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Comment on Lets talk kitchen dishes in ~life.home_improvement
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
IndoorNerd Link ParentThanks for recipe links and added details, looking forward to using them!Thanks for recipe links and added details, looking forward to using them!
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Comment on What are your scary, spooky, creepy and unexplained experiences? in ~talk
IndoorNerd (edited )Link ParentSure thing! Ok, my house is wood and on stilts because I live in a flood prone area, been through almost 40 floods in 40 years, the house is probably only 300-400 yards from a river. Also it’s...Sure thing! Ok, my house is wood and on stilts because I live in a flood prone area, been through almost 40 floods in 40 years, the house is probably only 300-400 yards from a river. Also it’s surrounded by a lot of sinkholes; not at all ideal but it’s swamp 3 months out of the year and so the land was super cheap forty years ago, also at that time my spouse had bought for a hunting retreat. My spouse built our house, he used marine grade metal pipe for the stilts, as years went on he was slowly changing them out but he never did replace them all. Want to add, as a comparison, that my parents bought a lot a quarter of mile from his lot to use as a vacation home and their house is on stilts too but those stilts are all wood, and I lived in that house for a year before I met my spouse, and also lived years as neighbors after I moved out to then live with my husband, and they never experienced ball lightening AND for a good 10 years my parents had an outdoor antenna arrangement that an adult could climb up that towered from the ground to 12 feet above their home, and they also had one of the old time wire mesh satellite dishes, because we live very rural to this day and TV reception back then was impossible with out these things.
Next, my spouse was a kind of pack rat bringing home bits and pieces of whatever, ex: an old bathtub liner he’d gotten for free from someone who had their bathroom remodeled and didn’t want the old liner and so I believe saw a chance to have it taken away then for free for them. Spouse would bring home stuff like that, old windows, old bricks, old toilet, etc etc etc! He’d re use them in our house if he could, back before I met him, when I first met him he use to refer to our house as his hunting ‘shack’ which again, it was, before I met him.
He made the house bigger once we got married and then had kids, understandably. Then one day he comes home with some kind of a giant salvaged light pole contraption, I honestly don’t know what to call it, but I do know he said it came off a tear down of an old gas station, and was one of the lights outdoors to light up the parking lot. This pole was twice the height of our house, and he attached the base of it, on the ground, to a cement footer and then also using a type of metal bands onto the side of one of our wooden porch rails. The thing was all a type of metal but I don’t know what, I have no clue technically about any of it; how it was built etc, I just know it was absolutely ridiculous looking, and that it worked as a light.
So, with ALL THAT, my crazy (?) hypothesis is, that my spouse, in all his over zealous pack rat, pinch-a-penny & ‘If I can then why not!?’ ways, turned our home into some kind of giant freaking electrical attraction magnet.
When that 2nd occurrence with the ball lightening happened, and one of my kids was there to also witness it (so I had someone now to back me up, because my spouse wasn’t there to witness the phenomenon either time), I’m freaking out now because it wasn’t benign this time, and so I’m grasping at straws and then settled on that monstrous ugly-ass light pole, so I was then finally able to convince him to tear the damn ugly light pole down. I wasn’t nice about it, I did yell at him that his ‘stupid Dr.Frankenstein light’ was going draw in lightening and blow our house apart!
And at that time in our past when the first occurrence happened, in the late 80’s, we didn’t have the internet for me to do any searches on ball lightening phenomena, but I have since and what little I have found, so far, states scientists aren’t even really sure what wittinesses have stated is even true, that it even exists, and especially in cases like mine where it occurred on land, in the middle of the day/broad daylight, and with clear cloudless skies.
Edit to add: No, I don’t have any real theories on why one ball just popped out of existence even though I clearly saw it go in behind the old TV and just disappear without any flash of light or any sound, but the other literally and simultaneously flashed and blew up the desktop pc. Honestly the whole damn thing is a head scratcher, and I wish I knew someone who has a lot of scientific knowledge just to tell this all to and then get their thoughts and reactions, it’s so damn crazy yet fascinating, like: Yo! Some rural podunk person has reinvented the ark of the covenant unintentionally, so hey, come look at this crazy mess. It’s like an X Files episode, heh!
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
IndoorNerd Link ParentThanks for your post had to go then and look up that cook book and also what cabbage okonomiyaki is, have to state that it looks delicious!Thanks for your post had to go then and look up that cook book and also what cabbage okonomiyaki is, have to state that it looks delicious!
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
IndoorNerd Link ParentOh yeah! I made some homemade noodles a few weeks ago, was my first time and it came out so well and wasn’t even hard, I ended asking myself over and over afterwards ‘Why did I not ever try this...Oh yeah! I made some homemade noodles a few weeks ago, was my first time and it came out so well and wasn’t even hard, I ended asking myself over and over afterwards ‘Why did I not ever try this sooner!?’ And thanks for your recipe, I’m a recipe hoarder so I’ll be taking a screenshot & then saving yours!
