Brussels Sprouts, Bacon & Gruyère, a match made in heaven. A perfect balance of seared vegetables, cured meats and intermingled cheese. I use this as a quick and easy recipe that really doesn’t need much explanation. Key notes are that the Brussels sprouts need to be properly seared not lazily boiled and the cheese needs to be added while everything is warm so it softens up. Different cheeses could be used but gruyère is a good fit as it is a firm aged cheese with character.
A neat and tasty garnish is a strawberry rose. To make one of these it requires 2-3 strawberries depending on size and they have to be cut into 2mm thick petals. These are then shingled over each other and folded into circle. The result is a nice rose that goes perfectly on some fresh whipped vanilla whipped cream.
Now that its strawberry season it is fairly easy and cheap to get large quantities of strawberries at the farmers market but this won’t last long so its time to “make hay while the suns out”. My personal method for converting large amounts of strawberries to shelf stable snacks is strawberry “Chips” where 5mm cut strawberries are dehydrated at 135F for ~12hrs. This makes a good snack for the rest of the year and due to its very low moisture content once its done it is shelf stable.
Unfortunately Canada does not have much of a variety of mushrooms at any large or specialty grocery stores so I was fairly fortunate to get my hands on fresh morrell mushrooms. I don’t have much of a recipe as a good mushroom can be just slow fried in butter and tossed with fresh made pasta.
These weren’t my favourite mushroom (Chanterelle #1) but were a refreshing enough change for the regularly available mushrooms.
In the past I thought the the typical way of measuring a materials density is to measure its volume and then weigh it. As there are obvious difficulties and flaws (fluids can evaporate during measurements, volume size errors) a different way is to use a refractometer which uses a fluids index of refraction to estimate it’s density/etc. These all have to be calibrated for the particular working fluid and I have one made for ethanol. It is a good tool and a non destructive small sample way of finding the alcohol %.
After calibration at the low and high end I was able to measure the alcohol% in various drinks and found some that under deliver. One key thing to note is to never take measurements blindly as alcoholic beverages that have high sugar content can artificially change the alcohol% as it changes the fluid density.
With a lot of controversies around current TV series’ (Rings of Power, She Hulk, etc) female leads I wanted to make a list of good movies/tv shows with good female leads / good writing to show that it is possible.
Got bored going through my list but this is close enough. We need more writing like Arcane. That show was good enough to get me to play toxic game of League of Legends again.
After some software installs one of my PROXMOX virtual machines is running a bit low on space. More of a note for myself this is the process of provisioning more space pulled right form the official page.
The following are then the commands:
dmesg | grep sda
fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep ^/dev
parted /dev/sda
resizepart X 100%
pvresize /dev/sda3
lvresize --extents +100%FREE --resizefs /dev/XXXXXXAn addendum to this for working with virtual disk arrays using sgdisk:
lsblk
sgdisk -e /dev/vda
sgdisk -d 2 /dev/vda
sgdisk -N 2 /dev/vda
partprobe /dev/vda
resize2fs /dev/vda2
lsblk