Pot, that is.
Over the past year, we have rediscovered the joys of cooking with a Crock-Pot. Today, I made a Weight Watchers Chili Mac recipe in ours, and it was really good. (A little on the tomato-ey side, but I think I can cut that taste down a bit next time by not draining the red beans as much.)
I highly recommend the use of a Crock-Pot, especially for the cooking disadvantaged. In the morning, throw in your ingredients, set your time (4, 6, 8, or 10 hours), and when you get home later in the day, voila!, dinner is served.
We’ve also been making a mean chicken chili dish, though I seriously doubt it’s on the new Weight Watcher-friendly menus we’re looking through. (Missus Phisch is back on the program, which means I’m back on the program, too, and could use the weight loss myself.)
The Crock-Pot is extraordinarily versatile. My sister-in-law has cooked spare ribs in hers, and says the meat is so tender, you can pick it cleanly from the bones with your fingers. As someone who really doesn’t like having to tear the meat from the bones with my teeth, this is something I’m going to have to try.
Tag: fun
Based on this photo, should I ever get Down Under, I’m making a mental note to not go swimming in the Bondi Icebergs pool…
Yes, really. I can see this will entail some practice.
[Via The Sneeze.]
The little phisch is at school. The dog is at the cleaners. The cats are off napping some where, since that’s what cats do, when they’re not sitting on the magazine you’re reading, leaving hair in your keyboard as they walk across the desk, or cheating death by racing under the dog’s chin.
In other words, it’s very quiet around the house right now.
I am getting an amazing amount of online reading done at the moment.
God, I need a job.
Lee blogging from the phisch bowl.
So Lee was in town for an annual conference, and spent Saturday afternoon hanging out with me, the missus, and the little phisch. A great time was had by all chewing on cow at Outback. We may be phisch, but we hail from the piranha side of the species. 😉
It is very, very cool that I have gotten to meet my best friend from the online world in person. Looking forward to the next visit!
If you absolutely must know the week of your Mac’s manufacture, or where the factory is it came from, you can use Chipmunk International’s handy Mac serial number dissector. For systems passing the dozen-year mark, use the pickle’s serial number decoder.
(With a wave of the flipper to MDJ.)
So, yeah, I’ve been playing with GarageBand.
Yes, it is inspired by the southern rock, classic rock, rockabilly, and country music I grew up with. Yes, it’s all done using GarageBand loops. Yes, you can leave a comment and tell me how much it sucks, but I kind of like it. Heck, even Lawson told me the composition wasn’t bad at all, and I can always count on him to be brutally honest. Flame on!
MacCentral interviewed Bill Amend, creator of the comic FoxTrot, last month. My favorite quote:
Amend previously worked on a Blue & White Power Mac G3, but a few months ago he treated himself to a 2 GHz Dual Processor Power Mac G5, complete with a Cinema HD display.
“I can finally play Warcraft III!” Amend said. “Oh, and it helps with work, too, in case the IRS reads this.”
(Thanks, MDJ)
Poll running right now on ESPN’s College Football page: which team least deserves to play for the national championship? Oklahoma leads by a wide margin, with over 7,700 total voters thus far. The team with the fewest votes–meaning they most deserve to play for the title? My alma mater, of course.