not much here other than I've run out of time to write when I'm inspired or lacking motivation/catalyst to write when I have the time.
I appologize.
who would have thought this would still be active 10 years after I started it.
The title really isn't significant of any one particular instance i guess, but covers lots of things.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
pickled eggs? sure why not
******update dated below*********
original written on 2014/04/22
I've got 16 hard boiled eggs, am leaving for a week, those who are staying don't eat them...
might as well give it a try. saw the recipe show up here:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipe/pickled-eggs over on G+
and thought it sounded good. HK over at S&B tweeted about it, and well i had a minute this afternoon to peel a quart jar full of eggs and pour a bring over them and stick em in the back of the fridge.
Brine i used:
1/2 cup seasoned rice vinegar (all i had)
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar (unfiltered 365 organic stuff)
1/4 cup balsalmic vinegar ('cause recipie called for all vinegar and i needed total two cups of liquid)
brought that up to 2 cups with water
popped in stainless pan. added 1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons of sea salt
1 tsp spoon: black peppercorns, mustard seed, fennel seed, dill seed
brought to boil to dissolve sugar and salt.
turned off (still peeling eggs)
filled bell jar up with eggs, poured liquid over them.
popped em in the back of the fridge. will check em when i return from Colorado next week.
and yes... hoping to get back to normal writing, hoping to get back to normal RIDING, may have a story or two to write about over this next week and maybe time to do it in. for now. I'm around, cooking, thinking, living... Life.
it is what it is... food... you are what you eat. eat good food...
fod yn rhyfeddol
g
TASTING UPDATE 2014-04-30
Tried one yesterday morning. And then one this morning.
The texture is odd at first. The white is very firm. They aren't juicy or dripping like a pickle and I think i need to tweak the recipe next time. the eggs got a bit smaller, the parts that i didn't get the membrane off stayed white but the others turned a nice mahogany brown from the balsalmic v. I would like to try these without adding any sugar next time or just with the sweetness from the seasoned vinegar, maybe just with white vinegar or cider or rice. Lots of options to change it all up. They aren't unpleasant, but they are weird, and not what I'd call delicious. I could see these going really well on a salad though. They would pair brilliantly in small bites with a good balsalmic mustard vinegrette, thinking about the flavor I think that is the perfect thing try next.
Will I do another batch? Probably at some point... not before these are gone though.
original written on 2014/04/22
I've got 16 hard boiled eggs, am leaving for a week, those who are staying don't eat them...
might as well give it a try. saw the recipe show up here:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipe/pickled-eggs over on G+
and thought it sounded good. HK over at S&B tweeted about it, and well i had a minute this afternoon to peel a quart jar full of eggs and pour a bring over them and stick em in the back of the fridge.
Brine i used:
1/2 cup seasoned rice vinegar (all i had)
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar (unfiltered 365 organic stuff)
1/4 cup balsalmic vinegar ('cause recipie called for all vinegar and i needed total two cups of liquid)
brought that up to 2 cups with water
popped in stainless pan. added 1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons of sea salt
1 tsp spoon: black peppercorns, mustard seed, fennel seed, dill seed
brought to boil to dissolve sugar and salt.
turned off (still peeling eggs)
filled bell jar up with eggs, poured liquid over them.
popped em in the back of the fridge. will check em when i return from Colorado next week.
and yes... hoping to get back to normal writing, hoping to get back to normal RIDING, may have a story or two to write about over this next week and maybe time to do it in. for now. I'm around, cooking, thinking, living... Life.
it is what it is... food... you are what you eat. eat good food...
fod yn rhyfeddol
g
TASTING UPDATE 2014-04-30
Tried one yesterday morning. And then one this morning.
The texture is odd at first. The white is very firm. They aren't juicy or dripping like a pickle and I think i need to tweak the recipe next time. the eggs got a bit smaller, the parts that i didn't get the membrane off stayed white but the others turned a nice mahogany brown from the balsalmic v. I would like to try these without adding any sugar next time or just with the sweetness from the seasoned vinegar, maybe just with white vinegar or cider or rice. Lots of options to change it all up. They aren't unpleasant, but they are weird, and not what I'd call delicious. I could see these going really well on a salad though. They would pair brilliantly in small bites with a good balsalmic mustard vinegrette, thinking about the flavor I think that is the perfect thing try next.
