What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

Yes, that's true, but my ninja blender can't puree it without some water, and I have to precook it anyways.

you can boil pieces of eggplant in salted water. in that case you don't need to puree it. I ate in italy pizza with mozzarella, peppers and eggplant cubes with skin on them. I guess after draining them they put them in olive oil. that gave them heavenly taste.

 

[chickengr]

it's been raining for hours. even my cat that is in heat got out and return immediately, lol. we do need rain but that means no works outside. I might need to fire generator if there will be no sunshine at all.

last night at about 10 pm I heard noise from my coops and ran out to check. my dog came with a hen in her mouth. she obviously didn't return to coop and I didn't count well. she is alive but with a wound. I took care of a wound and gave her doxycycline. she drank a bit honey water but didn't eat.

 

[jerryse]

I have an Excaliber 9 shelf, but it's from long before they were digital. It must be 25 years old, at least. I finally had to replace the timer dial. Other than that, it's worked very well the whole time.

I have the same one.

 

[Sally PB]

I have the same one.

When I went to their website to see if I could get a replacement knob, I was surprised to find I could order all kinds of replacement parts. This thing will out live me! I hope. They don't make 'em like they used to. I don't need a bunch of digit stuff to go out with the first power outage and render the thing too expensive to fix.

 

[Molpet]

I have the same one.

Me too

 

[CNJ]

you can boil pieces of eggplant in salted water. in that case you don't need to puree it. I ate in italy pizza with mozzarella, peppers and eggplant cubes with skin on them. I guess after draining them they put them in olive oil. that gave them heavenly taste.

Yes, that was my original intension, but the eggplant wasn't dark purple it was already turning yellowish (Over ripe). I skinned and cut the round eggplant in half and into thin slices, but there were a lot of hard seeds, so I threw it in my blender and the seeds got ground down in the process.

I will try olive oil-soaked slices with a young purple one next. Thanks.

I am using 3/4 cup warm water, 1Tbs sugar, 1/2tsp salt, 2 tsp yeast and 2 cups of flour for my dough and I add the oil after mixing the dough, so it doesn't stick while rising. I let it sit for an hour and use a spatula around the dough to free it from the bottom of the mixing bowl and drop the round formed dough on an oiled pan and cover it with a clear plastic wrap and press the center with my fist and work my way out leaving a nice round lip around the edges. I take the plastic wrap off after I am done. I never touch the sticky dough during the process, and I am using the large size plastic wrap roll from Costco.

I heat my Breville smart oven to 450F and turn it to 400F after it preheats and cook my pizza on the second rack from the bottom for 10 minutes. Whoever tries this will never buy frozen pizza again.

 

[WthrLady]

When I went to their website to see if I could get a replacement knob, I was surprised to find I could order all kinds of replacement parts. This thing will out live me! I hope. They don't make 'em like they used to. I don't need a bunch of digit stuff to go out with the first power outage and render the thing too expensive to fix.

I agree, but that's what was available when I bought mine.
I'd also prefer a car that actually has an engine I can see under the hood, without all the electronic 'features' that the new ones have. And DANG IT, I want my battery under the HOOD, not under a backseat floor!

Blizzard at the moment. A whopping 2 degrees and falling, windchill is -20F and colder, we picked up another 6 inches of snow last night and it's still falling and blowing. Visibility is only 1/4 mile at times. Everything is closed, which is great as snow drifts are over 2.5 feet high.
DH woke me up this morning to tell me there was a pile of snow and ice INSIDE the house coming from under our newly installed (professionally) back door. The company was floored and apologetic. Offered to send someone out today. Told them they'd die trying and it could wait. I cleaned it up and will block it even better from wind and snow from the outside later.

But UGH. 10,000$ door and install. I noticed today it isn't plumb in the jam (it was a total tear out replacement), and one corner has light showing and wind whistling.

 

[jerryse]

5 inches of snow in the wee hours. Then rain. 1 inch more predicted. Lucky it is not worse. Cold starting tonight.

 

[chickengr]

I thought it was cold here, lol. we had a lot of rain but we did need it.

 

[Sally PB]

DH woke me up this morning to tell me there was a pile of snow and ice INSIDE the house coming from under our newly installed (professionally) back door. The company was floored and apologetic. Offered to send someone out today. Told them they'd die trying and it could wait. I cleaned it up and will block it even better from wind and snow from the outside later.

But UGH. 10,000$ door and install. I noticed today it isn't plumb in the jam (it was a total tear out replacement), and one corner has light showing and wind whistling.

WOW! They better fix it, and fix it right! At no charge, of course!