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Food Log

Breakfast was two slices of toasted Italian bread with honey, a glass of orange juice, and a cup of coffee.

I had another cup of coffee at the office.

About mid way through the morning I had an Act II Mini Bag microwave popcorn.

Over lunch I walked around campus — probably about 4 miles. On the way back I stopped at the HUB and had Panda Express Sushi — four California rolls and three Inari.

Dinner was beef stew on toasted potato white bread, sweet corn, and a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, with a slice of apple pie for dessert.

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Salsa

Photograph of Gretchen in the summer kitchen setup in the garage.

Gretchen and I made salsa yesterday. It was raining, but we did not want to steam up the kitchen and stress out the stove, so we set up a summer kitchen out in the garage. I put some boards across some saw horses and we covered them with newspapers, then we brought all of the ingredients out.

Photograph of salsa pot and canning stove.

We used a propane canning stove to cook the ingredients.

Photograph of salsa pot partially filled with ingredients.

As we chopped up the ingredients, we would put them in the pot.

Photograph of full salsa pot.

Here is what the full salsa pot looks like.

Photograph of 9 pints of salsa.

We got 9 pints out of that batch.

Photograph of a pint of salsa (beauty shot).

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Fractions

ASCII Fraction Glyph Numeric Character Entity
1/8 ⅛ ⅛
1/6 ⅙ ⅙
1/5 ⅕ ⅕
1/4 ¼ ¼
1/3 ⅓ ⅓
3/8 ⅜ ⅜
2/5 ⅖ ⅖
1/2 ½ ½
3/5 ⅗ ⅗
5/8 ⅝ ⅝
2/3 ⅔ ⅔
3/4 ¾ ¾
4/5 ⅘ ⅘
5/6 ⅚ ⅚
7/8 ⅞ ⅞
1/ ⅟ ⅟
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Food Log

Breakfast was the last slice of apple pie, a glass of orange juice, and two cups of coffee.

We got a mess of tomatoes from the CSA this week, so I made a double batch of Tomato Sauce and froze it (6 pints).

For lunch, Gretchen and I sat on the porch and ate peanuts and drank a glass of Bolla Sangiovese Di Romagna.

Dinner was grilled yellow fin tuna, green beans, squash pancakes, sweet corn, and a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

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Food Log

Breakfast was a slice of apple pie and two cups of coffee.

Gretchen and I sat in the garage and snapped beans while we ate cashews and peanuts and drank two bottles of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and watched the rain some down.

We went to Gretchen’s and her Dad’s birthday dinner tonight. I had a grilled pork chop, sweet corn, a roll, a salad, a glass of Sutter Home White Zinfandel, cake and ice cream, and a cup of coffee.

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AB’s Chili Powder

  • 3 [Dried] Ancho Chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced
  • 3 [Dried] Cascabel Chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced
  • 3 Dried Arbol Chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced
  • 2 tablespoons Whole Cumin Seeds
  • 2 tablespoons Garlic Powder
  • 1 tablespoon Dried Oregano
  • 1 teaspoon Smoked Paprika

Place all of the chiles and the cumin into a medium nonstick saute pan or cast iron skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, moving the pan around constantly, until you begin to smell the cumin toasting, approximately 4 to 5 minutes. Set aside and cool completely.

Once cool, place the chiles and cumin into the carafe of a blender along with the garlic powder, oregano, and paprika. Process until a fine powder is formed. Allow the powder to settle for at least a minute before removing the lid of the carafe. Store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.

Food Network: AB’s Chili Powder

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Workout Log

I went for a lower body workout at the MBNA Fitness Center tonight:

  1. Treadmill: 5 minutes @ 4 MPH
  2. Seated Leg Press: 12@210, 12@210
  3. Prone Leg Curl: 12@4+2, 12@4+2
  4. Seated Calf Extension: 12@8+1, 12@8+1
  5. Seated Crunch: 12@4+2, 12@4+2
  6. Back Extension: 12@130, 12@130
  7. Treadmill: 5 minutes @ 4 MPH

I increased the Leg Press by 5 pounds. Everything felt good. I was able to do 12 on everything. It seemed like it was too soon to have adapted to the new weight, but I’ll consider upping everything next time.

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Photo Blogging

I have been sorely lacking in photographs in my postings lately. It isn’t that I have not taken any, I just haven’t been posting them. Here are a bunch of them.

Photograph of some apples that are about to be picked.

We picked apples at the last CSA community work weekend. These are some of the little beauties just before I picked them.

Photograph of this years colt: Awesome

I haven’t posted any pictures of Awesome lately, so here is one from the other day.

Photograph of a cherry pie.

This is a cherry pie that Gretchen made back on the first of August. It was so pretty I just had to take a picture of it.

Photograph of the silk on our garden corn.

The variety of corn we are growing this year has this freakish purple silk on it. I hope the corn is good!

Photograph of corn plants.

The corn grew to ridiculous heights this year.

Photograph of foccacia.

Also on the first of August, Gretchen made this really scrumptious foccacia. It must have been a baking kind of day.

Photograph of foccacia (close up).

Here is a close up of that foccacia. Can’t you just taste it?

Photograph of garlic hanging to dry.

Earlier this summer, at one of the other CSA community work weekends, we picked garlic. Here are the fruits of our labor hanging in the barn to dry.

Photograph of garlic bulbs.

They have already started to clean the bulbs and separate them into large ones…

Photograph of garlic bulbs.

…and small ones.

Photograph of people at the Lewisburg Market.

A little bit ago we went down to the Lewisburg Farmer’s Market to get some peaches.

Photograph of produce at the Lewisburg Market.

This is the stand where Gretchen gets her peaches every year.

Photograph of musicians at the Milheim Market.

The prior weekend we had been to the Milheim Farmer’s Market, where they have live music…

Photograph of tank at the Milheim Market.

…and a tank.