Will I do another batch? Probably at some point... not before these are gone though.
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
the club ride april 8th edition
Today XP is dead. Long live XP and down with microsoft..
awe who'mi kidding, that's a joke. A bad one. Written not on a microsoft anything. I think it maye be time to figure out how to instal some linux stuff, on a few boxes that have been decom'd recently (old XP clunkers) just for "fun/challenge."
until a week or two ago my work machine was XP. Been on that OS and maintaining it for a while at least maintaining systems that employ a XP OS based computer as the primary UI for the microscope and a platform for the software. Looks like we're actually going to be all Win 7 there too, a few key upgrades even, kind of exciting in a way. But as always over the years, there are two things that give me more headaches than anything else. Vacations and Upgrades (hardware or software). With so many systems though hey, we should be set for a while.
didn't really start out to write about some OS thing that everyone has talked about and known about for a while.
the OS didn't really factor into any of the riding today. Riding in in the deluge. Chatting with Chapman and Madden this afternoon. and then the tuesday night club ride. the 'baby-smackdown' baby because it is the shorter of the two routes. The longer one is the one Mark Nicholson himself laid out and so while his traddition of smacking it down in PVD carries on, daylight issues got us doing this shorter route that Derdowski was instramental in plotting and planning.
Tonight, like last week, 9 guys showed up. A couple more faster guys than last week. A kid in a capo kit came out to duke it with Tim and Morse and Syl and Dr Flats Anton Fox and for a while Tom N. Tom bade us farewell as we motored into the wind on Prospect, and that dropped us to 8... two pretty distinct factions Pine separated us into two, Me (still feeling pretty weak and not all there but way better than last week) Fox who hasn't been on his bike since November if then (okay i think he rode on Sunday maybe for a little bit) and Greve. Couple big guys and Fox. The 5 gapped us going over the top of pine, but like last week with derdowski me and greve we settled in to a quick and buttery smooth rotating paceline and caught back on before they had gotten too far down Homestead. Super smooth today though. Guys all pulling no one looking around. Good steady strong ride. At least from my seat back in the caboose.
As the ride leader I set the tempo out to the first turn off 152. Today there were plenty of cars on the shoulder so there was no sprint for the State line. Everyone was on the same page about not sprinting for the town lines either. It was clean and mostly club members all looking to beat each other up on the bike.
After I set that initial pace that was it. Survival mode. Legs were suspect. I'd eaten better today (more calories at least) but first day on after 4 days off and battling some issue with a glute or nerve or something, so from then till the rotating paceline I was in the back, chillin. No brakes rolling along smoooth. It is cool to watch Anton improve. Last year he was flailing and couldn't hang on, now he's still not the strongest but he's much smoother and is riding well. His saddle is almost level now even.
We caught back on, and immediately me and Fox went into tail gunner mode. Hang the fuck on but let everyone else rotate through in front. They were taking long pulls and when we got close to the top of Rocky hill the Doc took OFF and crushed it. I just tried to survive. And was back in the group almost right away after the end of Rocky Hill. A success so far. Next up Hillside. Sucking wheels, sucking wheels sucking wheels sucking wheels. I mean sitting in the draft. With guys like Doc and Steve and Anton and Tim there were good drafts to be found. Both in the steady comfortable sit on their wheel draft but also a big fucking hole in the wind kind of draft. I learned in michigan how to find the draft behind a 4'11" Carla and have like most of y'all found a way to benefit from any sort of draft even if it is just sheltering your lower half.
Hillside. Oof. Hung with the whole group through to first rise only to just lose contact as it crested a touch, dug deep and chased but not hard enough and could only just keep them in sight. Killed myself over the top and had Anton Fox and Greve spread out behind me but just up the road were two groups. Over the top of pine i could see them coming together faster than I was going to be able to catch them and we have the high speed motor section coming up. Not gonna catch them. But I also rather than totally soft pedaled just waited for the rest. Re-grouped and Drilled it. Picked up Syl on the way. Chased Anton who had passed me with the goal to try and catch the others. Was good.
Legs felt pretty trashed. Still no where near where i want to be or hoped to be but no need to be. The new knee alignment is affecting things a bit but it will come around and feels better, hopefully should be able to capitalize on that by CX season. Headed back to the office. Loaded up the wet clothes and the wet shoes into the trailer and headed home into the wind.
Into a cold wind.
