Food

    I emergency bought a Ratio 6 coffee maker after my old Ninja broke. Best of all, and I didn’t know about this, @RatioCoffee just refunded the cost ‘cuz I won their drawing 🎉 can’t remember the last time I won anything this good!

    Spotted a Hooded Oriole in the front yard as we we started an after lunch walk. What luck. A first!

    Our homemade Bulgogi fries. Inspired by a food show that had a terrible implementation of this idea. We got it right 🤫

    golden fries with sliced Bulgogi (marinated steak), red gochujang based sauce, topped with chives.

    Good morning, Waffle! 🧇

    a just cooked golden brown waffle being extracted from the waffle maker
    chocolate chip cookies on a cooking rack with a spatula looming behind them

    Potatoe croquettes for lunch today. Great use of leftover mashed potatoes.

    plated golden brown croquettes with one cut open, revealing fluffy white potatoes and chives

    Citrus gummies are a great way to use backyard citrus. We made Meyer lemon with Valencia orange gummies. An Alton Brown recipe. We’ve frozen our remaining Meyer lemon juice. Our citrus season is now over.

    orange gummies in a bin atop a red cuttingboard and a wooden cuttingboard

    Peppers and two tomato seedlings are making great progress. We’ll likely be hardening them off in a few weeks and plant by April.🌱

    tray of small pepper plants under a grow light with a fan blowing on them.

    Veggie sushi for dinner tonight.

    cutting rolls of sushi on a blue cuttingboardplated sushi

    Managing Anxiety

    My doctor increased my dose of an anxiety med. Took three weeks to feel the effects of that but once again I don’t feel like I’m racing against time when doing a hobby. Or in full flight mode when making calls. My heart doesn’t pound as hard and as long when starting work. HeartWatch, with its history & charts, confirms I’m not imagining my improvement. I’m given more headroom to realize I’m anxious and can mentally manage it better to avoid panic. Hooray for medicine.

    macOS Shortcut: What's my Fujifilm Focal Length?

    Since I now have the TCL-X100II attachment and I make ample use of the Digital Teleconverter feature, I made a quick macOS Shortcut to add Fujifilm Effective Focal Length as a metadata Keyword. This Shortcut requires exiftool in your path. It’s a modified version of What’s My Fujifilm Recipe? Shortcut.

    This is only tested on straight out of the camera JPEGs. I added it to my Batch Processor shortcut that also runs What’s My Fujifilm Recipe? Shortcut(example of that is linked to on that Shortcut page).

    So photos imported into macOS Photos can now have the effective focal length as a Keyword. That’s very useful as I can search for it or make Smart Albums with it.

    This Shortcut still has to output exiftool’s results to a temporary file as it errors on me if I try to read the results from only console (aka Shell Script Result).

    Get the Shortcut: What’s my Fujifilm Focal Length? Shortcut

    Last night’s roast beef dinner. Sunday night came early! 🤭

    My favorite person made cinnamon rolls today for tomorrow morning and another weekend (raw rolls apparently freeze well).

    We’re ending the year with disco fries. Everyone, have a good start to 2022.

    One more photo of today’s aebleskiver making.

    Aebleskiver day!

    As is annual tradition, made caramel the other day. Every batch is unique. Compared to last year, the caramels are harder but bolder in flavor.

    Had homemade Korean pancakes (jeon) tonight. Filled with leftover banchan used in last night’s bibimbap.

    Whole wheat waffles… smothered with definitely very healthy butter and maple syrup.

    The household chef making sandwich melts. I was just trying out the Kodak T-Max 400 film “recipe” found at FujiXWeekly.

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