Recipe – Joly’s Matzah balls

Jody and I worked on perfecting this recipe, hence the name “Joly”… [xrr rating=5/5] INGREDIENTS: Dry Ingredients 1 cup “regular” Matzah Meal ¼ cup Whole Wheat Matzah Meal ½ tsp of black pepper [freshly ground] ½ tsp of “4 seasons peper corns” [freshly ground] ½ tsp nutmeg [freshly ground] Consume mix ¼ cup of boiling… Continue reading Recipe – Joly’s Matzah balls

My Unix Commands

Find text within files in sub directories find . -type f -exec grep -il “text string” {} ; Change the photo files name: for f in 100_*.jpg; do mv $f ${f/100_/p}; done Add an ‘s’ to thumbnail: for f in p*.jpg; do mv $f ${f/./s.}; done List all files including sub directories into file ‘a.txt’:… Continue reading My Unix Commands

Fresh Fruits Coffee Cake

[xrr rating=5/5] I have to give Tali Kreindler full credit for this cake. I told her that I have too many blueberries, and she gave me this amazing, easy to make, recipe. Servings : Makes a 8×8 inch cakePreparation Time : 20 MinutesCooking Time : 50 MinutesEquipment: 8×8 inch pan INGREDIENTS:Dry Ingredients1½ cups all purpose… Continue reading Fresh Fruits Coffee Cake

unix commands – extract .gz files

Dang, I swear I look for these commands way too often. So here it is once and for all: Extract a .gz file: gzip -d file.gz Extract a tar.gz file: tar xvzf file.tar.gz Long live the internet!

My Unix Commands – Tree view of sub-directories

I found this line on centerkey.com: ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e ‘s/[^-][^/]*//–/g’ -e ‘s/^/   /’ -e ‘s/-/|/’ It was very useful, and created simple graphic tree of my sub-directories. Live long the internet!

OMG! Pesto Vinaigrette…

I had the Chicken wrap with Pesto Vinaigrette from Trader Joe’s. I really wish they would just give me the recipe, or sell it in a can. The recipe for Basil Vinaigrette on Allrecipe.com looks like a good approximation – I will try this soon and see if it is close enough.