Nikki's Slow Cooker Nigerian Brown Beans

Ingredients

• 5 cups water
• 2 Cups Nigerian Brown Beans
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 4 tbsps Palm Oil
• 1-2 tbsps crushed dried chilli
• 2 cubes Maggi bouillon
• Salt to taste

Method

1. To the slow cooker add water, brown beans, onion
2. Cook for 7 hours until softened
3. When the water is almost gone, add in the pepper, maggi, salt and oil
4. Cook for another hour, taste and adjust seasoning

Slow Cooker Beef Bourguingnon

Rice.

200ml rice,
400ml boiling water,
1/4 tsp salt,
1 tbsp groundnut oil,
30cm non stick lidded saute pan

Mix the salt and the water.
Heat the oil in the pan to a high heat.
Add the rice, which will turn translucent.
Fry the rice until it turns opaque.
Tip in the water, stir and put the lid on.
Turn down to lowest heat.
For electrics, move to a different ring.
Simmer for 13 minutes.
Check water has been absorbed (tip it, glass lid helps)
Take off the heat, fork rice over, wrap lid in clean tea towel, replace lid and leave for ten minutes.

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.

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.

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.

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