yep! Tried to leave back in 2017, but couldn't find a job, then screwed up by pushing myself to work electrical full time. If I hadn't torn myself up doing furniture delivery in 2000-2002, I would definitely be gone. So...damn...sore...Oof! And to top that off, when she finally let me use money for a doctor in 21, the meds messed up my stomach, and I'm so god damned dizzy as well.
That's fine, am a Linux user and not a big deal running a file/media server, also have large enough SD cards, so still not a problem storing music either. I would just like to be able to purchase some new songs just so I can be able to adjust the playlists to something more to my tastes for particular songs over the entire genre or band's albums which can often contain other bands/songs that just bug the living daylights out of me, heh.
I've been using one of the Pandora services, but I've been getting a little annoyed with the stations (which I presume I would get the same annoyance from other services, too). So I'd like to be able to create a station and add songs that I own and that wouldn't normally be in that station. (And I know you can add artists to the stations, but some artists only have a few songs I like, and I surely don't want the station inundated with similar artists of the music I don't like. Shudder the thought, 😬 ).
First time doing an odd shaped fabric thingy, so the edges aren't too great. Plus, didn't figure out a better method of punching around the outlines til close to the end...Meh, still makes us all giggle like school children, heh.
Oh, if anyone knows of a video tutorial on folding over, shaping, and gluing monks cloth with odd shapes (i don't have this issue with softer fabrics)...I'd be so thankful, heh. I just could not get it to work, so I just gave up and rubbed marker over the edges.
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Forgot to mention what I used.
Lavor needle with the largest needle in the package. \ The black yarn is sport weight "I Love This Yarn" (the maximum this needle could handle). \ The white is an unknown we had in our stash, and a faint thinner than the black. \ Artiste Monks cloth, 1yd x 62in. (unknown thread count, purchased from Hobby Lobby).
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And here is the frame I made.
This is the second frame I made, and since I used my table saw to cut the dowel, it left a large gap, to which I used the jute as a means to grasp onto the cloth. However, it was partially intentional as I wanted to put more into the dowels holding onto the sides of the fabric over the center parts.
The only real problem I had with it was the dowels. It's not easty gripping and twisting to tighten the fabric down. I much prefer the square ones I made on my first model. They offered a much better grip for tightening. Once I feel up to it, I'll make a couple for this one, but they'll have to be thinner than the first model. Which might not be possible. Hmm! Still haven't decided on what I'll do yet.
Man, I need to try to see if my anxiety would let me watch this. I loved the original, and I'd like to see how this one handles the pheasant episode. That's one of the few parts I can remember vividly. I'd really like to see if it's as gut wrenching as the first time.
Well, if "media" is in general, I'd have to say television. I'll watch some things once in a while, but for the most part, I have way too much anxiety from a bad marriage. Audio books, and certain Youtube channels can trigger it, too.
He put lemon in the coconut (milk) \ He fried the shrimp up \ He put lemon in the coconut (milk) \ He fried the shrimp up \ He said, "Honey, I have but one little wish". \ He said, "honey, for you to try this little dish". \ He said, "Honey, taste this tiny shellfish." \ He said, "Honey, C'mon try this little dish".
Aaaaaand, that is pretty much the only reason I wanted to post this, 😂. I think I pulled something laughing so hard when it came to me. 🤣
Anyway, it is really good. Like really really good.
10 small shrimp, deveined. \ 1/4 c. The thick coconut cream on coconut milk. \ 1 tsp. Lemon juice. \ 1 clove crushed garlic \ pinch of ground ginger \ a large handful of Rao's Fusilli noodles.
cook noodles then cool and set aside. Keep 1/4 cup of the noodle water.
fry shrimp in a tablespoon of coconut oil til well cooked. Add in coconut cream, ginger, and garlic. Cook for about a minute or two. Add in noodle water. Cook for about two minutes. Toss in noodles, add salt and pepper and continue cooking for two to five minutes, til thickened.
