Pulaski

It's good to see that you're growing imperial tomatoes in the US of A, not those communist, metric tomatoes!

Steerpike

Oh boy - I'm truly salivating now! I absolutely adore good tomatoes! My grandparents grew tomatoes when I was a young boy and I'll never forget the unique flavor. Oh what a memory! They also grew 'english peas' - (pea pods) - and they were utterly delightful also ...

markonline1

LOL, yep. No idea why there is no light in this room. Not sure if and what kind of light is going in yet.
This is absolutely the way to go. Might be beyond the realms of my skills though. I'm ok trailing the wires in the same wall, but getting them from the front of the room to the back I think will require me getting someone in.

Quite the opposite on house prices. I thought we had picked a real stupid time to sell. Turns out we timed it perfectly. House prices are going through the roof here. Now that people are working from home, in some cases permanently, folk are moving down here in droves from the bay area. Our place sold in a week for 15k over asking price. The recliner is temporary. This house is exactly twice the size of the old one, so we don't have enough furniture yet LOL. A nice sectional is on the way. Recessed lights are definitely in the frame, its a look I really like.

I keep flip flopping. I'm not an audiophile, and the simplicity of the sound bar is appealing. I do like the idea though of being able to upgrade components.

Nutek

I upgraded my components into a sound bar.

But yeah, I know what you mean.

scrubbedexpat091

All these garden pictures, oh how nice.

lizzyq

Being born in the late 1960s I have always worked in both the Imperial and metric systems. All my school maths and science was metric, with the exception of cookery in home economics where the recipes were often still in pounds and ounces, but at home the oven was in Fahrenheit and recipes were definitely pounds, ounces, fl.oz. and pints. In my professional life lab calculations are in metric, though original dimensions of parts may be manufactured in inches. I still tend to cook in pounds and ounces, have to be careful to check which pints I am using and my US bought oven has been set to Celsius for temperature. My fruit and veg also always grow in Imperial (not standard or metric) units

Our local brew pub uses UK pint glasses as standard too!

Steerpike

Don't know about you, but I convert all the various 'volumes' when cooking into ounces, then I weight everything while cooking. So ... 2 cups of flour, or 4 tablespoons of .... etc all get converted to oz first, then I start!

lizzyq

Most of my recipe books are UK, but when I use US recipes with dry goods by volume I use the cup measurement the first time and note how much each ingredient weighed on the recipe, so essentially the same as you do.

Steerpike

What about when you use a UK recipe book? Don't they also use weird volume references (eg, for flour)? I left UK before I ever thought about cooking much

Pulaski

Anything that is "dry" in the UK is always specified by weight - ounces or grams ..... there may be a few things in small quanties, such as spices, or anything else used in very small quantiies, that might be specified in either teaspoons or table spoons.

Nutmegger

Those look wonderful! I grow cherry tomatoes as they are all in pots on my deck, and they are just starting to ripen. I had frozen eight portions of pesto for the winter, and lost all except the one we ate during the power outage. So back to work yesterday and made four more packages. I’ve also made ten jars of chili pickle so far.

lizzyq

I will be making this https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/s...-pepper-jelly/ once I have ripe hot chillies. I put it into the jars hot, like jam, screw the lids down tight and wait to hear them pop sealed as they cool and then store them in the garage fridge until needed.

newadventure

Farmhouse table project completed

Pulaski

You made that? It looks great!

What's it made from oak, or clear pine? I can't see enough detail to decide.

newadventure

Thanks!
Made from pine. Would have loved to use something like oak, but that would have been expensive and i had no idea if it was going to work or not

Exactly - you can't see all the little mistakes from here!