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  1. I hope it's not that dry! I'm making hamburgers tonight. I may do mayo, lettuce and onion or ketchup, mustard and onion. This is a variation of the hamburger made on America's Test Kitchen and uses a "panade" of milk-soaked bread to hold the moisture in while frying/grilling. This makes 5 quarter-pound sized burgers or 4 very large burgers. Ingredients 1 lb ground beef (lean works fine for me) 1 slice of bread, diced into 1/4” square pieces (or equivalent breadcrumbs or crackers) 2 tablespoons of milk (use any %, but real milk) 1 egg 2 tsp dry Italian seasoning (or 1 tsp dry oregano, 1 tsp dry thyme) 2 tsp garlic powder (or 1 tbsp finely minced garlic) 2 tsp onion flakes (or 2 tsp onion powder) 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce (or 1 tbsp ketchup or steak sauce) 1 tsp ground black pepper 1 tsp salt Optional: one recipe uses 2/3 tsp of hoisin sauce Optional: 1 tsp Cajun seasoning Optional: pinch of cayenne pepper Procedure 1. Dice the bread into ¼” squares and place in a mixing bowl large enough to handle all the ingredients. Sprinkle the milk on them to moisten, and mix by hand to coat all the bread with milk. 2. Break up the ground beef into small pieces and add to the mixing bowl along with all the other ingredients, making a depression in the mixture for the egg and scrambling it a little bit by hand before mixing it all together. Mix gently by hand until all materials are roughly evenly distributed, about a minute or two. 3. Form the mixture into four or five round or square patties. The center of each patty should be slightly thinner than the outsides since it will fatten on cooking. Place them in a lightly oiled frying pan and press down on the middle to form the desired depression. 4. Heat on a low or medium-low flame until each side is browned, about 4 minutes each side. Add cheese the last minute if a cheeseburger is desired.
  2. MickinMD

    Apples

    I've been eating Honeycrisp, mostly slices slathered with chunky peanut butter or chopped into bitesize pieces, nuked to semi-soft, and added to steel-cut oatmeal. I also have liked every apple I've tasted that starts with "Jon:" Jonathan, Jonafree, etc. which also comes with a good story. A man asked his groundskeeper to cut down an apple tree. He didn't do a good job, it grew back from the stump, and produced great tasting apples and soon a nursery company was taking cuttings to graft onto roots. The man named the apple after his groundskeeper: Jonathan.
  3. I don't follow college basketball much anymore during the season, but I love March Madness and playing free Prize Bracket Games makes the tournament games more interesting The first round begins Thursday, March 21st at 12:15 pm and you have to enter the games before then to get all possible points. There are four play-in games on March 19th and 20th to determine the 64-teams for the first round, but the games don't require picking winners of the play-in games. Here are the links to the six brackets I play. You can find expert brackets to use for yourself in the games or google "march madness 2024 picks" and you'll find a lot of "expert" picks you can follow. CBS 2024 Men's NCAA Bracket Games: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket CBS 2024 Women's NCAA Bracket Games: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaaw-tournament/bracket ESPN Men's Tournament Challenge: https://fantasy.espn.com/games/tournament-challenge-bracket-2024/bracket ESPN Women's Tournament Challenge: https://fantasy.espn.com/games/tournament-challenge-bracket-women-2024/ Yahoo Sports Men's Bracket Madness: https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/mens-basketball-bracket Yahoo Sports Women's Bracket Madness: https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/womens-basketball-bracket
  4. @Kirby - thanks for reminding me! I don't follow college basketball much anymore but I do love playing the prize brackets online from CBS, ESPN, and Yahoo. I'll list the links to them in a thread dedicated to March Madness Free Bracket Prize Games.
  5. My Israeli guide, Mende, during my week tour of Israel in '99 had been a tank driver in the '67 war. When we got to the Golan Heights, he drove us past blown-up Syrian bunkers. At each one, he pointed out the Eucalyptus tree growing next to it. The Eucalyptus tree is (or was) the good-luck tree of the Syrian army. So when Israeli planes wanted to attack the Syrians on the Golan Heights, they just looked for Eucalyptus trees!
  6. I hope he was wearing a super-solid cup!
  7. Thanks for getting me moving @Ralphie! I'm clumsy enough to knock my phone off a table or have it fall out of a pocket once a year, so I like a good, padded, two-sided case with a clip to my pocket or belt. So I searched and found this case on Amazon, then ordered the 6.4" Samsung Galaxy A54 5G phone for $317.99 total from Tracfone with which I'll replace my current, faulty 6- year-old 5" Galaxy S7 phone.
  8. It's like Linda Ronstadt's explanation of why she never married. “I have no talent for marriage. Not a shred. I don’t like to compromise. If I want a pink sofa and somebody doesn’t want a pink sofa, I’m not going to go for that. I want the pink sofa.” Similarly, I think I've been pushed into my own way of thinking and doing the couple times I briefly lived with women reinforced the fact that I'm just more comfortable on my own.
