2/1/06: Frustrating day

[davidlevine]

Word count: 3379 | Since last entry: 112

Spent the day fighting authentication issues at work that repeatedly locked me out of my account and had me talking to tech support in Bangalore a lot. But by the end of the day I think I got it all sorted out... which, functionally speaking, put me right back where I was.

Came home and fixed biscuits while my sweetie made tempeh stroganoff. Yum.

After dinner, sighed and reformatted the hard drive on the music server. After asking around at work and browsing the net, I decided I'd never be able to trust a disk with a broken index. So far I have reinstalled Windows XP and am now installing Service Pack 2. Oddly, after repartitioning and reformatting the disk only shows 130GB of the 250GB it's supposed to have. I don't remember if it was that way before. Also, after a fresh install I can't set the monitor resolution higher than 640x480, and I know it wasn't that way before. Same hardware, same OS. Why why why?

While the OS was installing I did manage to write my 100 words for the day, but I'm still working on the same damn scene. I need to move forward. But it's not going to happen quickly... I'm not going to be able to really concentrate on writing until the server is up and running again.

Comments

Tempeh Stroganoff

[mkhobson.livejournal.com]

Does Kate have a recipe for that that she might be willing to share? Because it sounds incredibly delicious.

M

Re: Tempeh Stroganoff

[davidlevine]

It's an old family recipe... that we found on the back of a Turtle Island tempeh package. It's online here: http://www.tofurkey.com/recipes/tempeh_stroganoff.htm It really is delicious.

We usually serve it on wide noodles but yesterday we had it on top of biscuits, which was decadent. The biscuit recipe we used is from the Flying Biscuit Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia, where Kate had the Best Biscuits Ever and bought the cookbook.

Re: Tempeh Stroganoff

[mkhobson.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recipe! I'm going to try cooking it for the family this weekend. I'll let you know how it goes!!!

M

Re: Tempeh Stroganoff

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Some local modifications to the recipe:
* Use twice as many mushrooms.
* Cook them looooonger. (Like, the whole twenty minutes the biscuits are in the oven.)
* Last night we used Cascade Fresh Mediterranean Style Yogurt (http://www.cascadefresh.com/medit.html), aka Lebne. It was delicious, and didn't separate or curdle at all.