Monthly Archives: January 2020
More Drums . . .
We’ve almost caught up on our TV shows that we lost track of during the two weeks we were up in Kingsland and Luling back at the end of November. Then we DVR’d the final episodes but didn’t watch them until we could catch up with the older ones.
So now after using streaming to watch the missing episodes, and then the final DVR episodes, we’ve caught up on Evil, Stumptown, Emergence, and Prodigal Son, so we only have the the last episode of Bull to finish us up. And we’ll take care of that one this weekend.
We also really liked the twist at the end of the winter finale of Emergence. Talk about a surprise. One of our favorite.
Especially since the little girl is named Piper.
Since they were so good on Wednesday, we did another batch of drums this evening. Only more of them.
We had only done 10 last time since that’s how many were in 1 package. And Jan graciously gave me one of her five, so I had six and she had four. And about 3 into her 4, she started to regret her magnanimity.
So this time we did 15 drums instead of 10, and this time Jan got 8 and I got 7.
I did increase the Baking Soda to 3 Tbsp., up from 1 since I was doing more drums and thought I was a little short on the Baking Soda last time.
Then I put them on the tray and popped them into the Air Fryer, and they came out looking like this.
Next time I’m going to reverse the tray at the 13 minute halfway point since it looks like the front half cooks a little faster than the rear. Otherwise they were delicious, mine with just Kraft Bacon Ranch as a dip, and Jan’s with a Bacon Ranch/Spicy Szechuan sauce dip.
And in this case, Jan decided that 4 drums weren’t enough but 8 was1 too many. So I got an extra one back. Yea!
You might have the commercials that just started running for SingleCare. Being hawked by Martin and Charlie Sheen, SingleCare looks to be a discount drug service similar to GoodRX.
But based on my personal comparisons, it doesn’t really measure up. Here are side-by-side comparisons of 2 drugs that Jan and I take.
You be the judge.
That’s SingleCare on the left and GoodRX on the right.
You think maybe if they weren’t putting out the big bucks for Martin and Charlie, that they might able to come up with some better discounts?
Yeah, me too.
Thought For The Day:
It’s not enough to hold winning cards, ya gotta’ know how to bet ’em.
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That Wonderful Stuff . . .
Yesterday we finally got a chance to try out Jan’s favorite new Christmas gift, a Ninja Foodie Digital Air Fryer Oven.
The Ninja folks don’t make it easy to keep track of their Foodie line, what white 5 different appliances, including a blender.
Our daughter Brandi has one and loves hers, so I got Jan one too. And it works great for us, since, although it’s larger than the Toaster Oven it replaces, it folds up out of the way for storage, leaving us more counter room
But just in case she might decide she doesn’t like it, we’re keeping the old Toaster Oven around for a while, anyway.
The first thing Jan wanted to do with the Oven was to Air Fry some chicken wings, or in this case, drums. Brandi told us they were fantastic and gave us her really simple recipe.
1 Tbsp. of Baking Soda
1 Tsp. of Salt
2 Tsp. of Pepper
Apparently the Baking Soda is the secret to really crispy wings. Or at least, so says the Internet . . . and Brandi
Here’s what our Foodie looks like folded up.
And here it is folded down and ready to use.
Out in front I’ve got the drums drying in paper towels, since they’re supposed to be as dry as possible.
After tossing the 10 drums in the breading,I arranged on the grill, not letting them touch.
I set the oven on Air Fry at 375° for 13 minutes and then turned the drums over. Then it was another 13 minutes at the same temp. Then I raised the temp to 420° for about 6 minutes and they were done.
And they were really crispy, crunchy, delicious. The only real problem was that we wanted more. We didn’t do anything special as far as sauce, just a small dip of Kraft’s Bacon Ranch Dressing, our favorite.
I will however do things a little differently next time. The 1 Tbsp. of Baking Soda really wasn’t enough to thoroughly cover the drums, and the 1 Tsp. of Salt was a little too much. So I’ll try 2 Tbsp. of Baking, 1 Tsp. of Salt, and 4 Tsp. of Pepper next time to see how that works.
Jan’s cold is doing a lot better, especially since she’s sleeping so much better, due to what she calls “That Wonderful Stuff.” And that would be NyQuil NIghtime Severe Cold Medicine.
We got some good news today on the storage shed front. Rob, the park owner, said it was OK to put one up, and that we could put it right at the end of the patio where I pictured it.
But before we do this I want to get back on the rig’s oil leak problem.
Thought For The Day:
For All You Nerds –
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