Vegetable and Lemon Tagine

Into the slow cooker, add;

1. Chopped onion, carrot, parsnip, swede, potato, celery.  Nice big pieces - thumb sized.  
2. Fennel seeds, ground black pepper, garlic, saffron, bay leaves, powdered cinnamon.  A good portion of preserved lemon, cut into large slices.  Today I used a half a normal sized lemon.
3. A tin of chickpeas with their water, a cup of white cooking wine, a good big glug of olive oil.

And I served it with couscous, to which I added some pickled veg (I'd done it in a raspberry vinegar with star anise), some very finely chopped mint, and some sea buckthorn oil.  And a bit of mushroom stock.

Top Notch!

A really good quiche!

1. Clean button mushrooms and trim the stalks flush with the cap.  Put them cap side down in a baking dish that's just big enough to hold them, and add some chicken stock, white wine, butter and a glug of light soy sauce.  Bake, covered, at a moderate temperature, until almost cooked; then remove the cover.
2. Meanwhile gently reduce finely chopped white onion and leeks in a frying pan with some butter.  To loosen it, add some of the juice from the mushrooms and continue cooking until the mixture is light brown and soft.  Then allow to cool
3. Allow the mushrooms to cook until the juices have reduced, evaporated, and the mushrooms have caramelised on their caps from the butter.  Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
4. Make a shortcrust case and blind bake.
5. Make the quiche filling with 3 eggs and a half pint of double cream, seasoned with salt.
6. Spread the onion and leek paste over the base of the pastry case, arrange the mushrooms, add grated cheddar.
7. Put it in the oven and use a jug to pour the egg mix in until it reaches the case's rim.
8. When the filling has started to set, add grated Parmesan and a good grinding of black pepper, then return to the oven until it rises like a souffle. 
9. Give it long enough to cool before eating that it becomes just warm to the touch, and the risen filling has collapsed back to set and solidify.

The idea here is to concentrate flavour into the mushrooms, and avoid any leakage of moisture from them into the quiche as it cools.

Sumatran Slow Cooked Pork

Into a slow cooker, put;

• some chopped onions
• some batons of carrot
• pork shoulder steak
• about half a pint of water
• some chicken stock powder
• three big spoonfuls of coconut milk powder
• four chopped fresh red chillies
• a handful of baby tomatoes
• three bashed lemon grass stalks
• ten curry leaves
• two star anise
• a spoonful of tamarind paste
• two cloves of finely chopped garlic
• some halved dried organic apricots
• a scant handful of raw cashew nuts
• finely ground roast 
• black peppercorns 
• coriander seeds
• (about a tablespoon of each)
• four or five cloves
• a good dose of ground nutmeg or mace
• a small knob of butter

Slow cook until the meat is tender and add a glug of fish sauce before serving with boiled rice.

Nice!

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Getting started with the Intel Galileo

Tried following instructions on Ubuntu 14.04.  Unable to connect, unable to update firmware.  Port appears as ttyACM0 in group dialout.

Went into Windows 7.  Followed instructions.  Had to find driver in arduino distribution file structure (wasn't in tools directory as per docs).  Updated drivers for Gadget Serial device.  Still no dice.  Ah!  Now we have two serial ports - chose the other one.  Now can upgrade firmware.

Suggests that I need to go back into Linux and sort out a driver issue?

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No - on Windows 7, still cannot upload Blink!

Moving downloaded file to /sketch/sketch.elf on target
echo "Moving downloaded file to /sketch/sketch.elf on target"
#$fixed_path/lsz.exe --escape -c "cp sketch /sketch/sketch.elf" <> $tty_port_id 1>&0
$fixed_path/lsz.exe --escape -c "mv $target_download_name /sketch/sketch.elf; chmod +x /sketch/sketch.elf" <> $tty_port_id 1>&0
rzRetry 0: Got ZNAK
Retry 0: Got ZNAK
Retry 0: Got ZNAK
Retry 0: Got ZNAK
Retry 0: Got ZNAK
Retry 0: Got ZNAK

Transfer incomplete

Hmm.  Ah, ok - seems the IDE forgot the correct serial port; verified in Device Driver and set in Arduino IDE accordingly.  Have now uploaded Blink example.   It's not fucking blinking though.  Hang on... change board type to Galileo instead of Galileo Gen 2... and we're away!  Woo hoo... have a drink to celebrate!

Blinky blinky blinky blinky

Integrating Exchange Calendars and Thunderbird - Part II

There's a good route in with Thunderbird.

1. Using the addons manager, add Lightning.
2. Then download the EWS addon from here
3. Restart Thunderbird
4. Add a new network calendar, choose Exchange 2007/ onwards as the type, and use auto discovery to find your exchange server 
5. Bingo!

Integrating Exchange 2010 calendar with Linux - The Horror

It would be possible to publish the .ics file, then miport it.  But our admin staff won't allow this.  So... 

1. Find a Windows machine with a Staff install.
2. Got to Outlook, Sharing, Pulish to Webdav server, and publish to http://www.icalx.com/public/mattstudley/Matthew_Studley_Calendar.ics
3. Now import into Google Calendars... 
4. Or into Thunderbird, etc.

This isn't a full integration.  But at least will allow me to see the events that people past in my calendar.  

What I need is full integration - I want to be able to publish my Google Calendar events to my outlook calendar so people can see my availability, and I want them to be able to insert items into this calendar so that I can see them in Google Calendar.