Lamb soup and more

This soup is a compilation of many traditional Uzbekistan soups.

Of course, you need lamb and some special sour plums. Cherry plums? When was the last time you've seen these plums? They are out of season in produce section of my supermarket for the past 20+ years.

Anyway, for best results do the following.
Buy a lamb rack - a smaller one is better, it will have less fat - Costco is your best bet price-wise.
You'll also need salt, water, 3 onions, 5 potatoes, 1 of cup rice. Garlic, black pepper and cilantro are optional. 

Put lamb rack whole into wide pot, cover with enough water to make soup and bring to boil. Add salt and simmer at low. Cube 3 medium onions (I don't know exactly how to cube onions, but this is one of the lines from one of the recipes, so I followed this line literally). Add to soup. Add 3 medium-size tomatoes whole. Peel 5 small-to-medium size potatoes of perfect shape and similar size. Add them to soup, bring to boil. In 20 minutes take out the rack and cut along the ribs - you'll get 7-8 bones with meat on. Return them to pot. Take out tomatoes, squish in colander above the pot, remove skin and whatever else you don't like from colander and return the rest of tomatoes to the pot. Add 2-3 chopped garlic cloves and simmer for another few minutes.

To serve on Day One

Each portion will have 1 rib, 1 potato and broth.
Top with chopped cilantro or something else green if you can get  this time of the year.

To serve on Day Two

Put generous amount of boiled rice into the soup plate. Add broth remaining from day 1 to the plate. Heat in micro.
If you are especially lucky, you'll get a bone too.
Tastes great.
It's a different dish with a different name tough, I am not even sure it's called soup. 

Please note that you can feed a family of 5 for 2 days with 1 lamb rack.

Resolving to port 80 instead of 8080 (AWS, Linux, Tomcat)

Launch AWS EC2 instance with Linux, securely connect to it

>yum -y install tomcat7
....
Compile and deploy your webapp / mobile app
Let's make it simple - for example, deploy helloworld.jsp
....

>service tomcat7 status
tomcat7 (pid  <...>) is running...
 ....


Go to  web browser / g.g. Google Chrome

http://<IP address or domain name>/helloworld.jsp
For example
http://hastasiempre-ismyfavourite.com

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to <...> 

Darn! I mean, WTF?

Browse some forums. Figure that default port for Tomcat7 to listen on is 8080.

http://<IP address or domain name>:8080/helloworld.jsp

Hell of a world!

Go to .../tomcat7/conf. Edit server.xml with your editor of choice to change ports 8080 and 8443 to 80 and 443 respectively. 

http://<IP address or domain name>/helloworld.jsp

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to <...> 

Browse even more forums. Figure out that you need to run tomcat as root to be allowed to use port under 1024. Edit tomcat7.conf with your editor of choice to change TOMCAT_USER="tomcat" to TOMCAT_USER="root".

http://<IP address or domain name>/helloworld.jsp

Hell of a world!

Bingo!

My humble contribution in the form  of sed script to switch from port 8080 to 80:

#!/bin/bash 
tomcat=tomcat7
tomcat_conf=/usr/share/$tomcat/conf
 cd $tomcat_conf 
sed -e 's/="8080/="80/g' -e 's/="8443/="443/g' -i $tomcat_conf/server.xml
sed '/Connector port="80"/i\<!-- change user tomcat to root in tomcat7.conf, change ports 8080 and 8443 to 80 and 443 respectively -->/' -i $tomcat_conf/server.xml
sed -e '/TOMCAT_USER=/i\# Switch user from tomcat to root'  -e 's/TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"/TOMCAT_USER="root"/' -e 's/="8080/="80/' -i $tomcat_conf/$tomcat.conf

Fossil hand bags

Owned a Fossil watch once.
But my real obsession are Fossil handbags.

Something of along these lines - Vintage Revival Handbags

Oh wait. I own this one. It's practical and perfectly all right. Not much to talk about. I meant something like this

Material: Leather
Interior Material: Jacquard - 100% Polyester (well, silk lining would've been more classy)
Closure: Turnlock
Interior Details: 2 Media pockets, back wall zipper pocket
Measurements: 15"L x 4"W x 7.25"H
Handles / Straps: Single handle
Drop: 6" L

A strapless purse. Not practical at all. To be used on rare occasion of going to the theatre show with escort. What if I find it under the tree?

Holiday baking rage came to an end. My mixer fell apart. 

Back to healthy diet of watery soups.

Holiday season is 'round the corner...

And how do I know?


I went to the mall and saw Tesla installed right in the middle of it. Well, in a separate TESLA salon. But this has nothing to do with the holidays. You can't exactly buy this shining miracle. Not for XMas. You can reserve one for 5K.

So back to holidays agenda. It's all about giving. And giving means buying.  Got a new baby in the family? Right in time. You can purchase Ralph Lauren  Convertible Shearling Bunting  for just $950. 
And while we are still on Ralph Lauren brand -  treat yourself to

Jesrina Suede-Gold Heel Sandal @Price: $1400.00

If you can't afford the baby envelope, I suggest to skip baby winter item 

in favour of shoes - adult sandals make much more sense given the climate change.  

 

  

On a serious note, Ralth Lauren offers 

tons of great reasonably priced quality clothes on sale. 

Enjoy your shopping season! 

Enzo Angiolini Arynn Riding Boot - Bordeaux