I’ve used BBEdit for years now. It’s fabulous for working with and processing text. Today I whisked up an Applescript that numbers selected lines so as to create a Markdown numbered list. The built-in line numbering function doesn’t seem to allow me to add the dot I want.
Today I happened upon these recipes I want to try:
- My Everyday Green Smoothie
- Cheese Scones
- Rainbow Vegetarian Pad Thai with Peanuts and Basil
- Pasta cacio e pepe
- Six-Minute Vegan Chocolate Cake
Maybe this week I’ll give a couple of them a go.
They’re far from perfect but they beat any of my previous attempts to catch a hawk in flight by a mile. 🐦 I’m reading and learning from Dan Bailey’s book: X Series Unlimited.
Pushed myself today on my bike: rode to the intersection with State Highway 1, 9.2 Km away. Total return ~19 Km. 🚴🏼♀️ Some head winds were a challenge. Mix of light battery assist and none.
I often bike around Waikawa Beach on a ~9 Km circuit. Yesterday I went beyond this slightly for a ~12 Km circuit and turned the battery on my electric bike off for ~4Km. Today I’m slightly achey. I have till April to build up for my West Coast Wilderness bike tour. 🚴🏼♀️
After @cheri’s photo of Dutch Apple Pancake, with its perfectly placed apple slices, I decided to have another go at making it. Again, delicious! Better slice placement (I use way too much apple and like it like that!). Tried a couple in muffin moulds, with ‘interesting’ results.
I bought my Fuji X-T2 camera a few years back with the intention of growing into it. 📷 That growth has been given a big nudge this week with my discovery of Dan Bailey’s tips and lessons. Practical, easy to follow. I’m looking forward to trying out some stuff.
At the river mouth this morning: looking left and looking right.
Cuties from the deck this evening. Baby rabbits from a burrow in the paddock next door. Welcome Swallow, Warou, on the Zendo roof. 🐦 🐇
You have to watch out for the swallows: they build mud nests over doorways and light fittings, and in the garage if you leave the door open.
I only recently discovered the free Merlin Bird ID app and it works well (for photos, not so much sounds) even here in NZ. 🐦
users answer a few simple questions or, snap a picture and then [see] a short list of possibilities tailored to location and date.
I like it!
Apparently I keep forgetting how to do this:
Rename flags In the Mail app on your Mac, click the arrow next to the Flagged mailbox in the Mail sidebar. … Click the flag name, click it again, then type a new name…
Formation flying.
Black-backed gull.
Gull flying with bivalve in its beak.
(Mount) Taranaki.
Whitebaiter with (Mount) Ruapehu and bird.
Excited: I’ve booked on the West Coast Wilderness bike tour for April 2022.
We bike through unbelievable scenery, from wild coastlines to lush rainforests … beautiful sweeping downhill trails … historic waterways, … past waterfalls and … on stunning backcountry tracks.
🚲
Hmmm, downloaded free samples of two Kindle books: The Odyssey by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (translator) and The Iliad by Homer (Author), Caroline Alexander (Translator). It might be interesting to read these again, some 50 years later, and translated by a woman.
I was a teen when I read the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ‘teeth’ of this quote have always remained with me. Today I found the source (my bold):
Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?
Homer, The Iliad bk. 4, l. 350
Cooking the recipe
OK, you’ve bought ingredients, rewritten the recipe and you’re ready.
You’ve set up your workspace, got the pots out, found the knives, measurers and stirrers and whatnot. Now on with the cooking.
Tip: follow the recipe exactly, at least the first time. Measure ingredients, set timers.
This is where you’ll discover the parts of the recipe you hadn’t noticed before: it fails to tell you what temperature to set the oven or the stovetop element to. It mentions adding in an item that never appeared in the list of ingredients. Or it uses some cooking term that you just don’t really understand. You may need to do some quick web searching…
Ultimately though you come up with a finished dish. Maybe take a photo before you tuck in. I hope it was delicious.
But here’s an important step: make some notes on your recipe. I’ll often add a Delicious!
to remind myself for next time. Or it might be a longer note about some problem with the cooking process or a thought on how it could be improved — too spicy — use less chilli
.
If you detected a problem, like adding an ingredient that wasn’t mentioned, or steps that should have been in a different sequence, then edit the recipe ready for next time.
If the recipe worked out for me then I’m likely to cook it again, perhaps with some variations — different veges are in season or I couldn’t get a particular ingredient and either left it out or found a substitute. I note that down.
We live in a rural area and buy ingredients from our local small town. The chance we won’t be able to get hold of some slightly ‘exotic’ ingredient is very high.
Also: cook the recipe again in a few days or weeks if you enjoyed the food. The next time through should be a bit easier because now you have some clues about what you’re doing.
I’m adding a few screenshots that show some of my comments.
Next time: links to a few recipes I really like because they’re simple and delicious.