Like small chainring going slow wind. Didn't feel at all hungry or bonky until i was a few hundred yards from home.
Got home, hung out with the girls, tucked them in, and sat down to get this ride out of my head and into words.
How was the ride? It was awesome. It was good. I needed that. Weekly ride survives. A brief moment of crushing it. I may be getting old and I never will be anything but slow, but it is good to ride with the club.
Now if we could just get Doc to ditch those hideous old lady POC glasses...
fod yn rhyfeddol
g
awe who'mi kidding, that's a joke. A bad one. Written not on a microsoft anything. I think it maye be time to figure out how to instal some linux stuff, on a few boxes that have been decom'd recently (old XP clunkers) just for "fun/challenge."
until a week or two ago my work machine was XP. Been on that OS and maintaining it for a while at least maintaining systems that employ a XP OS based computer as the primary UI for the microscope and a platform for the software. Looks like we're actually going to be all Win 7 there too, a few key upgrades even, kind of exciting in a way. But as always over the years, there are two things that give me more headaches than anything else. Vacations and Upgrades (hardware or software). With so many systems though hey, we should be set for a while.
didn't really start out to write about some OS thing that everyone has talked about and known about for a while.
the OS didn't really factor into any of the riding today. Riding in in the deluge. Chatting with Chapman and Madden this afternoon. and then the tuesday night club ride. the 'baby-smackdown' baby because it is the shorter of the two routes. The longer one is the one Mark Nicholson himself laid out and so while his traddition of smacking it down in PVD carries on, daylight issues got us doing this shorter route that Derdowski was instramental in plotting and planning.
Tonight, like last week, 9 guys showed up. A couple more faster guys than last week. A kid in a capo kit came out to duke it with Tim and Morse and Syl and Dr Flats Anton Fox and for a while Tom N. Tom bade us farewell as we motored into the wind on Prospect, and that dropped us to 8... two pretty distinct factions Pine separated us into two, Me (still feeling pretty weak and not all there but way better than last week) Fox who hasn't been on his bike since November if then (okay i think he rode on Sunday maybe for a little bit) and Greve. Couple big guys and Fox. The 5 gapped us going over the top of pine, but like last week with derdowski me and greve we settled in to a quick and buttery smooth rotating paceline and caught back on before they had gotten too far down Homestead. Super smooth today though. Guys all pulling no one looking around. Good steady strong ride. At least from my seat back in the caboose.
As the ride leader I set the tempo out to the first turn off 152. Today there were plenty of cars on the shoulder so there was no sprint for the State line. Everyone was on the same page about not sprinting for the town lines either. It was clean and mostly club members all looking to beat each other up on the bike.
After I set that initial pace that was it. Survival mode. Legs were suspect. I'd eaten better today (more calories at least) but first day on after 4 days off and battling some issue with a glute or nerve or something, so from then till the rotating paceline I was in the back, chillin. No brakes rolling along smoooth. It is cool to watch Anton improve. Last year he was flailing and couldn't hang on, now he's still not the strongest but he's much smoother and is riding well. His saddle is almost level now even.
We caught back on, and immediately me and Fox went into tail gunner mode. Hang the fuck on but let everyone else rotate through in front. They were taking long pulls and when we got close to the top of Rocky hill the Doc took OFF and crushed it. I just tried to survive. And was back in the group almost right away after the end of Rocky Hill. A success so far. Next up Hillside. Sucking wheels, sucking wheels sucking wheels sucking wheels. I mean sitting in the draft. With guys like Doc and Steve and Anton and Tim there were good drafts to be found. Both in the steady comfortable sit on their wheel draft but also a big fucking hole in the wind kind of draft. I learned in michigan how to find the draft behind a 4'11" Carla and have like most of y'all found a way to benefit from any sort of draft even if it is just sheltering your lower half.
Hillside. Oof. Hung with the whole group through to first rise only to just lose contact as it crested a touch, dug deep and chased but not hard enough and could only just keep them in sight. Killed myself over the top and had Anton Fox and Greve spread out behind me but just up the road were two groups. Over the top of pine i could see them coming together faster than I was going to be able to catch them and we have the high speed motor section coming up. Not gonna catch them. But I also rather than totally soft pedaled just waited for the rest. Re-grouped and Drilled it. Picked up Syl on the way. Chased Anton who had passed me with the goal to try and catch the others. Was good.