Why did I mention coconut cream? Well, because of this milk
It had a large chunk of cream on the top, and I didn't think about checking for it, heh. However, it was awesome, and worked beautifully. So why not add that bit of info? 😏
And just in case the link doesn't work again, 🙄 , https://forum.lettucecraft.com/t/rosemary-lamb-pie/28337
Oof! Quite pained from making this, but meh, I'm in pain all the time anyway, 🤣 🤣 🤣 .
Anyway, this is quite good, and I do think I should have added a wee bit more liquid to it before baking, but meh, not a problem, heh.
No! It's there. After the date water and substitution.
Although it was too long ago to remember, I did make a rhubarb and grape pie. With cinnamon, butter, flour, and sugar. I mixed the fruit, flour, cinnamon, butter, sugar in a bowl. Filled a pie shell, and baked for about 45 minutes.
The only things I can remember from all the pies I made from that time is I liked every single one of them, and the grapes, I sliced in half before using them.
Huh! This is actually good.
Oat pancakes
Blend dry ingredients together.
1/2 c. Flour \ 1/2 c. Oat flour \ 1/4 c. Buttermilk powder \ 1 tsp. Baking powder \ 1/2 tsp. Baking soda \ Pinch of salt
Date water
in a small sauce pan, boil 5 medjool dates with one cup water til the skins fall off. Take out all but two dates, and blend the dates and water til smooth. (note: you only really need two dates...Uh, I wanted to eat them after boiling, so I wasn't even planning on making the rest, heh. That just happened as I really wanted to use the water in something).
(Substitute the date water with 1 Tbls. sugar and 1 c. water if you don't want to use dates)
mix well date water, two tablespoons melted butter, and one egg into the dry ingredients.
cover and let sit for 15 to 30 minutes.
make pancake.
Spiced Cherry Sauce
(unfortunattly, no real recipe, but I bet the measurements will be close enough).
in a sauce pan, mix and heat
1 c. Cherries \ 2 Tbls. Water (add half a teaspoon at a time if you need more water) \ 2 Tbls. Sugar (add 1/4 cup or more if you want it sweeter). \ Pinch of salt \ 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon \ Pinch of ground clove
Cook over medium low heat til the cherries fall apart and the sauce thickens.
For the cherries, I used Great Value frozen cherry medley.
i did the dumb thing of trying to separate the skins from the pulp...Tlagwv osdi vsgi yigesvna (Cherokee: That was not that great). It took about three times as long to Thicken. Pshew! Also, was completely unnecessary as the mash tastes just as good as the sauce, Meh, was curious, and that curiosity was...erm...sort of satisfied. Heh!
Showing some of the difficult parts of knitting the tiny rays. Cast on 4 stitches. [00:00:30]1. kfb S2 wyif move yarn to back, slip last slipped stitch to le...
Just finished the video, which is crap, buuuut is good enough, heh.
(my wife made this on her phone, and I just love it, heh).
Cast on 4 stitches.
- kfb S2 wyif move yarn to back, slip last slipped stitch to left needle. Knit in the front of the last stitch on the left needle, slip stich, knit in the back.
- kfb ( K1 S1 wyif )2 kfb
- kfb K1 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K1 kfb
- kfb K2 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K2 kfb
- kfb K3 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K3 kfb
- kfb K4 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K4 kfb
- kfb K5 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K5 kfb
- K7 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K7
- K3tog K4 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K4 K3tog
- K2tog K3 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K3 K2tog
- K2tog K2 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K2 K2tog
- K2tog K1 ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K1 K2tog
- K2tog ( K1 S1 wyif )2 K2tog
- Reorder stitches (From left to right) as follows, 5,3,6,4,2,1
(Realized a little late that 5 & 3 could be knitted together before moving the stitches to the right needle, and would move the yarn to the left side for starting the I-cord knitting, but yeah, you can do that. If you don't do that, then just change the K1 in row 15 to K2tog).