  9. I've calculated circular circumference and area stuff from time to time and always use 3.14. "3 point one four one five nine" is in an IIT Cheer but I don't need more than three significant figures. When we'd be losing a basketball game 60 - 25 to some school like East Jesus Community College, we would chant: That's all right! That's ok! You'll be working for us one day! But my favorite cheer was the one below with pi in it twice. Mathematically, the first two lines below are exdydx, exdy and are multivariable and single variable calculus derivatives. You know 3.14159, but do you know what "i" and "2.3" are? e to the x, d y, d x, e to the x, d y! Tangent, secant, cosine, sine! 3 point one four one five nine! i, pi, two point three, Let's have a cheer for IIT! i is the square root of negative 1. Believe it or not, there are some physics and chemistry calculations where you can't make sense of the real world without it (electricity, light, and more). 2.3 is the conversion factor by which you divide natural logarithms to get base-10 logarithms.
  10. My nephew, now the flight attendant, won tickets to an AA Minor League Bowie Baysox game for reciting pi to something like 17 decimal places when he was in elementary school. The modern minor league stadiums have playgrounds for kids, picnic tables for adults McDonald's-size prices for concessions and cheap tickets. Taking a few kids to see the nearby, major league Orioles or Nationals is a financial adventure.
  11. I get flexible waist jeans and they normally last several years until I tear a hole in them somewhere.
  12. I have eight European-born great-grandparents, six of whom emigrated to America in the 1800's and the son of the other two emigrated to America in 1906. Two were Irish (Cashen and McDermott), Four were Polish (Gryskiewicz, Ostapowic, Gadomski, Kypczynski), one was German (Zimmerer - I can trace her ancestors to the 1400's entirely in Germany so there's definitely very high %age German DNA from Great Grandma Wilhelmina), and one, a Hartzer, was Alsatian (part of France or Germany, depending on who won the last war). My Ancestry.com DNA analysis comes real close to what's expected for 7/8 of my DNA: 1/4 Irish (24%), 1/2 Polish (29% Polish, 20% Baltic which includes Polish - my ancestors had a farm near the Lithuanian border where floods of Jewish refugees from Russia settled so that's where my 1% Jewish comes from), 1/8 German (13%), but the other 1/8 is a mix of Vikings and other northwest Europeans that somehow ended up with the Alsatian-German family name of "Hartzer." Those Hartzers must have done a lot of banging of people traveling through Strasbourg. ===================================================================================================
  13. After the house burned down, I decided on a 10" deep, 33" long stainless steel sink sink. All the appliances are stainless,
  14. I've been thinking the same. Two top-notch coaches let Wilson go. Meanwhile, Fields played for a train wreck of an organization in Chicago and might catch fire in Pissburgh - or not.
  15. I've been getting backups of padded cases that I always wrap around my phone. But soon I'll be ordering a new, more recent but cheap model from Tracfone because my Samsung Galaxy S7, bought in 2018, has had trouble reading my blood glucose continuous sensor - sometimes I have to tell it to read it 4 times - and I've had trouble with voicemail and doesn't hold a charge as long as it used to. The S7 does all the apps I want takes great pictures and videos and, with the $40 250 GB microSD card I could shoot all the video and stills I want on a long vacation. But the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G is 6.4" vs the S7's 5", a long-lasting battery, does Internet faster, has 3 cameras (wide, regular, macro), etc. It's only $299 at Tracfone, then it's $175/year for unlimited phone and text and all the Internet I want from Tracfone where reception is good everywhere I go. It's cheaper than doing a smartphone thru Verizon on top of my landline phone that I want to keep.
  16. Pornhub used to be the king (queen?) of online pornsites but it's now 2nd rate compared to Eporner or Noodlemagazine. I admit to surfing them on occasion, usually after I'm sent there by a search of something like "April Bowlby nude" - to see if the woman who played "Kandi" on 2 1/2 Men was ever nude in a movie (never).
  17. They're ok when friends cook them, but I wouldn't go out of my way to cook them myself.
  18. Daffodils, which flood some of the fields alongside the trails I bike or walk with Jake are so beautiful. Robins, where a few pairs build nests in or near my yard and are used to me and don't dive bomb me when I walk near their nests. But they dive bomb friends and relatives, which amuses me a lot! I do miss the Canada Geese after they fly back north. In one park that I walk with Jake, there are so many they darken the sky when the flock flies over you in Winter. I'm amazed I've never been pooped on.
