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Blog updated

Posted on 2011-05-26 by Jim Vanderveen

Well, it’s long past time that I updated this blog! I was given extra incentive when my hosting company updated PHP, which broke the old software. The new version of WordPress doesn’t support my old tags plugin, so I’ve finally … Continue reading →

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January 2011 No-Pressure Cookers Menu and Recipes

Posted on 2011-01-19 by Barbara

New Year’s Good Luck turnovers All-butter cornmeal pie dough: 1 c flour 1/2 c corn meal 1/2 t salt 1 stick cold butter cut into pieces ice water Blend all ingredients except water in food processor, until butter is pea … Continue reading →

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PHP/curl proxy error

Posted on 2010-12-09 by Jim Vanderveen

Yesterday I ran into a tough problem at work, (i.e. Google didn’t return a web page describing the solution). I spent almost a whole day trying to figure this out, and the solution turned out to be incredibly easy. We … Continue reading →

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Sopa de albondigas (meatball soup)

Posted on 2010-11-22 by Jim Vanderveen

Our neighbors traditionally exchange homemade gifts (e.g. cookies, jam) during Christmas. Two years ago, we got some sopa de albondigas, along with this recipe. We all loved it, but never got around to making it ourselves until last night. It … Continue reading →

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Poppy seed rolls

Posted on 2010-11-05 by Jim Vanderveen

Poppy seed rolls are one of our family’s favorite Thanksgiving traditions. These are mashed potato rolls with poppy seed filling. We’ve found that this dough is very sensitive to cold, so we bump the thermostat up to about 75° F … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD svn client and https server

Posted on 2010-08-30 by Jim Vanderveen

We recently moved our Subversion repository to the University’s central svn server. When I tried to checkout a copy of the repository to a new FreeBSD server today, I got the following error: svn: Unrecognized URL scheme ‘https://svn.web.server’ I checked … Continue reading →

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Garden chili

Posted on 2010-07-26 by Jim Vanderveen

Barb and I made some *amazing* chili tonight. We didn’t take notes while whipping this up, but I’m pretty sure we remembered all the ingredients. We haven’t got many ripe tomatoes yet, so we just grabbed a bunch of cherry … Continue reading →

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Another excellent meal from “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”

Posted on 2010-03-19 by Jim Vanderveen

Barb and I made an awesome dinner tonight (if I do say so myself)! We put our own spin on two recipes from Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”: Suprêmes de volaille aux champignons (chicken breasts with mushrooms … Continue reading →

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Boeuf bourguignon

Posted on 2009-12-30 by Jim Vanderveen

Traditionally on Christmas Day we have my parents over for dinner. This year we made boeuf bourguignon for them, and it was *fantastic*! Anybody who’s seen “Julie & Julia” knows that boeuf bourguignon was one of the uncredited stars of … Continue reading →

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Tonight’s dinner…

Posted on 2009-12-28 by Jim Vanderveen

I was feeling a bit ambitious tonight, so I made three new dishes from [Mastering the Art of French Cooking][mafc]: suprêmes de volaille archiduc (paprika chicken w/ cream sauce), risotto, and petits pois étuvés au beurre (buttered peas). I had … Continue reading →

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