Recipe: Pressure Cooker Arrabbiata Sauce

Rao’s Homemade Arrabbiata (or “angry” sauce) is a spicy tomato sauce made from tomatoes, garlic, and crushed red pepper cooked in olive oil. It adds spiciness to pasta, meats, fish and pizza. It is our family’s favorite grocery store spaghetti sauce. It has extra body due to olive oil but it is not as sweet as other grocery store spaghetti sauces. Continue reading Recipe: Pressure Cooker Arrabbiata Sauce

Recipe: Paella on the Grill

One of our favorite family summer recipes is paella, smoked on our barbecue grill. This is our adaptation of a paella recipe from America’s Test Kitchen. Although other recipes may include clams, rabbit, or snails, we prefer chicken, shrimp, scallops and chorizo sausage. We also skip the expensive saffron. Key to this recipe’s taste and mouthfeel is the combination of smoked paprika, the smoke from … Continue reading Recipe: Paella on the Grill

How To: Optimizing Your Multiple Access Point, Wireless-AC WiFi Network (Part 2) Updated

A weakness was found in the WPA2 security protocol used by almost every modern phone, computer and router. This is called a KRACK attack. You should update your firmware and also disable EAPOL Key Retries to protect your network against KRACK attack against unpatched clients. Continue reading How To: Optimizing Your Multiple Access Point, Wireless-AC WiFi Network (Part 2) Updated

How To: Optimizing Your Multiple Access Point, Wireless-AC WiFi Network (Part 1)

Mesh-network based, multi-unit WiFi access point solutions from Google, Eero, Luma, and other vendors are popular now. Compared to typical networking gear, they look unobtrusive, so you won’t mind placing the access points out in the open for maximum wireless reception. Mesh WiFi systems connect multiple units (nodes) to move data from the client to the router. If your goal is to fill in wireless dead zones with the minimal amount of installation effort (meaning no wire pulling), then this approach will give you the largest coverage but at the expense of throughput. Continue reading How To: Optimizing Your Multiple Access Point, Wireless-AC WiFi Network (Part 1)