Lemmy Bread cheeseblintzes • 9 months ago • 97%

My project for tonight was a crusty Italian bread-- and I think I did pretty well! Hadn't made one before, but needed a bread to go with a soup I'm working my way through. It came out pretty well, but definitely more dense than I would have liked...  ...but that's my fault, I overworked the dough a bit while second-guessing myself. Could also be browned a bit better, but I was using a convection oven instead of the normal oven, so I was erring on the side of caution.

Tomatoes cheeseblintzes • 9 months ago • 93%

I have... thirty different types of tomatoes. Which are your favorites? Which do you dislike? What am I missing that I should add to my arsenal in the future? 

In a former life, in the faraway land of not my current location-- I worked at a theme park whose name sounded like Paul Whitney Earth. I worked in restaurants and custodial while there, so I always enjoyed picking up shifts covering the evening parades in other locations on my days off. One evening, I was on the main drag of that location's parades making sure the patrons were keeping the walkway clear as they found their prime viewing spots. As I am meandering up and down the road, I find a boomer standing in the middle of the walkway. I put my biggest, bestest, smile on and proceeded with my rodent-approved monologue, asking the boomer if they could please find another location either further up or further down the main drag to safely view the parade... they huffed off and I expected that to be the end of it. Ten minutes later, as I'm whistling while I work and having a zipidee doo dah day, I run into this villain again-- this time, hiding in a doorway. While rodents can quickly escape doorways in the event of a fire... humans cannot. I needed this boomer to move, I needed them to move NOW, and I needed to stress the importance of this in as happy a tone as possible... lest the big cheese snap his mousetrap on me. So, I give it my go... somehow turning 'if you stay here and we have a fire you are far more likely to die than the other tens of thousands of humans here NOT standing in a doorway,' into the rootin-est tootin-est nicest vocal dress down in the west. Mrs. Facilier proceeded to grab me by my bowtie and shirt, start screaming in my face that she wasn't causing any problems, that there was nowhere else to stand, and that she was STAYING IN THIS DOORWAY MOUSE DAMMIT. A lifetime and galaxy away... I wonder if she regrets having a lifetime trespass. Must suck not being able to take your grand ratdroppings to the Cheese Chalet, when it was seemingly so important to be there to begin with.

At the top of the month, my husband and I were flying to Texas for the weekend so I could keep my A List perks. When we landed in Dallas, I noticed the row behind us had one person on either side of the aisle-- both pilots. As we were waiting to disembark, I started talking to the one directly behind us-- who was around our mid-young millennial age-- about his job, how they travel between airports or flights, and proceeded to thank him for getting passengers to their destinations safely when he was in the cockpit. As we proceeded off the airplane, the boomer from two rows behind the pilot who tried to disembark before our rows looked at the pilot and said, "You know... I was in Nam." The pilot exchanged glances and a pained smirk with my husband and I, and proceeded to shut the boomer down with, "...cool." Arguably not the best example of a boomer being a fool... but the most recent one I've had. Still makes us laugh.

Hi all! I created the Lemmy version of Boomers Being Fools because I felt we were missing a core location to aggregate their follies. I am not associated with the subreddit r/boomersbeingfools. I am open to their moderators coming and joining the mod team here, however. Hope everyone is having a fantastic holiday season-- I hope you can keep your boomers at bay!

New Communities cheeseblintzes • 9 months ago • 61%

Hi all! I have just created [!boomersbeingfools@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/boomersbeingfools) for a place to share stories about boomers being fools. I am not a moderator on the subreddit, nor am I affiliated with the subreddit-- however I am open to their mods coming over here and joining the team as well. Hope everyone is having a fantastic holiday season! <3 Edit: Tried making MillennialsBeingFools (or variations) as well and was unable to.

Gardening cheeseblintzes • 9 months ago • 98%

For those of us currently in winter-- what new varieties are you growing this coming year? What new things have you added to your garden for the upcoming season? What new techniques are you trying this year? We're in the dead of winter and I am itching to get back out into the garden... tell me what you're up to!

Gardening cheeseblintzes • 1 year ago • 100%

Hi friends! Sort of thinking out loud here, any advice would be appreciated. I'm considering setting up my smaller greenhouses in one of the outbuildings on our property over winter to attempt to grow some things. Said outbuilding houses my rabbit in a stall year round, and she has a heat lamp in the winter. The building itself is not heated. My thought process is that I could grow some cold weather crops on the shelves in the greenhouses (one is smaller, one is walk in) and with all the different lights and her heat lamp... I'd think it would at least add a bit to the ambient heat in the building? (Not a big building at all, smaller than our chicken coop.) Am I being obnoxiously ambitious? Is this at all a feasible thought?

Tomatoes cheeseblintzes • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm in Zone 5, so my sights are now set on what to do with what is left at the end. A tomato soup? Hot or Cold? What if I have to pull plants early due to a cold snap? A green tomato soup? Hot or Cold? I'm just looking for ideas, or what you do with your extras. We also can in my household, but I don't foresee having enough tomatoes left at the end of the season to warrant going through the whole canning process. Thoughts? (PS @Thrawn: My volunteer sun golds did end up producing after my hornworm invasion. Not much, but they did... and they looked true! I just left them on the plant, as they has blossom end rot, unfortunately... so I can't tell you how they tasted.)

