Bored yet?

[ray1970]

Going to start getting really busy at work next week. They?ll cut you some slack on things like paying taxes but when it comes to Colorado and the environment its business as usual and you better not miss any reporting deadlines.

[eddiememphis]

I was on the west side and decided to go up into the hills. Went by the Bucksnort (closed). Going south past Buffalo Creek, I saw a lot cars in the pullouts and RVs camping. The parking area for the Gill Trail was packed as were all the parking to access the river north of Deckers. Seemed more like a Sunday than a Tuesday. Despite all the highway signs imploring one to avoid travel, there is still a lot.

[blacklabel]

Found out today that I'll be working from home indefinitely. I finally decided to buy a shot timer to help pass the free time.

[JohnnyEgo]

Fortunately, I have historically been far shorter on time than on things to fill it, which means I haven't had a lot of opportunity to be bored. Among other things, I learned how to roll and apply fondant:




This may have been the most expensive cake I've ever made. I already referred to the underlying chocolate cake as my '$30 Cake', because of the amount of reasonably good quality chocolate that got poured into the recipe. Having never worked with fondant before, I didn't think to buy one big box of the white kind and then dye the other two colors. Instead, I bought three $20 boxes, one in each color, from Michaels. I probably could have ordered everything I needed from Amazon for $20 had I thought ahead. Anyways, my son was happy, which is all that really mattered.


Since the Dunkin Donuts closed down and Mr. Yo's is closed for Covid, donut options are somewhat limited in town these days. Figured I'd try my hand at frying my own. The dough was a sticky mess, and it puffed up considerably in the fryer, so much so that the first couple came out looking more like chocolate rocks. Similarly, the donut holes we rolled ended up being a lot bigger than we expected after frying. But we definitely got better as we went along. Cut the recommended frying time in half. They came out a little closer to cake-brownie than pure cake, and I thought they could have been a little sweeter. But the outer skin wasn't too crisp and they cooked all the way through, and my family ate them all.





Last night, since I am out of the Bisquick I use normally just for this specific thing, I made a more traditional double-crust chicken pot pie. Very happy with the whole thing. Put the chicken breasts in the pressure cooker to do their thing unattended for about 30 minutes all in. In that time, I made the pie crusts, did the veg prep, and prepared a bechamel base, which I hydrated using the steamed chicken water from the pressure cooker. Fork-shredded the chicken, added a little bit of stock, and put it in the oven for another 30 minutes. Tasted great. Even better for lunch this afternoon.

[Irving]

My daughter made churros yesterday. They were pretty good. She ate so many she threw up before bed.

[battlemidget]

Coffee is the highlight of my day.

[JohnnyEgo]

My daughter made churros yesterday. They were pretty good. She ate so many she threw up before bed.

My boy had some sort of stomach bug that made him hurl for a solid day about a week ago. So Covid's not the only thing going around. Amazed that neither my wife or I got the stomach bug, because usually our little bio-terrorist passes everything he gets on to us.

[spqrzilla]

Sounds like food poisoning

[Erni]

JohnnyEgo isn't it amazing what we do for our kids? Here is the cow themed cake I made.

[eddiememphis]

Only the boring get bored.

Today, I refinished the handrails for the stairs.

Tomorrow, I am going to clean the oven.

Wednesday... oh boy. I better get creative...

I performed some snake mitigation for a neighbor.

Sam Adams just showed up so we are going to hang out for a bit.