Once again a question of quantities. More hoisin and bean sauce. Less dofu.
And somehow there are too many steps. But in principle the same thing. I thought that it
had looked considerably darker this time, but in fact I could hardly see any difference.
Here last time (first image) and today:
Raclette for dinner today. And
the eternal question: how much of each ingredient should we use? Started writing down
things, but so far it seems, for us 2½ non-representative guests:
Ingredient
Weight
Cheese
350 g
Potatoes
600 g
Ham
150 g
I'm not sure that we got the ham right. It seems far too little. But I do recall having
plenty left over in previous years.
That's not a custom known in Australia, and the origin was clear in the name of the
supplier: Gewürzhaus, a company I had never
heard of, though it seems that they have shop as close as Daylesford. This is a
calendar with a difference: instead of sweets and things, each door contains a packet of
some kind of spice:
We had thought of lighting up the Hanukkiah as well, but although Hanukkah almost always overlaps with Advent, this year it will be different, not
starting until Christmastide.
It's been at least 14 years since I started keeping computer records of what's in our deep
freezes. It's not easy to keep things in sync. I can't go to a computer every time I take
something out of the freezer, and for some baskets with frequent change, such as the
breakfast ingredients, I no longer even keep track: it's easier just to remember,
including where the things are in the basket.
But the thing's full, and we have this cheese that I bought over a month ago. It keeps reasonably in the fridge, but it's time to freeze it.
But where? I've started tidying out the thing, basket by basket. Yesterday it was basket
2, today basket 1, where the cheese should go. It's hard work correlating the lists with
the contents, and at the end I didn't have time to cut up the cheese. But I did end up with
basket 1 only half full.
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755 MB in a single mail message! It would have been some nightly maintenance message, but
why so big? I'll never know: it's gone to the bit bucket in the sky. Yes, of course I was
able to increase the limit (to 1 GB, both for message and mailbox size), but how
times have changed! When I first set up my
mail server, a message of this size would have tied up the phone line for a little
over 9 days and cost me 340,165 DM in data charges (about US $464,000 today).
Still more work in the kitchen today, cutting up and freezing cheese. Why does it take such
a long time? But at least I still have space in the freezer.
That was on the spur of the moment: minimal lighting, f/4 lens, so the camera chose 6400/39°
ISO, not the best image quality. But what I didn't expect was this crop from another image:
The camera (OM System
OM-1 Mark II) told me that it was in focus. What went wrong there? It wasn't the
only out-of-focus image. And to add insult to injury, exiftool didn't want to copy the
Exif data.
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