1- 8oz. Package cream cheese
2 eggs
Dash salt
1 tbsp. Vanilla
2 tsps. Baking powder
1/2 cup ricotta cheese
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup whey protein concentrate
1/4 cup vital wheat gluten flour
4 tbsp. Melted butter, or olive oil
About 1/4 cup of Half and Half- adjust amount for desired consistency.
About 2-3 tbsp. Melted butter in reserve

Mix cream cheese and eggs in mixer. Add vanilla, salt and baking powder. Mix. Add ricotta, sour cream and cottage cheese. Mix. Add gluten and whey protein. Mix. Add butter. Mix. Add Half and Half. Mix. Batter should be thin enough to drop into the waffle iron, but not too thick. Use some melted butter to coat the waffle iron before adding batter each time.

Warning: low carb waffles are much more delicate than regular wheat- based waffles, care should be taken when removing the waffles from the iron. I use a waffle iron that makes three quarter cup round mini- waffles. I think that making larger square waffles may hold together even less, but I haven’ t tried it.
Makes about 15 quarter cup sized waffles.

Toppings:
blueberry topping- 2 c. Fresh blueberries, 1 tbsp. Xylitol sweetener ( to taste, or any other low carb sweetener of your choice).
Put blueberries in a microwave safe bowl and heat until the berries turn almost black, this means they are thoroughly heated inside. Proceed in 30 second increments depending on the power of your microwave, the berries will pop and explode when overheated. Mash berries with a fork to form a ” syrup”, and stir in the sweetener to taste.

Whipped cream- 1 pint whipping cream (not light whipping cream). Dissolve 1 tbsp. Xylitol or other sweetener in the whipping cream. Whip using a mixer on high speed or I use an iSi Profi Whip with one cream charger canister.

Syrups to we like:
Splenda sweetened- Maple Grove Farms Low Calorie Syrup Sugar Free Maple Flavor
Maltitol sweetened- Joseph’s All Natural Maple Flavor Sugar Free Syrup

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2 pork tenderloins (1.25-1.5 lbs. each)- Cook to liking. We use a Sous Vide at 141F for 8 – 24 hours.
2 (6.7oz.) jars Trader Joe’s Pesto alla Genovese Basil Pesto Sauce
1/2 c. (1/2 jar) Trader Joe’s Julienne Sliced Sun Dried Tomatoes in Olive Oil
1 tbsp. Crushed garlic
Sea salt to taste
Olive oil for pan

In a sauté pan add enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the pan. Warm and stir the olive oil, garlic, sun dried tomatoes and pesto sauce. Cut pork into pieces, or shred. Add the pork to the pan to thoroughly coat the pork. Add sea salt to liking. Heat well. Serve.

 

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Vacation interruptus: Don’t let an office tech crisis ruin your getaway – Computerworld.

It’s wonderful to be loved, of course, but being  the only guy who can save the world while you’re on vacation is a major bummer (see Clark Kent at Niagara Falls).  The problem here is once again that what is good in the short term is not necessarily good in the long term – I might save a bunch of money *right now* by only paying *one* guy to know everything there is to know about our enterprise production messaging infrastructure, but when he gets hit by a truck, leaves for greener pastures, or goes on vacation, the world can end in such an amazingly expensive way that in hindsight, *doubling* or even *tripling* our costs by hiring more people to avoid this single point of failure would have saved us gobs of money.

Now part of this can be ameliorated by *useful* documentation (screencasts, step-by-step walkthroughs, or FAQs and HOWTOs actually *built* to answer questions that came up in real life, as opposed to the kind of Word document that lives on a Sharepoint server for decades without anyone actually reading past page 3), but even with all the documentation in the world, if someone isn’t actually familiar with the system (i.e., they’re an offshore “production support” resource that is supposedly an expert in the generic technology at hand but not with the actual implementation in question), they can take orders of magnitude more time to solve an issue than someone steeped in its day-to-day operation.

So what’s the answer, besides having a magical wish fairy that can simultaneously convince business to spend more money short term as well as produce a strong technical candidate who is available for the job?  I’d argue that at the *very* least, for each moment of crisis that you *do* actually face, consider that a warning from the fates and solve *that* long term – if it happened once, it’ll happen again.  The inclination will be to pass blame around, of course, but resist!  Answer the question, “what do we have to do *now* to avoid this in the future?”

(Sent to Governor’s office with the email form on their website.)

My understanding is that you are about to sign legislation that will decide, based on racial background, who gets to be part of a new Hawaiian government.

Let me remind you that the Kingdom of Hawaii, was, like the State of Hawaii, a multi-racial government. Putting together a committee to decide who is and who isn’t Hawaiian enough to be a part of this race-based government is an offense to the principles of equality, justice, freedom and the wisdom of our kupuna who embraced all of humanity as equals with the first constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii which stated that all people were “of one blood”.

Please reconsider your support of apartheid in Hawaii. It is the wrong thing to do.

 

Ridiculously long set of instructions on how to get Gitorious running on CentOS 5.6 64-bit. The vast majority of these instructions are copied from http://famousphil.com/blog/2011/06/installing-gitorious-on-centos-5-6-x64/

Before applying these instructions, do yourself a favor and search and replace for the following:

<hostname.domain>

<mysqladminpassword>

<admin email>

<gitmysqlpassword>

<country>

<state>

<city>

<company>

<gitoriousadminpassword>

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