For some crazy reason "filled cylinders" as a theme came to mind when I decided to cook something yummy and not-quite-normal for dinner. It turned out to be an extremely awesome combination of flavors, and actually pretty healthy. It consisted of:
A red pepper section (fresh raw) deseeded/devained & filled with spanish rice (box -- I made this after a full day of work & taking Hunter to TKD... no time for scratch). Garnished with thin slices of Cougar Smoky Cheddar.
A roma tomato half (fresh raw) scooped & filled with cottage cheese & a garnish of romaine.
Three carrot sections (fresh raw), cored and filled with a puree of the leftover carrot, neufchâtel cheese, 1 Tbs soy sauce, 1 tsp turmeric, 1/2 tsp chili powder.
Garnished with (fresh raw) avocado slices and more carrot puree.
A person *could* cook/bake the tomato, pepper, and carrots... but they'd just not taste the same.
Dessert is another filled cylinder - strawberry shortcake with whip cream!
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Filled Cylinders for Dinner
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Raspberry Pi and autostart
I've had a heck of a time figuring out how to get a program (feh, in this instance) to autostart after my Raspberry Pi auto launches into LXDE. I did finally get it working - my only excuse is I must be tired...
Not that it matters, I'm using the new raspbian distro (downloaded today, 07/19/2012), completely udpated/upgrade (sudo apt-get update
and sudo apt-get -y upgrade
)
I used the configuration utility to easily tell it to autostart into the window environment (sudo raspi-config
) then find the option for booting directly with startx & enabled it.
Then I wrote a script to launch feh (I'll do a more comprehensive post on this later, likely), left it in my home directory and named it start_feh.sh
(imaginative), with appropriate chmod +x
Next (and I assume you're doing this all from a terminal/ssh), change to your home folder's configuration folder (cd ~/.config
), and make an autostart directory (mkdir autostart
).
cd to that folder (cd autostart
), then make a *.desktop file for your script (vi feh.desktop
) with the following 3 lines:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/home/pi/start_feh.sh
That's it -- all it took. So... long story short: On your Raspberry Pi, to start a program after it launches into LXDE, make a *.desktop file in /home/[user profile]/.config/autostart