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Weekend Herb Blogging #89

Jun 30, 2007 Noticias

The year certainly is moving quickly as we head into the 89th edition of Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Kalyn herself. This week I turn to a staple in the kitchen, the onion.

I’m sure there’s some inaccuracy in the naming of these particular onions - here they are sold as either Spanish Onions or Red Onions, regardless of their true identity they are a milder and somewhat sweeter variety compared to the regular brown onion.

Nutritionally onions are quite a valuable part of our diet as they contain anti-inflammatory, anti-cholesterol and antioxidant properties. You’ll find Vitamins B6, C, E, and K, Folate, Niacin, Riboflavin and Thiamine along with Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium and Zinc.

This weeks recipe is a means to an end. There’s a dish I’ve been meaning to make from Jane Lawson’s Cocina Nueva but before I can, I need to make this component of Caramelised Spanish Onions.

Caramelised Spanish Onions

125mls/½ cup olive oil
4 large red onions, finely sliced
125mls/½ cup Manzanilla Sherry
2 tablespoons Sherry Vinegar
3 teaspoons sugar

Heat the oil in a heavy based pan over a medium low heat - add the onions, along with a pinch of salt and stir well. Cook for about 40 minutes. It’s important that this is done slowly - by the end of the cooking time the onions will have softened and only just started to colour. They would have also started releasing their juices.

Add the Manzanilla Sherry (this is a dry sherry - you could substitute Fino Sherry), Sherry Vinegar and sugar - stir to dissolve the sugar and continue cooking for at least another 1½ hours. Stir occasionally to ensure the mixture doesn’t stick or cook too quickly.

By the end of the cooking time, most of the liquid should have evaporated and the onions should be deeply coloured. Let it cool before using.

The taste of these caramelised onions are quite different to those I’ve had in the past. The onions have absorbed the flavour of the sherry and the sherry vinegar gives it an added piquancy that cuts through the natural sweetness. Now, there will be quite a bit of oil left behind but don’t throw it out - you can use this to add an extra dimension to say, salad dressings.

If you look here you’ll find how I used these onions but it looks a little like this

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Un curso sobre web 2.0

Jun 29, 2007 Noticias

El año pasado estuve en Santa Cruz, ciudad de Bolivia dictando un curso sobre web 2.0, en esta pagian encontraran las presentaciones. Estan al final de dicha pagina.

Weekly Google Code Roundup for June 25-29th

Jun 29, 2007 Noticias

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

It has been a great week. From the new Google Gadget Ventures, to the new ability to click and drag locations on Google Maps, and beyond with some fantastic talks that were given on campus.

In API and developer-product news…

Do you like developing gadgets? Have you started to make a business around the ones you have developed? We want to help, and we announced the
Google Gadget Ventures program which allows you to apply for grants, and even seed investments.

The Google Mashup Gallery is a mashup itself, that allows you to add your mashup to the mix. Now, everyone will be able to find your Britney vs. Christina mashup!

AppleScripting Google Desktop means that you can tell the Google Desktop application to do things for you via script. Boss around the system from your own applications and scripts.

The new Google Earth Outreach program has some tutorials such as showing you how to create KML from a spreadsheet.

Around Google

Instead of statically working with points on Google Maps. Now you can click and drag points around, which results in your driving directions redrawing on the fly. This can be addicting.

Docs and Spreadsheets just got easier with a new look and feel, and a new folder view. Don’t worry though, it is still tags behind the scenes.

Google Desktop is now available for Linux: Since some Linux users are program developers, Google Desktop was designed with the ability to search source code and information contained in .pdf, .ps, .man and .info documents. It also features the Quick Search Box ,which you can call up by pressing the Ctrl key twice. Type a few letters or words into the search box and your top results pop up instantly.

Put your photos on a map, and Picasa on your phone.

Featured Projects

Facebook Gadget Receive your latest notifications on Facebook, check out your friends’ latest updates, view photos, and even launch searches all from your Google Homepage.

Fill That Hole has a new Pothole Mapplet that keeps you in the know as you choose your biking routes.

Google Tech Talks

Simon Willison gave a talk on the the implications of OpenID and placed his slides online for your pleasure.

Raph Levien came to talk to us about his lessons from Advogato, the community blog for free software developers.

Cameron Purdy discussed getting Coherence discussing data grids and what they can do for you.

