Rob.I have not heard of that email client that you mentioned, but I know that
I'm not willing to pay for one. So for now, my phone is a possible stand-in. I
will keep looking however.One of the very few things keeping me on Facebook is
a Paige called grilling with Dad. They are very brief videos, but he uses a
green egg in all of his Cooks. It looks cool, but yes, they are far too
expensive, and I don't have a clue how you would no how much charcoal to use,
or when the correct temperature in the cooking chamber is reached. Maybe I
should look into how they work. With my Char-Griller, I love it because I can
set the temperature to exactly what I want, and it hits that Target for me. The
girls and I actually plan to try it making cast iron pizzas, using the grill as
the hot oven, within the next week or two. It is far too hot here now to run
the oven inside the house at 500 degrees. I can't imagine how my pizza could
possibly get any better than the cast iron version that I make and our family
loves. But I think Char-Griller does sell some kind of insert or attachment
specifically for making pizzas. I haven't really looked into it. I wish, that
when I had bought this Grill, they have it set up on the showroom floor. I
didn't realize I was getting a grill with this much cooking surface. 980 square
inches of cooking space is a hell of a lot of space. But, it is so much fun. As
soon as I get stocked up on charcoal again, I'm going to do some pulled
pork.JonSent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------From: Rob Hudson <rob_hudson_3182@xxxxxxx>
Date: 6/9/22 5:36 PM (GMT-08:00) To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject:
[blindcooks] Re: Out of the loop 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@freelists.orgDate: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:22:50 -0700Subject:
[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
