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Fresher Pesto Pasta

I dig having pasta and pesto, straight up, for a little snack. It can feel a little heavy, though. Here's a way that I sometimes make it a bit lighter.

• Cook up a bunch of pasta, drain it. I like noodle-y ones for this.
• Put the pasta back in the empty pot and turn the heat right down.
• Mix in a jar of pesto.
• Throw in a generous handful of halved cherry tomatoes.

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Mackanesca

Pasta alla puttanesca, with smoked mackerel instead of anchovies.

• Cook up some pasta and set it aside. I like to use tagliatelle for this.
• Chop up an incautious amount of garlic, a wodge of smoked mackerel, and a few chillies. Fry them up for a minute or two in some olive oil.
• Throw in a tin of chopped tomatoes. Get it bubbling, then turn it down to simmer until it thickens up some.
• Slice up some a handful of chopped black olives, and a handful of capers. Add them to the sauce.

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Thai Basil thing (breakfast edition)

Stir-fry with oyster sauce, chillies, and Thai basil. Some people call this Pad Ga-prao (since that's it's name).

• Chop up some garlic and a fresh chilli or two.
• Chop some long green beans into thin little rounds.
• Mince up some pig (if you don't dig pig, you can use minced chicken, or fairly finely chopped shiitake mushrooms);

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Hello!

We hope you're looking forward to the RailsBridge workshop on Saturday 9th as much as we are. :)

To get you thinking about the topic, please reply with answers to one of the questions below before the end of the day on Friday 8th. We'll be discussing your answers at the workshop.

• What are three things you already know about programming?
• What do you plan to do with what you learn at the workshop?

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Five spice duck ramen

Japanese noodle soup with duck.

• Take about a duck breast per person and lightly score the skin.
• Mix some five spice, a pinch of salt, and a pinch of sugar in a bowl. Lay the duck down in it, skin-side down, and let it marinate for an hour (or longer if you can).
• Cook the duck. Rare works best for this. That means high heat, about 5 minutes on the skin side, about 3 minutes on the other side, and about 5 minutes to rest.
• Cook up and drain some noodles.

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Vietnamese lemon grass chicken

Stir-fried lemon-y chicken, with long, thin, green crunchy things.

Based heavily on a recipe by the very good Bill Granger.

• Grab a mortar and pestle and throw in
• a couple of cloves of garlic,

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Hello!

We hope you're looking forward to the RailsBridge workshop on Saturday as much as we are. :)

To get you thinking about the topic, please reply with answers to one of the questions below before the end of the day on Wednesday 20th. We'll be discussing your answers at the workshop. Please note that if you don't reply to this message we'll assume you can't make it, and change your RSVP to No. Eep!

• What are three things you already know about programming?
• What do you plan to do with what you learn at the workshop?

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Warm-up exercises

What you know, and what’s your plan

Just before the workshop begins

Share your answers

During the workshop

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  "rules": {
    "at-rule-empty-line-before": "always",
    "at-rule-name-case": "lower",
    "at-rule-no-vendor-prefix": true,
    "at-rule-semicolon-newline-after": "always",
    "block-closing-brace-newline-after": "always",
    "block-closing-brace-newline-before": "always",
    "block-closing-brace-space-after": "never-multi-line",
    "block-closing-brace-space-before": "always",

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{
    "parserOptions": {
        // "sourceType": "module", // script by default
        "ecmaFeatures": {
            "impliedStrict": true
        }
    },
        "env": {
        "browser": true,
        "node": true,