- K2tog K2tog K1
- K3
- K2tog K1
- K2 Repeat 18 to the length of tail you want.
Pull tail through remaining two stitches. Sew in ends.
Notes:
> Reorder stitches (From left to right) as follows, 5,3,6,4,2,1 >> WIthout using the tail, slip the first two stitches, slip the next stitch onto the front of the right needle, slip stitch, slip the last stitch from the left needle. Slip the first stitch from the right needle onto the left needle. Turn the left needle and knit those two stitches together through the back. (The video will help with this).
> Added times to jump to different parts in the video description.
Ok! Hopefully that's all good...enough...
(and to make sure Lemmy or Connect doesn't remove my link, here it is in text form https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzwqjmdkNd4...And Lemmy/Connect kept this link after posting...So I guess I don't need this...But I'll leave it down at the bottom anyway).
Well, I have no bloody clue what happened. When I made the post Lemmy asked for a link, so I supplied a link, to which...the very first picture is a part of and from that link...as I only added the second picture to Lemmy in the document itself...Holy cheese monkey...
Anyway, anyway, anyway, I updated with a link within the message itself...Ppppp!
Which, now I look at the post...Lemmy did ask for a link...wtf? Welp, guess it's off to fix it.
Where the link points to. I did not think it was necessary to write out the recipe twice. 😶
😶 It's in the link. Didn't think I'd have to post it at both web sites.
Just made/created this for my wife. It still gets below freezing, so I'll pop this into her truck tonight after she goes to bed tonight. Will be a nice surprise when she leaves for work tomorrow morning, 😊
One slight little hiccup, it seems like it's a bit too soft, but it just may need to rest in the fridge for much longer. I just wanted to get it ready before she got home. Meh, she'll still like it any way.
Jesus! Thought the recipe was linked...welp, here it is again.
I'm rather curious about this, too.
I'll chime in with what I've personally dealt with.
Both Aroma brand
Glass lid, metal cooking pan has a lip that rolls outside of the heating base. Just a simple switch, cooking & warm. Does boil over once in a while, and fairly small...ease of cleaning, really really easy.
Enclosed unit, has a metal pan that goes inside and a steamer basket, has a removeable metal top to clean...haven't had it for long, but I can imagine the seals will deteriorate and make it not as long lasting as the other pan...However, those seals do make cleaning more difficult.
First test using cornstarch.
Caramelize the following.
1/4 c. Sugar
2+1/2 Tbls. Water
Then whisk in a little at a time
1 c. Water
1 Tbls. Cornstarch
1 tsp. Vanilla
pinch of salt
bring to a boil then remove from heat mixing in
2 tsp. Ground unsalted sunflower seeds
1 tsp. Ground black walnuts.
So far not too bad. The sweetness is perfect (i'm guessing I used about two or three tablespoons of the sauce on a buckwheat and sunflower seed pancake). Will have to wait til tomorrow to see how it cures overnight.
There was one hiccup. I mixed in the cornstarch into the water, and the water really needed to be boiling (which wasn't possible with the cornstarch). Though, so far it seems fine. So maybe it won't be a problem.
If you use too much, xanthan gum can make sauces slimy.
Well that piques my curiosity. I'll definitely have to try that the next time I go shopping.
Hmm! If it doesn't have that much of a flavor to it, I bet that'd work for thinning the sugar content of a caramel syrup. (The hamster is running on his wheel, 🤔)
Just to add to this, fruit can be used to both cut out a lot of the sugar and to thicken sweet sauces as well.
Also, I just realized I could make date paste. (Something that never crossed my mind til reading your comment, 🙄. I've blended them fresh, but have never softened them).
As for caramel, I can find lots of things about sugar-free, but nothing on lowering the sugar content. "3 Ingredients Sugarfree Caramel Sauce" However, this video makes me think I could easily thicken and lower the sugar content of at least a buttery caramel. (Mental note to self; give that idea a try).
