Archives for October 2006
Low Ping Beef
Low Ping Beef is a recipe brought about by a discussion I had with the guys about low ping servers and Counterstrike Source . If I understand correctly they get kicked off servers because they are either on a high-ping server and they are low ping or they are on a low-ping server and they are high ping. It all depends upon how much bandwidth we’ve got available and sometimes there just isn’t enough to go around. Also low ping and high ping somehow make you either more or less lethal in FPS games. I understand the use of ping to test an IP address, but this use of the word ping confuses me.
There is nothing confusing about this recipe. It uses the leftover rice and Mongolian beef from Sunday’s Chinese take-out. This is the perfect meal for Halloween night when the doorbell will be ringing for 2 or 3 hours with goofs and goblins. Actually, this is so good I would order the Mongolian Beef again just so I could make Low Ping Beef later. By the way…Low Ping Beef is really just Fried Rice, Vanessa Style.
4 cups cooked white rice, totally cooled, preferably leftovers from takeout
1 stalk celery diced, small
1/2 red onion, diced small
1 carrot, diced small
1/4 leek diced small (this should be a green onions but I didn’t have that)
Leftover Mongolian Beef, diced small
2 tablespoons Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon Sesame oil
1 teaspoon dried ginger from Penzeys
Put a large, flat skillet on a burner and heat it on high it on high for 4 minutes or until very hot. Add some canola oil. Add all of the veggies and stir-fry for 1 minutes or so. Add the Mongolian beef and stir-fry it for a minute. Add the rice and stir and toss this for a couple of minutes. Add the soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and ginger. Stir to mix well. Continue to stir and toss until heated through and some brown bits form on the bottom of the skillet. Serve.
If you happen to know about low ping, latency, and what this all means in the game world let me know. Happy Halloween!
Monday night cod
We don’t eat a lot of fish mostly because I don’t cook it well and I’m always thrown by its delicate nature. If we could eat insanely fresh Sushi and Sashimi we would love it. But sushi in Wisconsin is a dismal proposition. I make a fabulous Boulibasse and we will be eating that for Christmas dinner. But tonight we eat cod. This is a simple cod recipe that we enjoy. I think you can throw cheese on just about anything and make it edible. That doesn’t sound like a glowing review of this recipe, but really…its healthy, tasty, fast, easy, low fat, and low carbs. Everything we need on a Monday night.
4 cloves garlic chopped fine
4 pieces of cod
Olive oil
Greek seasoning blend from Penzeys (see my Shop Local page)
Diced Roma tomatoes or cherries tomatoes whole
8 oz Feta cheese, chunked
Dash some olive oil into the bottom of a shallow baking dish. Put the cod into the dish. Rub some seasoning and garlic on to the cod along with some olive oil. Toss the tomatoes with the garlic and some olive oil and arrange them around the cod. Sprinkle some more salt, pepper, and seasoning over the whole thing and then toss the cheese on top. Bake at 375 for 20- 30 minutes or until done. Serve it with some steamed veggies and you’re eating healthy.
Yoohoo…put the espresso on
We’re back. Operation time change and vacuum out the servers went really well. Dave was in the process of updating the MythTV database when I unplugged the modem…but other than that it has gone really smoothly. We’ll be adding a LaCie 300GB shared storage drive to the system this week and that should give us some backup protection. I’ve got over 3400 songs on my iTunes and they’ve never been backed up…knock on wood. I also upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and it seems good. It took some tweaking to get my tabbed browsing the way I like it and some of my tabbed browsing extensions haven’t been updated yet…but I’m happy. I also added a new Firefox extension called Perfomancing. It allows me to add blog entries in Firefox without being in the admin section of my blog. I can type the entry, edit the html, add the links and the images all in the same place. Before I was using OpenOffice to write and spell check. I can’t find a spell checker on perfomancing yet…that may be a deal breaker.
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