Patrisha

January 13, 2007

Assorted Miscellanea

Italian Phrase of the Day: Facciamo del cioccolato caldo. Let’s make some hot chocolate.

My comment on this: Si, nevica e fa freddo. Yes, it is snowing and cold.

Are you noticing the words for hot and cold? Apparently taps in Italy have F on the cold tap and C on the hot tap which causes no end of confusion for speakers of English who think C stands for cold.

Actually, it really is snowing and cold but I don’t feel much like hot chocolate this morning.
I am waiting for the second pan of milk to return to room temperature to make another batch of yogurt because Fred and I are addicted! We have eaten 8 pots in ummm–two days? This time I am adding dried milk to make the consistency a little thicker and also filling the pots a little less full to leave room for what we like to add. So far we have tried raspberry fruit spread, apricot fruit spread and pwdered chocolate. The fruit spreads were a big success. The chocolate powder needs to be mixed with a little liquid before it is added. We also both like the tangy taste of the yogurt with nothing added!
My leg feels a lot better but it is still not back to normal. I did a very short walk yesterday and I will do an even shorter one today since all I am going to do is go up to the drug store to pick up Fred’s meds. I may walk a little further if the snow stops and my leg doesn’t hurt.
This morning I opened up the washing machine {LOL and yes, I DID mean dishwasher! } and took out the glass coffee pot as I always do and thought, "Hmmm, the machine didn’t do a very good job on it…" then I looked over to the glass yogurt pots and saw they were still dirty! That was when I realized the machine hadn’t come on! I always set it to come on during the night on a delayed cycle so that it uses hot water no one else needs. I remember last night I thought I had set it because I remember telling Fred to put the last glass pot in when he was through, but when I looked at it this morning, I noticed I hadn’t actually set the delay indicator over far enough! There is a light that comes on to show the delay timer is activated and usually I always check it because I did this same thing with the delay timer once before, but apparently I didn’t check last night! Well, it was no big thing because I started the cycle this morning…
Yes, we have snow again. Fred went to get groceries yesterday because he said we have snow coming in for a couple of days…brrr!

QUOTATION FOR THIS MONTH: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius

Until later….

All Cats Rule

January 14, 2007

ok, when you wrote washing machine and coffee pot, I thought why the heck are you putting your dishes into a washing machine!!!!! Then it dawned that you meant dishwasher right? I sure hope so. And yogurt is good for you after all. Hope you’re going to feel better soon. It snowed here again overnight…. argh… I’m NOT used to having snow all the time since living in Colorado! Have a great Sunday!

I wish we would get some snow. Mike isn’t driving around all the time so if we got some I wouldn’t have to worry about him nearly as much. 🙂 The yogurt sounds delightful. 🙂

Ginger Rogers

I bought a yoghurt maker a few weeks ago but haven’t used it yet. I bought some culture. How long can it stay in the fridge?

gray tabby

i think we’re going to get some snow tonight and tomorrow. not sure, i think it depends on where that storm tracks. that will determine if we get snow, mixed stuff or rain. they are thinking we’re getting snow. oh, well, it was bound to come sooner or later!! take care,

Pat

Originally we were supposed to get some wintry stuff tomorrow, but now we’re not supposed to get any until next week on Friday. LOL on your washing machine/dishwasher comment.

That SETTLES it!! I’m getting my yogurt maker out of storage!!!

Pskettios

I had forgotten the thing about the “C” and “F” on the taps, but now I remember! I was confused at first, but it doesn’t take too long to figure it out when one is always coming out with hot water. The yoghurt sounds delicious.

greeneyes&sunflowers

you do not know how many times we have done that!!! *huggs*

RedMolly Reprise

Ok..I saw this quote some where else in the past couple of days…where was it…thats gonna drive me batty!

TheWoodsprite

I wonder why our word for cold sounds so much like their word for hot? I’m glad you and Fred are enjoying the yogurt you make so much! If I had a yogurt machine, I think I would put bananas and strawberries in it, mmmmm! hugs, Weesprite

Snowing all day here, too! So….tell me more about this yogurt contraption you’ve got going on….. (and I wonder if it would work with lactose free milk??)

VeronicaCorningstone

Part of me really misses snow, and reading about it just makes me wish we had a LITTLE 😉

8 pots of yogurt????? Jeepers. I’m so glad you guys are getting such use out of it. 🙂

Desert Sage

It’s been snowing here for a while now too, finally. It will be nice to see all the white tomorrow morning, but not if it mucks up the drive to work too much.

BedlamHillFarm

Does your yogurt have “live and active” cultures? I always liked seeing that on a container. Made me think of them dancing in there.

I’ve never been lucky enough to have a dishwasher!!! My parents don’t trust them and, when I moved out of home, the house I was renting didn’t have one either…

WOW! 8 pots of yogurt in 2 days. I couldn’t eat a half pot by myself. * shudders * LOL great for you guys though!!! Can you send some of that snow our way? I would LOVE to get some. Hugs, M

We have a blanket of snow now – looks pretty. Say, could you give me the html code for the break lines you use? For some reason, I can’t get it to work most of the time. Thanks,

RYN: Sounds nifty. I’ll have to go look at them! I love yogurt, but I’m suspicious of all the highly engineered stuff that I get at the grocery, and I just don’t LIKE the available organic stuff. Also RYN: Yeah, if you read the Finnovar Tapestry, you probably wouldn’t have liked Guy Gavriel Kay at all. I can’t believe he’s the same writer, actually!! I HIGHLY recommend any of his later work: Lions of Al-Rassan, Song for Arbonne, Sarantine Mosaid, Lord of Emperors, and ESPECIALLY Tigana. I’ve read Tigana about a dozen times, and I still re-discover it on every reading.

Violet

January 15, 2007

My favorite yogurt is lemon…I wonder how you could do that…It seems to have lemon custard in it, like the lemon pudding that Jello makes. Maybe if you put a spoon of that in the mix, it would firm it up AND give it that lemony goodness. Don’t know how you would work that, though, because the instant doesn’t like to be cooked… Anyway, it sounds yummy.

The Kid

Oh, I LOVE your quote – and I’m not surprised at the Italian words for “Hot” and “cold”; in spanish they are “Calor” for hot and “Frio” for cold…very similar. 🙂 SNOW – You’ve got SNOW?>???? It must be on it’s way here, then!