Interesting Mash
This is similar to Vegetables cooked in olive oil, except mashed or whipped with a fork. Parsnips are difficult to grate, the softer outer part can be peeled off with a vegetable peeler, and the harder inner core sliced thinly. Ingredients Sliced onions Potatoes Carrots Parsnips/Swede/Turnips Cabbage/Spinach Olive oil Method Cover the bottom of a medium saucepan with oil Place a layer of sliced onions on the bottom Layer grated carrot, grated parsnip/turnip/swede, cubed potato and chopped cabbage/spinach.
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If you grow your own tomatoes outside you will end up with green ones that aren’t going to ripen up anytime soon. The classic method for using them up is to make Green Tomato Chutney, which is quite easy. If the skins are tough, use a blender to liquidise them. Green Tomato Chutney Ingredients 175g/6oz light brown sugar 150ml/5fl oz red wine vinegar 1 shallot or small onion, peeled, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, peeled, finely chopped 2cm/¾in piece fresh root ginger, peeled, finely grated 1 red chilli, finely chopped 125g/4½oz sultanas 600g/1lb 5oz green tomatoes, quartered Method Heat the sugar in a frying pan until the sugar melts and caramelises.
Read more →Create PDF Report
Introduction As part of the Questionnaire Maker plugin it is necessary to create a pdf report. The best tool to do this appears to be TCPDF, which appears to be part of at least some Linux distributions as php-tcpdf. It is not included in WordPress. Implementation As both the plugin and TCPDF are hosted on GitHub, the best way to implement the plugin, and TCPDF if it is not available on the web server, is to clone the repositories and use symbolic links to provide the plugin and the library in the right places.
Read more →Questionnaire Maker
Introduction Questionnaire Maker is a WordPress and Hugo plugin that asks a series of questions and produces a PDF report. The project is on Github. Documentation The plugin uses the shortcodes [questionnaire-questions] and [questionnaire-report], or {{< questionnaire-questions >}} and {{< questionnaire-report >}}. The shortcode will be replaced on the page with a series of panels containing the questions and options for the answers, or a panel with a preview of the report.
Read more →Smart Meters
CALMU Smart meters are not a new idea. I was a member of a project in the early 1980s which designed and rolled out a prototype smart meter which was far ahead of it’s time. The unit was called a CALMU (Credit and Load Management Unit). It was capable of recording electricity consumption with several tariffs, gas consumption, with a connection to a suitable gas meter and water use, with a connection to a suitable water meter.
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