Cooking

It is that time of the year again where I make up stuff to ignore for the following twelve months. Last year I didn’t do it, but this year I will give it another try. I has been pointed out that these kind of resolutions doesn’t really fit into the agile way of making decisions that I do subscribe to in my professional life. I will again try to make follow up posts to check how I am doing during the year and possibly adjust the goals. So here we go. No Screen Day – don’t spend any time in front of a screen or phone for one day a week. This can’t be avoided for work, but everything else is forbidden. I am going to start with a low use day, like Tuesdays and then increase it to a day with more free time like Fridays or possibly two weekdays. Sort out Fedora – I am behind with my work on Fedora packages. This has to do with a lack of time, but also with the direction Fedora is taking, which has killed my motivation a bit. First I will catch up with all the work and then decide if I give up on maintaining the packages and switch to CentOS and let other people do the work. If I give up on Fedora there are other open source project where I could invest more time. Cook new stuff – I love cooking, but often I just rehash old recipes or do one of these “whatever is in the fridge” meals. So plan for this year: pick a new recipe every week and cook it on the weekend. Now you are probably wondering where the usual stuff is. You know, the bits about weight and sports. I see those as a given anyway. I will continue to do more mountain biking and running and eat well enough to not end on the very lardy side. I will hopefully also progress on my career without having to do major changes. As these are pretty easy goals I might add harder ones or follow Cutts example in his quest to do a new thing every month and stay with it if it turns out to be nice. btw: I shouldn’t have told you this. 

This is my recipe for paella. The picture was the most recent one I made. It was not perfect because it is my largest pan and it gets a bit difficult. I used two other recipes I found on-line and combined them. olive oil2 chicken breasts cut in dices2 onions diced 300 g paella rice750 ml chicken stocksaffronhandful frozen peas1/2 green pepper1/2 red peppermixed seafood: squid, prawns, octopus, mussels, shrimps, fish parsleydry white winelemonHeat a paella or other big flat pan. Add olive oil and fry chicken for 2-3 minutes. Push to the side of the pan, add onions and fry until golden. Season with salt and pepper, but not too much as the stock is probably seasoned too. Push everything to the side and put rice in the middle and coat it with olive oil until all of the rice is coated. Add most of the chicken stock, mix everything and cook for 10 minutes. Add vegetables and seafood and mix again. Crush the saffron and add it to the remaining stock, this also goes into the pan. Leave to simmer and add wine and water if it gets to dry. Serve with lemons slices and parsley on top. The whole thing takes maybe half an hour, but you have to make sure that the rice does not burn or get too soggy. If you want to go fancy you can fry some chicken legs and fresh prawns or crayfish and put them on top at the end.