Just got done canning the pickled beets. I love beets, since everything they touch becomes red. I now have red palms. I think that I finally understand pickled beets. It used to take me about three hours to make a batch, now it’s down to one (plus half an hour processing time during which I can do other stuff). The key is in the skinning and slicing. Once you understand how to skin a beet, many other parts of the process become trivial.<\/p>\n
Also mixed up another batch of gazpacho. Added the leftover seveche from last night to it as an afterthought, and *wow*. Those two things go together really nicely. I made a scallop seveche yesterday, on a whim, and we only ate about a third of it. Now it gains new life as part of a tomato soup!<\/p>\n
Bought a tiny chiminea yesterday. It’s about a foot tall, and can only handle small twigs and sticks. Still, it was pleasant to sit outside and watch a cheerful little fire burn in a cheerful little fire pot.<\/p>\n
Today I’m installing Windows on a laptop given to me by a friend. This will mean that I have a Windows machine around, should I need one. Very convenient … but this whole “software you have to pay for” thing is a pain in the butt! License codes, piracy protection, blah blah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just got done canning the pickled beets. I love beets, since everything they touch becomes red. I now have red palms. I think that I finally understand pickled beets. It used to take me about three hours to make a batch, now it’s down to one (plus half an hour processing time during which I . . . → Read More: Many short stories<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}