Matt’s Musings

Slackfest 2008 (only slightly dampened by a power outage) officially started yesterday!  I have a four day weekend during which I will do nothing but “man/geek” things.  I started out the festivities by some copious online gaming (World of Warcraft) with Luke.  Unfortunately, National Grid put the kibosh on that shortly after lunch.  You’d think that as a power company, that they would be slightly better at their job.  Apparently, they suck at it.

On the agenda of things to do:

• Install Debian Etch on my Powerbook G4
• Refactor Jarhunt some more
• Start a new free software project (I miss compiling, more on that later…)
• Get some exercise
• Sins of a Solar Empire marathon multi player battle

First things first though… Living in New England, we are in for a few days of nasty snow storms this weekend.  I’ll need some food and will not necessarily want to leave the house to get it.  To deal with this, I made enough stuffed peppers to tide us over for the better part of the weekend.

If you want to follow along at home, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• 12 large green bell peppers
• 2 pounds of veal
• 1/2 pound of beef
• 2 Table spoons salt
• 2 White onions
• 2 Scotch (fracking hot) Bonnet peppers
• 2 Table spoons of chili powder
• 1 Table spoon of crushed red pepper
• 4 Table spoons of Italian Seasoning
• 2 (large) Table spoons of roasted minced garlic
• 1 bag of extra sharp cheddar cheese (grated)
• 3 Table spoons of olive oil
• 3 Eggs
• 3/4s cup seasoned breadcrumbs
• 1 cup brown rice (Basmati is awesome)
• 1 Medium jar of tomato sauce

Alrighty then, a look at the raw ingredients:

Step 1: Cook brown rice (2 cups of water, bring to a boil for 10 minutes, set to low, cover and simmer for 30ish minutes)

Step 2: Chop onions into small pieces, combine with garlic, olive oil, chili powder, Scotch (fracking hot) Bonnet peppers, and 1/2 of the Italian seasoning.  Simmer until onions start to clear.

When you start, it’ll look like this:

When you are finished, you may have something like this:

Step 3: While the onions are cooking, wash and de-cap the bell peppers.  Place them in a cooking tray so that they look something like this:

Step 4: Combine meat, crushed red pepper, cooked onion mix, rice, cheese, salt, tomato sauce, remaining Italian seasoning, eggs, and breadcrumbs into a large container.  Mix vigorously.

Step 5:  Insert goop into peppers.

Step 6:  Put into preheated oven at 365.   Go run Wailing Caverns or otherwise keep yourself busy for an hour and 10 minutes.

Step 7: Extract from oven, let cool, and eat.

Well, that’s it for now.  I’ll post again with my progress on other things later tonight.

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