Monthly Archives: November 2007

Recipe: Salmon Papillotes

November 7, 2007 – 8:38 pm

Megen cooked up an amazing meal the other day and I wanted to share. Cooking “en papillote” is a technique where you place your food in a folded piece of parchment paper and bake it. The pouch keeps in all of the moisture and steams the food. This results in a very moist and aromatic [...]

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BeautifulSoup: Last.fm Artist Image

November 7, 2007 – 9:03 am

A coworker had been working with Last.fm and libnotify to send him a notification when a friend listens to a song so that he can decide if he’d be interested in listening to it. To grab the artist’s image he used a complex regular expression that was prone to error. I thought it [...]

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Pop Secrets Updated

November 6, 2007 – 8:57 pm

I wrote the original script for Pop Secrets over a year ago. Back then I was just getting into Python and was woefully ignorant. Using Universal Feed Parser I simply gobbled up all the content from a number of celebrity gossip blogs and spitted them out sorted by date onto a page. [...]

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Recipe: Skate with Browned Butter and Capers

November 1, 2007 – 5:14 pm

Megen’s favorite fish, skate, has become the tastiest dish in our house. Skate has a very sweet taste similar to scallops but at a fraction of the cost. We’ve made this recipe a few times now and it never disappoints:

Thaw (if frozen), rinse, and dry off your skate fillets.

Salt and pepper one side [...]

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