Using the Microsoft.FeatureManagement.AspNetCore makes putting app functionality behind flags a piece of cake
Read more...It's been two years since I last posted - I'm still not sure exactly how that happened?
Read more...The NET command does lots of useful things, one of them is allowing you to change your password
Read more...Configuring Pi-hole inside a domain environment and getting it wrong can cause some very large query counts
Read more...SSRS report subscriptions can get themselves upset if the person who created them leaves
Read more...Turning the carousel on my homepage from a mass of hand-edited HTML into generated markup
Read more...An aide-memoire, the Rx-xxxxxx packages were de-listed and replaced with namespaced "proper" named packages on NuGet
Read more...A quick and dirty console app to re-encode a load of files as UTF-8 when I screwed up and scripted them as UTF-16
Read more...A couple of Git commands that everyone probably already knows that let me retain a branch with changes but restart my work from the server version
Read more...FIX is a protocol that's used in finance for doing financey stuff. It's vaguely interesting so here's a take-apart of a mesage
Read more...PowerShell is a lot quicker than right-clicking on every VM and choosing Start or Save
Read more...TLDR: 'UsoClient StartScan' will persuade Windows to re-scan for available updates
Read more...It may be obvious, but make sure your globs have /'s not \'s!
Read more...More of a 'note to self' than anything else, but here's how to force an icon refresh in the Windows 10 taskbar
Read more...Tasty, filling, chock full of things that are good for you and also ready in under half an hour - this vegetable curry is going to become a lunchtime go to meal for me
Read more...Parsnips pair really well with earthy cumin and chilli heat when roasted, even better when made into a soup
Read more...These go really well with chutney and a salad that contains chunks of feta cheese. Sweet chutney, savoury root vegetable fritters and salty feta is a really tasty combination.
Read more...You can get some really quite good bread from supermarkets, but freshly baked rolls are pretty hard to beat
Read more...This is based on a recipe my dad cooked, which he credited to the late, great, Antonio Carluccio. I've never actually seen the recipe as published by him, if indeed it ever was, that said it's not the most complicated of things to cook. You end up with crispy skinned chicken, miniature crispy roasted potato bites, sweet slightly caramelised onion and the icing on the cake is the roasted sweet and sticky garlic that can be squeezed out of the cloves.
Read more...The conchigli that I use for this pasta bake are quite thick, lending them an almost meaty texture that really gives the pasta bake some substance
Read more...Chicken thighs are wonderfully cheap in comparison to breasts, and they have more flavour. A smoky chilli marinade is a match made in heaven!
Read more...Putting all the ingredients in a slow cooker for four hours, then coming back, shredding the chicken and eating it - couldn't be easier!
Read more...It feels like soup season is almost over, but my love affair with Chorizo in soup continues
Read more...This is a bit of a childhood favourite, it doesn't lokok pretty but it does taste amazing!
Read more...Lamb Hotpot recipes normally use chunks of meat, rather than minced meat. This recipe, based on one from gousto, uses minced lamb which keeps the cost and the cookl time to a minimum
Read more...Soda bread is a 'quick bread' which means it's great when you're short of time and need a bread fix
Read more...An attempt at re-creating a dish I had when dining with colleagues. It's a long, slow cook time but well worth it!
Read more...Make this a day or so before you need it, if you can, it gets stickier and tastier after baking!
Read more...It feels like a bit of a stretch to call a Ham & Cheese Toastie a recipe, but I don't care
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