I would just like to say a special thanks to parchment paper. For the last 30 years my sausage cheese balls have stuck to my cookie sheets. Then, one round with parchment paper in between the two and they come right off! It's actually something that makes life easier, unlike the kitchen nemesis plastic wrap.
Thanks parchment paper.
What inanimate object would you like to thank today?
You should try these silicone cookie sheets:
https://www.kitchenstuffplus.com/media/catalog/product/9/3/93348_KSP_Bakers_Silicone_Baking_Sheet__Natural_Orange_2.jpg?width=2000&height=&canvas=2000:&optimize=high&fit=bounds
As for what inanimate objects gets a shoutout today from me - the microwave. It never fails to reheat my coffee.
And cheat on my parchment paper? ๐ค Thanks for the tip nonetheless. I'll keep it in my memory bank.
I've envisioned Caroline Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie time traveling to today more than once to watch a microwave in action. (I have weird thoughts.) She'd be blown away!
It's not Caroline Ingalls but it's sorta close:
https://tubitv.com/movies/445085/time-changer
Get ready to be saved. : P
It's asking me to install an app and it looks like it's an hour and a half movie. Is it someone from the olden days getting excited about newfangled contraptions?
shareIt's a movie called Time Changer - you can view it on tubi, it's a free streaming service.
It's about a seminary school teacher who travels to the future (2002) - it's pretty religious but it's what I'd imagine Little House on the Prairie meets HG Wells would look like.
I've got Tubi on my TV so I'll also put that in my memory bank.
shareWall. What would life be like without them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i04wcSAgJmY
Ah, the old reliable and rarely thought of wall. Why, without the wall we would live on openly void planes! Plane like flat thing. Like a floor. Not an airplane. I would not live on an airplane.
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLo7GwiGdWE
shareLet me rephrase that. I would not live on an airplane in the air.
shareWatching the video I don't even think I'd like to live there, as cool as it might seem at first. Notice hm wearing winter clothes while just hanging out--is the darn thing heated at all? The shower is a joke. It's almost like camping out. It would wear thin rather quickly.
Intimate object appreciation:
Heater/Furnace, Air Conditioner, Shower/Tub
Amen to that. Living in the South I'm especially thankful for the air conditioner!
shareMy axes ๐ช
shareWhat?
Don't your axes have the spirits of your dead ancestors in them?
Are you buying your axes from Temu or something.
Oh no, his axes were forged by a very talented blacksmith (who just so happens to be his cousin) and blessed by a priest of Thor for use in battle. :D He also has axes for throwing contests held every year in the Viking Games, and he has simple, ordinary axes for chopping wood for his family. In fact, he's gained the nickname "The Ax-Thrower" from his neighbors and family over the years ;)
shareThe axe! (Or is it ax?) Both a cutter of Norwegian wood and an inexplicable thing to hurl by drunk people at bars in recent years. Much praise to the axe/ax!
shareHe's referring to his war axes, which he happily uses during raids >:D He also is a champion ax-thrower at the tournaments the different Viking tribes hold every spring, hehehe.
shareLarry David respects wood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo98TJFSErU
We need to introduce him to samoanjoes.
shareMy mom discovered how useful parchment paper was for baking cookies :) Beats greasing up the tray and having to scrap or even accidentally break the cookies off after baking. Although we've had special cookie trays for years, so the parchment paper works for other stuff you can bake in the oven.
I'm gonna thank metal baking trays, because they've come in handy so many times in the past 4 years for my family. The primary cook in the house got sick and disabled, so I was forced to step in and cook, and frankly, I'm not energetic or as good or dedicated a cook as the original was, nor do I enjoy cooking, and have had to make use of frozen dinners a lot.
That's very kind of you to step in and help and I'm sure it's much appreciated.
And of course we should thank the metal baking tray! I could have all the parchment paper in the world, but without the metal baking tray my sausage cheese balls would fall all over the bottom of the oven and make a big mess!
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Those sound tasty :P I might have to go find a recipe for those.
shareThis is basically the recipe I use. I have to add a few tablespoons of water, though, to the mixture to get it to stick together correctly.
https://belleofthekitchen.com/bisquick-sausage-balls-3-ingredients/
Aww, thank you :D
shareWhile we are at it I want to give shoutout to desk.
google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=desk
It's a good thing you linked us to pictures. After all, the desk is a rare and elusive breed.
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A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
Well, you had me until raft. That would have to be a pretty sturdy towel! ๐
Nevertheless we shall celebrate the towel, without which we would have to dry off with a kleenex, or a blanket, or a rug, and we couldn't have that!