Philippe Mougin, the project lead of FScript - a scripting solution for Mac OS X / Cocoa, discussed the project which “is much more than just a scripting language, like smalltalk it provides a set of high level exploration, browsing and development tools which let you explore Objective C libraries as easily as FScript ones.”

View more tech talks.

Podcasts

Summer of Coders at Google: Desmond Elliott

Desmond Elliott visited a few weeks ago and I got to catch up with him about his work on the Camino project for SoC 2006 and his plans for working with OpenMRS this year. Desmond also has the usual sage advice for would-be Summer of Code students and some thoughts on our first SoC podcast with Angie Byron from the Drupal project.

Pork Dumplings

Jun 28, 2007 Noticias

Johanna, The Passionate Cook herself, is the host of this edition of Waiter, There’s something in my…and decided on dumplings as the theme.

There were certain rules to this event - the dumplings needed to be wrapped in dough and either boiled, steamed, baked but not fried.

So for my pastry I decided to cut a corner and use the ever useful, wonton wrapper. These small squares of fresh pastry certainly make life easy.

I’ve opted to steam my dumplings and have given them a Chinese feel with a blend of pork, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, spring onions, cabbage and water chestnuts for added crunch.

To save a bit of time I made the filling using a small food processor.

Cut the pork into cubes and process until finely chopped but still retaining some texture. Remove and place into a bowl.

Add the spring onions and pulse until finely chopped - tip this in with the pork.

Add the cabbage and pulse until finely chopped. Add the pork and spring onions back to the bowl and pulse briefly to mix the ingredients. Now tip this all back into your bowl.

Add the hoisin sauce, sesame oil (be careful with the sesame oil as it’s very strong you only need to add a few drops) and pepper and stir well.

Add the water chestnuts (I left these in larger pieces as I wanted them to provide the contrasting crunch) - stir again. At this stage to check that the seasoning is correct I like to cook up just a teaspoon or two of the mix - just cook a little in a frypan just until the pork is cooked through. Taste and make any adjustments as necessary.

Lightly beat an egg and add to the mixture. Stir it through and the filling is complete.

To make the dumplings:

Place the wrapper flat on a board and and lightly moisten the edge with water - place a spoonful of filling in the centre and bring the corners together - as you do that, gently squeeze the filling upwards to create an purse like shape, allow the corners to fold as they will. There should be an opening in the top. The best part of this type of shape is that no two will look the same.

To steam:

I used a bamboo steamer - be careful not to overcrowd the steamer as you don’t want the dumplings sticking together. Steam over a pot of boiling water until cooked through. These took between 5-10 minutes.

These are best served hot from the steamer.

Because I couldn’t help myself I also made a few that have been fried boiled in oil. Using the same filling and wrappers I just shaped these like Tortellini.

Depending on whether you feel good or bad, the choice is there!

Jun 28, 2007 Noticias

DAILY STRATEGY 29 JUN 2007 release 00:09 am GMT click the chart

Bio-science is fascinating

Jun 28, 2007 Noticias

Stocks on the move this afternoon

Jun 28, 2007 Noticias

Take a look at some stocks that are showing good and poor performance today:

Most actives : SUNW , AAPL, INTC , MSFT , CSCO , SIRI

Gainers : AII , CRYO , USEY, LTEC , PENX

Losers : CLWT , REST , NVH , DRIV , LSI

Buy / Sell Recommendations :

BRCM - Broadcom Corp was downgraded to neutral from buy Thursday by Pacific Growth Equities.

LSI - Analysts at Wedbush Morgan downgrade LSI Corporation from “hold” to “sell”.

MBI - Analysts at Calyon upgrade Mbia from “neutral” to “buy”.

SKYW - Analysts at JP Morgan downgrade SkyWest from “overweight” to “underweight”.

Disclaimer : Trading stocks involves risk, this information should not be viewed as trading recommendations.

See you later,

Behaviours can be changed gradually

Jun 28, 2007 Noticias

US Airways group near to break the base

Jun 28, 2007 Noticias

Unfortunately my time is really short today, so I only post one chart to follow.

Chart courtesy of stockcharts

LCC it’s seems to me that stock is ready to breakout this channel in the next sessions, so please keep an eye on LCC for a possible breakout over 30$.

Disclaimer : Trading stocks involves risk, this information should not be viewed as trading recommendations.The charts provided here are not meant for investment purposes and only serve as technical examples.

That’s All. Have a nice evening !!!

AC

PlayStation Blog

Jun 28, 2007 Noticias

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