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fri posted: Fri 2017-02-17 18:04:24 tags: n/a
Grantee gathering at St. Paul's. I spent most of the time camped at the entrance in case the no-shows were merely late stragglers. It was great to be able to learn faces to go with the names I've come to know through volunteering and work. Stopped by my mailbox. nothing noteworthy. Cake's song "Going the Distance" dates to 1996 but I didn't really become aware of it until 1998-99. It was only today I visited a song-meanings forum to realize what a pointed metaphor it was for my relationship at the t... (...more)
wayfinder curiosity posted: Tue 2017-02-14 20:19:14 tags: n/a
A neat feature of Google Maps is if you punch in a city name, it zooms to it and highlights it neatly boundary-traced. My hometown of Clifton has some odd diagonal boundaries, but it's basically a solid bounded by surveyor lines, organic roads and natural river/creek features. Because Palm Beach County has so much "unincorporated" space, partaking of municipality names but devoid of municipal jurisdiction, a Google Maps look at Boynton Beach shows some weird exclusions of some canals and waterways, and ... (...more)
vday posted: Tue 2017-02-14 16:25:58 tags: n/a
Sometime last year, like definitely before I moved from Casa Cascade, I bought 2 boxes of Red Lobster branded cheddar biscuit mix on clearance. We made 1 box at Chez Cupcake and weren't really blown away, but decided not to discard the 2nd box. Sunday Miss C. made the last of them to go with the split pea soup. They're good, not to-die-for, more garlicy than cheesy and not particularly seafoody. I think this calls for a DIY Bisquick recipe retool with more cheese, and maybe tone down the garlic while ampin... (...more)
mon posted: Mon 2017-02-13 17:16:47 tags: n/a
Saturday I quick-soaked, cooked and stored the black beans I'd sourced for BB hummus. Sunday after church at St. Joe's we continued our Sopranos S1 marathon while split-pea soup (with kielbasa and the last of the Xmas ham) slow-cooked. Miss C. was disappointed that the yellow split peas kept a pretty firm texture, but it was all good with me. Evidently I need to adjust some to a high-fiber diet though. Upshot of the blood sample 2 weeks ago... Life: Insured ☑ A Ratekick query suggests my auto ins... (...more)
sat - dry beans quick soak posted: Sat 2017-02-11 22:15:20 tags: what I'm eating
Miss Cupcake test-drove a chicken-and-dumplings recipe in the slow cooker during the week. She wasn't comfortable stowing the hot end result directly to the fridge; I'm not confortable ;eaving it out for hours to cool to room temp. Also, the slow cooker doesn't seem to get hot enough to set the Bisquick dumpling stage to bready consistency; it just kind of disintegrated back into the chx stew. Which, I'm not complaining, did not detract at all, but we wanted dumplings. Because of the stupid spotty way G... (...more)