I'm told 3 things make a post...
1) Yesterday, when I went to the car to run errands, there was a dragonfly perched on the wall. Dead-center in front of the car, up over the hood in height, and waiting for it to warm up enough for him to fly off for the day. He was one of the big dragonflies for our area, too, probably 4.5 inches head to tail. That was just neat. I wish I'd gone back in for my camera. (I've had plenty of flies on the wall, the occasional cicada cast-shell, but never a dragonfly before!)
2) From today's Quotes of the Day: "An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery." - Walter Winchell
I read that and thought, "Well, you might as well! You're stuck there until help arrives, the lion gets bored, or the tree falls over." ::snickering:: Yeah. I might be an optimist.
3) I made a batch of blueberry muffins last night from a 'healthier' recipe - whole wheat flour, less sugar, Greek yogurt instead of plain milk, two cups of blueberries? (Yes, really, that's what it says.) It did a couple things that boggled me and make me think I'd better keep playing with the recipe, but they are filling, I'll say that. They even taste good, but I think that's more me adding the cinnamon and nutmeg that the recipe didn't call for.
The two boggling parts: This is the first time I've had a muffin recipe make *more* muffins than it said. Usually, it says it makes a dozen and I get 10, maybe 11. This said it made 12 and I got 18. That's just weird. (I like it, so I won't say it's wrong.) Also, that wasn't muffin batter; it had the consistency of whole wheat bread dough, or maybe biscotti. So, I'll have to play with it. (And maybe go over to half yogurt/half milk.) But it did lead me to some questions:
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2) From today's Quotes of the Day: "An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery." - Walter Winchell
I read that and thought, "Well, you might as well! You're stuck there until help arrives, the lion gets bored, or the tree falls over." ::snickering:: Yeah. I might be an optimist.
3) I made a batch of blueberry muffins last night from a 'healthier' recipe - whole wheat flour, less sugar, Greek yogurt instead of plain milk, two cups of blueberries? (Yes, really, that's what it says.) It did a couple things that boggled me and make me think I'd better keep playing with the recipe, but they are filling, I'll say that. They even taste good, but I think that's more me adding the cinnamon and nutmeg that the recipe didn't call for.
The two boggling parts: This is the first time I've had a muffin recipe make *more* muffins than it said. Usually, it says it makes a dozen and I get 10, maybe 11. This said it made 12 and I got 18. That's just weird. (I like it, so I won't say it's wrong.) Also, that wasn't muffin batter; it had the consistency of whole wheat bread dough, or maybe biscotti. So, I'll have to play with it. (And maybe go over to half yogurt/half milk.) But it did lead me to some questions:
View poll: To meddle or not to meddle
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