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  1. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Beans and rice is the same example I was thinking of when I was writing my escape clause into my original statement. But I'm not a true believer in the beans and rice thing either. I mean, like, if I eat beans for lunch and rice for supper it's not going to be as healthy as eating them together...
  2. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    OK, I'm not convinced, because the research is shabby, contrived or non-existent. But, just in case they know what they're talking about, my Wagyu beef burger has lots of 5-peppercorn melange in addition to gobs of turmeric. My estimate is 2-3 grams of turmeric and 1 gram of peppercorn melange...
  3. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I've been told that people regularly find popcorn poppers cheap at thrift stores, flea markets and yard sales. I might be sorry, but without researching it, I'm calling BS on this "activator" stuff. Nothing at all wrong with black pepper and ginger (I use the former with regularity and the...
  4. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    One of many interesting things that I've learned from recent BBC watching: scientists now think that the natural inclination of woodpeckers to do what they do causes damage to their bird brains.... the birds, not the scientists.
  5. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    My dad, towards the end of his life, had some spontaneous breakage of vertebrae. Dad was on large doses of several meds, including steroids, that contributed to bone loss. Dad's concierge doc up in NJ suggested to me and my sibs in 2014 that we get bone density tests, but my personal physician...
  6. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I was lucky. My gastroesophageal reflux slowly got better once I quite smoking. I was supposed to be taking Symbicort but I had already stopped taking it about a year before I started vaping. I've got 2 or 3 boxes of 20 mg omeprazole but I've only used 4 or 5 of the pills in the past 3 years...
  7. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I made about 12 oz of hot stuff today: a bunch of horseradish powder and a bunch of mustard powder mixed with vinegar. It's pretty hot. Only if the anesthetic isn't working! One of the least expensive ways to try coffee roasting is with a popcorn popper. A great many people start that way and...
  8. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Voir les oiseaux... see how much nicer it sounds in French?
  9. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    @Debadoo, you can roast coffee beans in a fry pan... it's just really difficult (read: impossible) to achieve consistency. Other inconveniences of pan roasting: You still need some plan to deal with the smoke unless you can do it outside. You need to keep the beans moving or else they'll burn...
  10. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Even if you could get it hot enough to roast the beans, there's smoke to deal with... the darker the roast the more smoke. And that basket that I think you're calling a drum... I don't think it rotates... I could be wrong. Doctor: how about a root canal? I always wanted to try one of those.
  11. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    400 degrees is not hot enough to roast green coffee beans.
  12. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    There is no essential difference.... both are pressure cookers but the Instant Pot is more versatile.
  13. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    How marvelously your dad wrote! I'm just a relative noob to cooking with an Instant Pot... 3 or 4 years.... but.... I cook a fair amount of dried beans and I do NOT soak them. They come out great. 75 to 90 minutes for kidney beans and pinto beans.... or maybe you were saying that you only soak...
  14. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    If talk makes your eyes itchy, they're not holding their ears just right. :-)
  15. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    What a clever name for the store! I had both lenses replaced in 2010. Mine are set up for what's called "monovision", which is a weird name that doesn't mean what you might think. Monovision corrects for distance vision in one eye and close-up vision in the other. Rather than being the best of...
  16. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Since it was still over half frozen, I cooked it really well done because I didn't want any possibility of finding it was cool or cold in the center. So, even though it was more done than I prefer, the Wagyu beef burger was nevertheless excellent! I have some hamburger buns but they're too...
  17. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Great link, Flowersoul! I like the free shipping, with $7.50 handling charge. Here's a link to the D'artagnan ground beef patties that I got. I'm gonna go cook one now, even if George Foreman has to do some thawing along with the cooking. Can't wait! Wagyu Kobe Gourmet Hamburger Patties | Shop...
  18. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I treated myself to some food from D'atargnan. FedEx Overnight brought me a box 5 hours ago. In a couple of hours I'll be able to cross "try Wagyu beef" off my bucket list... I got the Wagyu ground beef patties... expensive, yes, but not compared to the Wagyu steaks! I put a pair of the 8-oz...
  19. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Those young ladies have swing and jazz in their bones. The clarinet player is named Chloe Feoranzo. She's in YouTube videos going back to when she was in grade school in 2005. Here's one from 2011 that's especially good.
  20. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Omeprazole is the same as Prilosec, and it is available over the counter. Even at the very high dose of 80 mg per day, it would cost you less than $50 per month to buy it on Amazon, or from Costco. I'm not saying it's the right med for you; all I'm saying is that it wouldn't cost $300 a month...
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