[Mike Nolan]

We had the leftovers from last night's Chinese, and had some salad. Need to go pick some more lettuce from what's left of the dwindling crop before the next one starts to come in, 4 or 5 weeks from now.

[Mike Nolan]

We had takeout Chinese food from a place we haven't ordered from before. Bigger portions, higher prices, really good food. They're a lot further away than the place we usually order from, but my wife has frequent appointments in that shopping center with her physical therapist, so we'll probably order from them again soon.

[Mike Nolan]

I can't figure out what caused the hollow loaf of bread one, that almost seems like something it would be interesting to do on purpose.

[Mike Nolan]

I got 7 types of tomatoes, 2 types of eggplants and 2 types of melons started indoors earlier this week, I'm going to start a few more of those melons in 2-3 weeks and then probably plant one hill directly outdoors in May, in the hopes of getting melons that don't all ripen at once over about two weeks in August. I'm already seeing some signs of the tomatoes sprouting; I'll probably have cotyledons by next weekend.

I've still got 5 bays open on the seed starter trays, not sure if I'll do anything with them. If I had some fresh seeds I might do some basil, thyme or oregano, but my wife usually buys those from the UNL student plant sale around the end of the semester, along with all the flowers for her patio pots.

I ripped out the left half of the Aerogarden earlier this week, what hadn't bolted fully wasn't producing many edible leaves, and today I started a new lettuce garden, 3 varieties of leaf lettuce plus some more parsley. (Not that we use much parsley, but it is a good spacer and I don't know that we need 24 pods of lettuces, as my wife prefers iceberg lettuce these days and it is too big for an Aerogarden. I might set up a gravel drain system using some plastic tubing, but I think I'll wait until late summer for that. A friend of ours will take all the parsley I can grow, they eat it daily.)

The right garden can probably be picked for another couple of weeks, then I'll rip it out and start something over there, probably more lettuces and maybe some small herbs. (No dill!)

[Mike Nolan]

We finished off the meat loaf tonight, plus salad.

[Mike Nolan]

Another WSJ story today says that sanctions on the Russian fishing industry is likely to make cod, pollock, crab and other seafood harder to find, which will translate to more out of stock issues and higher prices.

[Mike Nolan]

It's a rare day when we don't use it several times here, even if I'm not baking. My wife uses it to help her gauge her carb intake. (We have concluded that a good rule of thumb is that 50% of most breads are carbs, so 40 grams of bread is 20 grams of carbs.)

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making a simple mild meatloaf tonight. No onions, mushrooms or black beans. We'll have salad to go with it.

[Mike Nolan]

Bigger scales will have a power plug where you can plug in a power adapter. Sometimes the adapter is included on Amazon, sometimes it isn't.

On a MyWeigh KD-8000 if you have an AC adapter, it supposedly doesn't time out, you have to turn it off.

We don't use an AC adapter because we move our scales around too much and a battery lasts us about a year.

I always use 4 1/4 ounces as the weight of a cup of flour, as does King Arthur, though the USDA uses a higher number, 127.0478 grams or 4.4812 ounces. If a new recipe I'm trying that gives flour in volume measurements seems a little too soupy, I can add a little more flour to stiffen it up, but it seems just as likely to me to have to add a little more liquid to get a good dough ball to form.

[Mike Nolan]

The last time we changed water heaters we found out that the city water system had changed the composition of their water, and a different anode was required. (Exactly who at the plumbing company knew this was unclear, the journeyman plumber they sent out didn't, nor did his supervisor, it wasn't until we ordered a water quality study from the state lab that we found out.)

Having the wrong anode shortens the life of the heater, because of the mineral buildup.

My older son tells me the tankless systems have a longer expected lifetime.

[Mike Nolan]

We had takeout salads.

[Mike Nolan]

I hope you can actually get reasonable delivery dates for your new appliances.

I'm curious about how well steam cleaning would work in an oven.

[Mike Nolan]

I think we're just going to have oatmeal here tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

I also had a Philly cheese steak, takeout.

[Mike Nolan]

I made my big pot of chili today, I should be able to get 3 or 4 containers of it into the freezer tonight.

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