Fabada Asturiana
A highly flavoured Asturian version of pork and beans. Enough for four or more. Ingredients 375g or thereabouts packet of dried butter beans 4-500g belly pork with or without skin, cut into chunks Smoked gammon hock, or 4-500g cooking bacon. If lucky, it’s possible to find a packet of cooking bacon that is just one big chunk of unsliced bacon by rooting through the supermarket shelf. 100-125g picante chorizo, cut into chunks Crushed black peppercorns Heaped teaspoon paprika Heaped teaspoon turmeric 2 bay leaves 4-5 garlic cloves, chopped 3-4 onions, chopped Olive oil Water Method Soak the beans overnight in plenty of water.
Read more →Vegetable Soup Plus
A vegetable soup with a bit of meat that’s full of flavour. Similar to leek and potato soup recipe. Make it into a meal with plenty of bread and butter. Enough for two, double the recipe for four. Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, chopped 1 small potato, cubed 1 clove garlic, crushed 1/2 a fresh chilli, if desired 1/2 a vegetable stock cube Additional vegetables as available: grated carrot, leek, courgette, cabbage, etc a few slices of chorizo or other tasty sausage, chopped Freshly ground black pepper Milk Method Heat the oil in a large pan and add the vegetables, sausage and stock cube.
Read more →Haskell
I read an article recently about how amazingly efficient functional programming, and Haskell in particular is. So I thought I’s give it a go and see how I got on. You can try it out in your browser: http://tryhaskell.org λ let factorial n = product [1..n] in factorial 99 9332621544394415268169923885626670049071596826438162146859 2963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223 7582511852109168640000000000000000000000 :: (Enum a, Num a) => a λ Pretty impressive! So I thought I’d try a simple web application.
Read more →Mexican Breakfast
This is an adaptation of a recipe I saw recently in the Metro. Not Huevos Rancheros, but something else. The original recipe was most insistent that the black pepper be added to the pan, not the eggs, and the eggs should be stirred, not beaten. Ingredients Small potato, chopped Small onion, chopped Chili pepper, sliced Chorizo, chopped Tomato, chopped Fresh ground black pepper 2 eggs Oil Method Put some oil in a medium sized skillet or frying pan and warm up.
Read more →SlimStat
When I first set up this web site, I looked for a simple web analytics program so that I could see if anyone actually looked at it. After faffing about with a couple of well known open source packages, I decided that they were way over the top by several orders of magnitude. Then I found SlimStat. However it appears to be no longer actively maintained, which it why the previous link is via the Way Back Machine.
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