Mastodon cheeseblintzes • 1 year ago • 100%

Maybe I missed something, so my apologies if this is a stupid question— but what happened to the c.im instance? I’ve periodically checked the last 24 hours and haven’t been able to connect. Is it gone, or is something else going on? Thanks in advance, friends!

Cooking cheeseblintzes • 1 year ago • 86%

I’ve been considering making beef medallions, but I have a very strong dislike of horseradish. Admittedly I’m probably missing something super obvious, but what could I do instead? I’m not big on bleu cheese, either. I keep thinking some whipped chive butter or something, but I’m not sure. Ideas?

I'm back to scream into the void! In the last 24 hours, I've added: - 4 Cups Water - More Jalapeno - Banana Peppers - Red Onion - Green Pepper - Garbanzo Beans - Yellow pear tomatoes - More mushrooms - Sauteed Kohlrabi - Kohlrabi Greens - Roasted Beef Femurs - Rosemary - Parsley Highlights of the last 24 Hours: The early taste tests were amazing. The broth was so clear, and I was really impressed with the depth and complexity of flavor I'd created. My first real entry about it was when I sat down with a bowl at 7am today. >"No broth tasting this time, not from the pot. But the bowl I poured... the broth though brown is so CLEAR.. I am flabbergasted. 191F" I added the extra jalapeño and banana peppers... **I swear I thought it was a good idea.** It wasn't a *bad* one, per se-- just a spicy one. After adding the femur bones and sautéed kohlrabi, it deepened the flavor a bit-- but didn't cut the pepper heat, which is fine. Hence, my 9pm Entry: >"THASSA SPICY MEATBALL! Added green peppers to hopefully cool it some. 205F" Currently eating my second bowl-- fifteen hours after the first, and 24 hours after beginning the cook. Its got a bit of an oily layer, which makes sense between the bones and the butter I sautéed the kohlrabi in. I inhaled instead of swallowing at one point, so the heat is making my eyes water. Once I stopped forgetting how to breathe, though-- I realized the heat is more lingering on the tongue and lips than really being WAY too hot... I think I may have conflated temperature heat with Scoville heat. Tastes damn good tho!

The concept of perpetual stew is medieval-- literally. What it boils down to (pun fully intended) is keeping a pot of soup or stew cooking *perpetually* while adding to it at a relatively constant rate. Its a good place to toss your odds and ends. That said, in the modern era, we have a better knowledge of food safety laws and concepts-- making this 'scary soup' less scary. This is my first ever attempt at perpetual stew. I have outlined my first set of ingredients below. I don't really have a goal for this experiment, aside from seeing just how long I can **safely** make this happen. Just because we have all the conveniences of the modern world doesn't mean we shouldn't know how to do things 'The Old Way.' I liken it to when a math teacher would say, "Yes, there's an easier way... and I'll teach you-- but you still need to know how to do it *this* way." If you guys choose to hang around and watch my stew progress-- Cool! Thanks! Maybe you'll even be inspired to try it out yourself. If not, that's fine too. I just want a place to keep all of this together. **Ingredients** - 8 c. Water - Kosher Salt - Minced Garlic - Red Cap Adobo - Fresh Cracked Four Peppercorn Blend - Mushrooms - Jalapenos - Green Pepper - Red Pepper - Yellow Pepper - 1 Red Onion - 2 Yellow Onion - 3 Carrots

Tomatoes cheeseblintzes • 1 year ago • 100%

This sweet millions plant has been a chonker since I got it. Was the first one with any maters on it. Today, when I was fixing the ties to the trellis, I knocked a small green tomato off. Of course, I had to taste it. Even green it was delicious... though it had an interesting apple flavor and bite to it.

Tomatoes cheeseblintzes • 1 year ago • 100%

I had a greenhouse mishap this spring, causing me to have to buy a lot of plants from the store. I can't wait to see what all she gives me! But next year, its back to from seed only.

Tomatoes cheeseblintzes • 1 year ago • 100%

Hello tomato friends!

I try to be a good an honest person, even on the internet where no one will know I'm a dog. I try to take people at face value when possible-- we all need to form our own opinions. But I'll be good fucking goddamned if every reddit post someone tries to be nice on is either met with blatantly superficial kindness in return, or an ass ton of downvotes.... for some fucking reason only known to the hivemind. I much prefer to be here-- here and Mastodon. In both places I've gotten to have conversations with real fucking people about real fucking things that I really fucking care about. I love being able to educate people on things-- and have it be taken in stride as opposed to being viewed as speaking down or assuming someone is 'stupid.' I love the actual back and forth that comes of it. The Fediverse really does give us the experience we had in the early days of the internet-- where if your opinion was dogshit, real life people would tell you and give you the reason why, without being a condescending jackass right back. Anyway, love you Lemmy. Stay vibin.