Gnocchi with Talapia in White Wine, Mushroom, and Roasted Red Bell Pepper

OK, here's a quick narrative of how to make this dish. There is no recipe, just some guidelines.
I sauteed the fresh frozen talapia for 4 minutes a side on medium-ish in EVOO with kosher, cracked, and squeeze of lemon; then set it aside.
Into my already boiling water, I dumped premade gnocchi. After 5 minutes, I drained and set it aside after a cooling rinse.
Then I sauteed mushrooms in olive oil, white wine, cracked, and kosher. After the mushrooms were cooked, I sliced and added in 1 red bell that was from the olive bar at Tom Thumb - roasted and in olive oil.
Next, I added a little more kosher, cracked, fresh Italian parsley, and diced romas, tossed quickly and removed from heat.
Following that, I took out a big as pan, put it on medium, threw in the gnocchi and drizzled with EVOO and sauteed those suckers until they were warm again and not as doughy, threw on the mushroom sauce, then diced the fish and added it in... toss toss toss.
To plate, I garnished with crumbled feta, Parmesan, and some fresh Italian parsley and cracked for looks.
This is a totally made up dish.
After scarfing it down we concluded that I should have added toasted pine nuts and a lemon wheel into the mix.
I think some crushed red pepper in the sauce after the mushrooms would have been spot on!
Enjoy!

Stop Making Mud and Clear Up Your URI

Do you use a custom domain with Blogger like I do? Well I find that the help at Blogger is pretty good. There's info on how to setup the DNS etc. And, if you're like me and wrap your domain with Gmail and Google Calendar then you have email.yourdomain.com resolving for email and cal.yourdomain.com resolving for the Calendar.
However, you may have noticed that while www.yourdomain.com brings up your blog, yourdomain.com (without the "www") does not. What to do? Well if you are on Linux/Apache and hosted somewhere, time to make a quick and dirty little .htaccess file.
Make a text file called htaccess.txt. Put the following code in there:
#chrisbeckworth.com rocks visit often
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yourdomain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
Replace "yourdomain.com" with domain name and tld. Save the file. FTP to your domains directory and uploaded the file. Rename the file from htaccess.txt to .htaccess.
Enjoy.

Wanna Learn Regular Expressions?

I'm a big believer in less is more. To me, regular expressions are the eptitomy of that in slinging code. Finally found a good primer. Now if I can only find the time to read and practice. I have the same problem with my grand piano.

Improve your lame MP3 Encoder with a LAME Encoder

The folks at EdZachary.com show you how to improve the lame, eh hmm, low quality MP3 encoder with a real LAME Encoder. Read more at EdZachary.com.

IT Orgs Everywhere... Learn Something

Wondering why you can't recruit the best and brightest to your IT organization? Probably because your just not trying hard enough to do what's key to recruiting raw, fresh talent; then again, looks like the powerhouses have the same issue. Learn from their mistakes. Read this article. Whether true or not, an excellent read for any CIO or IT VP.

Little Antique Santa

Here's an antique Santa from who knows when or where. My mom came across these when I was 12 or 13 and had packs of them. I remember her using them to decorate the big gifts and hanging here and there about the house for a little more Christmas spirit. They are all my favorites but you can decide which is your as I update the post.

Merry, merry!