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[Scepticalscribe]

Pro tip for DT's online silliness: always check the "inviso text" (especially given what I'd assume people know about me at this point )



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Never even noticed it.

I wear glasses and skim rapidly over text.

Anyway: My mind is on the oven:

I have prepared an autumn fruit dish, currently roasting away nicely in the oven.

Diced cooking apples (from the orchard of the mother of one of the people who works in the cheesemonger's; they gave me lots of cooking apples when I called in on Friday); diced organic plums, and diced organic pears.

Cardamon, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, organic brown sugar, grated orange rind, (peel), and some Bosnian honey. Plus lots of butter.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Certainly with a Nikon DSLR and a very long lens! I couldn’t shoot and kill anything, let alone a beautiful lion.

 

[arkitect]

I have prepared an autumn fruit dish, currently roasting away nicely in the oven.

Diced cooking apples (from the orchard of the mother of one of the people who works in the cheesemonger's; they gave me lots of cooking apples when I called in on Friday); diced organic plums, and diced organic pears.

Cardamon, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, organic brown sugar, grated orange rind, (peel), and some Bosnian honey. Plus lots of butter.

Yumm! I can smell it all the way from over here.
Enjoy!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Yumm! I can smell it all the way from over here.
Enjoy!

Thank you.

Yes, it does indeed smell wonderful. I have a generous hand with the butter, which gives a lovely richness to such a dish.

I have just removed the tin foil, - I hadn't wanted it to dry out, and had put just a few dessertspoons of water to cover the very bottom of the dish so it wouldn't dry out and they wouldn't stick to it - and have increased the temperature of the oven (which I had reduced around ten minutes ago) a little; the apples are still a little crisp.

 

[Lioness~]

Pondering the connection of lies and mentally doubtfulness versa how Mother Earth reacts with earthquakes on the shaky ethics that exists in the world. To me it's pretty obvious. Just pondering the question today....

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I can report that the autumn roasted fruit dish was every bit as delicious as I had hoped it would be, somewhat sweet, tart, rich, incredibly tasty. This is a dish I shall prepare again.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I can report that the autumn roasted fruit dish was every bit as delicious as I had hoped it would be, somewhat sweet, tart, rich, incredibly tasty. This is a dish I shall prepare again.

Glad you enjoyed it.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Glad you enjoyed it.

Yes, I did. Very much.

As did Mother, I am happy to say.

I think the carer found it a little tart, even though it was also somewhat sweet - she doesn't much care for fruit anyway, and adores cakes that are seriously sickly sweet (as does Mother).

 

[arkitect]

Yes, it does indeed smell wonderful. I have a generous hand with the butter

My favourite quote about cooking is from Fernand Point; big as a house and a magnum of champagne for breakfast he famously said:

"Give Me Butter! Always Butter!"

And indeed it is the magic ingredient so often.

 

[Lioness~]

Coconut butter is the only butter I use today. Quite a lot though.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My favourite quote about cooking is from Fernand Point; big as a house and a magnum of champagne for breakfast he famously said:

"Give Me Butter! Always Butter!"

And indeed it is the magic ingredient so often.

Couldn't agree more.

Most domestic cooks (chefs) are strangely stingy with butter.

In restaurants, butter whisked into a sauce just before serving is often what gives that sauce a delicious richness that domestic copies rarely match.

My risotto (which I pride myself on) - well, suffice to say, it also comes with an exceedingly generous hand where butter is concerned, including a generous slice of butter at the very end of the cooking.

 

[Lioness~]

Coconut butter is the only butter I use today. Quite a lot though.

It's actually mostly coconut oil I use, have to correct myself. I do use some butter too though.
I love to have it in all kinds of food. But I probably use it as much to my skin and in hair masks. And there's NOTHING as good as coconut oil to recover from sunburn. I discover new ways to use coconut oil all the time.

And wow, my yoga teacher have actually moved here.
She is from here though. But have lived abroad for 25 yrs.
Will be super great yoga from now on

 

[AngerDanger]

Fall's dry run for Winter really seems to be coming along. Obviously, they'll switch from leaves to snow for the premiere, but for now it's better to use something that literally grows on trees.

 

[D.T.]

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Fall's dry run for Winter really seems to be coming along. Obviously, they'll switch from leaves to snow for the premiere, but for now it's better to use something that literally grows on trees.

Nice, we don't get much change, but we'll be in PA (just outside Da 'Burg) for Thanksgiving, and we're driving this trip, so we should get some amazing color changes as we wind our way to the north.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

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Fall's dry run for Winter really seems to be coming along. Obviously, they'll switch from leaves to snow for the premiere, but for now it's better to use something that literally grows on trees.

Nice, we don't get much change, but we'll be in PA (just outside Da 'Burg) for Thanksgiving, and we're driving this trip, so we should get some amazing color changes as we wind our way to the north.

