Pork of whatever sort you can get reasonably. The original was 2 pork loin roasts.
Crockpot.
Cup of chicken broth.
quarter cup soy sauce
quarter cup balsamic vinegar
teaspoon or so dijon mustard
teaspoon each of: oregano, thyme
2 tsp of rosemary
1/2 tsp black pepper or chili flake
3 tsp honey
cup of onion (if you can: I subbed more garlic and 2 bok choy for fiber)
2 minced cloves garlic (I did more.)
brown the meat before adding.
cook 6 or more hours.
Sounds lovely; the long cooking in the crockpot will make it fall-off-the-bone tender. You might consider subbing Chinese five spice powder or Indian garam masala for some of the other spices, if you are going for full Asian.
My version is even simpler: Kalua peeg. Get a pork shoulder that fits nicely into your crockpot. Score it on all sides. Make a paste out of Liquid Smoke and coarse salt, and pat it all over the roast. Wrap in several layers of tinfoil and/or plastic bags, and let it sit in the fridge for 2-3 days. Brush off any clinging salt, and cook at least 6 hours in the crockpot. When done, pull out and shred; this will be the basis for anything that needs pig: pulled pork, Kalua pig and cabbage, or other BBQ-like objects. The potlikker will probably be too salty to cook with, except in small doses.
AAAAND — the lovebirds are back. More of them. Today it was six, and Little Brother was very interested. They like our plumeria, but not the cats. I think someone’s cage got a hole, and there was a massive jailbreak.
It appears WP ate my previous comment, so if this doubleposts, please feel free to blip one.
For extra special Asian goodness, try subbing Chinese five spice powder or Indian garam masala for some of your other spices. I think I’ve already posted my recipe for Kalua pig in the slow cooker, so won’t bother rehashing.
The lovebirds are back, and there’s more of them; six today. It appears someone’s cage had a major hole, hence jailbreak. They have Little Brother’s undivided attention.
We had an incident last night that made me feel quite good about our neighborhood. Richard, our friend kittycorner across the fence, called about 9:00 last night and said a six year old girl had gone missing from the neighbors across HIS street. We went out with flashlights to look for Ruby, and it looked like every other house on our street had turned out as well, plus police and the firefighters from the nearby station. She was found about 45 minutes later; she had made it down to the main artery at the end of our street, gotten disoriented, and kept going. Still, seeing all those flashlights bobbing in the night and calls for ‘Ruby!!’ renewed my faith in good people.
If you can handle garlic, have you tried the various flavors/species of shallots and “elephant garlic” (garlic X leek crossbreed)? (I’ve got IBS, so I can’t blame you for not being an adventurous eater.
Mustard Roast
1 beef roast
1 bottle of your choice of mustard
1 1/2 times the volume of your roast in vegetables (I use potatos,onions,celery,and carrots most of the time, but sometimes cleriac, parsnips, apples, jicama, etc.)
Dry the roast coat it with mustard and pierce it heavily. Make sure it is entirely coated in the mustard, and throw it in the fridge for a day or so. Scrub or pare your veggies. Put them in a lidded pot and throw the roast on top of them. Shove it in the oven at 325F until it is as done as you like it, usually a couple of hours. I got the idea from Taming of the Shrew. Durned if I’ll eat the mustard without the beef!
I can’t even handle the mustard glaze some folks put on their Easter ham…..I remember reading old first aid books about how to induce someone to “reject” something they’d eaten, give them some mustard in warm water. You don’t even need the warm water for me….I’ve never been able to “stomach” it. I’ve read about the health benefits of mustard, but then again, there are health benefits to garlic, too, and some folks just can’t handle that, either.
I believe they’re talking about the dry, powdered, (hot) mustard in that case.
well, she said bottle of mustard, so I presumed the paste form, not a rub. Drying the roast, wiping it down of excess moisture, blood, etc., but using a bottled mustard…either way, I can’t eat it.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant the dry hot mustard application as an emetic. (Mom had it in her spice drawer.) Not sure about that, but it makes more sense to me than the vinegary paste.
Yup, prepared mustard. I also make a sauce/gravy from the pan drippings. The vinegar in the prepared mustard seems to tenderize the meat. If you can stomach horseradish, that or cocktail sauce might be an interesting substitute.
I, on the other hand, started salivating while reading Tommie’s recipe and am vowing to try it. To each stomach its own….
