All In One Place

[pshaw_raven]

First things first! Brownie batter hummus. My local Publix had Delighted By, which is the brand I buy, another brand that began with an L but that offered strawberry and mango, and Boar's Head in just chocolate mint. Anyway, DB is the stuff you may wish to look for ---> https://delightedbyhummus.com/

I wasn't imagining things, they do offer a snickerdoodle hummus, Publix just didn't have it this time. The pumpkin pie flavor lists "pumpkin" as the first ingredient, so pumpkin spice everything fans may want to check that out. I didn't prep any oatmeal but I'm planning to do my "short" four-mile run today as fasted cardio so I might have a smoothie bowl later.

Second things second. I'm usually late to everything cool in technology so I literally just an hour ago learned about making digital notebooks. I found some extensions and goodies that let me make mine in Google Drive so my project for the weekend is to work on that.

I was just thinking early this morning, oh hey this is useful, I guess I'll print it out later. Ugh, I've got dozens of things I need to print and I don't want to. Toner's expensive, the print will fade. I like buying binders and office stuff - I'm a fan of pens and paper. But I don't want to get swamped in a sea of printouts. My first husband printed out every news article he read, and our apartment was awash in stacks of fucking printed-out stories that made it very difficult to clean or make things feel organized and tidy, so I'm often reluctant now to do the same thing. I stopped printing recipes and started using an old Android tablet in the kitchen to pull up pages on, but then what happens when the site goes away? Or the article is pulled?

As a bonus, I don't have to worry about taking it with me, since I can get to my Drive on any of my devices. And while I do still love traditional media and normally take any excuse to buy a dead-tree notebook, I also love minimizing and simplifying. When technology works it's awesome. And this works. Unlike Fallout 76.

Being a food nerd one of the notebooks I'm making is for cooking. I'm making folders and subfolders for different types of foods - not so much "breakfast" and "dinner," as cookies, main courses, vegan dishes, Japanese, etc. And I'm cross-copying things so "how to make onigiri" appears in snacks, Japanese, and vegan. w00t

The interactive notebooks teachers use look pretty interesting, so if you're going to school or have kids who are that would probably be useful.

Someone please come over and refill my coffee cup. There's a cat sleeping on my lap and I don't want to disturb her.

Comments

[we_are_spc]

...Boar's Head makes hummus? o___o That's usually the delly meat we buy because it's good. We try to buy it on sale because it's kinda pricy otherwise, but damn.

I wish I could...and I wouldn't want to move either. Cats rule here. xd

-Fallon~

[pshaw_raven]

Yeah - it was an odd find. I knew they made sandwich spreads, mustard & etc but I'm more familiar with them as meat & cheese people.

[dorchadas]

Dessert hummus is one of those things that really confuses me. I usually put hummus on pita or vegetables, but it doesn't seem like that would work? How is it used? I don't understand.

And this works. Unlike Fallout 76.

Hiyooooo!

[pshaw_raven]

I typically put it on toast, or dip pretzels in it. You could use fruit or cinnamon-sugar pita chips, too.

Ed McMahon FTW

[yarrowkat]

this doesn't solve for after climate change destabilizes the electric grid and internet access becomes unreliable, but in the medium term, you can save webpages you like/use to the Wayback Machine and they will stay put. www.archive.org

[pshaw_raven]

That's handy - thank you! I didn't realize regular users like me could utilize the Wayback Machine in that manner.

[yarrowkat]

you're welcome!

[cdayzee]

Too bad there's no Publix near me. I haven't seen those yummy flavors at our local grocery store. I'd definitely try them.

I've heard of digital notebooks but I didn't really know what they were. Now it's all making sense! lol You should see my recipe file. It's a legit paper file in a filing cabinet. I do have some stuff saved on Pinterest but like you pointed out, sometimes those web pages & such aren't a forever thing or links get broken for whatever reason. Plus, technology frustrates me most times, so I prefer paper. It's such a pain flipping thru all those recipes though to locate the one I'm thinking about.

Have fun putting together your digital notebooks!

[pshaw_raven]

For years I've looked for apps or programs to do various things like recipe organizing, garden journaling, etc. The recipe organizers are usually not great and I've not met one that was any good at saving stuff from around the web - fine if you want to type up your grandma's card file of recipes but not great if you want to quickly snag a blog post about making roasted pumpkin. Pinterest worked okay for me for a while but it didn't take long for my boards to get cluttered and my feed or friends view or whatever to get completely nuts.

So early this morning when I didn't want to print a useful article I'd found, I just Googled "digital notebook" and alllllll kinds of good stuff came up. There are apps that do this, or in my case, since I have most of my eggs in the Google Basket, I found Chrome extensions that work with Drive. Ways to convert articles or blog posts to PDF, very useful and fun. This is one case where tech is doing something handy and doing it pretty darn well.

[cdayzee]

I have a program on my computer called Cook'n. The concept seemed great at first but getting it to work for me was a whole other story. Eventually, it wanted me to shell out quite a bit of money for it to work but by that point, I'd already been having problems with it, so it fell to the wayside. It had a tool that grabbed recipes from sites & such but I always had to go back & do quite a bit of tweaking & even then their parameters were janky sometimes. I had such hopes but it was disappointing.

I don't think my brain has the capacity any more for these things. If I had someone I could just toss info to & tell them to organize it & make something cool then show me how to navigate it, that would be the only way lol :P