I'm correcting one of my too-many "brain-fart" errors here. My original response, now corrected, began: "Honeycrisps ARE bad." It should have read, "Honeycrisps AREN'T bad." Another instance of my mind dictating a word and my fingers typing something else.


Yeah, it's what happens when food is grown for high-yield/max-profit rather than flavor. I've been eating nothing but Cherub tomatoes for some time now. They are more flavorful than 'normal' tomatoes, and have the added benefit of me never eating them before. Therefore, I can't complain that they're not as flavorful as they were back in the day. I simply don't know how they tasted back in the day.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Aug 26 2021, 01:29 PM

BOLD: That is a good (and funny) point; I'll have to look for them and try that then, lol. (or some other kind I haven't tasted yet, lol).

Whew! I thought perhaps I might be eating Decrepit non-endorsed apples!

Tamartoes (Brit)

Tomay-toes (Murican)

Horrid over inflated acne spots, in any language…..Yeah…..not a fan!

Where did they originate? (Other than Satan’s cafeteria). I mean…I know you can grow them on purpose, but I have never seen a wild growing, non-cultivated tomato.

A.

Wild tomatoes? Here you go.

Good morning (4:46 AM here). I'm drinking coffee.

I'm on a night shift and a nurse called me, while one patient couldn't pee anymore and had pain in belly. I set up a urinary catheter and now he can pee again but as a result, I can't sleep anymore. I guess it's still better if one can't sleep compared to if one can't pee.

Have a nice day!

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 28 2021, 03:46 AM

It's taken awhile, but I might have at last hit on the correct microwave oven setting for cooking hard-boiled eggs. Took a good bit of trial-and-error. But for the past two cookings, of four eggs each, cooked for 8m15s, it's given me decidedly good eating. Not as consistently yummy as what my departed 400w microwave gave me at 15m30s, but not far enough removed to complain about. An oddity that threw me off for weeks: my very first batch, cooked for 9m30s, came out underdone. Looking back, I suspect I didn't let that batch set in the micro long after cooking enough before removing it for submerging in cold water.

It took a few weeks to figure out how to prepare oatmeal. Unlike with eggs, which the new micro's manual states aren't cookable, oatmeal has a special built-in setting. Only, that setting didn't cook oatmeal nearly long enough. The setting is modifiable, to add extra cooking time. I tried that. It was still nowhere near cooked enough. I ended up cooking it using the special setting with the added time modifier, then cooking 2 more minutes conventionally on 'high'. That gives me oatmeal as good as or better than my old micro at 7min.

Apples have been decidedly subpar for some weeks now. Even the bag of Honeycrisps bought in desperation last week provided only three satisfactory apples. However, unless today's apple is a fluke, I lucked out this week. Came across bags of Sweet Tango apples in a bin that holds no other apple. It came to me that Sweet Tango might be the apple I bought and liked a couple of years ago, only to quickly disappear from their bin, never to return (or so I thought). With nothing to lose, I bought a bag. Today's apple is easily the best I've eaten in ages, very juicy, a little tart, sufficiently sweet. Not a sweet as Fuji used to be, but I've pretty much given up on Fuji's.

Today, for the first time in forever, I found Smucker's Sugar-Free Blackberry Jam in stock!!!!!! I've been buying a different brand at Kroger. It serves purpose, but tastes more artificial than Smucker's.

Come to think on it, I believe this to be my first grocery run in some time in which Walmart had everything on my list. Well, discounting my favorite shampoo. My guess is that they've stopped carrying it. Though I double-check for it each visit, I stopped putting it on the list several weeks ago.

Going to enjoy my first family Thanksgiving with my sister this year. We're going to have wonderful eats that's for sure!

I've disabled my Basic Necessities mod. Had enough of needing to eat and sleep. So there.

Oh wait - it only works in videogames. Darn.

Hope everyone enjoys some nice Thanksgiving treats!

Yesterday I baked a pumpkin pie and got a Thanksgiving deli sub (turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mayo). Will enjoy today. And coffee.

Have a good Thanksgiving Day everyone.

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving. And On Topic: I'm mostly vegetarian, so I'll be eating everything but the turkey.

This reminds me that I never installed any sort of informed mandatory eat/sleep mod in Oblivion. Never saw the need. Yet, my decrepit Oblivion avatar eats three meals a day, every day, when he can, and tries to get a full night's sleep every night. Certainly more sleep than the RL me gets. I don't need a mod for him to do that. Plus, without a mod monitoring things, he's able to do without as the situation demands, then make up for it later.

My long-ago extended stint as a performing musician convince me that a person can keep an erratic schedule for extended periods of times without any great harm done. Get back from an evening performance early in the morning . . . catch a few hours shuteye sleeping on the band hall floor . . . get back on the bus, ride to a morning/afternoon school concert or civic parade or whatever . . . then maybe do an afternoon park concert . . . get back from that and finally have time to drive home for a decent night's sleep. Rinse and repeat. Meals during those times might be provided by event sponsors, or we'd schedule time for the bus to pull in to an area with several fast-food joints. Loads of fun. I don't miss that aspect of being a musician in the least, though I didn't fully realize it until that stage of my life was over and done with.

I'm enjoying my traditional day after Thanksgiving breakfast of pumpkin pie and coffee. As I do so, I lift my mug to Grits, as I know she traditionally enjoys the same.

On a similar note, I just had a “breakfast” of apple walnut cake and coffee!

Oh, that sounds good too!

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving; met a whole bunch of relatives that seemed to like me = and a TON of fabulous food! Ham, Cajun fried turkey, stuffing, cheddar mashed potatoes, corn bread, pinto & northern beans mixed, cheese ball, green beans, pumpkin pie, banana pudding, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, apple dumplings, sweet potato casserole, ribs, ham hocks, and I know I'm forgetting some stuff but can't remember what it was = only that it was MMMMMM DELISH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think mALX wins!

That’s quite a spread!

Tonight’s menu:
Creamy turkey soup! It had turkey, mushrooms, carrots, onions, cream, and a wild rice blend in it, with cornbread on the side!