🤔 Some things to think about.
Hmm??? Still a bit leary on the fins. (Here's the first iteration using a plastic bag for the fins).
Logically, the furriness shouldn't be an issue and only minutely add to their hairball formation...but, it still makes me feel a bit uneasy.
Eh, I don't have any old clothes, nor any ribbon large enough on hand...so just used what I could find that'd be different for the time being. Pppppp!
Meh, once I figure out something for the fins that I feel comfortable with then I can finalize the patterns (anomalocaris, goldfish, ammonite, and a squid).
Although it's a pretty sheltered location, but wouldn't the baking soda dissipate with any moisture? Humidity, rain, and/or snow?
Edit: I just thought about it, and what I'll do is run an experiment. I can place some near my kitchen sink's handle. Water dripping from my hand and the humidity should give me a good idea how it'd work outside.
Ok! I give up trying to find this stuff on my own, heh.
Anyway, I built my wife a large outdoor miniature diarama for Christmas and I'm wanting to do a winter theme for her opening (the door), and I'm rather stumped on these.
So far, the best solution I found was snow powder/flakes and spray on adhesive, but I'm definitely open to something else (that's not overly costly, 🤷♂️. I spent a looooot on this so far).
It will have a dirt base, so the snow needs to adhere to that as best as possible.
I used to drink root beer out of the licorice red vines, those held up quite well. Though, the lart was around seven years ago. I haven't seen blaok red vines in ages around these parts.
Have no idea if the red ones would have held up. Never liked those too much, heh, and other than root beer, birch beer, I'd drink coffee instead.
This...So much thie...but red vines rather than twizzler. They have a much bigger hole.
Oddly enough, they are kind of bland with honey. 😶. Great with butter, though. Still trying to think of something else to try with them, but unfortunately brain is blank. Family won't help me clean, and am in quite a bit of pain, and being one of the major holiday cooks, I'm kind of stressing a bit, heh. Got so much to clean...I'll try to think of something to eat with these...I hope, heh.
1/2 c. buckwheat \ 1 c. unbleached flour \ 6 Tbls. buttermilk powder (It’s what I have, 🤷♂️ ). \ 1/2 tsp. Salt \ 1 Tbls. Sugar (To make this sweeter, add another tablespoon of sugar) \ 1/4 c. & 2 Tbls. Ground pumpkin seeds.
Soften 1 +1/4 tsp. yeast in 3/4 cup warm water. Mix all ingredients with 1 Tbls. melted butter. Will be fairly moist, but after sitting for one hour, it will stiffen up and then can be formed into a ball and covered with oil. Let sit for another hour. (If you're patient enough, let sit in the fridge overnight, 😆 ).
Divide and create 8 or 6 balls from the dough. (Depending on how big you want the flatbread to be). Fry on each side over low medium heat for about a minute on each side.
I bet this would be good with custards or fruit based desserts, as well as sweet savory foods. (And that's my next task...What to try with these? 🤔. I tried with honey, meh, and butter, good).
I bet ground sunflower seeds, peanuts, cashews, or filberts would taste good in this as well.
Grinding up 1/4 c. of pumpkin seeds in a mortar at the moment, and I thought it'd be kind of interesting to get a little input, :wink:
Flours I have on hand.
Unbleached \ Rye \ Amaranth \ Almond \ Rice \ Buckwheat
Liquids
Roasted pumpkin \ Almond milk \ Heavy cream \ Eggs \ Butter Milk
Other
Yeast \ Molasses \ Sugar \ Baking powder
I'm aiming for a skillet fried flatbread. Preferably not a pancake.
So let the thinking commence. :grin:
I keep forgetting about this group. Anyway, just finished this today. I still have a few more changes to make, but I definitely have a good design down.
One thing I hope I can pull off, will be making the lobes bigger on the bag. I may be able to get away with slipping the purl stitches every other row. That might keep the creases from expanding with the lobes...Welp, won't know til I actually try it, heh!
