Recipe for Barbecued chicken strips with sauteed onions

After thawing some chicken for dinner and taking inventory of the 'fridge to weigh my options for how I would have the chicken, I devised the following recipe:

Ingredients:

Two medium sized chicken breasts, cut into 3/4 inch wide strips
4 flour burrito shells
1/3 cup of your favorite barbecue sauce
One medium sized onion
Two tbsp butter

Preheat grill on high
Marinate the chicken strips in barbecue sauce for 15 minutes while preparing onions;

Cut the onion into strips or wedges (cut from top to bottom). Place cut onions into shallow pan with butter and sautee over medium heat until tender and slightly carmelized. Browning them isn't the worst thing to do and gives more flavor.

Put the chicken on the grill and cook until done. (internal temperature is 165 degrees)

Move the chicken off of the grill and place burrito shells on the grill and lightly toast.

Place grilled chicken in burrito shell, folded like a taco and top with onions. Enjoy.

Configuring the gateway under Linux

I recently ran into a situation where I had to change my gateway. First, I wanted to check what my gateway was set to. The normal command 'ifconfig' only showed the following:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:72:DF:1B:99
inet addr:192.9.200.37 Bcast:192.9.200.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:72ff:fedf:1b99/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10323194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5229128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1479472650 (1.3 GiB) TX bytes:2978700320 (2.7 GiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12477530 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12477530 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3343381852 (3.1 GiB) TX bytes:3343381852 (3.1 GiB)


but not the gateway. Some interweb postings suggested using tracert, but I think you should use the right tool for the right job. The route command is that tool.

Running route alone will report the current gateway on the "default" line:

$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.9.200.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
default 192.9.200.38 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


The 192.9.200.38 is the configured default gateway. To change it, first add the new default gateway with the command

$ route add default gw 192.9.200.40

Next, remove the old gateway

$ route del default gw 192.9.200.38

Verify your results:

$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.9.200.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
default 192.9.200.40 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0



I'll need to do some testing to determine the relationship of the route command to the /etc/network/interfaces file, but these settings seem to take priority.

But in case you need to tweak the named file...


sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart