Slackfest 2008!
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.