Legs felt pretty trashed. Still no where near where i want to be or hoped to be but no need to be. The new knee alignment is affecting things a bit but it will come around and feels better, hopefully should be able to capitalize on that by CX season. Headed back to the office. Loaded up the wet clothes and the wet shoes into the trailer and headed home into the wind.
Into a cold wind.
Like small chainring going slow wind. Didn't feel at all hungry or bonky until i was a few hundred yards from home.
Got home, hung out with the girls, tucked them in, and sat down to get this ride out of my head and into words.
How was the ride? It was awesome. It was good. I needed that. Weekly ride survives. A brief moment of crushing it. I may be getting old and I never will be anything but slow, but it is good to ride with the club.
Now if we could just get Doc to ditch those hideous old lady POC glasses...
fod yn rhyfeddol
g
the release of riding
happens a lot on the bike, but mostly noticable if i haven't been on the bike in a couple days.
This morning was the first time back in the saddle since Thursday.
Was raining. HARD at times, and had been for a bit. Flood advisory and all. Good and wet.
Still headed in, tempting to keep the routine of getting in the car though. It was calling me. I could feel the easiness of just getting dressed, starting the car and driving in, dealing with parking headaches, moving the car, driving and walking in the rain. All that, seemed easy.
But i didn't. plopped everything in the trailer in a garbage bag (stays drier in there that way than on my back). And headed in...
Almost the first moment this popped in my head. No not haiku. Just a wee little poem in a way i guess.
was a good ride this morning.
couple it with the free association from Resultsboy's pondering about just how artificial grass is into thinking about Bill Niering's house and how much of an impact/influence he had into the thoughts about fire managed areas, plains and grasslands and ecology and environment and the different ecosystems and where you do find grass... into the thought that golf courses are the least natural natural areas, and somehow the phrase about cycling being the new golf (all the rich old guys taking up the sport aka a million Cat 5 fields at Batttenkill all a pile of middle aged men)...
Lead me to float this question:
Cinci and L'ville are former golf courses, now perma CX venues.
Hey forget all of them, just give us 25% of them. The hilliest ones. Would be great. I think. Someday maybe... Set up sled runs for the winter. Short course MTB or BMX in summer, CX in Fall Winter until season is over. money. takes money. lots of it. everything does.
but we can dream no?
we can dream...
fod yn rhyfeddol
g
This morning was the first time back in the saddle since Thursday.
Was raining. HARD at times, and had been for a bit. Flood advisory and all. Good and wet.
Still headed in, tempting to keep the routine of getting in the car though. It was calling me. I could feel the easiness of just getting dressed, starting the car and driving in, dealing with parking headaches, moving the car, driving and walking in the rain. All that, seemed easy.
But i didn't. plopped everything in the trailer in a garbage bag (stays drier in there that way than on my back). And headed in...
Almost the first moment this popped in my head. No not haiku. Just a wee little poem in a way i guess.
Rain drops. Cold on face. Water splashing off down tube. Into shoes. Slosh and squish with each pedal stroke. Quads warm with effort. Fabulous
was a good ride this morning.
couple it with the free association from Resultsboy's pondering about just how artificial grass is into thinking about Bill Niering's house and how much of an impact/influence he had into the thoughts about fire managed areas, plains and grasslands and ecology and environment and the different ecosystems and where you do find grass... into the thought that golf courses are the least natural natural areas, and somehow the phrase about cycling being the new golf (all the rich old guys taking up the sport aka a million Cat 5 fields at Batttenkill all a pile of middle aged men)...
Lead me to float this question:
If cycling is the new golf when do we get to turn all the golf courses into permanent CX venues?
Cinci and L'ville are former golf courses, now perma CX venues.
Hey forget all of them, just give us 25% of them. The hilliest ones. Would be great. I think. Someday maybe... Set up sled runs for the winter. Short course MTB or BMX in summer, CX in Fall Winter until season is over. money. takes money. lots of it. everything does.
but we can dream no?
we can dream...
fod yn rhyfeddol
g
Sunday, April 06, 2014
chana saag ala G
So i made this once before... this is going to be different but hey the nice thing with making indian food is just you just keep adding the right spices until it smells right.
Saag is simple. Super simple.
aromatics in the pan, add spinnach, stirr, season, cover
eat
Saag is simple. Super simple.
aromatics in the pan, add spinnach, stirr, season, cover
eat
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