The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Deb, easiest way to cook rice, take a quart size pot, pour in about 2 cups of water (or about one if you're just cooking for yourself), and put it on max heat, add a pinch of salt. When the water boils, pour in some rice in the middle of the pot until it just reaches the surface (so that you have a little underwater mountain), and turn down the heat to about 1½ (if your stove goes to 6). Stir it properly, and then keep stirring a bit every minute or so, when the water has been absorbed by the rice it's ready. Perfect rice.

 

[ozexpat]

Our for year old has a free spirit and will jump without looking. She disappeared once and we found her talking to the lady next door.

Another time a kids mattress was on the upstairs balcony airing. She scaled it, then went bolting over the garage roof till she walked on the twenty year old corrugated fiberglass skylight. She fell 14 feet to the garage floor, grabbing a rafter on there way down to slow her descent a tad. She had an egg on her head and a scrape on her shoulder but was good to go once her mother calmed.

The the year old is very cautious. He will even tell you to slow down if you exceed his speed comfort zone. He tells his mother they will turn over like a turtle and all die.

We taught them to swim before they could walk. The beach is too close not to.

The joys of being a middle aged parent lol

 

[getaclue]

Sounds like you have your hands full.... I only have one kid walking ( baby will walk soon yikes) the big guy leaves doors and windows open... Takes off through them. Yup the house is cold today, he opened windows and i didn't notice soon enough, oh well I'll use more blankets.

Man it sounds like I don't watch him... He's fast! turn your back and he's dancing on the counter or out the door and off he goes running...

It doesn't sound like you don't watch him, to me. He sounds like my grandson, constantly on the go, and FAST! He's a good, happy-go-lucky kid, but he wears me out.

 

[ozexpat]

Deb, easiest way to cook rice, take a quart size pot, pour in about 2 cups of water (or about one if you're just cooking for yourself), and put it on max heat, add a pinch of salt. When the water boils, pour in some rice in the middle of the pot until it just reaches the surface (so that you have a little underwater mountain), and turn down the heat to about 1½ (if your stove goes to 6). Stir it properly, and then keep stirring a bit every minute or so, when the water has been absorbed by the rice it's ready. Perfect rice.

1.5 cups water per 1 cup rice. Put on low. Come back in 20 mins check and stir. Repeat in 5 mins if needed.

I can barely aim for the middle of the toilet, let alone aim the middle of a pot.

A man should not have to stand over two different pots.

 

[vehve]

Oz, sitting solves your other problem. Also, aiming for the porcelain will make it splash less. I had a friend in school, every time you went to their house and used their toilet, her dad used to yell "Pissa på porslinet!" if he heard you aiming for the water

Most of the rice sold here would be completely squishy after 20-25 minutes. The rice with the longest cooking time sold here is arborio at 18 minutes, the basmati I usually use is about 12 minutes. I like pouring the little pile in the middle since it saves me the trouble of measuring anything, I just guestimate the water according to how much I need, and then pour in the rice.

I'm guessing the rice sold there is a lot tastier than what you get here.

 

[ozexpat]

I put my rice in cold water.

 

[vehve]

Well that would work. Didn't think of that.

 

[dsqard]

The adventure has begun. We drove down to the canyon area yesterday picking up SCG on our way. DH only "allowed" me out of the car once to take pictures yesterday because he was a man on a mission and even though we had an hour to wait once we got to the airport he wasn't going to let me dawdle.

Here are a couple I got yesterday. Not of the canyon yet, we didn't get all the way up there since by the time we got to the hotel and checked in, it was getting dark and we needed to eat dinner.

 

[bamadude]

Think you brother was onto something... Perception of a year changes as you age, because a year is a bigger percent in comparison to your total time lived when your young and as you age a year is a lower percent... You what I mean ( I hope )
Maybe it's just bed time...

Wonder what Bama knows about LEDs.... Guess its his neighbours power bill though why worry

i candle eggs with an led flashlight. We have upgraded our lights to cfl. Probably saved my neighbor some $

 

[bamadude]

We cut down 4 coconut trees for lumber today. They are milled on site by a guy with a good eye, a steady hand and a long barred chainsaw. We will get about 700 board feet (equivalent to 85 2x4x10).

The best part is we get 4 "ubod" - the heart of the palm tree to eat. It's julienned down into 3" strips, cooked with cabbage, carrots, Chinese long beans and ground pork to make the filling for lumpia - Filipino egg rolls.

We will have enough for 3 or 4 gazillion I think lol

i have actually been arrested for cutting down a small palm tree in florida. The hearts are so delicious that florida passed a law forbidding people from harvesting them on state owned land. We call it swamp cabbage