Easter vegan frittata

MINI CHICKPEA FLOUR FRITTATAS (VEGAN)

★★★★★4.7 from 14 reviews

Veggie filled and super easy to make, these chickpea flour frittatas are great anytime of day. Great for meal prep!

• Author: Julie | The Simple Veganista
• Prep Time: 10 min
• Cook Time: 35 min
• Total Time: 45 minutes
• Yield: 12 1x
• Category: Breakfast, Snack
• Cuisine: Vegan

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ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups chickpea flour (aka, garbanzo bean flour, gram flour)
• 1/4 cup nutritional yeast, optional
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• 3/4 teaspoon mineral salt or black salt (see notes)
• 2 cups water
• 1 cup corn (frozen, fresh, or canned)
• 1 large red bell pepper (1 cup), finely diced
• 1 jalapeno, finely diced
• 1/4 red onion or medium shallot, finely diced
• handful of baby kale or spinach, roughly chopped
• chives, to garnish (optional)

instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. If not using a non-stick muffin tin, lightly grease with oil (see notes).

Mix: In a large mixing bowl, combine the chickpea flour, optional nutritional yeast, baking powder, salt, garlic powder and basil. Whisk in the water (batter will be runny, but that’s normal). Add the corn, bell pepper, jalapeno, onion and baby greens, mix to combine.

Scoop: Using a 1/4 measuring cup, scoop the batter into the muffin tin, filling all 12 holes. Top with a sprinkle of chives.

Bake: Place in the oven, on the center rack, and bake for 30 – 35 minutes. Do the toothpick test, by sticking it in the center of a muffin, if it comes clean, frittatas are ready.

Remove from oven, turn out frittatas and place on cooling rack to cool.

Leftovers can be stored, covered, in the refrigerator or on the counter. Reheat in a toaster oven or microwave.

Makes 12

notes

If using black salt, use about 1/2 teaspoon, and the other 1/2 teaspoon regular mineral salt. Too much black salt may be overpowering.

Feel free to change up the veggies, using at least 3 cups. Use an assortment of diced zucchini, mushrooms, peas, green bell peppers, finely chopped broccoli or carrots. Fresh herbs would be great too!

Muffin tin. If not using a non-stick muffin tin, lightly grease each muffin hole. If using non-stick, the frittatas will fall out when turned over. You may need to gently tap the tin, upside down, gently on a hard surface to release them.

What If my muffins don’t cook all the way through? There have been a few comments regarding the muffins being soggy in the center. If this is your experience, let them cool completely before eating. The center will thicken and your muffins will be perfect. I’ve personally never had an issue with a soggy center, but I know from experience from my other baked goods that letting it cool will do the trick

src: https://simple-veganista.com/mini-chickpea-flour-frittatas/

 

Validate a string of Parenthesis

Solution:
The problem can be solved by using a stack. 
We iterate over the characters of the string, 
and for every iteration:

* Declare a character stack S.
* Now traverse the expression string exp.
*** If the current character is a starting bracket 
(‘(‘ or ‘{‘ or ‘[‘) then push it to stack.
*** If the current character is a closing bracket 
(‘)’ or ‘}’ or ‘]’) then pop from stack and if the 
popped character is the matching starting bracket then 
fine else parenthesis are not balanced.
* After complete traversal, if there is some starting 
bracket left in stack then “not balanced”

Reference: 
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/check-for-balanced-parentheses-in-an-expression/
https://www.callicoder.com/valid-parentheses/

/*
Valid Parentheses problem statement
Given a string containing just the characters (, ), {, }, [ and ], determine if the input string is valid.

An input string is valid if:

Open brackets must be closed by the same type of brackets.
Open brackets must be closed in the correct order.
Note that an empty string is also considered valid.

Example 1:

Input: "()"
Output: true
Example 2:

Input: "()[]{}"
Output: true
Example 3:

Input: "(]"
Output: false
Example 4:

Input: "([)]"
Output: false
Example 5:

Input: "{[]}"
Output: true

*/

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Stack;

class ValidParentheses {
  public static boolean isValid(String str) {    
    Map<Character, Character> parenthesesMapping = new HashMap<>();
    parenthesesMapping.put('(', ')');
    parenthesesMapping.put('{', '}');
    parenthesesMapping.put('[', ']');

    Stack<Character> parentheses = new Stack<>();
    for(int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
        char c = str.charAt(i);
        if(parenthesesMapping.containsKey(c)) {
            parentheses.push(c);    
        } else {
            if(parentheses.isEmpty()) {
                return false;
            }
            char target = parentheses.pop();
            if(!parenthesesMapping.containsKey(target) || parenthesesMapping.get(target) != c) {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
    if(!parentheses.isEmpty()) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("([)]" + isValid("([)]"));
    System.out.println("([)]" + isValid("([)]"));
    System.out.println("([)]" + isValid("([)]"));
    System.out.println("([)]" + isValid("([)]"));
    System.out.println("([)]" + isValid("([)]"));
    
