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Yup. Another 'polar vortex' (what we used to just call 'winter'). A really strong one; supposed to get down to -14F or so tonight. Now I know why they put the 'br' in February. 🥶 We've had over a foot of snow this week too - and I had to dig out my trailer for a church project. As I was doing...

I've noticed that phenomenon too. After eating something for a long period of time - even something I love - I suddenly can't stand it, and won't eat it again for months. Fortunately that rule doesn't seem to apply to coffee. :caf

This thread has made me realize that my breakfast diet has changed. without my noticing. I previously ate very little processed dry cereal (although when I did, I usually mixed 2-3 kinds). But I preferred a home-made hot cereal: - a mix of whole grains (rolled oats, blue or fresh-ground corn...

Oh yes it is. I used to make apple butter, but apple sauce is just as good & more versatile. I often question the relative merits of eating an early breakfast, versus not breaking the fast till noon. Now that I am retired & less active, an early breakfast makes me drowsy in mid-morning. So I...

Some dehydrated tomatoes can be ground into tomato powder, which is really good for turning a bland soup into something delicious (as are dried sweet peppers). This is also a good way to use tomatoes that have a tough skin when dry. When I dehydrate large numbers of "Elfin", I divide them into...

my first experience with candy was honey horehound, and wintergreen after-dinner mints. Then I discovered a candy store a few blocks away, began collecting discarded soda bottles for refund (There were a lot of bottles on the roadsides back then) and the wheels fell off. 🍬🍭:drool

Happy Birthday @catjac1975 ! 🎂🥳

Oh, I've SO got to try that one! :lol:

It's subliminal - "stoplight syndrome". Green means go, and we can't stop. If plants were red, maybe we wouldn't buy as many. 😄

Agreed. Warm temperatures, with dim light, tend to result in leggy plants. The different pepper species have differing light requirements. C. annuum (sweet peppers & many hot peppers, such as jalapeno) need the most light. C. baccatum & C. frutescens peppers (mostly hot peppers) need less...

Peppers really need more heat to germinate reliably - especially with older seed, which is often what I am using. I've documented my germination results in past threads. Tomatoes are more tolerant of cooler temperatures, and I see little variation in germination days or vigor, even between new...

Those snow peas won't grow themselves!!! 🤣

The forecast keeps getting revised downward. We barely got above 0F today, -9F expected overnight. Monday night was originally forecast to be -12F, now changed to -16F, with wind chill up to -40F. :ep I'm supposed to make a monthly food bank delivery tomorrow with an open trailer... I hope...

ONLY??? I never can get used to weather so cold that when you blink, your eye lashes freeze together. :th

That is my opinion too, on all of the national instant coffee brands. But I really like some of the instant coffees carried by the local Oriental grocery; instant coffee in eastern Asia seems to have been perfected into an art form. I'm really hooked on these, been drinking them for years now.

Wow, that looks good. I'm guessing from the air cells that this too is a sourdough bread? Could you post the recipe? I'm always looking for new breads & love the flavor of black sesame, which I already use in my hot cereal mix.

It was a comparatively warm day today, low 40's F - which is a good thing, because I had to thaw out my sub pump discharge hose. It had become clogged with ice in the sub-zero blast earlier in the week... ... which AGAIN caused the lines to one of my sub pumps to blow out, and to flood part of...

Now, with spoofing, we once again don't know who it is. So just like the good ole days, but without the party lines (and for you young uns, there were no parties there). :old

... and that really is fur in your mouth. :ep

Not sure there's really a wrong answer. 😆