The Anchorage, Part 3

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Oh definitely onions and carrots. The potato might be nice, but that's also a starch, so I don't know if I'd mix a potato with noodles, but don't go by me.

Well, actually, the point behind the one potato isn't so much for eating... the potato, when cut up small so that you have the pieces floating in the broth/mixture, it does a good job of soaking up the extra salt that the soy sauce added. That leaves you with the flavor of the soy sauce, but not the salt from it. Just don't eat the potato pieces! I pull the potato pieces out and put them aside for the compost before serving.

 

[Lorraine]

Good morning, good morning!

Ouchy, ouchy, Satira! That woulda hurt! And shame on your neighbours, what a rotten thing to do.

Seliah, have you ever used a pressure cooker? I use mine for all pot roasting and it will tenderise shoe leather. Got a corned silverside in the fridge for the weekend and after it's been through that puppy I'll be able to eat it with a spoon.

Just waiting for the kettle to boil then I'll become a human bean and head ashore. Wifi! Downloading! Yay!!!

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Morning, Lorraine.

I don't have a pressure cooker, though I do have a slow-cooker... it does just as good a job tenderizing the heck out of anything, including shoe leather. I prefer to cook over a stove or open fire, but I do use the slow cooker for stuff like this, yes. LOL

 

[Lorraine]

You might say the pressure cooker is the boat's slow cooker except it's fast. I've had mine for 38 years and it's still going strong. Canna have my gennie running a slow cooker for that long

 

[Terre]

Satira, I can only second the others comments on your fall this morning. Can't think of anything to add.

We don't have either a slow cooker or a pressure one. What I do wouldn't work for Lorraine either. I have a big, deep cast iron skillet with a lid and put a layer of safflower oil in then put the meat in, set the flame fairly low (yes our stove is gas) and set the timer for nearly two hours. If I get the heat right things come out very tender.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

I is home! And thanks everyone.

My knee doesn't hurt as much as it did this morning, so hopefully, it's going to be fine. If I do have any problems, I'd expect them to show up in the morning. I have an eye doctor appointment and he's next to my doctor, so it won't require a special trip to the doctor if it needs to be seen.

Tsuki's Cricket toy arrived today. It chirps when touched. So she had a grand old time with it for a bit. Now she's off to something else.

I'm trying to find a teething toy for her, but every teething toy has horror stories about pieces breaking off and being eaten and getting lodged in the intestines. So, I"ll ask the vet for recommendations tomorrow.

 

[Terre]

Glad your knee is feeling better. Hopefully all goes well tomorrow.

 

[Miss B]

Yes, I also hope nothing is wrong with your knee, though I suspect if it was bad, you would know it by now.

Brusing, however, often doesn't happen until the next day.

 

[Miss B]

Well, actually, the point behind the one potato isn't so much for eating... the potato, when cut up small so that you have the pieces floating in the broth/mixture, it does a good job of soaking up the extra salt that the soy sauce added. That leaves you with the flavor of the soy sauce, but not the salt from it. Just don't eat the potato pieces! I pull the potato pieces out and put them aside for the compost before serving.

Ohhh, I didn't realize that.

 

[Terre]

Interesting idea. If I come across someone who likes the flavor but is watching the salt I'll mention that trick. Afraid I won't be using it myself as we both are soy sensitive.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

It will not remove all of the salt. If something was over-salted, it's going to be over-salted with or without potatoes in it. LOL

All it does, really, is lower the amount. For someone who is a heart patient - no, it's not a good solution. But if it's someone who just doesn't like a lot of salt, or who might have some lower extremity (MINOR) edema, it can help reduce it just a little bit. It works best if you soften the potatoes a touch first. I've done it many times; you will still taste some salt, but for how little soy sauce I add to the broth, it's enough to make the difference. This would not make a difference in a very heavily salted dish, though.

