recursive's New Writeups

fish sandwich (thing)

2000-06-11T20:03:22Z

1/4 cup flour
1/3 cup cornmeal
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
catfish fillets
between 1 and 2 tsp chili powder
onion, sliced
american or cheddar cheese, sliced

Dredge catfish in mixture of first four ingredients, fry in hot oil until golden brown, with slices of onion, serve with cheese on buns, or some other form of bread.

Tuna and egg salad (thing)

2000-06-11T19:54:48Z

Like tuna salad but even more yummy.

3 hard boiled eggs chopped
6oz can tuna in water, drained, and broken up with a fork
1.5 tbsp mayonnaise
half of a large onion (or equivalent), chopped
1 tsp dijon mustard
.25 tsp cumin
a heaping spoon pickle relish
(optional) some green onion, chopped

Mix prepared ingredients, serve on bread, with crackers, etc.

peanut butter fried rice (thing)

2000-06-11T19:44:24Z

An odd sort of fried rice I like to make. One could add more vegetables or even meat to the recipe if they like, just toss them in at the right time in the cooking process.

Ingredients:

approximately a square inch ginger, minced
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp peanut butter
1 cup (precook volume) of rice
3/4 cup frozen peas
some carrot, chopped into little chunks
a serrano pepper, chopped

Procedure:

make rice
Mix soy and peanut butter, for convience later

stir-fry

begin to brown garlic
add peas, stir-fry until plump, add carrot
stir fry a couple of minutes more (at most)
add rice, then add soy and peanut butter, stirring constantly
cook a minute or two longer, until proper consistency is achieved

peanut and sesame sauce (thing)

2000-06-11T19:35:41Z

A sauce served on cold noodles, resembles an appetizer I had in a Chinese restaurant. Tastes good cold on various kinds of rice noodles or wheat noodles.

1/4 cup chili oil (take some oil and some (hot) pepper flakes... bring to simmer in oil, shut off and let cool down)
1/8 cup sesame seed oil
1/2-3/4 cup peanut butter
1 tsp minced garlic
1-2 tsp minced ginger

Mix all ingredients, and thin with a small amount of hot water if necessary... May be kept in the fridge for a few days before serving on noodles.

chili (thing)

2000-06-11T19:25:08Z

Just a recipe for Chili I came up with, by looking at a few recipes on the net, and improvising somewhat. It's moderately hot, but not too salty.

1.2 lbs ground beef
1 LARGE onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
4 large cloves of garlic, pressed or minced

Cook these until the meat is grey all over, but no more, then toss it in a full-sized crockpot.

5-6 Serrano peppers, minced
2 Anaheim peppers, diced
1 bell pepper, diced
2 medium tomatos, diced
12 oz can tomato paste (note: I was lacking tomatos, you could just throw in more tomatos, omit this, and need less water.)
1 tablespoon cumin
1/2 tablespoon oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 tablespoon paprika
1 lb (dry) beans, rinsed
~2 cups water
1 tablespoon sugar

Add remaining ingredients to crockpot, cook on low for 10-12…

gmp (thing)

2000-05-28T08:40:36Z

From the documentation:: GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. It has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.

So, anyway, it does bignums. I felt like learning the API to this library, so I wrote this fun little program for factoring arbitrary integers today:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <gmp.h>


void factors(mpz_t);
void firstfactor(mpz_t, mpz_t, mpz_t);


int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  mpz_t x;
  mpz_init(x);
  while(!feof(stdin)) {
    mpz_inp_str(x, stdin, 10);
    factors(x);
  }

  return 0;
}

void firstfactor(mpz_t x, mpz_t left, mpz_t fact)
{
  mpz_t n, quot, rem;

  mpz_init(quot);
  mpz_init(rem);
  mpz_init_set_si(n, 2);

  while(mpz_cmp(n, x) < 0) {
    mpz_tdiv_qr(quot, rem, x, n);
    if(mpz_cmp_si(rem, 0)==0) {
      mpz_set(left, quot);

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