Ferrous likes to be on the back of the couch in the loft because the heat comes up from behind and makes it a very cozy spot. Two pictures today, each more adorable than the other. Facebook friends, click through for the second.
Surprise Kitty
Our current stick of butter has a little void in it. When I cut a pat for my toast this morning, the hole was in the shape of a kitty!
Crystalline Entities
I walk by these every day on my way into/out of work. Should I be concerned?
Fun with Science
Lis’s knife at dinner tonight was quite strongly magnetized.
Root Vegetable
Among our other treats today, we roasted and ate this Cthulhu Fruit, which normal people call a celery root.
Trussed
Trying out my new trussing needle. This is MUCH easier than tying!
The Ant and the Grasshopper
I brought up three quarts of turkey stock today, made the day after Thanksgiving last year; there’s another 3 pints still in the freezer.
Birds
In the mid 19th century, as mechanical milking of dairy cows became a thing, veal was much cheaper and more widely available than chicken. Thus was born the “veal bird” or “city chicken”, a recipe designed to simulate poultry. One of my favorite dishes as a boy, I make this recipe semi-frequently, though I usually make “pork birds”. Today, for the first time, I brought it full circle and used chicken breast, thus making the amusingly-named “chicken birds”.
Brothers
Sometimes they do get along. Especially if the weather is getting chilly.
Bytes
The march of progress in data capacity continues ever onward. I needed to recover some old content from one of these 500GB drives this evening; they are obsolete and have been offline for over a year because of 8TB of online storage in the basement. But I still remember spending $700 for my first hard disk in college (40 MB!). And I still remember an old co-worker exclaiming, “I bought a gig!” meaning a 1GB disk. Today, I hardly ever delete anything.
