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Beet and Pineapple Kimchi (kimchee)

Yes, it really is that good.

Here are the ingredients:

  • 1 small head bok choy
  • 1 medium sized carrot (julienned)
  • 1 medium daikon (julienned)
  • 1 Asian pear (julienned)
  • 1 large beet (cut into slivers)
  • 1/4 to 1/2 medium sized pineapple (chunked, to coin a term, into thin chunks)
  • 1 big stack of ginger (minced -- think a 7cm by 2cm piece)
  • 5 or 6 cloves garlic (minced)
  • Sea salt
  • 1 onion (minced) -- I actually used a handful or three of green onion that I'm growing
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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 30 October 2007 - 5:43pm.

    Moroccan Orange & Black Salad

    Very simple, and probably one of the best and most intense things I've tasted. Not that I'm bragging, it's just that...you know...I rule your world.

    Ingredients:

  • 1 large orange or two tangerines; peeled, pitted and pithless, diced into small wedges
  • 1 medium blood orange; peeled, pitted and pithless, diced into small wedges
  • 2 handfuls Kalamata olives; sliced
  • 1 handful pistachio nuts; crushed, wallopped and kersplatted
  • 1 handful fresh mint (or several different mints); minced
  • 1 handful fresh cilantro; minced
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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 27 October 2007 - 6:02pm.

    Portobello Pâté (Vegan and raw)

    It's basically an immediate hit, from self-proclaimed-carnivores to raw-macrobiotic-vegan hippies. I usually break out this Pate when there's a party.

  • 1lb. portobello mushrooms, diced
  • 1 cup walnuts
  • 3 cloves garlic, roasted
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 small to medium red onion, diced
  • 2 tsp shiromiso
  • 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tsp walnut oil
  • 1 tsp olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp (approx) thyme
  • 1/2 tsp (approx) black pepper
  • 1 tsp (approx) rosemary
  • 1/3 tsp (approx) chervil
  • 1/4 tsp (approx) salt
  • 1/3 tsp (approx) taragon
  • 1/2 tsp (approx) Tamari
  • 1/3 tsp (approx) nutmeg
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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 26 October 2007 - 5:58pm.

    Kiwi Wine

    Before moving across the country, I left a gallon of kiwi wine fermenting back in New York. Now, after about 4 months it's about ready and very clear (without using tarpon bladder, bone meal or any other disgusting clarifiers and "finings,") and so I thought it would be good to document (as best I can from memory) what went into it.

  • 5 kiwis
  • 2 liters white grape juice (without preservatives)
  • 1/4 cup sugar or clover-honey
  • 1/2 a small handful of raisins (if using sugar instead of honey)
  • enough water to top off the gallon jug
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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 27 September 2007 - 6:01pm.

    Ginger Champagne Bottled and Revisited

    Ginger Champagne, a tart, sharp but subtle wine is something I started when I moved into a place larger than a shoebox. It started with the following recipe, but after almost a year of aging, I'm sampling the finished product and evaluating how it should change. I'll list changes after the recipe:

    Note, this might change if I realize I'm remembering this all wrong.

  • Champagne yeast (I used Lalvin EC-1118)
  • 11lbs sugar or equivalent agave nectar
  • 2 lbs ginger, grated with a peeler
  • 4 lemons, juice of
  • 3 tbl vanilla extract
  • 1/2 small ginseng root, cooked in initially but removed before fermentation
  • 5 Gallon glass carboy
  • Enough water to top off glass carboy
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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 22 September 2007 - 5:14pm.

    Don't Buy a Whiteboard

    I decided I needed a whiteboard for a new concept I'm developing (details to be disclosed later). Not everything can be typed, and wasting paper just seems like a...waste.. Hand-writing facilitates the creative process in the same way that white boards force you, literally, into a box. That anyone feels that purchasing an ugly picture frame with a picture of PVC inside is acceptable, amazes me.

    But, rather than do something stupid like buy one, I decided to try the materials laying around.

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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 11 July 2007 - 5:34pm.

    Increasing Traffic To Your Site With Drupal

    Making one-click submissions to aggregator sites is one of the easiest ways to increase traffic and search engine ranking, and it's fairly simple with Drupal. This is absolutely a work in progress, but I wanted to throw together some ideas and define the links I've put in the "Syndicate" block below this article. If there are any requests, maybe for aggregator sites that don't make it easy to create these kinds of dynamic links, please leave a comment -- I'd love to figure out a drupal hack for them.

    First, Del.icio.us

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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 4 March 2007 - 10:38pm.

    DIY Bicycle pedal battery charger - background

    I'll be chronicling my adventures in designing a usable and useful power system, powered by spinning wheels. I'm only just starting out so, though it should be "finished" in a week or fifty, I'll start by outlining my ideas.

    1. Neodymium magnets can be found very cheap (by America-or-wealthier standards) and same for copper wire. 32ga magnet wire coiled into tiny giants, epoxied to a PVC circle and being passed within a small brush of the B field from some magnets I've JB-Welded to the spokes, should induce enough current to rectify-ify into a phone charge pretty easily. EMF is related to the number of turns of wire, and the time rate of change of magnetic flux, so I'm still trying to reconcile coil size with efficiency.

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    Submitted by Jon Britton on 27 February 2007 - 5:53pm.
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