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Name three things - 2014
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Visit the Royal Ontario Museum (for free, hooray!)
Get some groceries from Chinatown
Soak some soy beans and almonds to make milk tomorrow
Visit the Royal Ontario Museum (for free, hooray!)
Get some groceries from Chinatown
Soak some soy beans and almonds to make milk tomorrow
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Go to Lowes for water softener salt
Work on a bit of laundry
A quick vacuum
Work on a bit of laundry
A quick vacuum
1. WORK
2. Go home and greet my furbabies and husband.
3. Eat and watch TV (can't go outside, 50 MPH wind gusts!)
2. Go home and greet my furbabies and husband.
3. Eat and watch TV (can't go outside, 50 MPH wind gusts!)
Fascinated by how you make your own soy and almond milk! Impressive.
Vacuumed the apartment
Cleaned the bathroom and laundered the bathmats and shower curtains
Moved some bits of furniture about so I now have a tidier hall and a radio in my sitting room.
@winchester.
I haven't been shopping lately to see if we gave corn syrup but we do have fig syrup. My daughter uses it a lot in cooking salads and it can go into cakes I think.
@tammat
You have to pay a fee to the council to keep cats?! - mouth agape. I'm stunned.
I had 3 cats with no council problems and 2 cats and a big dog.
Well you decided me. I'm not coming to Australia.
I haven't been shopping lately to see if we gave corn syrup but we do have fig syrup. My daughter uses it a lot in cooking salads and it can go into cakes I think.
@tammat
You have to pay a fee to the council to keep cats?! - mouth agape. I'm stunned.
I had 3 cats with no council problems and 2 cats and a big dog.
Well you decided me. I'm not coming to Australia.
It's amazingly easy! It just requires some forethought to get everything soaked and ready 10-12 hours beforehand. Beans + water + blender. Sift it, boil it, sweeten it (if desired), and store it for a week.
Sounds amazing, I presume almonds are raw, are the soy beans cooked in any way? Dried beans not fresh? Proportion of water to weight of almonds? I'd love to give this a try!
Yep, the beans are dried yellow soy beans. I think the measurements I used were 1 cup of raw materials (pre-soaking) to something like 6 cups of water? It depends how strong you want it. I know quite a few recipes recommend more like 4 cups. You can taste and add as you go if you need to. If you have cheesecloth, it's easier to strain the residual sediment from blending, but since I use the results for cereal and oatmeal, I really don't mind the sediment because I don't notice it, and I don't need it to be super strong either. You can keep the sediment for baking and other recipes! I've used honey, brown sugar, white sugar, stevia, and yellow rock sugar as sweeteners with pretty good results. I think I prefer brown sugar.
One thing I would say though is don't go in with storebought-flavour expectations. If you've had an Asian brand of soy milk, that taste might be closer, but still not quite homemade taste (my aunt has a milk maker though, and that's similar to Asian soy milks).
One thing I would say though is don't go in with storebought-flavour expectations. If you've had an Asian brand of soy milk, that taste might be closer, but still not quite homemade taste (my aunt has a milk maker though, and that's similar to Asian soy milks).
@pinkdagger thank you for all this information.
It sounds amazing and I can't wait to try it out. I have piles of almonds just now that probably need using up so they can be my first experiment. Really looking forward to seeing how it tastes and what the texture is like. I'm thinking the almond sediment might be pretty good in porridge or oatmeal cerial.
Tomorrow (today after my sleep given it is now past midnight) my tasks should be
Work
Try making almond milk
Clean up mess from attempt at making almond milk.
Tomorrow (today after my sleep given it is now past midnight) my tasks should be
Work
Try making almond milk
Clean up mess from attempt at making almond milk.
I exercised.
Planted some seedlings, white primulas and white foxgloves.
Took my kids to swimming lessons.
Planted some seedlings, white primulas and white foxgloves.
Took my kids to swimming lessons.