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
IndoorNerd Link ParentThat all sounds wonderful, loved to know your recipes but it’s ok if it’s too much of a hassle for you, I’ll just try doing online searches then for baked pumpkin oatmeal AND also the slow cooked...That all sounds wonderful, loved to know your recipes but it’s ok if it’s too much of a hassle for you, I’ll just try doing online searches then for baked pumpkin oatmeal AND also the slow cooked sour beef & dumplings (lord I love dumplings!). And sorry that your grandma’s recipe was lost, I don’t have a recipe for my mom’s gigantic meatloaf (family of 6 plus always needing leftovers for meatloaf sandwiches), I’ve made several attempts in the past but I still haven’t quite figured it out yet.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
IndoorNerd Link ParentHey thanks for asking. Sometimes the fat is a cooking oil like olive oil, canola oil, etc, or sometimes it’s a combination of cooking oils and/or fat rendered, if it’s meat in a recipe, while...Hey thanks for asking.
Sometimes the fat is a cooking oil like olive oil, canola oil, etc, or sometimes it’s a combination of cooking oils and/or fat rendered, if it’s meat in a recipe, while cooking the confit.
And storing is different depending on what was made, ex: if it was confit chicken (or other poultry, or meat like pork, etc) then I prefer to transfer it to Ball jars, the glass kind of jars used to put jellies & jams in etc. I then use their white ‘plastic’ screw top lids (I just prefer them over the traditional metal band lids) and then store in my refrigerator. Though there are probably other types of recepticals one could use, Ball glass jars, for me, were just the easiest to use because I had a lot on hand already.
Simple online searches in your preferred browser for ‘confit recipes’ and ‘How To Confit’ is how I learned about it, and there’s usually tips with the recipes on how to store it, for how long, etc., I bet YouTube has lots of info to get one started as well.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
IndoorNerd LinkConfit everything. Also No Knead Bread. And since I didn’t want to run out and buy a Dutch Oven pot to make confit and/or no knead bread in, I’ve been using my old tried and true crockpot/slow...Confit everything. Also No Knead Bread. And since I didn’t want to run out and buy a Dutch Oven pot to make confit and/or no knead bread in, I’ve been using my old tried and true crockpot/slow cooker instead. It’s been interesting and I’m happy with it.
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Comment on What are your scary, spooky, creepy and unexplained experiences? in ~talk
IndoorNerd (edited )LinkI feel that anything I could relate about the quirky weird things that happen to me wouldn’t be super profound but still, I have had so many weird little things happen in my life and a lot of them...I feel that anything I could relate about the quirky weird things that happen to me wouldn’t be super profound but still, I have had so many weird little things happen in my life and a lot of them seem to be of an electrical nature.
Example: My kids jokingly call me a natural EMF buster, if I’m near electronics and not having a good day, or upset with whatever electrical device I happen to need to use, then they go wonky, turning on and/or off, etc. I even had a cash register spitting out its roll of receipt tape all over the counter one time because I didn’t want to use the damn thing, I’d never done that before & the thought of it at time made me angsty. Had the manger rushing over exclaiming to me “What did you do!?” and thankfully a customer standing next to me came to my defense letting them know that I’d never even touched the register, and me stating “See. I told you. I don’t work registers because I don’t like them and ‘they’ don’t like me.” — I also really don’t like handling money, but it seemed funny to me to say that about registers, at the time.
Have had ball lightening come into my house not once but twice, both times while I was sitting in the living room, big blue glowing orbs the size of basketballs. Both times this happened in the middle of the day, not a cloud in the sky. 1st time it went into the back of and old fashioned tv we had back before flatscreens, didn’t even hurt it, just floated in from outside, right through the open sliding doors, a few feet off the ground but hugging close to the living room wall, followed the wall to the tv stand, rose up a bit and went behind the tv to disappear without a sound, and 2nd time it happened years later, but this time it popped up in the hallway and coasted along in the air about two and half to three feet off the floor, went into a nearby bedroom and then right into the back of a desktop pc and then blew it up; that one had me jumping up, the explosion was terrifyingly loud, and it sadly fried & killed the motherboard.
Certain truck of my spouses to this day I refuse to drive anymore because it has a history of refusing to crank for me and only me, and when I state refuses, I mean that it won’t even turn over the engine, it’ll act like it has a dead battery, and then my spouse would shout at me “What did you do!?” (Can’t tell you how often that’s become a repeated phrase directed at me, ugh.) and I’d tell him that I didn’t do anything other than put the key in the switch and then try to turn it on! Then I’d show him, and it wouldn’t do anything, but then he’d get in and ‘boom’ it cranks right up on his first try. And this truck only did this crap to me after I’d first get in it at home and crank it up and then drive off somewhere, to get gas, or go to the bank, or do some grocery shopping, etc, & it always happened at different places, some close to home and some far away, so we didn’t see any recurring patterns to this mess, except for every damn time, when I’d come and get back in it to then drive it back home, then it would act up on me and play dead. As an aside, we got that truck used from a nice Hispanic guy, and it was white, so I secretly named it El Diablo Blanco. Damn truck had issues with me, and after a while I wasn’t happy with it either, heh.
USA - I have Corelle plates, salad plates, saucers & bowels that have held up through years of microwaving. Very occasionally I’ve dropped one & then it shattered, yes they do shatter unfortunately if they do break but that’s hardly ever; these dishes have been dropped and banged together a lot before I ever lost one that way. I also like that they’re so light-weight & thin, so when stacked they aren’t heavy to move around & also don’t take up a lot of space. Plus they’re pretty economical.