Wandering Adventure Party

Enough for 3 breakfasts in the photo.

I just ate the 4th.

Add a fried or boiled egg and coffee to complete.

Sorta followed this recipe: https://youtu.be/JYnyCuJV9UQ

Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than something simple as this.

Samples of the hidden messages:

• “I, for one, love our robot masters”
• “I trust the Computer!”
• “The Computer is my Friend!”

/s of course.

It’s about 1/3 down the original paper, but there is a photo of the frozen specimen:

It’s a couple of centimetres long: It’s a prawn.

You can add things other than salt and pepper to hash browns?

It seems obvious, but…

They are a little scary, but it’s just a stovetop pressure cooker.

They’ve been around for decades before the Instant Pot came along.

I use dry beans all the time, and never refrigerated dry beans.

They’ve gone hard on me after they’ve been kept in storage for a long time, but it just takes longer to boil them tender.

Beans and other legumes are up to $1.29/lb here.

Chickpeas, split peas, any kind of legumes are great!

I have a Darto No. 25 that feels like it could survive a nuclear bomb.

It’s really heavy, but of course it maintains temperature really well, so it’s great for searing, and being a breakfast griddle.

Some brands have very thin steel: My first carbon steel was a “BK” that has a very thin layer, and therefore heats unevenly on my electric coil burners. I wouldn’t recommend those.

I do like the semi-nonstick seasoning when it’s built up over time, and that is a big advantage over stainless steel.

But of course, stainless steel has its advantages too: Much less fussiness and maintenance to keep them from rusting, worrying about acidic foods, washing and drying immediately after use to prevent rusting, etc.

I almost never make sauce from scratch.

You know that brown stuff that’s stuck to the pan after you sear meat or stir fry meat?

That’s called fond.

Add a little water, heat and stir to dissolve the fond, and add a little pre-dissolved cornstarch,i.e. a slurry, to thicken the boiling broth to make gravy.

It usually tastes just fine as is, but you can add spices, wine, sugar, salt or whatever.

Bean freshness matters.

If your regular supermarket’s beans don’t get tender in a reasonable amount of time, they may have been sitting around for a long time and are really, really dried out.

Try another source.

Also, yay for lentils and split peas!

I think the Backyard Chef said that his particular version of floodies are from the Northeast.

They probably go by other names elsewhere in England.

After reading a couple of latke recipes, why yes!

I do have to say that adding onion to the mix would have been an improvement.

There must be similar potato cake recipes across Europe, I’m sure.

Although conserving the rendered bacon fat to fry the rest of the cake is both tasty and thrifty.

A wonderful collection of strange studies, as usual.

The zebra stripes on cows thing could be very useful!

Teflon pans have less of my food stuck to them, and therefore increase my caloric intake. I blame Teflon for my being overweight.

Getting academic research funds to learn how to make better pasta sauce sounds like a dream!

An anti-smell shoe rack does have commercial potential!

Drunk bats don’t navigate or fly as well as sober bats. Duh.

Telling people they’re more intelligent than average makes them think they’re more intelligent than average. Remember that when speaking to your kids and family.

Rats preferred cheese-only pizzas. That actually surprised me that they wouldn’t go for more protein with the meat pizzas.

Babies preferred garlic-flavored breast milk. Well, the dairy industry should take note of that…

Fingernail growth charted against age. That actually is interesting, although a sample of one. Need more data points.

Maybe Dutch just sounds like drunk German.

Enh, I didn’t want to be fertile anyway.

It’s what Republicans want: Repress those uppity females who tend to vote against our policies.

The trick is collecting clean polystyrene foam.

You can’t throw it into a mixed recycling bin because it crumbles and contaminates the other materials.

We have a polystyrene recycling system here in San Francisco, CA, the only one in the US I’m told, but we have to separate the polystyrene foam and bring it to the dump.

It’s free for SF residents.

Navy Bean Soup. Here’s the (US) Senate Bean Soup recipe https://www.senate.gov/about/traditions-symbols/senate-bean-soup.htm

Italian Wedding Bean Soup. Various recipes, but generally beans, pasta, veggies, meat

Legumes aren’t just limited to beans…

Split Pea Soup. Split peas, onions, carrots, celery, ham hocks.

A can of baked beans is a tasty treat with eggs for breakfast.

Girl band version of this song incoming.

Shredded potatoes, mixed with batter and crispy bacon, pan fried in bacon fat.

A breakfast food from the northern part of England.

And, as others have said, a variation of similar potato cake recipes from across Europe.