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I like lots of things: outdoorsy stuff, photography, music, gardening, Drupal, programming, universities.

Movies: Star Wars, Goonies, Ghostbusters, and later on, Big Lebowski

TV: Transformers, Voltron, and later on, Friends, Seinfeld, Star Trek.

Books: Dragonlance, Good Omens, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, and later on, Connie Willis

Comics: Far Side, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes

Generation: Late Gen X

Gave up on Google years ago. Duck Duck Go isn’t necessarily better, but it’s not worse. And privacy FTW!

I’ve never really inspected the Paprika recipe format. It might be open-ish.

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I’d be happy to work with you on that!

I use Paprika as a recipe manager. If it could import from that format, that would be awesome!

I REALLY wanted to, and I tried, but the interface was annoying. It wanted me to add every ingredient individually and all the different fields. Too much work!

‘Tis the season, I suppose. Here’s my turkey, stuffing, and gravy recipe. I won’t write a big blog post on the history, but this has been passed down several generations and has its roots in SF Bay Area.

Turkey Stuffing and Gravy

Ingredients:

big turkey, ~20 lbs, including giblets

2 whole loaves sourdough crumbs

½ cube butter

2 yellow onions, chopped fine, skins reserved

1 head of celery, chopped fine, root-end and tops reserved

2 eggs

1 cup milk or half & half

½ oz Bell's turkey seasoning

salt

pepper

Directions:

Boil giblets, celery root/tops, onion skins, in 2+ cups water. Strain and reserve broth and giblets.

In 12" pan, sautee butter, onion, and celery. Remove meat from turkey neck and add to sautee. Mince liver, add to sautee. Discard gizzard.

In large bowl, mix bread crumbs, seasoning, salt, pepper, and sauteed veggies.

Beat eggs and milk. Add slowly to crumb mixture, stirring constantly. If too dry, add broth and/or milk.

Stuff front and back of turkey. Sew up both ends.

Bake turkey, breast-down at 325° for ~20 minutes per pound. Maybe less. Cook until temp is 180° in the thigh and 165° in stuffing.

Gravy:

Save that turkey broth from the giblets. You’re going to need it here.

When the turkey is done, remove turkey from oven, cover with foil, and let cool a bit. Using the handles on the rack, lift turkey out of the pan. Pour juices and fat out of the pan into a big jar or measuring cup.

Place pan on stove over medium heat. Using a spatula to scrape fond, thoroughly mix in flour, about a tablespoon at a time, maybe 4-6 tablespoons total, depending on size of turkey. Add a more turkey fat to thin if necessary. Allow to sizzle slightly but not burn. Adjust heat if necessary. Continue stirring with flat side of spatula until all lumps are gone all fond is scraped, and it has thickened into a thin brown paste.

While stirring, slowly add turkey broth (from stuffing recipe) to thin into gravy. Keep stirring to remove lumps. If you run out of broth before it’s thin enough, you can use water from boiling potatoes, or canned chicken broth, or plain water.

Transfer to saucepan to keep warm.

#turkey #thanksgiving #stuffing

“I put the frog in a mayonnaise jar. With a stick and a leaf.

To recreate what he is used to.”

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I’m thrilled to announce that the first long-form book of fiction on Bitcoin - 24 - is now available for purchase.

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Here’s the blurb:

“Surreal, suspenseful, and thought-provoking, 24 is a book about Oliver Battolo's journey, as he comes to terms with the unexpected death of his father, and in the process discovers that he had been harboring a bizarre secret.

Set in the year 2022, Oliver learns how to slay demons past and present, as he unravels the mystery that leads him to secrets hidden in paintings, returning characters from childhood fantasies, alchemy, and somehow, bitcoin.”

There is a hidden bounty in the book, that can be unlocked by finding clues spread all through. I will be periodically adding to the bounty with a percentage of the book sales profits until it is claimed. Right now, it stands at 10M sats and can be tracked here:

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qy5enkjplrwm4kaag4qgqjppsjy4k3a6fy7z879

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it over the last year!

When DRM-free ebook?

Incorrect. Black Friday is definitely Christmas too.

I’m imagining a browser extension that is a Nostr client itself. It’s always open when I’m browsing the web or reading articles on the web and can see notes that have referenced that article/product/etc. if there are too many, I can filter by only seeing my friends.

Highlighter already integrates with any web site or article on a web site. If I can highlight something and leave a comment, and see the comments my contacts make, it’s like Disqus, but way way better and doesn’t require any centralizing force or permission.