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[ellarien]

Asteroid conspiracy theorists may be even worse than solar activity conspiracy theorists.

Five+ hours in the slow cooker was probably too long for a mix of red lentils and dried vegetables previously boiled for ten minutes, plus a coarsely chopped^H^H^H cut up onion. Tasty enough (if rather the reverse of appetizing in appearance) but pretty close to mush in texture.

The indicator light on my coffee maker seems to have died. Fortunately the coffee-making function hasn't.

The derelict car dealership just up the road is going to be a car dealership again. I don't know whether the extensive gutter-cleaning exercise holding up traffic along their frontage for the last couple of days is at all connected. And that can't be the only reason why buses that are supposed to be running at ten-minute intervals between here and the far side of the city have been turning up in pairs more often than not for the last fortnight.

I was just starting to work on re-convincing my system that 65 F is a perfectly comfortable indoor temperature, and we get a heatwave.

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[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of trouble cooking red lentils without getting mush. They are sure tasty though.

[ellarien]

I'm not sure they retained structural integrity through the ten-minute boil, even. (The slow-cooker instruction book insisted on that for pulses.) I'm more used to the larger, harder-skinned ones I got in Arizona -- green or brown, I guess.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

The green-brown ones are the "normal" lentils of my youth and they take the same time as rice, more or less, and they keep a nice cute shape and taste lovely. The red ones I have had prepard by a resataurant where they kept their shape but I have never accomplished it. But they taste even nicer than the others so I try them out from time to time.