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Dental appt this morning for a cleaning -- done, cleaning went well and my toofers are all fine
BooBoo and Tabby have vet appts tonight. Boo needs another allergy shot and it's time for Tabby's check-up
Trash night, so must clean all the litter boxes
BooBoo and Tabby have vet appts tonight. Boo needs another allergy shot and it's time for Tabby's check-up
Trash night, so must clean all the litter boxes
Of course! Let me know how it goes!
@pinkdagger thank you for all this information.It sounds amazing and I can't wait to try it out. I have piles of almonds just now that probably need using up so they can be my first experiment. Really looking forward to seeing how it tastes and what the texture is like. I'm thinking the almond sediment might be pretty good in porridge or oatmeal cerial.
Tomorrow (today after my sleep given it is now past midnight) my tasks should be
Work
Try making almond milk
Clean up mess from attempt at making almond milk.
Today I need to draw, work on my website, and hopefully (*hopefully* - fingers crossed) get my blog up and running for sketches.
Didn't manage the almond milk today - too long at work.
Plan for Sunday, or Monday which is my next day off.
Walk to work and back.
Remembered to post a card to a friend - only a week over due sending.
Educated one of my new tenants in Mouse's communication signs for 'want to play hide and seek / hunt the human'.
What a joy watching an adult man you hardly know sticking his head round the edge of an open door then hiding repeatedly then running off down a corridor with a little cat running after him with cat tail bolt upright.
Mouse really seems to like this couple, and no wonder when they are both happy to act daft and obey his commands after only 2 weeks.
Walk to work and back.
Remembered to post a card to a friend - only a week over due sending.
Educated one of my new tenants in Mouse's communication signs for 'want to play hide and seek / hunt the human'.
I was helping out in my mil shop for the morning.
I was supposed to go for a 40 min run but I swapped it for 1 1/2 hours sleep.
I'm waiting for socks to wash so I can go to bed early. Hurry up washing machine!!
I was supposed to go for a 40 min run but I swapped it for 1 1/2 hours sleep.
I'm waiting for socks to wash so I can go to bed early. Hurry up washing machine!!
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Shop for some groceries, probably check out the thrift shops while I am on the road, bake myself some bread.
Going to the vet with Kitty Mo-mar
Making crustless cheesecake
Drawing
Making crustless cheesecake
Drawing
Ugh, l'm so glad we have until the 5th this year, l completely forgot to send mine yesterday. Maybe because l owe this year
- Send tax return
- Buy salmon, l'm craving salmon
- Finish the last reordering and cleaning of the kitchen
Haha, I actually had a family friend post this to Facebook the other day
"Extending tax deadline really screws up accounting firms as some clients take advantage of this and leave their taxes until the last minute. It is human nature to use the extra time if you give it to them. For those of you who haven't completed your taxes, please don't leave it until May 5. Have some consideration for your accountant!!!!! Husband - I hope you are increasing your fees after today to cover the extra staff cost and missed vacations!"
My aunt is a corporate accountant so fortunately she doesn't have as much crap to deal with, with the extension! I didn't even realize there was an extension until I saw that post, but my family always sends our taxes in as soon as we have all the forms available to fill everything out. Since I don't have much to claim, my forms are the bare minimum. Mine, fortunately, take such a short time to do but I may be doing them online for my family in the future anyway.
"Extending tax deadline really screws up accounting firms as some clients take advantage of this and leave their taxes until the last minute. It is human nature to use the extra time if you give it to them. For those of you who haven't completed your taxes, please don't leave it until May 5. Have some consideration for your accountant!!!!! Husband - I hope you are increasing your fees after today to cover the extra staff cost and missed vacations!"
My aunt is a corporate accountant so fortunately she doesn't have as much crap to deal with, with the extension! I didn't even realize there was an extension until I saw that post, but my family always sends our taxes in as soon as we have all the forms available to fill everything out. Since I don't have much to claim, my forms are the bare minimum. Mine, fortunately, take such a short time to do but I may be doing them online for my family in the future anyway.
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