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A Quick Humus

As part of the Falafel recipe already listed, I never listed a Humus recipe, or more like how to make it. Ingredients Please note that my kids are very salt and pepper sensitive so adjust to taste. A tin of chickpeas, NOT drained 4 tablespoons of tahina (sesame paste) 2 cloves garlic, bottom cut off and pealed teaspoon of powdered cumin 3 or 4 tablespoons of lemon juice 2 or 3 tablespoons of olive oil salt and pepper to taste Method The one thing about Humus is it must be smooth. SO use a strong blender. Empty tin into the blender then add garlic, tahina, the garlic cloves and cumin. add the 3 tablespoons of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons. And blend. Not that I have kept on standby the lemon juice and Olive oil. This is because you may need to add it later when the blender is struggling. Blend or pulse until mixed, then taste, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Then blend again. If it is too thick add the extra olive oil You can also ad...

RPC over HTTPS does not work anymore- FIXED!

Recently I have had a problem with RPC over HTTPS. It has worked for years, but suddenly users told me it was not working. If they had told me when I would perhaps have found it quicker but instead, I had to wade through all the documentation and goodies. For I tried to re set it up, that did not work. I tried reinstalling and that did not work. Eventually I founds this cool tool online Test Exchange Connectivity and when I ran this test, and expanded the errors I was finally pointed in the correct direction. In the IIS config of RPC. I click properties, and I saw that "Accept client certificates" was ticked. I unticked it and just like that it worked. By the was cool trick I learnt to check the connectivity was to Ctrl+right click on the Outlook Icon in the right of the tool bar and the select Connection Status... It then tells you TCP/IP or RPC.

Open letter to anti piracy movement

I am a big believer that you should support the people responsible for art and music by buying their product. I believe without support artists are not rewarded for their work. The problem I have is with the distributors, and why I believe that electronic distribution is the only way forward. In South Africa it is unfortunate that this option is not really available, but the methodology I have adopted is to get items electronically then order the hard copy via an on-line shop or similar sometimes not even opening the package, when delivered, although normally I like to read the printed material out of interest. Why do I prefer this. Well after I have purchased a product, I have to be subjected to the distributors advertising. I did not ask for it and why do I have to have it thrust upon me. Recently I order a few CD's I had downloaded and inside there was a advertising glossy, that is pretty easy to dispose of. But this is not the case with DVD's. Why do I have to be forced to ...

Very useful note about baking

I found this online at http://www.prestoflour.com/Portals/TheArtOfBaking/portal.aspx?tabid=21#FAQ14 Assuming you are working with a well-balanced formula, when a cake falls, peaks and cracks, or has poor texture, the first thing to consider is the oven temperature. The next is the proportion of ingredients (how they are weighed or measured). Incorrect substitutions without adjustments are often the problem; jumbo eggs instead of large, all purpose flour instead of cake flour without making necessary adjustment, old baking powder. Assuming you are following directions precisely and has accurately weighed or measured the ingredients, the most common cake problems and causes are: Burnt on bottom with undercooked batter Cause: Inadequate air circulation in oven Burns on sides Cause : Uneven heat in oven Oven too full Oven too hot Baked too near sides of oven Coarse grain Cause : Too much leavening Insufficient creaming Use of liquid shortening Use of ordinary flour Oven temperature too low...

Where there is a will…

The eagles have really dealt with this before, in their song "get over it". I am amazed that every day there are people that blame something for the reason they have not succeed. However looking around you see many, many people that have achieved a lot more even though they have started with less than those who are very good at pointing fingers. In fact almost every self-made successful person had to fight adversity to get to where they got. I seldom hear a successful person blame other people for things, they normally get their nose down and graft through anything thrown in their way. What has driven this sudden entry, well I meet Michaela Mycroft in 2006, just as The Chaeli Campaign was getting going, and this week she won an international peace prize and she is only 17. Many for more abled bodied people should look at her and see that it is the mind and the determination of spirit that is important, rather than concentrating on the whys and why nots. Congratulatio...

Julia and Lucy’s Easy Tomato and Lentil Pasta

I am teaching my 7 year old daughter (Julia) simple meals to cook, so that she can cook her own meals. While she still requires a little help, and Lucy almost 4 years old always gets a tasks this was an easy recipe and it really did taste moreish. Ingredients Yummy Tin of peeled whole tomatoes (or you can peel 4 tomatoes, if you do not want the sugar that comes with the tinned ones) A Tin of Lentils (or about ½ a cup soaked overnight in 1 cup of water and a teaspoon of vinegar) Dried powdered Cumin and dried Basil One chopped onion About a teaspoon of crushed garlic A handful of fresh basil Pasta, we used spinach Tagliatelle (made using spinach juice) 2 x teaspoons olive oil Optional ¼ cup red wine Method Take medium size saucepan and place on stove, get it warm (should take between 1 and 2 mins) Add oil, add onions, and cover the onions with oil This must cook for about 3 mins While that is busy, blend the tomatoes and lentils, and a teaspoon of cumin, until ...

TILT - more

Things I learnt today the web.config file is the bees knees. It tells the website all the things it needs to know, where to find the extensions what to do with what. I works like other html tags with "<" and ">" and "</" and ">" See -  http://www.csharpfriends.com/Articles/getArticle.aspx?articleID=307  http://www.dotnetrobert.com/dotnet/DotNetBlog/tabid/83/EntryID/6/Default.aspx to get some guidance, and believe you need it, knowing what the file does and knowing how are two different things. I am still not clear on it. One thing I can say is the version numbers for DLLS must match the version numbers on the DLL Also learnt what AJAX is Ajax (sometimes called Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a way of programming for the Web that gets rid of the hourglass. Data, content, and design are merged together into a seamless whole. When your customer clicks on something on an Ajax driven application, there is very littl...