I use pop peeper as my email client. It's payware, but has a very simple
interface, can do multiple accounts, and rss with the paid version. It doesn't
do things like threading, because it's main purpose is a notifier, but that's
ok with me.
I discovered the pasta method for rice a while back, and use it to make brown
rice. White rice I prefer to stick with the regular two to one ratio. Brown
rice, however, takes a lot longer and is more finicky.
Once again you are making me jealous with the grill talk. I really really want
a big green egg, because not only can you do long and slow cooks with it, but
it's the only grill that actually mimics a pizza oven. This grill holds on to
heat so well that you have to be careful when opening the lid, lest you get
burns. It's also 800 to a thousand dollars though. Sigh. Add it to the long
list of things i want but can never have lol.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Rawlings <twosocks76@xxxxxxx>
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:22:50 -0700
Subject: [blindcooks] Out of the loop
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE DeviceHi list.Sorry I have been absent from the
list for a while. This past month has been insane! Starting with the weekend
of Mother's Day, here in the United States, things just went crazy. Not only
was their Mother's Day, Emily's birthday, and Heather's birthday all in the
same week, but we also had a special religious event for Heather that
Saturday, and my in-laws were here for six days. Also at the same time,
little Charlie has been teething badly, making my day is rather difficult. As
if that wasn't bad enough, a nasty cold sweat through our family starting
about the third week of May, just before Memorial Day. I had all kinds of
grandiose plans to fire up Smokey Bear, the name I have designated for my
massive new charcoal grill, cooking some chicken drumsticks on it, and
inviting a family or two to join us that day for a good old-fashioned
barbecue. It didn't happen, because I was the one who was sick. And for some
reason, now with Charlie crawling, my life has suddenly become even more
complicated but, he's a trooper, at a cutie, and with the summer heat coming
on here in Vegas, we have been locked inside long enough that we are all just
about going nuts. We are looking forward to a trip to my mom's house on
Saturday for some swimming and quite possibly a little picnic on the back
lawn. As a result of all this, I have not been checking my email very often.
I miss being able to use email on my PC, as opposed to my cell phone. But I
find Windows Live Mail to be a very unstable and unreliable program for an
email client. On that note, I'm open to suggestion that do not involve Google
Mail or any of the web-based email site.As far as food goes, I have been
having a lot of fun. When my father-in-law was here, he taught me how to make
rice perfectly every time using something called the pasta method.
Essentially, you cook your rice in about four or five times the amount of
water that you are using for rice, cook it for about 15 minutes on a gentle
simmer, drain the rice, then put it back into the pot got it cooked in, with
the lid securely in place, and let it stand for about five more minutes. I
have to admit, my rice has been just about perfect every time I do it, but
the key is to let the rice drain thoroughly before putting it back into the
pot again. As far as actual recipes I have made lately, I tried one last
Saturday 4 noodles with a lot of chicken and asparagus in it, that was
dressed with a delicious Sesame peanut sauce. It was pretty easy to put
together, and Emily loved it so much that she requested that I put it back on
the next menu again. I am trying to simplify my menus, or at least that's
what I tell myself when I plan the menu, but I'm not doing very well at it. I
need to use the oven a whole lot less with this heat. I am going to try using
Smokey Bear, on the next menu cycle, to do our cast iron pizzas. This Grill
is wonderful because I can set the temperature to exactly what I want it to
be, and the grill automatically takes care of the rest. Yet it uses charcoal,
not pellets. We can still make our pizzas and summer without heating up the
house. Anyway, I'm trying to go through all of my emails and get caught up,
but it's going to take me a couple of days. Right now I am stealing time away
from the baby, and it is obvious he wants me to feed him something solid.
Just wanted to let you all know I'm still here, and I'm still giving some
serious thought to moving the list to another server. But one thing at a
time.Jon
