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I'm listening to the rain. It's supposed to rain all day long and into the night. I have no other plans today except post Bingo numbers. I hope you guys start creating new threads so I can reply ;)
 

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Tiny electrical tweak, small enough that it only took 15 minutes.
 

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Freezer was stocked full of dehydrated or partially dehydrated food stuffs - fruits and vegetables mostly but also some sprouts. I have been consolidating it and gradually filling more spice jars. Of late I've added my own garlic/onion/salt powder, a pizza sauce powder, a celery salt powder and just plain tomato powder.

I tried the pizza sauce powder today. :) The beauty of powders is that if you're careful with them (don't let air/steam get to them) they last ages and there is 0 waste, like there is for sauces used a few times then left in the fridge to eventually go bad.

Now, just chilling. I have been playing Bach all day. Trills with the 3rd/4th fingers of the left hand now possible again thanks to Hanon exercises.
 

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How do you make pizza sauce powder?
 

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How do you make pizza sauce powder?

I have a recipe I have yet to try (using all dry ingredients) - but that is not how I made the powder this time.

You need to find a pizza sauce that is fat free or nearly fat free. Secondly you need a dehydrator. The reason for fat free is that the fat cannot be turned into a powder by a dehydrator, and will go rancid after a while.

The pizza sauce I used this time is thick enough so that I could spread it evenly on my dehydrator trays - leaving a covered (without holes) tray on the bottom to catch the remaining drip. It took a few days to get it fully dry. Then after scraping it off/pushing it through the holes - put it into a blender with a very sharp blade.

The wet amount I originally had was 2 fairly large bottles. After dehydrating and powdering - it fit into 2 small spice jars around a 10th of the size.
 

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I have a recipe I have yet to try (using all dry ingredients) - but that is not how I made the powder this time.

You need to find a pizza sauce that is fat free or nearly fat free. Secondly you need a dehydrator. The reason for fat free is that the fat cannot be turned into a powder by a dehydrator, and will go rancid after a while.

The pizza sauce I used this time is thick enough so that I could spread it evenly on my dehydrator trays - leaving a covered (without holes) tray on the bottom to catch the remaining drip. It took a few days to get it fully dry. Then after scraping it off/pushing it through the holes - put it into a blender with a very sharp blade.

The wet amount I originally had was 2 fairly large bottles. After dehydrating and powdering - it fit into 2 small spice jars around a 10th of the size.

The pizza sauces I know use tomato paste, crushed red pepper and basil.

I'm looking into make my own pizza dough once I get my shipment of barley malt syrup. It helps to brown the dough quickly as well as giving it a nice nutty flavor that I can't find in pizzas where I live.
 

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I'm resting too :) It's such a beautiful day! I was outside on the back deck rocking in my rocking chair. A spider was on my arm and I flinched and flung it off but then felt sorry for it. It's the kind that kind of shrinks back when you come near. Poor spider.
 

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The pizza sauces I know use tomato paste, crushed red pepper and basil.

I'm looking into make my own pizza dough once I get my shipment of barley malt syrup. It helps to brown the dough quickly as well as giving it a nice nutty flavor that I can't find in pizzas where I live.

The one I dehydrated consisted of crushed tomatoes, salt, marjoram, basil, onion, garlic and a teeny bit of vegetable oil

There's no need to make powder provided when you open a sauce container you fridge it and use it within it's use by date. What I've found over the years is that my fridge keeps defeating it's purpose for the majority of things that I put into it. Fruits go off in a short time, vegetables wilt and sauces get forgotten about and go off. So there's the food waste - and for the electricity it uses to keep cool all the time there's a monetary waste. I can still see the purpose of a freezer though - so I plan to eventually ditch my fridge/freezer completely and just use a small, economical freezer.

I find powders extremely convenient not only because of the small space they require before adding water/oil to them for a sauce, but also the lack of waste. Every food item I've bought that goes bad - no matter how little it is individually adds up - it's basically like taking money and throwing it in the garbage.
 

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I don't always use up all the sauce and it goes in the freezer. So, yeah, that's handy to have. Since there are only 2 of us I do freeze a lot of things when I cook because I make extra portions. Then it's a quicker meal next time when I already have things in the freezer to pull out and thaw or just cook from frozen.
 

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Another 100 odd pounds of plaster pulled down and bagged up. Got about 1/4 ton of it now. Then helped a friend shift furniture.
 

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I just finished watching:


Which I would recommend if you like "The Sound of Music" and are interested in a story a little closer to the truth.
 

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No prizes for guessing what took up a good chunk of my day. Except today I managed to pry the side panels and top panels from two windows. Some precision is needed - as best I can tell it's 100-year-old walnut, so not something I want to just rip out and burn. I'm not sure how (or even whether) I can find anything to match it for the new doorway I need. I'm hoping I can make a walkway without needing to specifically frame it as a doorway.
 

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No proper wrecking today. First I spent a couple of hours burning old laths, then set about replacing a stretch of old wiring so I can run an air conditioner. Along the way I found a hole in the outside wall so ended up climbing a ladder with some cement to fix that. Finally got my piece of wiring replaced, put two air conditioners in and cleaned up the wall in the study I had to partly dismantle to get the new cable in place. It was odd to do what might be called precision wrecking, sucking up dust as fast as I produced it so it didn't spread.

Having not left the house aside from a brief trip (by car) to the hardware store to get some screws apparently the process resulted in walking three miles and climbing 38 flights of stairs.
 

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No proper wrecking today. First I spent a couple of hours burning old laths, then set about replacing a stretch of old wiring so I can run an air conditioner. Along the way I found a hole in the outside wall so ended up climbing a ladder with some cement to fix that. Finally got my piece of wiring replaced, put two air conditioners in and cleaned up the wall in the study I had to partly dismantle to get the new cable in place. It was odd to do what might be called precision wrecking, sucking up dust as fast as I produced it so it didn't spread.

Having not left the house aside from a brief trip (by car) to the hardware store to get some screws apparently the process resulted in walking three miles and climbing 38 flights of stairs.

2 air conditioners? Window units or central air?
 

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Window. Central air comes later, probably next year.

I was just reading up about window units yesterday. The advice now is that if you don't use most of your house then just stick with the window units to save money.
 

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I was just reading up about window units yesterday. The advice now is that if you don't use most of your house then just stick with the window units to save money.

That's good, until you have to shift units weighing 70lb or more up multiple flights of stairs to store them for the winter.
 
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