Ox cheeks cooked to gelatinous perfection. The cooking liquid, being tomato-based pasta sauce, water & meat juices will, once cooled & strained of fat, become the base for a fabulous minestrone-style soup.
Have had a couple of lumps of meat going in the slow cooker for the last 7 hours. Not ready yet, at least two more hours on the low setting. Cooking beef (ox) cheeks in a diluted tomato-based pasta sauce.
@matigo Thanks. I wondered where that had got to. Been missing for a few weeks.
@matigo When I first saw the headline last week I thought to myself, "Well, it won't have been 'research' work by those bastard Japanese whale researchers." Then I read the article and it was their work after all.
October 15, 2015: received a Logitech M558 Bluetooth mouse from the Apple online Store. It's allegedly designed to go for at least 12 months on a pair of alkaline AA cells. Granted, I've not used it daily, as it's paired with the MacBook Air & I normally use the trackpad but I just tested the cells & both are still around 90% of original capacity. I see little reason to dispute the 12 month battery life claim.
Won't do that again in a hurry. Had a chilli dish for dinner, normally I restrict such things to lunch. Woken with a nasty episode of gastric reflux some five hours later. I've got some antacids working & will follow them up with some yogurt. Its calcium content provided extra relief.
Retired the 2400 watt electric kettle to the spare stuff department in the garage. It takes longer to boil water than the induction cooktop does when set to 2100 watts.
There's something nicely bracing about starting the day with a V60-brewed coffee. Strong but smooooth.
Just spent the last 2 hours online, preparing a crossword for the Mac User Group's monthly magazine. It's done via Crosswordlabs.com. In their web app, enter the clue, space, then the answer and go to the next line. When you have enough clues, save a passwrd so you can get to the answers later. Next, hit the Generate button. A crossword grid with your clues is displayed. Keep hitting the Regenerate button until a suitable pattern is shown.
Next, I saved the URL of the page as a bookmark and exported both the clues and the answers as PDFs.
The Clues is a blank grid, so I used Markup to annotate the intersecting rows and columns with common letters. These puzzles can be completed online but I'm not sure if one person's changes are common to all future versions of the puzzle.