Jon,
I have been using Outlook for a long time and have found it very workable. It
is free for your mobile and PC devices.
From: blindcooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blindcooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Jon Rawlings
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 7:23 PM
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindcooks] Out of the loop
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Hi 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
