It’s another one of those days when I have all these questions in my head and it’s going to explode if I don’t take some pressure off it and get them out in the open. Feel free to fill in any blanks you can.
I was reading one of my food-centric magazines and came across an article on the most important kitchen tools to pack for your next vacation. The only tool I’m planning on using on vacation for dinner is my telephone to call for reservations.
Sticking with food, I recently made a (surprisingly really good!) two ingredient bagel recipe I found on the Interwebs. I wonder if anybody else noticed it took six ingredients.*
There’s been a glut of TV commercials for guaranteed life insurance. You know, the kind that “you can never be turned down and your rates will never go up.” They all cost “35 cents a day.” Never more, never less. The coverage you get varies depending on how old you are and probably your zip code but the rate is always “35 cents a day.” But did you ever try to buy a day’s worth of insurance? Sure, they’ll quote you that rate but see what kind of answer you get if you ask them to draw “35 cents a day” from your checking account.
Since I brought up the high finance world, have to you noticed the ads for that company who will protect your personal information, information that impacts your credit reports and affects your credit score, from the “dark web.” They probably know something about it because wasn’t that the same company whose data bases that hold all your personal information, credit reports, and credit score were breached a couple years ago, maybe even by someone on the “dark web.”
Why, after years of encouraging hands-free phone use and no text use in cars, are we now making cars with multifunction touch screens in the middle of the dashboard in place of the traditional tactile buttons and knobs?
Does anybody else remember Dag Hammarskjöld?
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*One cup flour, 1&1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, one cup plain Greek yogurt, one beaten egg, toppings of you choice (I used sea salt and cracked pepper on two and onion flakes on the other two so I guess I actually used 8 ingredients). Whisk flour, salt, and baking powder together, add yogurt to combined flour mixture and mix until combined, flour work surface and knead until dry(ish), form into ball and cut into four pieces, roll each piece into a 6-8 inch log and turn into a circle, brush with beaten egg, top as desired, place on parchment lined baking sheet, bake at 350 degrees for 24 minutes then at 450 for 4 minutes more.
I thought that to get the chewy bagel texture, you had to boil them briefly before baking…but don’t take my word for it. The last time I tried to make my own bagels, they looked more like pretzels that had lost a fight against Mike Tyson.
One was actually missing an ear.
I think that’s where the yogurt comes in. Twice actually. It gives it the chewy texture and a little tang that traditional bagels get from the baking soda in the boiling water. Kind of like a one two punch! But it’s a sticky, sticky dough. I bet it could go more than a couple rounds! Hehe. After all these years, I still crack myself up!
Those touch screens in cars are a hazard and yes I remember Dag Hammarskjold. Word around the campfire is his plane was shot down.
I hear a couple manufacturers are going back to knobs. Maybe enough people asked that same question.
I always wondered about that plane crash. I thought he would have made a good King of the World but then I was only 6 or 7 when it happened so I’m surprised I even had a concept of the world beyond my backyard.
Which brings up another question…what do regular people (as opposed to normal people) do with household drones besides use them to spy on neighbors’ back yards?
drones are the hula hoops of our generation
But hula hoops served a purpose. They encouraged young boys to see what was going on in the backyard next doo…….. never mind
we may remember Dag Hammerskjold but we’re not dead!