[Chorus] \ Ah well, everybody's heard about the GERD. \ G-G-G-GERD, a GERD, GERD, GERD is the word. \ Ah well, a GERD, GERD, GERD, the GERD is the word.
Anyway, anyone else sing songs, change words to songs about your ailments?
I have this one, and I had written a whole one for Metallica's Sanitarium called Chronic Pain (But deleted it in a fit of rage about 5 years ago). As well as one for the Jabberwocky poem...I think I can remember some of it.
T'was achy in the taichy joints. \ Did wryde and balder in the Inge. \ ... \ ...
Beware the Crackerback, my son. \ The bones that creak, the joints that crack \ Beware the throbthrob knee, and shun \ ...
@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world @Whitehorse@feddit.uk
[Another attempt at tagging].
Ok! Ok! Ok! Made the pie by baking the filling inside the shell rather than pre-cooking. (https://forum.lettucecraft.com/t/zucchini-rhubarb-and-blueberry-pie/24450 Where I posted my recipe and a few tidbits of info).
My thoughts, it does work, to an extent. The zucchini has the perfect texture, sort of apple pie like. However, I'd wager, about 5% of the zucchini still retains the squash flavor. As I noted in the update at the link, I think when I try this again, I'll partially cook the filling before hand, and chill it. That may speed up the infusion of the berries and rhubarb into the zucchini.
I'm still a little leery about that. Maybe only partially cooking the zucchini with a little vanilla to dilute the squash flavor would be enough.
It does work. Or it would work. It tastes just fine, rather good. Even the zucchini flavor isn't that bad, but it just needs that extra zing. I think I'll add some ground ginger, too. I know ginger works beautifully with rhubarb (at least it does in my rhubarb sweet bean paste in sweet gorditas). Wait...Hold a sec...Maybe partially boiling the zucchini with ginger instead of vanilla. That'd do it. That's it. That's what I'll do for the next time. I have my changes for Test 2...That I'll attempt sometime next week, I hope.
Update: 7-30-23
Added images to an album at imgur with proof showing the bill has the correct website written three times on the bill. Also, showing the address to both locations (As each other claim the other does not exist), and google maps showing Centura locations.
Update: 7-31-23
Like the energizer bunny, the stupid at this company keeps going and going and going and going.
Difficult getting a real human, so try to setup an automated payment via the automated system. Well, not my first time with this company, so don't trust them at all. Call back to verify, go through hoops and hurdles to get a real person. Nope, I only made a payment, ok, let me setup a payment plan. Ok, do you want to remove the payment you setup as that will not be added to your payment plan? What? Instead of paying x, you'll be paying x+y...Yeah, let's cancel that. Ok, set up the payment plan. Can I make the payment still? That wouldn't work because of how the payment plan is set up.
Seriously? Is that really that difficult for the programmers to write for your systems?
I tell you, dealing with this company does make me feel a little better. For, even how addled I have gotten, I feel like if they can run a major business, so can I, 🤣
End Update
I don't know a good spot to put this, but maybe this would be a good spot to just vent...It adds to the mental strain that's just absolutely bonkers...Plus, might be something for people to think about if they happen to go to the same hospital business a city over. Just 45 minutes away. Shown as an affiliate of the same business on their own website. 😶
Anyway, I saw a doctor a year ago, got x-rays and had an EKG. Fine. Will get a bill...Fine.
Got a bill in January, 6 months after from Centura...In Ohio...Not Colorado...What?
The statement says to send a payment or log in to their website. I log into their website, enter the account number...Nada...I do it again...Nada...Again, and again, and again...Nothing. So I call the number on the website (as I trust that over some odd bill from an address that I've never seen from this company before). The representative had no knowledge of it. The account didn't exist.
I even checked mycentura account, and I owe nothing...What? What? What?