Off-Topic but really good news!
It works! It-works-it-works-it-works! Bwahahahah!
While I’m still not ready to submit fonts for review — I am another step closer!
Today, I experimented with copies of one of my font designs. Could I get it to rename properly? Could I get it to generate a working font again? Could I then do a quick check to create an obliqued italic to go with it?
Oh, heck yeah! The test pages (NeoOffice Word document, HTML5 + CSS3 web page) work with the local desktop fonts! It works like a charm! The oblique was easy to do from the regular version! (A real italic is almost completely redrawn, but an oblique is OK for some things.)
It all works! — Another step closer to getting that font out the door and into the real world!
My first reliable date for the Freehand drawing the font came from is from 2002. I might have had something earlier, but I can’t recall anymore.
It-works-it-works-it-works! Another step closer!
(I still have to do kerning on the Regular and Oblique fonts and any adjustments.)
(I still have to create the boldest weights and a special fun display face.)
But oh, it works! So, so good!
I spent the weekend on one of the main font-families and a draft of another. I also revised the old web pages for what I have now. Those are not posted yet. They’re future items, but they’re helping me keep note of features.
Oh, hurray!
Yes, I’m going to miss my goal for submitting fonts before the end of this month. But I’m making good progress overall. Things are working out, at least on font development. Yippee!
Happy dance! I love it when something you’ve been laboring over is done and works.
😀 I’ve confirmed my idea for how to do the bold and boldest weights works. Not sure yet if the outline-plus-shadow display face will work. I have to test that. I expect it will work with one or the other options. I think I see how to maintain the overall character of the, er, characters. 😉 This is very good. I’m so pleased.
I have had to compromise on another feature th544 of the fonts. This is a display font-family. I want a left-slant version, the existing non-slant, and a right-slant. But if I don’t create a duplicate of the Regular / Upright, then it and an Italic / Oblique are paired by default, and the left-slant has no pair for italics. Calling it a script or swash won’t help that either. I really want the Upright version too. My compromise? It’s a display font-family. It’s for something legible but weirdly alien. So my solution? The left-slant will be the Oblique / Inclined mate to the Regular / Upright, so there’s a pair. There’s no good way to have a triplet and have the third set on an equal footing and as easily usable as the others. Most people will want an easily accessible Oblique / Inclined (Italic). So the left-slant as Italic wins. I haven’t come up with anything that works easily otherwise, except to duplicate the Regular / Upright and give it another name, which means four sets of faces, with two of them identical…which is just not sensible and wasteful. (And if I were buying that, I’d want a discount.) So the left-slant wins as the Oblique / Inclined (Italic).
Since it’s intended to be “alien,” the words “Roman” and “Italic” both are linked to Roman and Italian styles. Not so alien! Fortunately, the font design software lets me have “Upright” and “Inclined” as equivalents. It just has no idea of how to name and link a left-slant.
I want to create some “Dingbats” (Printer’s ornaments, Pica florettes) to go with the font-family. But that may be a later addition.
I will also have to master Inkscape, because I need to do some graphics to illustrate the font in use,to excite potential buyers. That’s going to be fun. I haven’t learned Blender or other 3D software, but that even seems like a good idea for this.
Big Hint: What I’ve got going with this font-family is a very loving homage to 1950’s science fiction thriller movies and cartoons. (Think of a certain couple of Warner Brothers cartoon characters, for instance.) The font would be great for comics / toons / manga. If I can think up enought story background, there’s the basis for a fun anime and manga, here. 😀
If I get really wildly ambitious with it, I may have to do an “alien writing” font, but it would have to be similar in style or radically different, and would need to be unlike any ideas or designs I’ve drawn before.
I had great fun doing the text for the display type sample over the weekend. This might grow a little. The tendency now is to have multiple “showcards” to flip through to show off the fonts in use. Hmm….
I expect to be hand-drawing some sketches for alien symbols and creatures….
Remember that story you wanted to do about Robby and his spacesuit costume? Maybe you could introduce the font if he meets an alien!
“Now I shall have to create more Mar-ti-ans!!”
Hmm, wasn’t thinking along that angle. Great idea! I’ll have to give that some thought too! Thank you! 😀
Nota Bene: The fonts I have prioritized before those are text and display fonts of more general use to Earthlings. Well, humans, anyway. They don’t have to be on Earth…. But you know, more practical, general use fonts. — I do want to have fun with some display fonts, though, and I think there’s a market for these.
