Yesterday’s weird experiment was making French onion dip from scratch. I saw this done one a YouTube channel, and having recently finished a jar of Lay’s French Onion Dip I tried to see if mine would be better. Because I had to refrigerate my concoction overnight I’ve yet to taste it, but I will be buying some potato chips today and will try it at lunch.
I also baked a pizza last night. With dough I made? Nope, with dough I bought at Publix. Making my own pizza dough is on my list of things to attempt, however.
Wordle: three, my starter was URINE. Talked myself out of a deuce.
I should add that while the pizza dough wasn’t homemade, the sauce used was. Barb, I took your suggestion and amended my sauce with some tomato paste to thicken it.
I made pizza dough a few times – but – it was a little labor intensive for me, and I’m inherently lazy when it comes to this sort of thing, so we haven’t done it in a long time. I made it to make a Chicago style pizza.
Note to self – its been a while since I’ve had Chicago pizza
That’s the beauty of being unemployed, I have ample time to try this weird shit.
Wordle in 4.
The Publix pizza dough varies from store to store a bit. And like you, someday I will also make my own.
I was pretty much a slug after work yesterday. Pulled the trigger on some replacement lights for the shop that will require rewiring the existing ones. And for some unknown reason, the power went off AGAIN yesterday evening. Several flickers, then off for a good 20 minutes or more. While I got texts from GP, by the time I signed onto the outage map, our power had returned and we were not on the map. WTF, O?
-FP
Good luck with the lights.
The ITP Estate used to lose power whenever the wind blew the wrong way. It was rather annoying.
I did learn that our UPS is strong enough to keep Starlink running for a while, so I never lost connectivity. I can’t imagine it draws much, but still that’s good to know.
Kevka Kastle loses power every time a butterfly flutters its wings. For 12 hours.
“knocking on wood” – we rarely lose power. We buried the cables when we built the garage, since we needed a whole new box outside, it seemed like a no brainer.
Decided to give my bike a good cleaning ahead of the riding I will be doing all week.
My left knee area is bothering me, for some unknown reason, so I’m hoping nothing becomes of this.
Sushi as usual then watching the Red Sox actually win a game for once.
Researching activities (read: “food tours”) to do in Your-up next month. I honestly can’t eat enough to do a food tour justice but I do love them so much.
well – does the food tour include beer or other alcoholic beverages?
Then – you can justify the price.
I have done a food tour in Barcelona, a chocolate & beer tour in Brussels, and the cheese & wine tour in Amsterdam – all were excellent.
where are you going?
Yeah, Barb did a great job finding the tours we did last year. Both were delicious. The stinky cheese was best, since I was the only one who seemed to enjoy them.
Barb, did you use Viator? I have had great success with that app.
I’ve seen viator, but never used it.
I joined some Facebook groups – one Amsterdam, one Belgium, just to learn more about the areas. Within each I saw people posted about different tours. The Chocolate one in Brussels I actually used a hasher’s name (that I had never met) & got in with a discount.
Yes, if alcohol is offered on any food tour that looks good I would include that. I found one called “Eat, Sip, and Make New Friends Food and Drink Tour” which looks promising.
We’re doing Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague, 3/4 days in each place.
that sounds so fun – some day……..
Well Barb, you only turn 50 once!
Glad you won’t be in a rush!! Or maybe you meant 3 to 4 days in each place, not three quarters?
HAHAHAH, yes, it’s the fastest trip to Europe ever! Three quarters of a day in each city and the 4th quarter is for sleeping. I won’t even have to take any vacation days!
Been to Vienna (but hashed so I didn’t see much of the actual city). Almost went to Prague, for another hash, but bailed on it. Never considered going to Salzburg.
Enjoy!
And from all of us who have been there, it’s all down hill from fifty…
Boo Red Sox, since I think you missed the opportunity to mention that they beat the Mets.
I was going to say something but I wasn’t sure if you cared! LOL!
I don’t, honestly. 🙂
Wordle in 3
Connections was only sort of annoying – when my mind goes one way (that’s wrong) makes it tough to get the right answer
I don’t know who LambdaTest Inc, is but I’d wish they’d stop calling me. They call with different area codes and phone numbers, so it’s not as easy as blocking them.
i get so many spam calls every day – but =-Verizon has this spam blocker feature that my phone never rings. I can just see how many calls I get in my recent calls log. I do hate when I am waiting for a call back, and that # is not in my phone, so it just goes to VM. That can be annoying. (but less than my phone ringing all day long)
The iPhone can also send unknown numbers directly to voicemail. Of course I have that feature enabled.
Another grocery run, $80(?) spent at Kroger and there was no alcohol in my cart!
Eating a sandwich with chips and French onion dip. My “dip” is very thick and is more of a spread than dip. I wonder if I did something wrong. I am going to rewatch the video that supplied the recipe again.
NEED A TOUGH CHIP – Ruffles or Wavy chips? The Dean’s refrigerated kind we buy occasionally is pretty thick .
I bought wavy Kroger brand. I don’t think that there is a chip out there that could stand up to my spread. Oh well, tastes good, if not a bit too spicy.
Whip a little air into it?
There’s no whipping this, not even with a hand mixer…
Kicking myself for forgetting to apply two paper coupons that I had in my shopping cart. Also, think I missed an opportunity to save $5 since I was not expecting to spend more than $75 today. Harrumph!
I have started going thru the Kroger app before shopping, to be sure I have all the coupons clicked.
I did that, but these were paper coupons that Kroger has started mailing to me again, so I needed to scan them before paying and forgot to do so. I think it’s because the register thought I was stealing and required an employee to come over to “help”, and that threw me off my game.
I haven’t gotten any paper coupons from Kroger in forever. I kind of feel left out, but hell, I’d forget to scan them too
Just mix in a little milk until you think it’s the appropriate consistency.
Hmmm, could work. I also have an opened container of cream currently…
Back from the dentist – the 2nd crown is started. This one is replacing an old crown, that was even less fun, as they had to get the old one off – I’ve had it for 25 years(or longer) I’m guessing?
Maybe after this is done in a few weeks my dental expenses for the year might be done.