Well, just yesterday I got a call from this questionable Centura company...finally...And guess what? They don't understand what I'm talking about...It's never been that way...I would never pay to Centura in Denver. Their billing offices are in Cincinnati. How the heck can there be two completely separate entities of the same bloody business?
Holy fuck!
Sorry for the cursing, but unfortunately, this warrants it. It's just so idiotic.
End rant.
[2nd attempt to post this. Removed some curse words and the h word as maybe the filters are a bit wonky or purposefully overly sensitive].
I had made a spread/mock jam, with rhubarb, blueberries, and zucchini, and it was damn good. So I've been trying to think of a decent method to utilize larger sizes and portions of zucchini to give a pie an apple pie like texture.
I'm guessing I wouldn't want to cook the fruit & zucchini in the pie, and therefore would be best to cook the filling before hand. However, I've never made a pie that way, and am unsure if the zucchini would overcook (translation: become mushy) if I cooked it for a second time.
Note: I know I could look it up. Heck, I could just go to the store and read a can of blueberry filling to get an idea...I just feel it'd be more fun to ask here, 😉
>For your GERD have you heard of the acid reflux diet? I was listening to a podcast one day and Bette Midler was talking about this diet with somebody who was losing the ability to speak. She follows the diet to save her voice for singing and her Las Vegas show. I certainly hadn’t heard of it from my doctor who only prescribed meds.
I have, and have tried to stick to it, but hard to think through everything. Also, I'm not safe driving any more, so I don't really go out when I think about it either.
>I had to eliminate one prescription med (progesterone), vitamin D, tomato sauce, raw onions, and mint from my diet. With a those changes, I have only the occasional acid reflux event. I sneak a pizza dinner one evening every 2 months or so, and as long as it’s one night only, I can get away with it.
So far, I find lentils to do the best, but I am so sick of lentils. So very sick of them, heh.
>Here is a John Hopkins link about the diet. If you had tomato sauce with those gnocchi, you might have made the reflux worse of tomato is a trigger for you.>>>>>>
Nope! No tomato sauce. Olive oil and butter, but almost everythig does it to me, now. I can't even take antacids as I start hacking the sodium in them out of my lungs, and boy that is nasty. (Which reminds me...Try and take half of one...I need to belch).
I've been wanting to try this for a while now, and me thinks this is the last time I try it, heh. That was a heck of a lot more work than I thought it was going to be (Tried to use a mixer to help out my broken joints...Nope, that don't work too well, 🤣 ).
Anyway, I was just too sore to think about how I was going to cook all this up, so kind of out of order, missing a few things I wanted to add, and a little overdone in places...Meh! Still tasty.
Things I added to it...
Gnocchi ( Mastering GNOCCHI | How to Make Perfect Potato Gnocchi Pasta, what I used to make the gnocchi).
Zucchini sliced in quarters, and chopped up to about 1/4th inch thick. Onion, garlic, salt, pepper, fresh basil, parsley Rhubarb in place of the lemon, white wine, butter, and grated romano cheese.
My next task will be making an aloo paratha with the left over potatoes made as my herbed potatoes, but that'll have to wait. Pain no likey cleaning right away. So have to wait til the pain subsides. Can't wait, 😆
I've posted this before at r/ChronicPainArt on reddit...But I'll post it here, too.
Pretty self explanitory...I kind of wish it was worse, because I would have gotten help from everyone...verses...I'm faking it...Oof, the amount of hate I have gotten from my family (wife, sons, and the youngest's girlfriend).
As for Chronic Ed. This is a comic idea I've had for quite some time...I've got a few decent comics posted on Deviantart, but I still want to get several more drawn up before I start posting them somewhere better. Unfortunately, I just don't have the mental power to push myself to do it...All the hate I've gotten over the years didn't help. Plus, my pains are a pain in the arse. Sitting, standing, walking, laying down...It all hurts...There is no such thing as comfort any more...Yeesh!
Anyway, hope ya'll like it.