Yes, I have heard that the colours for the fall are terrific in parts of the north eastern US.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Brexit. My cold. (My mother has recovered almost completely, I am happy to report). Positions I have been interviewed for over the past fortnight or so. Reports I have to write. Dinner tonight.

 

[kazmac]

I look down and notice a button is gone from my shirt.

 

[Gutwrench]

Couldn't agree more.

Most domestic cooks (chefs) are strangely stingy with butter.

In restaurants, butter whisked into a sauce just before serving is often what gives that sauce a delicious richness that domestic copies rarely match.

My risotto (which I pride myself on) - well, suffice to say, it also comes with an exceedingly generous hand where butter is concerned, including a generous slice of butter at the very end of the cooking.

I make and freeze wine sauce in small containers (because I’m too impulsive to know when it’s needed and takes too long to make) then finish it in a pan with a dollop of butter.

I look down and notice a button is gone from my shirt.

Haha, I had this problem a couple weeks ago. It was a pale beige shirt and all I had was a spool of black thread. Either my coworkers aren’t observant or they’re very polite.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I make and freeze wine sauce in small containers (because I’m too impulsive to know when it’s needed and takes too long to make) then finish it in a pan with a dollop of butter.

That is an excellent idea.

In the past, I've frozen chicken stock (made from bones) - and used one of the ice cube trays to do this - and found it excellent.

The addition of butter makes total sense.

 

[daimos]

addicted to this engineering game https://appadvice.com/app/happy-glass/1425793208

 

[kazmac]

I make and freeze wine sauce in small containers (because I’m too impulsive to know when it’s needed and takes too long to make) then finish it in a pan with a dollop of butter.



Haha, I had this problem a couple weeks ago. It was a pale beige shirt and all I had was a spool of black thread. Either my coworkers aren’t observant or they’re very polite.

Someone at my job found the button and left it for me.

Now if I remember it is in my pants pocket, that will be good.

 

[D.T.]

Someone at my job found the button and left it for me.

Now if I remember it is in my pants pocket, that will be good.

Hook it onto a paperclip and hang it somewhere conspicuous

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I look down and notice a button is gone from my shirt.

Oh, dear.

Someone at my job found the button and left it for me.

Now if I remember it is in my pants pocket, that will be good.

That is a good friend, or decent colleague.

Guard it with your life.

While @D.T.'s idea has merit, I'd recommend that you put the retrieved button in a purse or wallet (for, as life would have it, a pants or jacket pocket could well have a tiny, hidden, inconspicuous hole - perfect for misplacing a found button yet again - this is the voice of hard learned experience speaking).

Often, with a missing button, the challenge is not sewing it back on, (with the correct coloured thread - I have a small collection of the most usual coloured threads, navy, black, beige, off white) but ensuring that you have it in your grasp; whatever about thread colour, mismatched buttons are unmissable.

 

[kazmac]

Oh, dear.



That is a good friend, or decent colleague.

Guard it with your life.

While @D.T's idea has merit, I'd recommend that you put the retrieved button in a purse or wallet (for, as life would have it, a pants or jacket pocket could well have a hidden tiny inconspicuous hole - perfect for misplacing a found button yet again - this is the voice of hard learned experience speaking).

Often, with a missing button, the challenge is not sewing it back on, (with the correct coloured thread - I have a small collection of the most usual coloured threads, navy, black, beige, off white) but ensuring that you have it in your grasp; whatever about thread colour, mismatched buttons are unmissable.

I appreciate the tips from you and @D.T. (even if said button is too small to hook on a paper clip ).

The purse or wallet is alas: things get lost in my purse sack -little knapsack I use instead of a purse- these pants pockets do not have holes. I just have to remember to take the button out of them. Apparently, notes (be it post it’s, hand written or on my phone calendar are being promptly forgotten lately.)

I find forgotten notes days later in that knapsack and a button would be almost through the looking glass

As usual, I appreciate the tips and suggestions. Perhaps when things calm down my selective memory will stop being so selective.

I dwell on little things, so I can remain calm about big things.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I appreciate the tips from you and @D.T. (even if said button is too small to hook on a paper clip ).

The purse or wallet is alas: things get lost in my purse sack -little knapsack I use instead of a purse- these pants pockets do not have holes. I just have to remember to take the button out of them. Apparently, notes (be it post it’s, hand written or on my phone calendar are being promptly forgotten lately.)

I find forgotten notes days later in that knapsack and a button would be almost through the looking glass

As usual, I appreciate the tips and suggestions. Perhaps when things calm down my selective memory will stop being so selective.

I dwell on little things, so I can remain calm about big things.

I have small rucksack, but I also carry a wallet (with a section for coins); that is where buttons go, so that I cannot lose them. In my small rucksack, - which seems to grow exponentially, - I doubt I would ever be able to locate such a thing, irrespective of how securely I had tucked it away.