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Good amount of snow here, I actually lost power for about 1-2 minutes earlier this a.m. But all good now. I've been worried about some friends and family in harder hit areas, but thankfully no one on my list lost power. My back deck has some nice blown drifts.....

For the New Englanders:

WCPGW? I used a leftover biscuit this morning to make breakfast.

So, updates from our little shelter. Since cats are now used to find proper food whenever they're hungry, they are not coming in big numbers when we put food in containers. Also the time for remaking the upper side has come. We'll redo it this summer. Also recently we added a proper sleeping place for hard weathers. We modified an old bed base, isolated it, put some rags and cushions in it. Here are the most recent pics from visitors: We had our doubts if cats wants to use the shelter for sleep but as we can see from "biscuit" marks, they do. And Şanslı (Lucky). She was abandoned (by an ex neighbour, she is neutered), was hanging around our backyard. She was attacked by a dog or dogs. Dog caught her by her lower back. There was clear bite marks. She couldn't use her back legs but after long treatment and thanks to her will, now she is fine. Bad thing is she and Şirin cannot get along. So we made a proper place for her in the building, in front of our enterance. When Şirin is not at home or sleeping, she comes in and hangs out. We named her "Şanslı" cuz, well, she survived a very bad dog attack and recovered well.

Pepperoni, mushroom and onion pizza

Quick paella (in a frying pan)

Bacon, tomato, spinach, avocado and queso fresco omelet with fresh baked biscuits. I think I've mentioned before that I like my omelets on the darker side. Iced coffee with Irish Cream Liqueur to drink. Food coma incoming.

10 potato cheesy skillet bake.

I did this recipe today, and for some reason, made me think of French toast. Mostly the crispy outside and the soft inside. But also the sweetness. AQNEI5o45uP6-hbhQdgA4t3CyC5TSsM4mUb4R6fdezLunPXr5cpA9q2Cbw8VikSymhKZ53KycFP0EreG1IWczYRdhd5PEawtLiL-94RjhbVqKQ.mp4

90’s action plus some classic heart

but you'll spend that 15 minutes on the crapper.

Steve loves to smile for pictures

Front Deck Brunch

Claire has this powdered Buttermilk in the fridge for times she doesn't have fresh.

I use what I think is a very simple recipe, from Melissa Clark (NYT cooking), with slight tweaks based on what I actually have in the kitchen. Ingredients Yield:10 to 12 biscuits 230grams (about 2 cups) all-purpose flour 50grams (about ½ cup) cake flour 15grams (about 1 tablespoon) baking powder 8grams (about 2 teaspoons) sugar 6grams (about 1¼ teaspoon) fine sea salt 9tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cubed 1cup buttermilk, chilled I rarely have cake flour so just use 2-1/2C of whatever I have. I rarely have buttermilk so use a substitute of 1T of white vinegar and a scant C of whatever milk is in the fridge. If I am feeling really lazy I'll use salted butter and scale down the salt or sometimes I don't have unsalted butter. The technique is simple, whisk together all the dry ingredients, cut in the butter with a pastry cutter, stir in the buttermilk while try not to over mix. Turn onto a floured surface, roll until ~3/4" thick, and I use a biscuit cutter to cut the rounds making sure not to twist the cutter. Allegedly that seals off the outside and doesn't let them rise properly while baking. I've never had this recipe fail. I'm lazy, so I never brush the tops with butter - which is what 1 of the 9 (heart-attack-inducing) TBS of butter is for. So I usually just use 8 in the dough.

In, ahem, "honour" of Randy Andy getting cuffed, I resurrected a meme format from the early 2000s.

Used Gemini to fix and update my Ubuntu server. At one point, I had a great success, so I told it, "(party favour noise)", and it responded, "(confetti cannon fires)", LOL.

I just picked up an outin nano espresso maker and fino grinder. Total cost under $300. Battery powered, and comparable in size to an aero press and hand grinder. makes pretty darn good espresso from my beans. Good crema, good body.

What a coincidence -- someone on Facebook asked where we first heard Kate Bush -- several of us answered the same: her appearance on SNL -- you say 'transfixed', I said 'mesmerizing':

Even as a 10 year old, I thought this was great.

Pretty sure I have posted this before but, personally, I need to listen to it fairly regularly.

Leftover salmon with Jason Carter band opening. Walker theater in Chattanooga

The recipe I'm currently using and loving is similar, but even simpler. 2 cups self rising flour. I stick butter. I cup buttermilk. The self rising flour needs no added leveners and these biscuits rise quite tall. I use salted butter, because that's what I have. No pastry cutter though. I use a grater and grate the frozen stick of butter directly into the bowl of flour. I loosely distribute the butter and flour with my fingers, then add the buttermilk (I've also made my own with vinegar, but like the texture of buttermilk better). Same as your recipe, I'm careful to just incorporate and not overwork the dough. I'll usually fold it about 3 times after getting all of the flour hydrated by the buttermilk. Finish with the dough about 3/4" thick. And same as you, I use a biscuit cutter without twisting. I have a quite heavy round cake pan, and find they rise better in this 2" tall pan over a sheet pan. I just butter the bottom and sides. The large size biscuit cutter (about 3 1/2" diameter) takes about 18 minutes at 425 degrees. The next size down takes a few minutes less.

You can make cake flour out of AP flour by simply adding some cornstarch.

Vegan protein bomb. Big bowl of salad with 100gr chickenpeas and 50gr mung beans. I feel eating this gave me extra 15 mins of lifetime.

I made and ate biscuits, but I'm afraid to post pictures for fear of what could happen next...

Ach, he's gaining on me!

Thought this was worth a re-listen, given the movie release:

I managed to build few T2 in the past few years. Just sharing pics how T2 fits in Modushop Dissipante 400 enclosure. Many thanks to Mr. Gilmore and HC community

After 21 years we finally get a video (also is there a setting to not auto play the dailymotion videos?}

The Afghan Whigs - Congregation (1992)

Last night. Absolutely delicious Birthday rib dinner at Al's place. Complete with chocolate cake and my favorite people!

Good luck to everybody in New England and elsewhere the snow is falling. Stay warm!

Another one from a while back.

Hope your birthday is rapidly achieving awesomeness, Dan! Cheers!

Indulging my other hobby today, gonna record leftover salmon

you mean this grossly overpriced piece of antique design. unbalanced and lots of feedback. clone boards were available somewhere at diy audio. chassis filled with many audiofool components. like bybee's and fancy caps. if 50 watts into 8 ohms is what you really want then build my pioneer a09 clone. lots better in many ways. i could publish pictures of the zahl boards, or the mass kobo. both of which are also grossly overpriced pieces of garbage.

Brent you're no Freddy Mercury. You'd be the cheap impersonator 'Freddy Uranus '.

Have a TICEtastic birthday Steve! Cheers!

Happy 70th!!!

Someone told me D3a is a good tube, Did this in LTspice… Modified Megatron – one less capacitor in signal path and no feedback. Works in LTspice. That's always something.

Nigella's Slow Roasted Garlic and Lemon Chicken

Extra Veggie Turkey Chilli 🥒 🫑 🦃 🌶️

Carb loading for the game

Snow Day - I don't have to do anything...

Hey sacd_lover here. Have not been on the board in years. See lots of names I know .... tkam, kevin gilmore, mexican dragon, blessingx, Dusty Chalk etc... Hope everybody has been well. Just picked the latest thread to reintroduce myself.

So sorry Peter, I know how much you've loved them. You can take some comfort in knowing you gave them a life they never would have known otherwise.