I’m so sorry guys, I forgot to make a post! The day just went right past me. It didn’t fly by though. Annoying! I had to catch up on a lot of stuff today and part of what I had to do involved using a system that is unnecessarily “clicky” and was going so slow with every “next”, “ok”, “submit”, “select”, etc. Stuff took me triple the amount of time it should’ve, at least! I have work that must be done still! I’m happy that I get to help this person who needs extra help and never should’ve gotten this far but they did and I want to shield them from the other mean people. I know they try so very hard. And I really appreciate it and feel they deserve extra effort back. Some people are just such scoundrels. So shameless. I cave to these people that don’t deserve it a lot. I can’t stand persistence, it wears me down quickly. I accidentally left my soup out. I tried so hard to remember to put it away and yet somehow I still didn’t. I’m wondering if it’s actually a conspiracy against me. I think some network is releasing a new Chernobyl documentary soon. I don’t know how much can be said that hasn’t been already, but I’m kinda still interested. lol. Nuclear accidents are so fascinating to me. Like, it’s so rare, but people get so alarmed, and perhaps in some cases, they should be! But it’s interesting, like, comparing Chernobyl with Fukushima. One was just waiting to happen, not necessarily as bad, but something, and one was the result of a lot of shit going down at the same time. It’s unsurprising that the cleanups reflect the lack of preparedness and having some stuff in place. However, Japan wasn’t perfect as the locals had issues evacuating. It’s so crazy how no one thinks of that until a tragedy happens. It’s such an afterthought and not just that, the human mind cannot conceive of every possible scenario and the timing of different events. I will say, something like this is a good use case for AI. anyway, I feel like it’s so hard to think about what to do in an emergency when plans A, B, C..are just not viable. Sometimes there are literally no options. When I say this, I mean disabled people if they’re alone and done know who to call/if power is out. Vulnerable people in general, they really need to be a central focus point of an evacuation plan because otherwise they’re probably getting left behind. In Japan, a bunch of old people died during the evacuation. Like with 9/11, you don’t realize how hard it is for parties to communicate with each other. But yeah, in Japan during the Fukushima disaster… the government didn’t know what was going on and as a result, neither did anyone else, at least not definitively. That’s life. What the heck is going on. I just don’t know. I feel like I’m in the midst of an event.
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I found them. I found the perfectly trimmed carrots. Today, I added egg noodles to that soup I made. I shouldn’t complain about anything for a while after this week. Feeling lucky and blessed. I wish I could just cook all the time. I rolled a snowball down the stairs outside. It was huge.
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Okay I am fr tired af tn. I just be cookin’! Need to go to sleep! Wowza! Today, I made pretzel buns. I also made 2 pretzels. Very good. Milk-based. Hmmm. Mmm. I caramelized onions and made Brussels sprouts with bacon and maple syrup. I made potato chips, which was basically insane. I had 1 russet potato and a bit of schmaltz. So I decided to slice the potato into thin slices with a mandolin. I fried them in schmaltz, but used like the tiniest little thing bc I wanted the smallest amount of surface area for the melted fat to spread. I was only able to fry like 4 chips at a time it was insane. Trying to keep the temperature steady on a gas stove. Impossible. But it was pretty good! I made a burger with burger sauce, cheese, caramelized onion, and pickles. I didn’t really have anything fresh. There is a little bit of chopped onion and garlic in my sauce though, technically. I shoveled a lot of heavy snow/ice today bc I don’t want to be the asshole on the block. I will be sore soon. RIP
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Okay, I really have no excuse for the short post, but actually, I kinda do. I cooked a lot today. I fulfilled my snow day fantasies. I made hot chocolate and also had orange juice and chocolate milk. I made some scrambled eggs with a little American cheese, pancakes, French toast, sausage, and bacon for breakfast. I used the carcass of the chicken I posted last night and some chicken feet to make some chicken stock. Last night, I cut up veggies for soup. I made latkes. I didn’t use the same recipe that I did last time. I actually didn’t use any recipe… that’s nice, I can make latkes now. Okay, so I guess you’re all wondering what I did. I peeled and grated russet potatoes. Well, I actually grated 1 1/4 onions first and let it sit in a mesh sieve for a while to see what kind of juice I could get out before the cheesecloth. Speaking of, someone remind me to buy more cheesecloth. It worked like okay. Grated onion is a very bizarre thing. So slimy and wet. Not in the good way, really! Okay, so I mixed the grated and squeezed potato and onion. I added some salt, pepper, onion powder, some fresh dill, and a little garlic powder. Also, matzo meal. And I mixed that up. In a separate bowl, I whisked 4 eggs and a little bit of my precious Duvel beer together and then poured it in with the rest of the stuff. I used 4 potatoes, by the way. I think I do agree with the 1 egg per potato general rule. I wonder if I forgot anything important!! I cooked the latkes in schmaltz, as usual.
The apple butter freezes well! It thawed nicely! I made chicken soup. I’m gonna have more tomorrow and add some egg noodles to it. I think I’m gonna make cheeseburgers for lunch or dinner tomorrow. I don’t usually have 3 meals a day, but I’ll often have 2. Definitely at least 1 a majority of the time. I’m planning on making… pretzel buns… I don’t have lettuce or tomato, but I have pickles and onion. And bacon. I’m wondering what sauce to make exactly. Someone suggested bourbon burger sauce to me on Friday, so I’ve been thinking about that ever since…. I wonder how the roads will be tomorrow. I’m the luckiest gal on the block early this week. Snow! Okay that’s not even like that short considering… I find myself most excited to write about cooking. I wonder if I should take anything from that. I need to be the cook and leader of a group…
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Snow is snowing. USA men’s hockey won. That’s nice. I made chicken today. Gonna make soup tomorrow. It will be nice. Banned from the streets. I was born for them though…
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No way it’s looking like we’re coming up to a snow day. I need to stock up on beer still! Not good! I have a love hate relationship with things not being in writing. Winter is here. It’s been here for a while. It’s not going anywhere for a little while longer at least. Most of the remaining snow basically melted today. Now there’s more imminent. I need to wake up early tomorrow for hockey. I woke up today, but I was mistaken lol. I looked up the game time and it said tomorrow 8:10… must’ve looked after midnight… happy USA women’s hockey won gold I guess?
It’s kinda hard being mentally ill because no one really likes mentally ill people… especially if they act mentally ill. Eating a ton of rice tonight. Yellow rice. Not much to say still. I am being drained of my soul a little lately. Trying to not be. We’ll see how that fares. I’m not funny.
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Because… Oops! I did it again!
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It’s Thursday. Thinking about LiDAR and ground penetrating radar. Electromagnetism too. Magnetism in general feels like magic to me. Physics is crazy. Wondering what we’re on the cusp of discovering. I’m so bad at talking to people, I wish o understood math. Hate being micromanaged. Would rather do 5x the work on my own volition. I wish I wasn’t so tired. Is it really that I don’t drink coffee… I need aliens to rescue me. Like I’m a shelter dog.
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I missed!
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My bad for being so bad lately! I guess I don’t have much to say lately that’s novel. Same thing different day. Our world is ruled by those sick enough to grab power. And never let go. I’m just legit upset that nothing seems to be changing in a good way. Does it always feel this bad? I feel like it wasn’t always like this for my short life. I would be spying on the masses too in their case. They should be afraid, technically. And they are. But like… not enough and it’s because they know we very likely will do absolutely nothing. Shit sucks dick brah.
