@variablepulserate No. We are talking of a salami-style of thing made primarily with beef and garlic.
A few days ago I bought a joint of my favourite roasting meat, young goat leg. It’s just a wee bit too long to fit in my air fryer so I’m cooking it long and low in the regular convection oven at 140°C for a little over 3 hours. This will be tender, juicy and full of flavour. The shank end, being smaller and rather exposed, has already been cooked and consumed.
I drove 55 km today to a Sunday market to buy a lump of garlic mettwurst. There just aren’t any delicatessens or butchers around here that make those fine sausages. But there’s always a rep at a weekend market somewhere that sells them.
Raisin awareness…
In 1981 I learned that the Victorian Railways popularised the consumption of raisin bread. I was on a crew installing extra phone lines for a political hopeful who worked for the railways and lived in one of around four railway-owned houses by a now closed railway station.
As part of a campaign to promote fruit sales, Victorian Railways Commissioner Harold Clapp had a bakery built to produce raisin bread. The intention was to assist fruit growers and increase the railways’ freight business. Although raisin bread wasn’t completely new, few bakers were producing it in Victoria at that time. Raisin bread and raisin toast were promoted on railway posters.
In an address to the Australian Dried Fruits Association annual conference in 1925, Mr Clapp admitted that it was a selfish interest, and yet a “fully mutual interest”. At that point, the railways were selling 20,000 loaves a month. These were “hygienically wrapped”, the first wrapped bread to be sold in Australia.
When the railways introduced the raisin bread, only three bakers in Victoria were making it. According to Clapp, only one of these was turning out a satisfactory product. By 1925, about 115 bakers were distributing it. The railways' formula required 7 lbs. of raisins to 14 lbs. of flour. Their consumption of fruit was about 5,000 lbs. of raisins and 1,000 lbs. of sultanas weekly.
The bakery went on to produce a range of other products including fruit pies, cakes and other “wholesome goods.”
Sent in a scathing review of an office chair to Amazon. The bloody thing cannot be assembled by following the instructions as two of the four screws attaching the arms to the seat back cannot be aligned. The only method that worked was to loosely attach the arms to the seat back, then also loosely attach the two rear screws on the arms to the seat base. Now the remaining two screws that go into the foremost part of the seat base can be wrestled into position, best done with three hands but I only had two available. Then all the screws get tightened and the plastic caps are fitted to hide the screws.
Next I hammered and levered and bashed the special easy-roll wheels off the old seat to fit to the new chair. These wheels are single 3-inch rubber ones rather than the dual two-inch plastic piece-of-crap castors than come will all such chairs. The chair rolls a lot easier and also gains an extra inch in height.
Four months. Four effing months since I went into hospital with septic arthritis in my left knee. It’s still an awful long time until I recover from it. It’s so bloody frustrating but whenever a physiotherapist or other health practitioner sees me they are really impressed with my progress. But dealing with the pain and frustration on a day-to-day basis, I just can’t see it that way.
Had an inexpensive Amazon delivery stolen last night. I’d dearly like to know why the driver decided to make the delivery at 8:45pm when the daily delivery window is 8am to 8pm. Usually if the delivery can’t be made in that timeframe it’s held over to the next day. They sent an email with a photo at the time of delivery but Do Not Disturb settings prevented notification of said email.
Opened the email this morning, saw the photo, definitely my doorstep. Went out to find no package. I’m wondering if the driver had been followed by the thief?
A replacement has been ordered and should arrive tomorrow, at a nearby Amazon locker.
I mentioned to the installers of the new unit that I'd had a quote from another company to install a similar system for a cost 50% higher than their quote. The unit installed is rated at 3.5 kW, the team leader said for that kind of outlay he could supply and install an 8kW heat pump. In fact, the cost of this new unit was less than $300 more than the original installation done in February 2014.
I have set the new heat pump reverse cycle A/C unit to 20ºC. According to the temperature sensors in. the stereo pair of HomePods in the same room, the temperature is between 19.6º and 20.5º. The 10-year-old model that was changed over early yesterday morning struggled to get with 4 to 5º of the selected setting.
The new one is maintaining those temperatures on the lowest fan setting with the quiet setting also active; the quiet setting reduces airflow noise.
The old unit needed to have its fan on a higher setting in order to achieve any useful heating effect.
We had a family reunion about ten years ago in the rural city where our grandparents lived all their married lives. We tried to get a date closest to Feb 28, their wedding anniversary, settling on Feb 8th. The temperature was 42ºC on the Saturday and 43ºC the following day. But because the humidity was around 8% all we needed was shade to be mostly comfortable. The initial meeting place was the park across the road from where their house used to be but after about six travellers joined the group we adjourned to the pub that the grandparents visited every Friday.
I had to hurry home on the Sunday because a crew was coming the following day to install a reverse cycle air conditioner.
Lately that device has been giving trouble, taking too long to heat or cool the room so in a couple of days another crew will replace it with a newer version. I had the old one serviced and was told it had lost some of its refrigerant over time.
The current outside unit is mounted to the concrete slab beside the garage door, the new one will be on a wall bracket and the condensate will be directed to a stormwater downpipe instead of just slopping about on the pavement.