Almost summer: bacon sausages, focaccia, and cabbage (cooling off) on the Weber for the first time this year.
Category: Home Living
Metal Credit Card
Tin snips became a financial instrument for destroying metal credit cards.
Fresh Veggies
Much chopping ensued.
Bacon Sausages
Cycled right up to the counter of Sunshine Harvest Farm at the local farmers market to pick up a guilty pleasure: bacon sausages.
Tip-The-Freezer Week
Without the benefit of long trips to remind me to deal with ingredients lurking in the freezer, declared this week to be Tip-the-Freezer week. Tonight: pot pie with fresh pea pods, next in line for the wok. I previously prepared the pie filling in the wok
Annual Thumb Drive Ritual
Backed up all our files to an encrypted thumb drive which we’ll keep for ever. Files are backed up continuously, but I like to create a full snapshot of the data every now and then.
Adding Smarts to a Ceiling Fan
Added smarts to the ceiling fan over our bed. We can now control it from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection, solving a problem we didn’t have. More likely use cases include: control it by voice from bed, and turn it off automatically when when we leave our home.
Rice
Tonight I’m making one-pot comfort food: chicken and brown rice. I rarely stray from these three types of rice when cooking: sushi, Arborio, and short-grain brown.
Tax Time Together
Started entering data for our first joint tax return.
Thai Eggplant
This weekend I’m cooking with ingredients I’ve never used before. Today: Thai eggplant. Tomorrow: oxtail.