Author: Lisa

Cannellini Bean Alfredo Sauce

This was good, but still not quite a creamy, cheesy sauce. I started by roasting a head of garlic – drizzle in olive oil, wrap in foil, and bake at 350F for about 45 minutes.

Saute about 1/2 a cup of diced onion in 1 Tbsp of olive oil. Add one 14 oz can of cannellini beans and heat. Put in blender along with roast garlic, 1/4 cup of bone broth, 2 Tbsp lemon juice, 3 Tbsp nutritional yeast, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp pepper. Blend to a smooth consistency, adding more bone broth if needed. Serve with … in this case chickpea rotini.

Banana Flower Salad

Banana flower – very cool as you peel off the tough, red, outer petals, you find proto-bananas

After you peel off the tough leaves, chop the banana flower and soak it in lemon water for at least 20 minutes. This was a sauteed salad — next time, we’ll try it raw.

Mashed Yuca

This was spectacular – I’ve been looking for a replacement for “mashed potatoes”, and tried mashed yuca root. You’ve got to peel it and, as I learned after making it the first time, there’s very fibrous bits at the ends and running down the middle. Chop the root into small chunks and boil in salted water for about 25 minutes.

Remove from the water and mash while they are warm. Mix in a little coconut oil, salt, and garlic.

Baked Tostones

I made braised shortribs and roasted parsnip today. I also made a baked version of tostones. Steam the plantains (cut the ends off, steam or microwave for ~3 minutes per plantain), cut them into rounds, then squish into a flat nugget. Lightly coat with salt and olive oil, then bake at 425. 10 minutes, flip, and ten more minutes. It could use some sort of sauce, but they are very similar to potato nuggets.

Expanding a qcow2-backed system disk (host + guest)

Expanding a qcow2-backed system disk (host + guest) — guest volume is lvm and xfs file system

HOST (resize qcow2)

  1. Optional backup:
    cp –reflink=auto /vms/fedora02.qcow2 /vms/fedora02.qcow2.bak
  2. Offline resize (VM stopped):
    qemu-img resize /vms/fedora02.qcow2 +5G
    # Start the VM after resizing.

GUEST (grow partition, PV, LV, filesystem)

  1. Confirm the disk shows the larger size:
    lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT
    #If needed:
    #partprobe /dev/sda
  2. Grow the LVM partition (sda2) to the end of the disk:
    dnf install -y cloud-utils-growpart
    growpart /dev/sda 2
    partprobe /dev/sda
  3. Resize the LVM PV and extend the root LV:
    pvresize /dev/sda2
    lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/fedora/root
  4. Grow the filesystem:
    xfs_growfs /
  5. Verify:
    lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT
    df -h /

Exchange SMTP – Sender Reputation DB

Our Exchange server was refusing mail

451 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX5

Attempts to send mail would connect, send data, and then hang for a few seconds before returning the tempfail error.

Looks like there’s “sender reputation” data stored at .\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\data\SenderReputation that is used. Since I’m not actually doing filtering on the Exchange server, stopping the transport services, moving the files out of the folder, and then re-starting the services rebuilt the data and allowed mail to send again.

Cassava Gnocchi

About 1.5 cups of mashed cassava

1 cup cassava flour and 2 tsp salt

 

 

 

Mix together and add enough vegetable stock to make a dough — it rolled out very nicely, cut into nuggets and smooshed with a fork.

The gnocci was boiled for about three minutes in salted water then fried in olive oil to crisp up. They were really gelatinous after boiling. I think it would have been better to sit and dry before frying.

Python: Partition and RPartition

Found a neat pair of methods that were added in Python 2.5 — it’s like split/index except it handles breaking the string into two elements for you. A tuple is returned with the part before the separator, the separator, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, element 0 and 1 are empty strings.

 

C:\Users\lisa> python
Python 3.13.3
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> test = “This is a string | with pipe characters as | delimiters in the string”
>>> print(test.rpartition(“|”)[0])
This is a string | with pipe characters as
>>> print(test.partition(“|”)[0])
This is a string
>>>