Our (majority) whole wheat crust pizza.
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Home fried sweet potato chips. Because we didn’t use the potato in a Massaman curry last week (had spaghetti instead).
I’m experimenting with Meteobridge Templates and Siri Shortcuts so Siri can tell me about the weather just by pulling data off the local network data logger. Works pretty good!
Newly emerged ladybug 🐞
Future native California grapes.🐞🐝
Was prepping the vegetable garden bed and had to dodge lots of ladybugs.
Front yard (mostly) native garden update.
Good morning! Here’s Orion’s Belt of Ladybugs on white clover.
Yellow Dal w/Garlic & Brown Basmati and make ahead veggie enchiladas all at once.
Our local grocery store’s distributor ran out of eggs by the dozen. 😕
What do you need this morning? Bee butt on Gilia flowers and Baby Blue Eyes.
Realized we can keep our front door open with closed screen because there shouldn’t be door to door sales people right now. The Annie Cat is in heaven.
Takeout from a local Orland, CA restaurant. Even in rural California, online takeout is available! Several restaurants here are offering online orders or call-in. One restaurant has kits to make meals. Another has frozen takeout. 🤞
It’s high time we start taking photos behind the flowers. Apricot flower.
Sous Vide London Broil (Beef)
Saturday, March 14, 2020
We had a two pound London Broil in the freezer chest and nowhere to go because of SARS-CoV-2. Might as well try Sous Vide! We did the water displacement method with a 1-gallon freezer bag. I massaged out as many air bubbles as possible. I also pinched the sides of the bag together. The idea is to make sure as much direct contact happens with as much meat surfaces as possible with water.Not going anywhere unless necessary so time to try Sous Vide London Broil. Just under two pounds of meat held at 132°F/55.6°C for 8 hours. Just salt and pepper for the beef. Will sear it to finish.
Cherry tree in full bloom.
This morning’s view out the backyard window. The California Lilacs (purple!) are out of control. Mandarin in the foreground. Elderberry to the far left.
A successful section of our vegetative fence line screen. Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana), California Lilac (Ceanothus), and a Mandarin tree. A few years in the making.
Sunset over the Pacific. Two versions, no filter, just different exposure settings. iPhone 11 Pro 2x. Northern California.
Gray Whale spouts (center photo) off the coast of Northern California.
Western toad hanging out in one of our irrigation boxes. We have a wildlife ramp in there for this reason.
European honeybee on a California Lilac (Ceanothus). 🐝
Our front yarden sage plants (first two photos) and all the Ceanothus are now flowering.
Our apricot had its first bloom today. A few weeks ahead last year. This tree has rarely yielded fruit. 🤞🌳
Our cherry tree had its first bloom today.
There are many **vision**s brewing in these caskets at [Moksa Brewery](https://moksabrewing.com).
Alcohol dreaming to escape their bottles. Later, I had a dry gin martini on the rocks.
Ember leaping from a pepper roasting over a gas flame.
