{"id":10,"date":"2006-12-17T23:45:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T05:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2006-12-20T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T20:29:30","slug":"dinner-at-daynas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at Dayna&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Dayna&#8217;s (Mazz&#8217;s &#8220;bird&#8221;) house tonight for supper where she cooked up a wonderful Barley &#038; Mushroom soup and some cornbread.  I helped a little by chopping up some celery and mushrooms, but Dayna&#8217;s magic and skill made the meal.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Dayna&#8217;s son, Quinn, has been having computer issues that I haven&#8217;t been very helpful with.  He&#8217;s got an older Dell Dimension 2300, a box that doesn&#8217;t have an AGP or PCIe slot &#8211; just standard PCI and he wants to be able to play several Lego games that require Pixel Shaders or some such.  I think I *might* have found him a card that will work, but I&#8217;m not sure.  Why does Lego make games that require expensive hardware?  Even if they do, can&#8217;t you just turn off Pixel Shaders and play the game with less details?<\/p>\n<p>I managed to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/recipes\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/living\/114081451644670.xml&#038;coll=7\">a very close recipe online<\/a> from what I remember in helping to prepare it:<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 3px solid #000000; padding: 10px\">Mushroom Barley Soup<br \/>\n&#8212; From Real Simple Magazine, November 2005<\/p>\n<p>Makes 4 servings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 \u00c2\u00bd tablespoons olive oil (divided)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup pearl barley<\/li>\n<li>2 medium yellow onions, diced<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00bd teaspoon kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00bc teaspoon black pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 large carrot, diced<\/li>\n<li>2 celery stalks, diced<\/li>\n<li>20 ounces button mushrooms, sliced<\/li>\n<li>5 cups low-sodium chicken broth<\/li>\n<li>2 bay leaves<\/li>\n<li>8 sprigs fresh thyme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a medium skillet over medium heat; add barley and saute for 3 or 4 minutes. Remove from heat. In a medium pan, bring the barley and 4 cups of water to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 25 to 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, heat the remaining 1 \u00c2\u00bd tablespoons oil in a large pot over medium-low heat. Add the onions, salt and pepper. Cover and cook until the onions have softened, 4 to 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add the carrot and celery and cook, covered, for 5 minutes more. Add the mushrooms, increase heat to medium-high and cook, covered, until they release their juices, about 4 minutes. Add the broth, bay leaves and thyme and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Stir in the cooked barley and cook for 5 minutes more. Remove and discard the bay leaves and thyme sprigs. If desired, season with additional salt and pepper.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Dayna&#8217;s (Mazz&#8217;s &#8220;bird&#8221;) house tonight for supper where she cooked up a wonderful Barley &#038; Mushroom soup and some cornbread. I helped a little by chopping up some celery and mushrooms, but Dayna&#8217;s magic and skill made the meal. In other news, Dayna&#8217;s son, Quinn, has been having computer issues that I haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemblog.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}