🚚 in the ' boro, flurries [ and likely over three days, the same ]
oping for a quieter week.
I was out and about for 4 days last week. nothing over exhausting BUT ....
chill this week.
Soup day yielded approx 8 bowls of chicken stock. mostly, to make chicken / rice / corn soup.
Or vermicelli and veg soup
🍾 the boro outlook is cold. wind is quiescent. view is clear w / cloud cover. Update at 11:30 AM, brilliant sun, mostly blue up there, slight cloud cover
A slow morning, as in ' is there ever a fast one ? ' However, turkey [ for Friday roasting ] is out of the freezer.
AND took a turkey carcass [ or 2 ] from the freezer to a pot, w / the end hope of a slow simmered stock. Bearing in mind that another turkey carcass will be available in 4 days.
' bout time, 'nuff said
computer issues. For about 9 months, a window pops up at random ' photos keep stopping ' in reference to the Google Photo App [ ? ] After several tries at remediation, in which the Photo App became non responsive I called A .. to make sure that I understood the ramifications of certain actions.
Advice was before ' power wash ' or factory reset, backup data not in the cloud.
Thus last night, I cleared the cache and storage in the Photo App. Really, not much changed, as in, photos were not available.
ACTION.delete the App. Restart [ clears memory for programs ]. Go back in and re - install Google Photo App. A whole lot of waiting. Too long. The magic cure. Restart and let the innards do their thing.
Try to open Photo App. Slowly, mightily slowly, the photo window began to fill.
In essence, the photos were stored in the cloud or on the Chromebook and not in the App
Success ? We shall see said the Zen Master
the stock pot saga. doing quite necley thank you. for lunch, I scooped out some stock dosed the liquid w / soya and Maggi [ for umami flavouring ], picked out some veg added cooked corn. Boiled some vermicelli, on the grounds, that rice noodle is better than flour.
Result, quite tasty [ even better felt healthy ]
along the way. managed to drink a Guinness. Sunday, cooking, not driving, why not
👙and counting
our dilemma is when to defrost the turkey. advice says 2 days. we need three min and maybe more
will follow up
' boro is snowy looking w/ white on the ground under an inch [ ? ] dull and cold appearing
coffee in hand and typing away
my day report. slugged around for the morning
next felt guilty and got to exercising BUT simultaneously, did two loads of wash, colour and whites
exercise was hum drum. lately, I've been benchmarking AV BPM at 110 to 116. AND not necessarily terribly tiring. Of course, the 110 + ABPM is leaning toward the aerobic and better heart and lung emphasis
after 6: 30 PM , it was taped shows, Midsommer Murders and Lewis [ our Brit indulgences ]
🎑 ... you're as cold as ice .... or you will be as cold as ice, as the temperature soars to 25 F
a very slow soar
sunny like crazy, small chance of precipitation
unfortunately, there is a visitation at 5 P for a Leacock alum who passed away at 60 and bit y.o. All four sibs attended Leacock. a warm and gentle group
⛱ no brollies no sand [ oops lots on the streets, I think ]
a cold, cold day, going for 20 F [ and that's a push ]. Sun is trying hard, air seems still
we managed to get out and shop. bought a turkey [ apparently, a sale price ] 14 # for $ 18.
Ran to Shoppers Drug M for essentials.
yes cold, sun was out and the wind bearable
for the evening, I ventured out to Scarborough Town Centre [ 2 x in a week ], for the regular [ now ] Leacock alum meet up. Wowsers, 3 former teacher s and four students. Marvy time
I found sweet potato fries and chicken bites [ couldn't find the sushi place ] so, as the only negative, a fine session
💺 and rain [ yes, on top of the white, or in the white, or jumbled in ]
however, I get to be a spectator [ TG ] w / coffee in hand
This is a follow-up. I purchased an air fryer about 2 weeks ago. So far we've tried breaded chicken instead of deep fried. You know we did the air fry thing, hopefully less oil. I think I crowded the chicken a little bit because wasn't quite as crisp as you may have hoped
They show you in the videos anyways. I've tried some potatoes and things like already cooked breaded shrimp and they've turned out not bad.
Today though it was onion rings, less calories, less oil than deep frying. I tried to use my best instincts
I might have cut the onion rings a little bit too thin and also it appears I cook them a little bit too long. However, there is a bit of trial and error in all this.
things I learned were it's okay to cut them as thin as I did. But you got to watch because I put it in for 14 minutes at about 375 which I thought was reasonable but they were really darkly done. Some of them were like a little bit too Brownie crisp but it's a learning lesson
Tasted not bad. Had it on top of rice so it kind of killed the burnt flavor a bit but I learned and will try again. Next lesson, use a dipping sauce b / c a little mayo and Catalina dressing made a huge difference. On the vids, common practice is ketchup dipping [ not for me ]
Follow up from August 2012. The title seems to be " Email this Blog " share to Twitter and Facebook. How this went - haven't a clue.
.... have you seen the muffin man & other mixed items.
Today is muffin day. Raisin bran muffins. The recipe comes off the bag for Rogers Whole Bran, slightly modified by moi. To wit, the oil is canola and the flour is whole wheat [ this might make the muffins denser vs white flour, good or bad ? ]. Splenda brown sugar vs regular brown sugar, well. I insist o real vanilla extract vs the artificial kind [ alcohol and esters and brown dye ]
and this went on for 6 weeks. Now, I find a page that is titled ' Two Sentence Blogging - evolves to paragraphs. The history as I recall, starts w / ' Two Sentence Blogging ' and that morphed into ' Two Sentence Blogging - evolves to Paragraphs '. As at now the title is ' Sending to the Ether '
Wowsers ! August 2012.
And tonight the air fryer attempt, good results. Potatoes quartered and boiled for 6 minutes. Rolled in oil. Then into the air fryer for 20 min at 390 F. Browned nicely and soft inside
Clean up easy.
🚌 🚈 a saga of travel in the city
I likely travelled just under 20 miles, from Scarborough at Bellamy Rd to Runnymede in the west
Mode was driving to Scarborough Town Centre mall to park. boarding the Express Bus from Scarborough Centre station to Kennedy Stn subway stop and out to Runnymede
Little glitches. I planned the trip and allowed 10 minutes at each transfer for delays.
Thus, when you find that there is an ' express ' bus then you will be early. However, the subway was slow for the first 4 stops [ track work ].
All in all, I reached Runnymede about 20 minutes too early. So, I stopped at a CIBC branch and bought change and five dollar bills [ never have enough ! ]
Restaurant was 1 block away. I was third to arrive and the rest as they say was EZ peasy
Driving would have been one hour at least, then try and park.
the transit trip was 1 .45 H including the drive to Town Centre
Another travelling day
East by car for M ... S girl lunch w / staff from her first school 40 Miles as the car goes
Swirly snow began at 2 P and we drove into the mess coming east. Greasy and drippy weather
Safe home tho"