I suppose you could call your first one ‘marvin’?
Heh,”Marvin” as a font name was taken back in the 70’s, a display face.. It’s surprising what names are taken and what aren’t.
I am, however, very partial to Marvin the Martian, K-9, and Gossamer. 😉
Also partial to Willis (beachball Martian) and flatcats. By the way, the audiobook for Heinlein’s “The Rolling Stones” is pretty good, though not fully dramatized.
There is something really neat in seeing a font you’ve been working on that’s complete enough to get a good idea of what it will look like in use. I’m learning a lot and running into new challenges, but doing well with things in Fontographer. — Inkscape is still on the back burner.
I’ve just spent several hours working on fonts again, and whew, I’m tired and my eyes are bushed. Time for a break, which the cats will like. I may need to stay off the computer for a few hours, more from eyestrain than anything else. Had great fun updating a draft. But I’ve got to get to the main projects again.
Sigh. How does one convince two cats not to walk on one’s keyboard or graphics tablet? Nothing seems to work. They ignore me or act like I’m scolding them or angry for no reason. Somehow, the idea that a couple of feet of desk space are off limits to cat feet and heads and bodies is just not getting through to them. Really, I have very few rules. … They mostly ignore those. …. Darn cats. Wharcha gonna do? :-/ 🙂
Try noise diversion with the cats. Don’t let them in the room unless you’re in there with them and can run interference on the desk. Try pebbles in an aluminum beer can shaken energetically. Try one of those Air horns people use at football games. A blast of that every time they set foot on the desk ought to condition them fairly quickly.
The pebbles in the aluminum beer can work well when you can toss one in their general neighborhood. Gets their attention. Let’s them know they’ve done a no-no without associating you with the noxious stimulus.
An airhorn might condition *me* not to get near the keyboard! My ears are sensitive too. Yes-ouch! … But pebbles in a beer can might do. OK, so it’ll be more like a Coke can. To each one’s own vices.
Tha airhorn, though, I’d like to ring loud and clear every dang time some squirrel, raccoon, etc. scurries across (in?) my attic / roof. If I had the money to repair wherever they’re getting in…. (And I think they are.) … I’d charge ’em rent or work out a trade, if I could. (!!)
My cats might be a tough sell, but the pebbles-in-can is sure worth a try. They know they’ve got a good thing going, see.
New trend in book naming – rgence
Postemergence – Bren leaves the shower.
Preemergence – Bren gets ready to leave.
Submergence – Bren goes under.
Reemergence – Bren comes back.
Insurgence – Bren revolts.
Resurgence – Bren goes up to the Space station
Emergence – Bren makes his debut.
Mergence – Bren and Jago.
Vergence – Bren takes a second look.
Everyone have a nice day.
Detergence — A Crisis of Laundry.
Urgence — An even bgger crisis. Bren needs it now!
Purulence — Bren requires a plumber to fix the accomodation.
Effulgence — After quite some time, Bren polishes the floor in the sitting room.
No, I don’t know why Bren is so domestic at the moment….
These must take place in Moshperia(sp?), or staff will be very upset!
Gods-rotted auto-incorrect. — That was not supposed to be “purulence,” which I will have to look up to be sure of its meaning, but suggests either purring or puerile behavior, to my sleep-deprived brain. At least it didn’t substiute pustulence, also not what was intended. Week.
That was supposed to say “Purgence,” which I thought was at least vaugely funny with Bren’s plumbing fix. Ah, well. Even though it’s not really a word, it serves the purpose.
Harrumph. Spell-checker thinks it can substitute for me and won’t stay shut off. Aarrgh.
Not unless Bren has developed a rather nasty infection. Eeewwww.
Oh, dear. Looked up “purulence” and wished I hadn’t. Ewwww is right. Ugh. Was afraid that might be what that meant.
Purgence. Bren was trying to get rid of a nasty hair clog in the plumbing. All those guests, all those braids, and Cajeiri’s pet shedding….
CJ? When did you first notice you’d created a monster?
Lol!
Shhh! We’re not supposed to notice the secret underground la-bor-a-t’ry!
By the way, that bubblegum pink lab coat and the matching hot pink goggles, very festive! Très chic!