  19. Saint Paddy's Day began as a happy day for this 25% Irish-DNA suburban farmer. Later, I'm having corned beef and cabbage - which isn't traditional in Ireland - at a family dinner. In 2022 I didn't know what I was doing growing veggie seeds in a limited sun location and peppers and Brussels sprouts were a disaster. In 2023, with my 2-shelf micro greenhouse with grow lights and heat pads everything grew well and the garden flourished I thought I had it all figured out. But I hadn't realized the corner of my back porch get cool in windy, cold March, the correct planting time for me but I was a month late in 2022-23. The 22W heat pads did NOT work like they had in '23 and I should have had cardboard under the heat pads which were sitting on wire shelving and humidity domes over the 10" x 20" 1020 trays. So it took a few days after planting Pepper and Eggplant seeds on March 8th before I figured out what to do. to get the desired 77°-83° soil temperature for peppers: low 70's to 60's can mean 40 days for seed sprouting and the resulting plants are weak and produce poorly. I hoped the few days of lower-than-wanted temps didn't "set" the seeds on a course of not germinating and have been looking each day for sprouts. Today was the day! Two sprouts appeared! There's a Jalapeno Sprout in the upper middle of the left picture and an Black Beauty Eggplant sprout to the right of the upper middle of the right picture, both so new they're bent in upside down "U" shapes and their leaf ends haven't stood up yet. This is a big relief: the initial too-low temps didn't slow germination down by much with the first sprouts 9 days after planting! Last year my peppers sprouted in 8-25 days (data at bottom - I keep track so I know what to expect next year). My tomatoes sprouted in 4-11 days last year, most within a week, compared to 8-25 days for peppers, so I planted tomato seeds a week after the pepper seeds, March 15th, so they'll all be ready for the garden by May 15th. Seeds Planted & Sprouted 2023 # of cells Name of Seed (dates seeds sprouted) 2 seeds planted per cell April 4 3 Johnny’s Seeds Cupid Red Mini Bell Peppers (1 4/11, 2 4/12, 1 4/13, 1 4/14) 3 Urban Farmer Red Petite Bell Peppers (2 4/14, 1 4/17, 3 4/17) 3 Johnny’s Seeds Eros Yellow Mini Bell Peppers (1 4/10, 3 4/11, 2 4/12) ALL 3 Urban Farmer Yellow Petite Bell Peppers (1 4/13, 1 4/20, 1 4/22, 1 4/25) 3 Thresh Seeds Orange Mini Bell Peppers (2 4/11, 1 4/12, 2 4/13, 1 4/15) ALL 3 Urban Farmer Purple Petite Bell Peppers + 3x2 planted 4/17 April 6 6 New Ace Bell Peppers (2 4/15, 5 4/16, 2 4/17, 1 4/18, 3 4/19-22) ALL 6 Lady Bell Peppers (3 4/14, 4 4/15, 3 4/16, 4/17) April 6 6 Sun Gold Cherry -6 crushed? no growth, then 6x1 planted on 4/12: (1 4/14, 1 4/15, 1 4/16, 2 4/17, 1 4/23) 3 Yellow Pear Cherry (5 4/11) 3 Black Cherry (2 4/13) 3 Orange Roussollini Cherry (4 4/11) 3 Nepal Tomato (1 4/10, 3 4/11, 1 4/12) 6 Brandywine Sudduth (5 4/11, 3 4/12, 1 4/13, 1 4/14, 1 4/16) 6 Kellogg’s (Orange) Breakfast Tomato (2 4/14 1 4/15, 1 4/16) 3 Wapsipinicon Peach (2 4/10, 2 4/11, 1 4/12) 3 Supersonic (4 4/13, 1 4/14) 3 Cherokee Purple (2 4/11, 1 4/12, 1 4/13, 2 4/14) ALL April 9 (2 seeds/cell) 3 Polish Linguisa (2 4/13, 4 4/14) ALL
  20. My 4-week Mounjaro 2.5 units/doae prescription came in today. My sister said she does her 5-unit weekly dose on Monday in case in makes her a little sick, so she won't miss any weekend parties, etc. But it's never made her sick. I said I'm doing it on Saturdays starting today since I have nothing big going on through next Saturday and I've only got the 2.5 unit starter dose. I also did Tresiba, insulin for Type-II diabetics that replaced Soliqua which wasn't working well for me. I'm still taking Xigduo ER (Metformin plus some other stuff) and other meds. So we;ll see how the blood glucose sensor responds to all this.
  21. Foxes and Fossils have a lot of great performances. Very Talented!
  22. Couch's linked article says Pickett didn't want to battle Wilson for the starting job. He probably had no chance to start at the beginning of the season, but Wilson may not have much any more and Pickett may have gotten the job back during the season.
  23. There have been times I've done a double-take of someone I see in public thinking I know them, when it suddenly dawns on me the person looks like someone I new many years as that person was many years ago! Sometimes I want to ask them if they're related to that person but figure I'll seem loony.
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