Category Archives: Projects

Bean Soup, the easy way

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Kevin Sonney

Winter is upon us, and once more time for some cooking. I discovered I can do an *EASY* pot of bean soup (or just beans and rice) with nearly any kind of dried beans. This is useful with the harvest … Continue reading →

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OpenVZ DIsk Monitors on OpenNMS

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Kevin Sonney

At work, we run a lot of Parallels Virtuozzo, which is a commercially supported version of OpenVZ. There are a couple of challenges monitoring OpenVZ, since it abstracts out a lot of the OS and snmpd can’t get the data. … Continue reading →

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A pot of Chilli – Nov. 2012 version

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Kevin Sonney

’Tis the season for crock-pot cooking, and I do so love to have a pot of chili when the temperature drops. I make mine from scratch, no recipe, and it’s different almost every time. I’ve been really happy with some … Continue reading →

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Timeline of a Meal

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Kevin Sonney

7:35 am – Take pork roast, fresh (not hard) apple cider, one dark beer, and one apple out of the fridge. 7:37 am – Get out the big damn slow cooker 7:40 am – quarter & core the apple 7:42 … Continue reading →

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Local Lunch Thursdays

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Kevin Sonney

For those of you who listen to KUEC regularly, you’ll notice we’ve become more and more involved in the local food scene here. There are serveral local businesses – Lily Den Farm and Abielicious Bakery[1] in particular – that produce … Continue reading →

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All we ever do is eat and play music

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Kevin Sonney

Looking over my last few posts, you’d think my life had become nothing but food and music. Far from it. But I can’t talk about work too much (it’s a good job but busy), a lot of my life gets … Continue reading →

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Food doesn’t have to be pretty

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Kevin Sonney

So I’m at the farmer’s market today, and there is a table out with the words “Ugly Peach Sale” on the sign. So I ask and find out that (a) an Ugly Peach is one that has a blemish or … Continue reading →

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She really did it

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Kevin Sonney

When listener Ysabet sent us a box of food for Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap she included a can of Menudo. Yes, canned Menudo. It terrified us. So, we kind of hemmed and hawed and avoided it, until she sent … Continue reading →

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The Process

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Kevin Sonney

This is probably more for me than anyone else, but I figure why not – here’s how I put our various shows together. I’m got a 17″ MacBookPro running OSX 10.6 that we record everything on. We record and edit … Continue reading →

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KUEC Now on Miro

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Kevin Sonney

So in my efforts to finish any other Podcasty things I can this weekend, I added Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap to the Miro Guide. If you happen to be a Miro user, you should be able to find us … Continue reading →

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