Peanut Butter Cup Salad

My wife asked me to recreate the recepie of something we get from the store so we could make it chunkier (yea, thats what I was told) and she could bring it for a potluck/meeting at work today… I got it pretty much spot on, so I thought I’d share it with you.

Peanut Butter Cup Salad

Ingredients

1 cup whipping cream
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 green apples
2 red apples
20 peanut butter cups
1/2 cup roasted peanuts

Instructions

Boil peanuts until no longer chalky when chewed, remote from water, set aside to cool and dry. If the texture is off-putting to you then don’t boil them, but the “chew” is nice in the finished dish, so perhaps use a more chewy nut instead?
Core and cut apples into 4 wedges, slice wedges into 1/8 to 1/4 inch pieces each with a bit of skin. toss apple slices in lemon juice, set aside. The lemon will help prevent the apples from browning and give them a little bit more “zing” to cut the sweetness of the finished product.
Cut peanut butter cups into desired sizes, chop the last 4 very fine (this is to flavor the whipped cream)
Whip cream and sugar till stiff (if you cut a valley into your whipped cream the sides should not ooze in to fill the gap.) You want the cream just barely sweet, but not overly so, adjust sugar level while still soupy. If you’re feeling really adventurous bloom a packet of gelatin in a small bit of the cream before making your whipped cream, it will make the product last longer and give it a more unctuous mouthfeel (I have not actually tested this…)
In a large bowl mix peanuts, apples, and peanut butter cups thoroughly. Mix them together first because over mixing with the whipped cream will make un-whipped-cream.
Fold in whipped cream in 3 batches with as little “stirring” as possible (otherwise you break the whipped cream back down to just cream.) Everything should be just coated, but not so much that you can no longer see the ingredients (except the peanuts, those will be hard to see).
Place plastic wrap tightly down on the entire surface of the mass in the bowl (cream picks up funky flavors in the refrigerator, and nobody wants their desert tasting like wet yak hair!)
Let rest 24 hours for best taste (it takes time for the whipped cream to really soak in the peanut butter cup flavor.)
Devour

Let me know if you try it and/or have anything to say about it!

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People are more complex and…

People are more complex and more important than code. Take time and tell someone how you feel. They may not know, and it's good to hear it.

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If fixing one thing breaks another; have you thought to check all of your assumptions, or only your leading suspect? Sometimes less is less.

Adding a second authentication factor to WordPress

UPDATE: I’ve added the plugin to the WordPress.org repository. If it gathers interest/attention then I may develop it further and add more stuff like SMS gateway support, configuration, etc… See: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/second-factor/

I really don’t know why, but the idea of adding a second authentication factor to WordPress blogs took hold of my brain tonight and needed an outlet. So I made this little proof of concept plugin: Second Factor. What it does is pretty simple:

When you log in it goes through a series of cryptographic routines and generates some info which is stored in the database as a user option.
A key is generated for you, and an email is sent to your listed email address.
When you attempt to access a page while logged in it blocks you, asking for the key that was emailed to you
Finally after entering this second authentication token you are allowed access to the site

I could see this being extended to Instant Messaging, SMS, IRC, or even integrated with a text-to-phone service to make an actual phone call which reads off the numbers to you.

What I don’t know is if anyone actually wants this… If this is even worthwhile. For me it was mainly a thought experiment. Would you want to have this kind of added security on your WP Installation?