 

[Terre]

FireFox just reminded me that there is a newer version out. Not updating yet as last I checked not all of the plugins I use have been updated for the new one yet.
Reminds me of the complaints the MFS2 (Main File Server 2 I think) keeps making at work. It's the server I do most of my work on and FF keeps complaining that it has failed to update and Kaspersky keeps complaining the endpoint security 10 for Windows can't update and is likely out of date...
Stupid computer. That's how it's supposed to be on that computer. The firewall has been set by the support company to only allow five things:
1: It allows the program they need to dial in and work on /take control of the computer.
2: It allows me to access the website of our primary supplies.
3; It allows me to access the support company's website.
4: It allows me to use Team Viewer to grant the computer people at our main supplier access to the computer.
5: It allows me to access the website of a specialty company we order from who has gone to online ordering and an online catalog.
It literally can't do anything else. This makes me very happy because having people surf on it while I wasn't there over the years had caused problems. MFS1 is almost locked down as tight but in it's case IE is simply passworded and one of the support techs told me the password when I needed to access a site for business purposes. The boss doesn't know I know and he also doesn't realize that FF on that compy isn't passworded. I needed FF put on there because of email access problems. Since he and his kids were some of the problem surfers I'm doing my best to see that he continues to think that no one can surf on either server.

 

[Terre]

It will not remove all of the salt. If something was over-salted, it's going to be over-salted with or without potatoes in it. LOL

All it does, really, is lower the amount. For someone who is a heart patient - no, it's not a good solution. But if it's someone who just doesn't like a lot of salt, or who might have some lower extremity (MINOR) edema, it can help reduce it just a little bit. It works best if you soften the potatoes a touch first. I've done it many times; you will still taste some salt, but for how little soy sauce I add to the broth, it's enough to make the difference. This would not make a difference in a very heavily salted dish, though.

It might make enough of a difference for someone who is wanting a low salt soy sauce though. After all even low sodium soy sauce is still rather high in salt.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Yuck! I do not envy your job, Terre! I wouldn't have the patience to fight with IT stuff all day.

I've held off updating on Opera, too... every time they update it, they change something that I really didn't want changed and didn't need to be changed. I went and made an edit somewhere (I forget where; I followed instructions from a tech-head forum) to prevent Opera from automatically installing it's updates. So now it just always pings me with a window asking me to update it, and I hit cancel and it's all good.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

It might make enough of a difference for someone who is wanting a low salt soy sauce though. After all even low sodium soy sauce is still rather high in salt.

True; it might be enough for something like that. A lot of it depends on the type of dish it's being used for, and the person's expectations of how much it's going to reduce. It's not a guaranteed fix-all salt-soaker-upper. But it's enough for what I need on the brisket sauce/soup to reduce the soy related salt a little bit.

 

[Terre]

The crazy part is I'm just the store's scanning coordinator. I'm nowhere near a computer expert but compared to the boss I am and as such I've ended up being considered the IT person in store. I've ended up learning some things along the way but the biggest thing is I just know more about the why and how of computers than the boss but he still won't listen if it's something he doesn't want to believe.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

The crazy part is I'm just the store's scanning coordinator. I'm nowhere near a computer expert but compared to the boss I am and as such I've ended up being considered the IT person in store. I've ended up learning some things along the way but the biggest thing is I just know more about the why and how of computers than the boss but he still won't listen if it's something he doesn't want to believe.

Wow, yeah... that would be insanely frustrating alright. And unfortunately, he sounds like a lot of "bosses" in a lot of places in this instance with the computers thing.

 

[Miss B]

FireFox just reminded me that there is a newer version out. Not updating yet as last I checked not all of the plugins I use have been updated for the new one yet.

I updated Firefox to version 44 the other day, and none of my plugins have complained.

Which plugins are you worried about Terre?

 

[Terre]

I don't remember offhand. I'll need to check with my husband. I'm still learning this stuff.

 

[Miss B]

Just to be sure Terre, I just checked my Addons/Plugins in the Tools list, and 3 were marked for updating, so that's where you can tell if your plugins have updates ready. I don't know if those would've been listed if I hadn't already updated Firefox, though they might have been if the creators knew a new version was coming, and what their plugins would need to work with that new version.