Brush Valley Brewer

Breakfast was the left-overs of Gretchen’s apple crisp and a glass of juice.



<ins datetime="2003-11-12T12:55:00-05:00">I felt like I needed a little satisfying comfort food today, so I went out to Wendy&rsquo;s and had a <a href="http://www.wendys.com/food/Product.jsp?family=3&amp;product=15&amp;recalculation=on&amp;add=no&amp;42=42&amp;46=46" title="Wendy’s">Spring Mix Salad with Caesar Dressing and Honey Roasted Pecans</a> and a <a href="http://www.wendys.com/food/Product.jsp?family=7&amp;product=29&amp;recalculation=on&amp;add=no&amp;72=72" title="Wendy’s">small chilli with shredded cheddar cheese</a> (total 660 calories, 410 from fat). <em>[Ed: These links require you to set your &ldquo;country&rdquo; at the site. They may not work properly until you do.]</em></ins>



<ins datetime="2003-11-12T18:09:00-05:00">Dinner was a big salad, with a <a href="http://bread.allrecipes.com/az/sistfcccircip.asp" title="Easiest Focaccia Recipe">focaccia</a>, and a glass of <a href="http://www.bolla.com/view_wine.asp?nWID=6" title="Bolla Wines of Italy - Open Up">Bolla Sangiovese Di Romagna</a>.</ins>

While we were on our road trip, Gretchen brought a big container of raisins, though she would not let me eat more than a few. She wanted some left over to be able to make raisin bread. Well, yesterday after dinner I asked her if there was any of that raisin bread left, since I had not seen any of it. She said there was, but that it was going stale. So, this morning she used it to make <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A491302" title="BBC - h2g2 - How to make eggy bread">eggy bread</a>. That is what they call <a href="http://ben.squirming.net/archive/000039.php#000039" title="Art and toast">French Toast</a> in England. I first heard it called this while staying at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate. I ordered French Toast one morning and none of the local young ladies who were waiting tables knew what I was talking about. One of them finally went and got the matron of the hotel, and when I described to her how it was made she said, &ldquo;Oh, you mean &lsquo;eggy bread.&rsquo; We used to make that during the war when there wasn&rsquo;t enough food to go around&hellip; Are you sure that&rsquo;s what you want?&rdquo; Like the French Fry, which gets its name because of the way the potatoes are cut, France and the French people have nothing to do with it (despite the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/" title="CNN.com - House cafeterias change names for 'french' fries and 'french' toast - Mar. 12, 2003">best intentions of the Republicans in Congress</a>). It seems that French Toast is named for a Mr. <a href="http://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/french_toast.html" title="Strat's Place  - Daniel Rogov - French toast">Joseph French</a> who invented the dish. So, to make a long story short&hellip; <em>Today&rsquo;s breakfast was a glass of orange juice and two slices of eggy bread with syrup.</em>



<ins datetime="2003-11-11T12:48:00-05:00">I walked over to the Telecommunications Building to do some work getting a fleet of FreeBSD machines to boot disklessly. After I walked back I had a packet of CHEETOS&reg; Cheddar Cheese Golden Toast Flavor Crackers (240 calories, 130 from fat).</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-11-11T15:45:00-05:00">I broke down and had a bag of popcorn as a snack this afternoon.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-11-11T19:25:00-05:00">Dinner was a stuffed baked butternut squash and a glass of <a href="http://www.bolla.com/view_wine.asp?nWID=6" title="Bolla Wines of Italy - Open Up">Bolla Sangiovese Di Romagna</a>.</ins>

If I look through the <a href="http://www.campbellsoup.ca/en/nutrition/nutrition_search.asp" title="Nutrition Search with Campbell Company of Canada">nutritional information</a> at Campbell&rsquo;s, it appears that a serving of soup is about a cup (<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=250+ml+in+cups" title="Google Search: 250 ml in cups">250 ml</a>).

Breakfast was a bowl of cereal with a sliced banana and a glass of orange juice.

<ins datetime="2003-11-10T15:00:00-05:00">This morning I went for a walk over to the Telecommunications Building &mdash; about two miles, round trip. I had a bag of popcorn afterwards. At lunch I went for another walk and got about three miles in. On the way back I stopped at the <a href="http://www.hfs.psu.edu/bigonion/" title="Big Onion Web Page">Big Onion</a> and grabbed a blueberry yogurt.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-11-10T18:27:00-05:00">Dinner was a salad and a Double D.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-11-10T19:50:00-05:00">Gretchen made apple crisp for dessert.</ins>

• 13.340 Gallons
• $1.499/Gallon
• $20.00
• 423.3 Miles
• 31.7 Miles/Gallon
• 5¢/Mile
• 15 Days

Corn Chowder

Ingredients

• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 stalks celery, chopped
• 2 carrots, chopped
• TBD olive oil
• 2 cans creamed corn
• 1 can corn kernels
• 1 large baking potato, chopped
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• TBD chicken stock
• Dried thyme, to taste
• Salt, to taste
• Pepper, to taste
• ½ to 1 cup half & half, (optional)

Directions

1. In a soup pot, sauté carrots, onions, and celery together in olive oil until the onion is translucent and the carrots and celery have a light caramelization.
2. Add creamed corn, corn kernels, potato, tomatoes, and enough chicken stock to make a good consistency. Add thyme, salt, and pepper to taste.
3. If you are in the mood, add ½ to 1 cup of half & half before serving.

Breakfast was a glass of orange juice and a slice of apple pie.



<ins datetime="2003-11-09T14:18:00-05:00">Dinner was left over crackers and port wine cheese, and we took the last steak and sliced it up to put on a steak salad, along with two Double Ds &mdash; we would have only had one, but it was starting to go flat.</ins>

Breakfast was a glass of orange juice.



We had Gretchen’s sister and her husband over for dinner to thank them for taking care of our animals while we were on vacation. We served port wine cheese with crackers, five ounce grilled marinated bottom sirloin steaks with sautéed mushrooms, baked beans, coleslaw, and a bottle of pinot grigio, with apple pie for dessert.

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This is clearly evidence of the inevitable march of progress. Now you do not even need Photoshop to make fake <a href="http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/churchsigngenerator/index.php">church signs</a>.

O&rsquo;reilly has a nice page about securely programming CGI with Perl that is a sample chapter from <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cgi2/chapter/ch08.html" title="CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition: Chapter 8: Security">CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition</a>. It includes a nice discussion about tainted data, why it is a good thing, and how to remove the taint from it.