July 11, 2010

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I started shopping for a new computer months ago. While I’d repaired and rebuilt a number of laptops and old desktops, this was to be my first completely-fresh, bottom-up build. During both the research and building phases, there were a number of questions I couldn’t (at first) find answers to. Hopefully, this post will provide an answer or two for somebody else out there trying to do something similar.

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I looked in the fridge this evening and saw baby potatoes and feta cheese, so I made a salad out of them. Something like this:

  • 2 cups young red taters, cut into 16ths
  • 1 large cucumber, peeled, seeded, and diced
  • 1/4 red onion, small diced
  • 1 little block of feta cheese, diced
  • 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved

Boil the potatoes as little as possible, just edible-ly un-crunchy. toss them in a bowl with the the rest of the veg, and top with a dressing of:

  • 5 tbs olive oil
  • 2 tbs apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tbs dried basil
  • salt & pepper

Only because I already had a few hard-boiled eggs handy, I peeled just one, chopped the white into the salad, and blended the yolk into the dressing. I let the whole works settle in the fridge while we made the rest of the meal, but I’m thinking it would do just as well for a hot’n’cold side with the spuds right off the boil.