I started to buy whole chickens to practice cutting them. To my surprise, there were some extra parts. The heart and liver were easy to identify. I had some trouble finding the joints to cut but eventually I had all the different parts.
The second time, I bought chicken from Costco. This time there were more gibblets which I did not know what they were. There is this mushy looking thing where a part looks kind of like intestine. It is a light color than the dark brown/red color of the other gizzard. There was also a part that had a whitish color. This I found later was the gizzard. There's also a dark brownish color with something hard inside which I think is the neck but the color is kind of weird.
The links below helped identify a few things.
Reference:
http://www.thekitchn.com/what-are-giblets-65220
http://www.nytimes.com/video/dining/100000002155362/cutting-up-a-whole-chicken.html
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Cooking: Parsley vs Cilantro/Coriander - Visual Aid
So the other day I learned about parsley because I meant to buy cilantro. I just figured it was a different name like coriander since I bought it in an asian mart where they do not always use the proper names. Fortunately, I was splitting my vegetables with my mom since I cannot eat all the vegetables that come in bunches (parsley, green onion, spinach, napa). She was surprised that I bought parsley which I said I was going to use with guacamole or salsa, then she started laughing that I bought the wrong vegetable. Sigh... at least someone had a good time out of my misfortune. In retrospect, I'm surprised she knew what I was talking about since I've never seen her make salsa or guacamole.
Of course later, I went online to see the difference and to my newbie eyes... they still looked the same to me! After staring at it for a while, I thought I figured out the difference. A few days later, I went to buy cilantro because I still needed them with the avocados that I bought. Of course at the supermarket, they didn't organize the signs with the vegetables. It was like the world was testing me... and the world won.
I was staring... and staring. I thought parsley had slightly larger leaves. After some more staring and nervous now that someone might think that I was crazy staring at the two for so long, there started to look the same again. So I chose the one that appeared closest to the cilantro sign which smelled like cilantro... at least I thought that was the smell of cilantro. Then when I checked out, I noticed on the receipt that it said parsley. Oh no...
I still had some parsley leftover, and I am seriously blind to the differences. Then I checked again online, and I found this nice site on Better Recipes which gave a great tip that Parsley had pointy leaves while Cilantro had curvy leaves. So I had ended up buying the correct one (the second time around). Parsley went very well with my chicken soup which I am think I am getting better at. I haven't quite figured what to do with the liver and heart they leave for you in the whole chickens.
Reference:
Friday, November 1, 2013
Complaint: Curly Braces with Confluence v3.x (Jira) and SharePoint
There is an issue with Confluence when using curly braces and URL. This should be easily replicated by typing in any URL with curly braces, like http://test.com/?param={test}. Another example is to copy the URLs in Sharepoint into Confluence.
What happens is that Confluence attempts to convert the curly braces as macros. At the same time, it tries to convert them into clickable links. I was unable to find a way to disable this. I even tried to use the forward slash, '\', to disable to display the curly brace. Since that did not work and I could not disable the conversion, I removed the http portion which helped display the link.
The workaround to fix this problem is to convert the left curly brace with %7B and right curly brace with %7D. For example, http://test.com/?param={test} will become http://test.com/?param=%7Btest%7D. What I do not like about this workaround is having to listen to people complain about having to do an extra step, or even worse not pay attention and not change the braces because not making the change really messes up the page especially if they are embedded in tables.
I apologize that I do not know which version of Confluence is being used. I do not have access and couldn't find it before having to leave work.
Update 1/27/2014 - I have found that the latest this version is 3.x.
What happens is that Confluence attempts to convert the curly braces as macros. At the same time, it tries to convert them into clickable links. I was unable to find a way to disable this. I even tried to use the forward slash, '\', to disable to display the curly brace. Since that did not work and I could not disable the conversion, I removed the http portion which helped display the link.
The workaround to fix this problem is to convert the left curly brace with %7B and right curly brace with %7D. For example, http://test.com/?param={test} will become http://test.com/?param=%7Btest%7D. What I do not like about this workaround is having to listen to people complain about having to do an extra step, or even worse not pay attention and not change the braces because not making the change really messes up the page especially if they are embedded in tables.
I apologize that I do not know which version of Confluence is being used. I do not have access and couldn't find it before having to leave work.
Update 1/27/2014 - I have found that the latest this version is 3.x.
Reference
Work Life: Upgraded to Confluence 5.1.5
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