{"id":489,"date":"2004-09-26T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=489"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"tomato-sauce-froozyfox-and-ripping-mp3s-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2004\/09\/tomato-sauce-froozyfox-and-ripping-mp3s-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"tomato sauce, froozyfox, and ripping mp3s in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made my tomato sauce yesterday, and I didn&#8217;t mess it up! To amuse myself I took pictures throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p>First I got together the canned\/bottled ingredients.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/ingredients.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/ingredients_sm.jpg\" alt=\"ingredients\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><lj-cut>Then I chopped up a really large onion, which ended up being a TON of onion, and I was a bit concerned that it was too much, so I didn&#8217;t add all of it, next time I&#8217;ll make sure to get an onion that&#8217;s a little smaller. I also chopped up two garlic cloves. After they were all chopped up I put them into the pot and cooked them up a bit with 3 Tablespoons of Vegetable oil.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/onions.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/onions_sm.jpg\" alt=\"onions and garlic\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Then I added 1 Bay Leaf, 1 teaspoon Oregano, 1\/8 teaspoon Margoram, 1\/4 teaspoon Thyme, 1\/2 teaspoon Hot Red Pepper, 1\/4 teaspoon Basil, and 1 pinch Sage. I mixed that all up nicely with the onions and garlic for a couple minutes. Then I added the two 28oz cans of peeled tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/sauce_after_tomatoes_and_spice.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/sauce_after_tomatoes_and_spice_sm.jpg\" alt=\"sauce after tomatoes and spice\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I stirred and let that mix together and simmer for 5 minutes. Then I added the 2 28oz cans of tomato sauce (as seen on the ingredients picture, this is plain sauce of tomatoes sold for putting into more complex recipes such as this one). I let that simmer for an hour. Then I added the tomato paste and simmered for another hour. Then I added a tablespoon of grated parmesean cheese. I should have added 2 tablespoons of red wine at this point too, but it&#8217;s such a hassle to get wine, and I didn&#8217;t have the cash on me to walk down to the wine and spirits shop in town. Crazy PA, not allowing people to buy simple cooking wine in a grocery store, come on! Anyway, after adding the parmesean I let it simmer for another half hour.<\/p>\n<p>Then the sauce was done!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/finished_tomato_sauce.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/finished_tomato_sauce_sm.jpg\" alt=\"finished sauce\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit more spicy than I remember, I might not add the hot red pepper next time, but I&#8217;ll have to see what Michael thinks. You mean he didn&#8217;t get to try it yet? Nope! Unfortunately he was stuck at work until almost midnight %(<\/p>\n<p>So I made myself a salad and some garlic bread and pasta, and enjoyed a dinner all by myself around 7 pm last night.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/tomato_sauce_dinner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/sauce\/tomato_sauce_dinner_sm.jpg\" alt=\"tomato sauce dinner\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I did a lot of catching up on things. I upgraded firefox recently, and was very annoyed to discover that yet again it had issues. Now this time was the upgrade to 1.0 pre, so I should expect issues, but if I have to reinstall my extensions one more time I&#8217;m going to kill someone %) I ended up backing up my bookmarks deleting my .mozilla\/firefox\/ directory, restarting it, and reinstalling all my extensions. Then I learned that the new find function doesn&#8217;t work right. Bah! I loved the old popup window find option, why&#8217;d they need to go and change it? I still just use firefox as my rss reader though, so my normal surfing and searching with good old mozilla is fine.<\/p>\n<p>I went to rip a cd yesterday, and was a bit annoyed to find that the cd skipped when I tried to play it. I tried to play it in other players in linux, still skipping. So I booted into windows, played on windows media player, still skipping. Oh no! Then I thought I&#8217;d try and rip it, but<br \/>\n I was in Windows, how do people rip things in Windows these days? A couple questions in a music channel I lurk in lead me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exactaudiocopy.de\/\">Exact Audio Copy<\/a>, which is free to use, and pretty nice. I had to install LAME separately, but then the wizard makes it pretty straight forward. I was able to play the CD in EAC fine, no skipping, strange. So I ripped and encoded it. The program only crashed once, and I fear that really was because of a CD flaw (it kept crashing on the same track). Now it did take some time to do all this ripping and encoding, I don&#8217;t see what people mean when they say linux does it so slowly, if you want good quality music files it&#8217;s going to take a while no matter where you are *shrug*<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made my tomato sauce yesterday, and I didn&#8217;t mess it up! To amuse myself I took pictures throughout the process. First I got together the canned\/bottled ingredients. 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