Prepping – Practice Makes Perfect
I know I harp on about practicing all the time, but it is THAT important. I do that on a fairly regular basis, more and more so as I pick up events as an author. When I go to an event, I’m cooking over an open flame at the very least, and sometimes living on…
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The Weekly Feast – Orange Cake
I wanted to make a birthday cake for my vegan friend, and that meant no milk, no butter, and no eggs. I decided to search for vegan alternatives, and came up with several awesome looking ones. As a side note, chocolate is easy to make vegan. However, I didn’t have the ingredients for most of…
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Prepping – Food Security
We are a rich people, here in America. Even our poorest has enough food (or could if they applied). We just don’t see people in the US starving. It doesn’t happen. There are no swollen bellies here. That doesn’t mean people aren’t hungry. As someone who’s lived on food stamps and charity at one point,…
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The Weekly Feast – Drinks!
I haven’t touched on the topic of what to drink when you’re enjoying your post-apocalyptic spam, so I think today I’ll go there. 😉 There are several really tasty, easy to make drinks for when you’re doing a lot of labor or it’s extremely hot, but you don’t have access to Gatorade or its equivalents.…
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Coding Styles and Methods
My formal education is as a computer scientist. I was lucky enough to get this education at one of the cusps of computer development. My Mentor went through a computer science program just 4 years earlier. There were classes he took that were not even offered in my program. The change was in moving from…
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Prepping – Making Do
There’s a mindset, these days, that everything is disposable. If something breaks, just get another one. Toss the old one in land fill and ignore it. This is not a sustainable practice. Why did we become the strongest country in the world? We made do. We took everyone else’s outcasts, people who wanted to work…