

LOL - Hey, if you’re willing to help haul food, sure! 😉 Seriously, loading and unloading the car I think will be the trick…



LOL - Hey, if you’re willing to help haul food, sure! 😉 Seriously, loading and unloading the car I think will be the trick…


I hope so, I’ve had 2 heart attacks and technically died a couple of times. I don’t want the recipe ending with me.


Thermometer! Always a thermometer! Not even meats, it’s great for breads, and also temping oil for deep frying.
This year, my family decided on a big get together. I have no idea who all is coming.
My plan is to start Wednesday with cranberry sauce so it has time to sit in the fridge overnight.
Thursday morning I have it all planned out…
2 loaves of banana bread (350°)
Scalloped potatoes (350°)
3 loaves of bread, white, medium wheat, dark wheat (425° oven, internal to 180°)
Sweet potatoes with toasted pecan topping. (stovetop +450° in the oven for toasting).
If I start by 10:00 it should all be done by 4:00 which gives me time to clean up, pack up, and get to the house.


I mean, if you want a soup recipe, this one has been feeding my family for 100+ years. Great grandma Hulda brought it from the old country, taught grandma Joan and auntie Sandra. Grandma Joan taught me. I’m the last one making it, though boy, everyone loves eating it!
Caution: As with all old recipes, makes a metric fuckton of soup. Don’t do this if it’s only 1-2 people.
Ingredients
2 Cups of flour (250g)
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Teaspoon baking powder
2 Eggs whipped to a froth added to 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup of warm water (118 to 177ml)
4 Potatoes
1 Onion
1 1/2 Pounds (24 oz., 680g) of beef sausage (also called German Summer Sausage)
2 to 3 Tablespoons of butter, lightly mixed with a little flour
1/2 Quart (2 cups, 473ml) of milk
1 Sterile pair of scissors
Chop the potatoes and onion into bite size pieces. Put them in a pot and pour in enough water to not only cover them all completely but to cover them to a depth of 4 inches (10cm). Bring to a boil and cook for an additional 15 minutes.
While the potatoes and onion are cooking add the water and eggs to the flour, salt and baking powder and mix in a bowl. Knead the dough repeatedly until it is completely smooth with no lumps, rough spots or wet spots.
When the dough is ready, break off strips and roll them between your hands until they are about 1/4 of an inch (6mm) thick (slightly smaller than a bread-stick).
Cut the summer sausage into bite size pieces. You may flour the knife as needed to keep the meat from sticking to it. Easier if you remove the skin first.
By now the potato and onion mix should be well cooked and it is time to add the dumplings and sausage to the mix.
The preferred method of adding the dumpings is to use the sterilized pair of scissors, hold the strip of dough above the pot and snip the dumpings straight into the pot (watch out for backsplash!)
If you don’t have a sterile pair of scissors you can cut them manually with a knife and add them to the pot with the meat.
IMPORTANT! Dumplings will swell to 3 times their cut size as they cook!
Make
them
SMALL!
Stir well and cook for another 30 to 45 minutes or until the dumplings are well boiled. Be careful at this stage because it is likely the pot will boil over if the temperature is too high.
If you place a wooden spoon across the top of the pot, that can help limit boil over.
(In grandma Joans 70 year old cookpot)
At this point the soup may seem too thin. Add the butter and flour mixture as well as the milk as thickening agents and cook 10 to 15 minutes more if needed to thicken the broth.
Refrigerate any leftovers and re-heat like any other soup.
Grand-dad alway put vineagar in his, but you do you! 😉


I still say Enclave was a great game. The reviewers at the time absolutely misunderstood it.
Most of the complaints from 2003 are things people love about the Souls games now…
HD version:


So what’s a PC with the same level of performance?
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
CPU
Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T
up to 4.8 GHz, 30W TDP
GPU
Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs
2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP
16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
512GB NVMe SSD OR
2TB NVMe SSD
$1,000?
https://www.microcenter.com/product/698874/powerspec-g527-gaming-pc


You have been eaten by a Grue.


Surely nothing bad will come from this.
“Honey? Did you remember to feed the computer today?”


Netflix has cancelled shows without even airing them, which is just bizarre to me…
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/grendel-netflix-series-details-cancellation-crushing-matt-wagner/


They aren’t talking about the trilogy as a whole, they specifically state “any of the movies”.
So an entire season of television to any one of 5 different movies.
Just for fun, let’s math:
Episode 7 $533M / 136M = $3,933,823.53 per minute.
8 $410M / 152M = $2,887,323.94 per minute.
9 $593.7M / 142M = $4,180,985.92 per minute.
Rogue One $280.2M / 133M = $2,106,766.92 per minute.
Solo $364.5M / 135M = $2,700,000 per minute. Even(!) Wow, that’s kind of cool.
Andor - $705.5M for all 24 episodes. 582 minutes for season 1, 502 minutes for season 2. 1,084 minutes total for a cost of $650,830.26 per minute.
This seems up your alley:


For someone not religious, he’s sure fixated on it:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-get-me-into-heaven-comments_l_691f31fae4b047290e290818


He fears death and wants to get into heaven.


You have been eaten by a grue.


A) to see if it could be done.
B) I wanted to see if/how Destiny 2 runs on Steam Deck and it requires Windows. Running it in a compatability later gets you banned.


I can dual boot my Steam Deck with an external Windows 11 SSD. I expect I can do the same with the Steam Machine.


“the Fire TV Stick 4K Select, which runs on Linux instead of the easily-modified Android software used on previous TV streaming hardware”
Ok… who wants to break it to them?


Sorry, Yiddish, I think I pointed this out in one of your other threads, and I don’t mean to spam, but it bears repeating…
Ring is partnering with Flock:
I inherited a Ring camera with my house and added more, I’m now in the process of de-Ringifying everything.
FTFY:
Lawmakers
Want to Ban VPNs—And TheyHave No Idea What They’re Doing