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Delicious and quick dinner that uses pantry staples to get healthy food on the table quickly. Ingredients 4 Chicken and Apple Sausages, sliced into medallions 1Lg Onion, minced 1 Red Bell Pepper, chopped 1 Jalapeno, cored, seeded, and sliced into thin threads 1Qt Grape Tomatoes, halved 1T Garlic paste 1T Sun-Dried Tomato Paste 2-3T Knorr Chicken Broth Powder or 5C Chicken Stock 1T Parsley 1T Chives 1 1LB package Vigo’s Saffron Yellow Rice Steps In a large skillet or brazier with a tight fitting lid, saute the sausage on both sides. Fry onion, bell pepper, jalapeno, and tomatoes until onions are clear and tomatoes begin to char. Add the garlic paste and sun-dried tomato paste and caramelize. Deglaze the pan with 5C of Chicken broth or water. Add the rice, parsley, chives, (and chicken broth powder if using water). Cover tightly, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Cook 18-20 minutes until rice is soft. Enjoy!

This is one of my favorite curry dishes and one that I’m constantly looking to improve on. Here is my current iteration. A warm dark curry without the acidic and spicy gravies of North India. Perfect for a mild introduction to curries or the expert curry eater. Can be dressed up or down as necessary. Ingredients Whole Seeds Anjwan Seed Yellow Mustard Seed Fennel Seed Green Cardaman Black Pepper Seeds Powders Garam Masala Ground Coriander Asfetida (or MSG, though I highly recommend learning to use this spice!) Curry Powder Garlic Powder Ground ginger Pantry Staples Knorr Chicken Broth Powder Ghee or high-heat neutral Oil (e.g.; Avocado Oil) Salt 1C Pearl Couscous Vegetables/Meat 1 Can Whole Coconut Milk, unsweetened 2 Lg Carrots, cut faux-tourne 2 Chili Peppers (I like Poblanos that have went red in the garden, but this is only preference) 1 Md Onion, minced (or equal amount dried minced onion) 1Lb Chicken Wings, Things, or Wingettes, bone-in Steps

This quick weeknight meal can be made from scratch or using a variety of pantry staples. Feel free to sub any of the fresh ingredients for canned or zhuzh it up with fresh ingredients.  Ingredients  12oz Chicken Sausages, sliced into medallions 1 Yellow Onion, Diced 1/2 lb Baby Spinach, washed 1C Chardonnay 1/2 lb Button Mushrooms, stemmed, sliced, and washed 4-8oz Sliced Sun Dried Tomatoes 1/2 lb Parmesan, finely shredded 1 lb Pasta of your choosing, I prefer casarecce 1 T Aleppo Pepper or Red Pepper Flake (Opt.) 1/2 T Italian Seasoning or Fresh herbs (Opt., Oregano, Rosemary, Thyme, Marjoram, Basil) 4oz Butter, cubed 1 T Black Pepper, freshly ground Note: Pre-shredded Parmesan often has a cellulose powder added to prevent clumping. This will prevent the cheese from melting properly and forming a sauce. It is highly recommended you shred your own cheeses from a block.    Steps 1) In a large pot, bring together several quarts of water with a hefty amount of salt (1-2Tbsps) and place o

What follows is a list of thoughts crafted in an airport terminal in San Jose, California hours after completing my first attendance at the RSA Conference. This also happens to be the anniversary of my first year as a people leader in the security engineering space. (I had previously mentored and led soldiers in the US Army and in various other civilian industries including Optical Lens Manufacturing and Operational Incident Response.)    Know your role  Moving from an engineering role to a people managing role brings a whole number of new challenges. If you're company is like any of the previous ones I've worked at, the "New Manager" pipeline may be...less than stellar. Reach out to your HR teams and your boss/mentors for a list of things that you're going to need to do. Have you ever reviewed and approved PTO? Make sure you don't have your whole team off at once. Did they get their benefits selected during the enrollment period? What are th

(Posting this a day late as I was crazy exhausted yesterday after walking nearly ten miles! I literally laid down in the room at 22:30 and woke up at 04:30 still in my clothes, lights on, etc.... I think I was effectively conferenced out, and that was only Day 3!)    Great tracks today and some exciting notes. Plus I got to hit the Expo floor. Here's the talks I made it to:   Teaching Software Engineers to Threat Model: We Did It, and So Can You - Jamie Dicken, New Relic  Another Digital ID: Privacy-preserving Humanitarian Aid Distribution - Woulter Lueks, Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz, Center for Information Security Web Application Hacking 101 - Look Mom No Tools - Joseph M. (I'm not going to name him as I have poor thoughts to share below.) Lets break down the classes. Thought there was some great info today Teaching Software Engineers to Threat Model: We Did It, and So Can You Jamie did a great job of showing how a team of thoughtful and intentional engineers who are willing to

 Today was a great opportunity to see what RSA was all about. We walked over early to get badges and get checked in. The conference provided us with a decent swag pack, an RSA branded bag, water bottle (something I hadn't been able to find at any of the airports along the way), a notebook, a pen, a shirt, and for newbies, a "First Timer" pin.  We stepped to grab breakfast and then hit up the talk track, I had stupidly "favorited" all my talks instead of "reserving" them so I had some quick choices to make.  My line-up for the day ended up being:  - Crypto to Kim Jong Un: Laundering Loot from the World's Fastest Heist - Geoff White, Penguin Random House - Join the Mission to Strengthen the Industrial Ecosystem - Dawn Capelli, Dragos - Agents of Chaos: Hactivism Spreads Fear, Disinformation, and Propaganda - Alexander Leslie, Recorded Future - Common Good Cyber - A panel with an assorted cast including Craig Newmark, philanthropist and Craigslist fou