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Mastering our Thankfulness

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It’s Thanksgiving week and we have a lot to be thankful for this year.  First and foremost is the grill and the fact that I can do a chicken for us.  I did a prep run the other week and all was great.  Timing was spot on.  Sides were easily manageable.  Heat control was on point.  I over cooked by about 12 minutes, but my meat thermometer was dead (not everything needs batteries and wifi, but that’s another rant) and I was going a bit on feel.  Considering the last time I roasted a chicken, let alone on a grill, was over 4 years ago, I was happy.  The only other complaint was the gravy.  I got a bit heavy handed with the flour and it was a little over thick.  Both things are easily fixable.  Again, after 4 years away from doing to cook to be a little over done and the gravy a little over thick isn’t the worst.  It’s fixable and the chicken I’ll be getting for our Thanksgiving meal will be about 300-400g heavier, so that should ...
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Wild Weekend

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It was a Kiddo weekend, that’s for sure. Saturday, J had to go to the doc and get some blood work done.  Nothing serious, just standard bloodwork for a yearly check up, so instead of fasting all day and trying to teach, she scheduled it on a Saturday in the morning at first appointment.  After that, however, she wanted to hit the climbing gym and I wanted her to have some time for her; She’s been working so hard to finish her Masters (two more weeks!) on top of teaching, mom’ing, wife’ing, and general awesomeness’ing.  That said, I was on Kiddo all day Saturday.  It was great.  We got to doctor for a bit and then she helped cook again.  She’s really getting the hang of it.  We did a tofu stirfry and Kiddo rocked the greenbeans and celery. The real fun was going to GET the produce.  It was a lovely weekend.  Really just fantastic weather.  Yesterday it was 23 out (74F) and Saturday was 21 (70F) out.  So, we hoped on our bikes and...
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Kiddo takes the wheel

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There are always new things in life, especially on our adventure.  All the big things I’ve talked about; Languages, cultures, weather, the cities and flow of life/traffic/people, and all the rest.  There’s also the small things.  We’ve changed deodorants and toothpastes a few times in the last few years, dental floss, shampoo, and (for the ladies) conditioner.  Then there’s hand soaps, dish soaps, laundry soap, and even counter cleaner.  We are constantly trying new rice brands until we find the one we like.  Everyday is a new thing.  Every day is trying something new. Kiddo, with our watching of Top Chef, is expanding her vocabulary of food and tastes, but she’s also opening her mind to food a bit.  We took her out, the other night, to a little place J and I found a while back.  We figured she wouldn’t like it, as it is VERY Chinese in presentation and flavors.  We didn’t get pics of food, we we’re eating, but we got a potato thing in...
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