Syndicate Press, the best feed aggregation plugin for WordPress.  Join more than 6900 Syndicate Press users around the world by installing Syndicate Press today.  See the Syndicate Press home page here: http://henryranch.net/software/syndicate-press/

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Get great deals on the following products:

• Organic Salante Strawberry
• Taragui Traditional Yerba Mate
• La Merced Yerba Mate Tea Bags

And don’t forget that all Yerba Mate and health products are discounted when you buy a certain amount of product.

Quantity Discounts:

• $25 or more: 10% off
• $50 or more: 15% off
• $100 or more: 20% off

2-13-2011: Free mate with every purchase this week!   If you order this week, you will receive a free 1/4 lb bag of Premio Erva Mate!  Premio Erva Mate is one of Brazil’s premium large leaf mates.  With little dust and wonderful flavor, Premio Erva Mate is a mate lovers paradise.  Use promo code premio.  Even if you miss out of the free deal, the sale on Salante’s Strawberry flavored mate is sure to make you smile.

If  you see this error, relax… it is likely just a plugin that is not compatible with your new version of WordPress.  To fix the problem, simply update all of your plugins to their latest versions, then try posting a comment again.  The problem should be resolved.

To recursively back up your site, including all of the images, execute the following at a command line:

wget -r -k -p yourWebsiteURL

After the application completes, your website will be replicated locally on your system, with all relative links converted to work from your filesystem.

To use a bombilla with coffee, simply fill your cup with hot water and pour in a few teaspoons of coffee grounds.  Let the coffee steep for a few minutes and give it a stir with your bombilla.  Then drop your bombilla in the brew and enjoy your fresh, hot cup of coffee.  One of the best bombillas available right now is the Ultimate Bombilla.  It only costs a couple of dollars and is perfect for yerba mate, coffee and loose-leaf tea!  Get yours today!  For a deeper discussion of the bombilla and some of the great yerba mate brands, check out this review: http://henryranch.net/reviews/yerba-mate-reviews/

svn: OPTIONS of ‘http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/yourPlugin’: 200 OK (http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org)

Unfortunately, that error message makes almost no sense and is a bit frustrating, especially when you are in a hurry to get working on your repository…

After a bit of testing and trying various things, it turns out that the problem is that the WordPress SVN plugin developer instructions provide the incorrect protocol for the URL.  Rather than using ‘http‘, try using ‘https‘.  This should get you going again.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 to 1 pound of raw or cooked shrimp that have been peeled, de-veined, thawed and gently rinsed.
  • I prefer raw shrimp as it gives me more control over the ‘done-ness’ of the shrimp and helps avoid over-cooking them
  • The shrimp should be completely thawed.
    • I like to thaw my shrimp on a metal cookie sheet as the metal appears to help them thaw faster by dissipating the cold temperature.
    • Don’t force thaw shrimp under running water as the water will damage the flesh
• Cilantro: 1/2 cup of washed, chopped, fresh cilantro
• Cream or half-and-half: 1/2 pint
• Butter: about 1/2 stick
• Salt: 1/4 tablespoon
• Pepper: 1/8 tablespoon of pepper
• Garlic: about 1/8 tablespoon of garlic powder or 1 freshly minced clove
• Tequila: 1 tablespoon of medium to high quality golden or white tequila.

Cook ‘em up…

Mix all the ingredients, except for the shrimp, in a deep sided frying pan.  Bring the sauce to a gentle boil while stirring often.  You don’t want to scorch the butter or cream, so be careful.  You will want to let the sauce gently boil/steam for a while to thicken it up a bit.  If you like really thick sauce you can add rice flour as a thickener.  Rice flour is a perfect thickener because it does not impart flavor like flour or cornstarch.

Once the sauce is at the desired consistency, and while it is still ‘cooking’, you can add the shrimp.  If you used raw shrimp, be sure to cook the shrimp in the sauce until they are completely pink.  If you used pre-cooked shrimp, you goal here is not to cook them, but to heat them up.

Chopped cilantro in the deep side frying pan	Butter, cream and cilantro	Garlic powder, pepper and salt
Raw shrimp cooking in the 'sauce'	Mmmm, tasty shrimp, ready to eat!

Serve ‘em up…

You can serve the shrimp as an appetizer or a main course.  The sauce can be used as either a dipping sauce for the shrimp, or as a fantastic complement to thin, angel hair style noodles.

If you would like to be a beta tester, please request the beta release access information by leaving a comment on the Syndicate Press page.

While traveling in East Africa several years ago, my wife and I faced just such a quandary. We had traveled about 4 hours by very rough roads to a small town where we were the lunch guests at the home of the local public school headmaster.

After lunch was over, the headmaster presented my wife with two chickens to take home with us. This was an honor that the headmaster was showing us and we could not refuse them without causing offense due to local customs. Not knowing what to do, my father in law came up with a great idea for safely transporting the chickens home. He went around to the back of the truck and rummaged through the “junk” that all work trucks have.

Out came two blue, plastic “shopping bags”, like the ones you get at the grocery store. He then proceeded to poke a hole in the bottom corner of each bag and placed the bag over the chicken and poked the chickens head out the little hole. We gently put the legs and tail of the bird into the bag and then tied it up using the bag handles.

The bird was content and rode all the way back home over very rough roads at my feet. It never squirmed or even appeared agitated. We drove along the dirt roads for about 4 more hours and when we arrived at our destination, the chicken was relaxed and unharmed.  Best of all, there was no mess.

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The move from a suburban neighborhood to a rural piece of land was a good one.  While we are not ranchers, nor farmers, we do live a more rural lifestyle.  We feel more connected to the land and our food.  Our commute has increased by about 5 miles each way, but we now get to watch the corn, wheat and alfalfa fields mature throughout the season.  Occasionally, we see a calf born on the way to the office.

It’s a good life and two acres is about right for now.  There is a richness and a depth in rural life that soothes the soul and calms the mind.  Watching the cows is often more enjoyable than prime time  television…

The weird part is that you just don’t get it until you take the plunge and move out of the subdivision.