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Greek Style Potatoes
Ingredients 4 bone-in chicken legs Salt, pepper, red paprika powder, curry powder 1.5 kg yellow potatoes 800 g shallots If desired: Some garlic 250ml vegetable oil juice of three lemon 250 ml white wine 200 ml heavy cream 150-200g crumbled feta cheese fresh thymePreparation Peel the potatoes and dice them into larger pieces, peel the shallots. Place potatoes and shallots into a larger bowl, and add oil, lemon juice, and wine. Mix, and marinade for 2-3 hours. Wait for it… As desired, rub the chicken legs with salt, pepper, some paprika, and curry powder. Pan-fry sharply to brown, then place...
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Whole Grain Flour Heart Waffles
Ingredients 70 g butter 20 to 30 g sugar, or half and half sugar / artificial sweetener. Adjust the sweetener level to your preference. A good pinch of salt 2 eggs juice of 1/2 lemon 3 tablespoon rum 90 ml milk 125 g whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking powderPreparation === Let the butter be soft, i.e, microwave for a few seconds or remove it from the fridge in time early enough. Mix butter and sugar well.Slowly, each time adding only a bit of liquid, add the 2 eggs, lemon juice, rum, and milk.Finally, mix the baking powder into the...
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Adding last year's SPIE papers
A bit overdue, and I should also post the papers to archive.org at some point, but here are the 2022 SPIE Papers I presented at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 meeting in Montreal. One paper talks about observatory maintenance during the COVID pandemic when everything shut down, and the other paper talks about how to use telemetry and data metrics to monitor and then allocate resources to observatory operations. How we completed major maintenance and new installationsat Las Cumbres Observatory during the COVID-19 Pandemic Informing Observatory Operations with Accessible Telemetry and Performance Metrics)
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Rose hip Soup
A staple dish in our family is rose hip soup, which we usually serve only once a year for Christmas. It is a flavorful, spiced, andsweetened soup that works well during the Holidays, but every year I wonder why we are not having it more often. It can be served as anappetizer for a meal, but in recent years we just made a big pot of it and simply ate soup for dinner.Ingredients 250 g rose hips, seedless 2 liters water Gluehweingewuerz Cinnamon peel of one lemon 2 tablespoon replacement sugar (we use half Splenda / Monkfruit) 2 tablespoon sugar...
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Oil Film Offshore Santa Barbara
Back in August I was flying out of Santa Barbara Airport, and right after take-off the plane usually takes a wide turn over the ocean - it is a wonderful view of the Channel Islands.Interestingly, there was a lot of oil film on the water, better visible to the naked eye than on the picture below that I took with the camera of my cell phone. I was surprised by the extend of oil on the water.A search for natural oil seeps will point to some web pages explaining the origin of the oil film (seemingly a natural occurrence, not...