Tuesday, 16 September 2014

3 Grain, fennel and Apple salad with roasted fennel, braeburn apple and lemon and herb dressing

Today's salad for which I'm writing down the ingredients so I can make it at home:

Waitrose 3 Grain, fennel and Apple salad with roasted fennel, braeburn apple and lemon and herb dressing

200g pot
49% cooked grains: spelt, red rice and quinoa (100g / 3)
12% braeburn apple (24g)
12% fennel (24g)
sunflower oil
white wine vinegar
honey
lemon juice
pumpkin seeds
sunflower seeds
spinach
garlic puree
salt
chives
basil
fennel seeds
mint
black pepper
star anise

Method

  1. Roast and chop the fennel?
  2. Combine the fennel, apple, spelt, rice, quinoa, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, spinach, chives, fennel seeds?
  3. Make a dressing with the vinegar, honey, lemon juice, garlic puree, basil, mint, star anise and season with salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Nom it.


Saturday, 16 August 2014

The Sauce

Ingredients
2 cans of plum tomatoes
2 cans of chickpeas
100g tomato puree
3 onions
2 cloves garlic
1 green pepper
125g mushrooms
Olive oil
1tsp Mixed herbs
2 Bay leaves
Salt
Paper

Put oil and vegetables in large pots and heat while stirring frequently.
Add cans of tomatoes and chickpeas, mixed herbs and may leaves. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Cook on medium to high for 1/2 an hour to 45 minutes. Keep checking the seasoning and whether its good and cooked.
With a stick blender or food processor blend it to a smooth sauce.
Let it cool and batch freeze it in takeaway containers. You can label them with masking tape and a pencil.

Sunday, 11 May 2014

Chilli Mix No.3:

Chilli mix No.3:

2 tbsp Cumin powder
1 tbsp Coriander powder
1 tbsp hot chilli powder
1 tbsp Cayenne powder
1 tbsp Onion powder
1 tbsp Smoked paprika
1 tbsp Garlic granules
1 Kallo beef stock cube

Makes enough for Chilli made with 1kg beef mince.
Mix together, blend with the chopped tomatoes.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Script for extracting all photo tagged with a certain username on Don't Stay In

Windows Instructions

  1. Download and install Python for windows (see links below)
  2. Create a directory (c:\dsi or something)
  3. Download the script or copy and paste the source from below into that folder
  4. Start the windows command line (Start --> Run --> type 'cmd' --> Press return)
  5. Change directory to where you saved the script (type 'cd c:\dsi' press return)
  6. Find the username you want to get (click on their profile page)
  7. Find the total number of PAGES of photos they have (click on "all photos of user", look for "1 of 10", you're after the big number)
  8. Run the script (type 'python getphotos.py username pagecount' press return
  9. Make tea
  10. If it doesn't work, Official Windows Support (!! 8@) is being provided by Karl (dreammaster4) so go ask him.

Python Links

Windows

Python Download
Python 2.7.5 for windows

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python

Download Script

ow.ly/li7My

Script Source

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib
import re
import sys
import os

def do_page(url):
    print "getting " + url
    f = urllib.urlopen(url)
    html = f.read()
    pattern = r'http://www.dontstayin.com/.*/photo-[0-9]*'
    hits = re.findall(pattern, html)
    return hits

if __name__ == '__main__':
    username=sys.argv[1]
    pages=int(sys.argv[2])
    hits = []
    for i in range(1, pages + 1):
        url = 'http://www.dontstayin.com/members/' + username + '/photos/photopage-%d' % i
        hits.extend(do_page(url))

    pattern = r'(http://pixmaster-eu.dontstayin.com/([0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}.jpg))'
    for hit in hits:
        pathPattern = r'http://www.dontstayin.com/(.*)/photo-[0-9]*'
        paths = re.findall(pathPattern, hit)
        path = os.path.join(username,paths[0])
        if not os.path.exists(path):
            print "making dir " + path
            os.makedirs(path)
        print "processing photo page " + hit
        f = urllib.urlopen(hit)
        html = f.read()
        pictures = re.findall(pattern, html)
        for picture in pictures:
            print "found picture " + picture[0]
            filename = os.path.join(path,picture[1])
            urllib.urlretrieve (picture[0], filename)
            print "saved picture " + filename

Friday, 12 April 2013

Grocery Syndication

A standardized Xml format for describing supplied produce and groceries, including cost and location.
Syndicated using RSS
Collated by centralized grocery shopping web sites
Enter your shopping list, generates best price and allows you to edit manually.
Allow small producers to compete with market heavyweights Tesco, Asda, etc.
Cut out middle men and fund local produce directly without the inefficiency of driving about or remembering to visit farmers marker
Automatic increased visibility of small producers
Decentralize food production, sales and distribution.
Retire hellish supermarket eyesores.

Add standard Xml format for food recipes.
Internally measurements stored as metric, localize to US and old money via translation
Recipe sites now syndicate their recipes as well.
Grocery shopping sites now allow you to choose your shopping list via what you want to cook as well.

Filter by organic or no gm
Calculate and filter by food miles
Enforce dietary requirements

I love Xml.

Thursday, 4 April 2013