What's for dinner tonight? 
Spaghetti with garlic and olive oil. I fancy myself a bit of a cook. Here's my rendition of a very simple, but delicious classic
Ingredients
| 4 cloves garlic peel and slightly crushed |
| 1/2 box spaghetti |
| 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil |
| 1/2 tspn crushed red pepper flakes (peperoncino) |
| 1/4 cup grated parmesan or pecorino romano |
| 2 tbspns finely chopped fresh parsley |
| Salt & Pepper to taste |
Put a large pot of boiling water on the stove on high heat, covered. While the pasta water is heating up to a boil, get the above ingredients ready to go.
When the water begins to boil, add 2 teaspoons of salt into the water and add the pasta being sure to stir initially and then every couple of minutes.
Place a large saute pan on the stove on medium-high heat. Add the crushed garlic, being sure not to brown too much, although a little toastiness isn't bad.
Once the garlic has browned, add a little of the pasta water to the saute pan. Add the red pepper flakes to the pan as well at this point.
When the pasta is al dente, drain and add to the saute pan while still on the heat. Allow pasta to cook with the garlic and oil for appr. 1 minute. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Turn off heat and add the cheese and parsley and stir through. Serve on a warm plate or pasta bowl.
Enjoy.
Anyone else seeing this on my blog? This from Tibor in my comments...
Welcome to the club John! Figuring it all out was indeed the nicest part
Is it on purpose, that all the body text of your page gets underlined (as if it all was one big link) on mouse over?
AJAX and XML-RPC
Steve Livingstone: Ajax - am i missing something?
Steve, I think you are. XML-RPC and AJAX are not the same thing.
It's all about the post back to the web server. With AJAX, there is no post back. The page you're currently viewing is updated without a post back being performed. So, a portion of the page can be updated without refreshing the entire page from the server.
It's asynchronous too, meaning you can choose an action on a certain part of the page, and while it is reaching out to get the data, you can continue to work on other parts of the page. It makes the whole experience so much more usable.
For a really good example, check out Google Suggest and type in a search term. Those results are being fed back to you in real-time. No need to click a button and have the server refresh the entire page. By the way, the technology to do that HAS been around since 1999 I believe, so nothing new. It's just that Google has made it an acceptable technology by embracing it...and that's a good thing regardless of whether it should have been acceptable a while back. BTW, this is nothing to say that XML-RPC couldn't be part of an AJAX solution.