  }
}

 

Fun factors for Meetings – Ice Breakers

Meetings can be boring and un-engaging. As a meeting facilitator, the onus is on you to keep the participants involved and engaged. Here are a few tips and ice-breakers:

• Ask each attendee to bring one article/item for the facilitation kit. Spend the first few mins of the meeting asking them why they picked that item.
• Use the speed dating concept: Divide the attendees into groups of two and ask them to converse. At the end – one of them introduces the other to the wider team and vice versa.
• Bring a pack of playing cards and give each person three cards to use as speaking lifelines. They have to use these three cards before the meeting ends for three turns to express ideas/opinions. This will bring a balance of participation limiting the talkers and forcing the silent sheep to speak up.
• Organize a building activity – most introverts will express ideas better by action than by words. Use marshmallows and stick noodles, or Legos as building blocks
• Stickies and a wall – mind mapping helps people provide ideas and views anonymously
• Use Red/Green tags for voting in/out options and ideas. Build heat maps.
• Provide the attendees with some magazines and scissors and ask them to create a collage in 5-10 mins that describes them. And now let a neighbor introduce them based on the collage.

As a meeting organizer,

1. Have a clear agenda. Communicate it well in advance
2. If the meeting will have a presentation, send slides before hand. Encourage people to do some homework and come prepared with ideas for further discussion
3. Try TED talk formats for idea sharing
4. Retrospects and feedback are the essence of improvement – Ask audience what they liked about that meeting – What should you keep / change.
5. Cater to all sects of people – extroverts and introverts. Extroverts need open platform to express while Introverts need specific and focused questions.

 

Web Dev Tools

1. Capturing Screen shots for design docs – http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenshot/files/latest/download
2. Work Management: To Do list: http://www.getscattrbrain.com/
3. Monitor SVN Commits:  http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/CommitMonitor.html
4. Drag and drop scripts: http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/02/ultra-small-code-to-drag-everything-in.html
5. Tool for mockups: Balsamiq
6. Debug / sanitize JS: http://jsfiddle.net/
7. Agile and Scrum collaboration: http://www.trello.com
8. Class maps: http://www.wisemapping.com, free mindmap tool
9. Others:  jira, basecamp

 

The Macho and the Machine

 

Financial Meltdown – Wall street on red alert

September 14,2008: The month of September any year doesn’t seem to be very favorable for financial markets in New York. The recent developments point to what experts say could be yet another depression in US history.

·        Lehman files bankruptcy

·        BOA buys Merrill – $50 billion

·        AIG plans sales to raise billions

·        WaMu in line ?

A bright and sunny weekend in Seattle and an overcast sky in New York for months to come.

 

 

 

More news:

 

1.      Wall Street on Red Alert

2.      Lehman – Chicken Game over

3.      After Frantic Day, Wall Street Banks Falter

4.      Greenspan: Economy in a once-in-a-century crisis

5.      Wall Street awakes to 2 storied firms gone

 

 

 

Wall Street Meltdown – 2007

This video was inspired by the bizarre sequence of events on the Street in 2007. The use of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” came from a hilarious internet parody song “Here Comes Another Bubble” by the Richter Scales (available on YouTube). They did such a good job, I thought Wall Streeters everywhere deserved a parody of their own. This version does not have anywhere near the same sophisticated flash software but here it goes.

The video was produced for non-commercial amusement purposes only and is not intended to offend any people, companies or countries appearing in the video.

 

IBM – WebSmart

WebSmart, like it’s green screen predecessor, is not a case tool. It’s a program generator.

When a new program is created in WebSmart the user runs a wizard that in which the user selects which existing files to use in the program, how the files are related and what the program should do by choosing a template. A full featured program is then generated that includes PML and HTML. After that, the user is on their own to customize the HTML and PML (Program Macro Language).

 

Fortune companies 2007

The Top 25 companies based on the annual ranking by America’s popular Fortune Magazine:

1. Wal-Mart Stores
2. Exxon Mobil
3. General Motors
4. Chevron
5. ConocoPhillips
6. General Electric
7. Ford Motor
8. Citigroup
9. Bank of America Corp.
10. American Intl. Group

 

Time Management

A bit effort on time management takes you a long way. Some basic practices that would help you be on time and accomplish before the red light goes on.

Systemize

To-Do list

Time off from gadgets

Exert in limits – take time to relax

Extend a hand 

Clean and organize

 

Plan your work and work out your plan.  Simple tips…….follow them to enjoy work as you would enjoy a vacation. 🙂