I have yet to make a hollandaise at home. Well that's not entirely true. I attempted it once. It failed. My husband tried it one. It failed. So we never tried again and thought restaurant quality hollandaise was gonna have to stay in the restaurants.But today Chris had a sous vide salmon holding to have with eggs for breakfast, and I decided to give hollandaise a try. And it worked!! I used a col...
As of today, an important new construction project is underway. Hopefully this one will go a lot smoother than our last one!For those curious: our neighborhood seems to have a lot of fairy gardens. I am guessing that during the thick of the start of the pandemic, families around the area decided to invite fairies to move in, to give kids something to walk around and enjoy when schools and parks we...
My favorite, easiest food-prep thing is making a giant pork shoulder--as big as I can fit in the slow cooker--shredding it, portioning some of it for this week and some for the freezer. This takes me about 10 minutes of prep on the front end, and 10 on the back to shred and portion. The rest is waiting on the slow cooker to cook it up, and at the end waiting for it to cool down before portioning.L...
Friends, I really really wish someone had told me about this decades ago. Well, some of them did I am sure, but it sounded too simple to work, so I glossed over it. But now I have tried it and can say firsthand it works just as great as they say (and reading the comments below the blog post shows even more effusive praise).Literally, simply this:Mix 1 part Dawn dish soap, 1 part vinegar, put in sp...
My awesome husband gifted me a 128G Oculus 1 in September of 2020 for my birthday. In less than 6 months after that, I decided to upgrade to the Oculus Quest 2 256G version, as I was already filling my headset with games such that I was running out of space. In the intervening time, I have gotten a gaggle of friends to purchase the Quest 2, which is now known as the Meta Quest 2, and have tried an...
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