Tropicalsenior

None of that can ever compare to a blown up pressure cooker. My kitchen is 15 x 25 and it managed to Splash every wall and everything in between.

Thank you, what a fantastic memory you have. Yes, we were neighbors for 22 years and until three years ago when she signed the house over to her daughters, she was my landlady. She raised her own family in the house that I am living in. She was definitely one of the most influential women in our area. She was the first woman mayor in Costa Rica. About 5 years ago, the president himself came to her house to present her with a presidential medal. Just my luck, I was out to lunch that day. I never have to give anyone my address. I just say I live in Doña Flora's house.

I had a tuna fish sandwich with pepper jack cheese for dinner last night. I had made meatloaf with roasted carrots and potatoes for our dinner but I found out that my next door neighbor passed away in the afternoon. She was a sweet little woman that just turned 96 last week. I sent our dinner to them along with a loaf of bread that I had made in the morning. I will miss her.

With that menu, you should have invited @liuzhou.

Interesting to read and then you realize. For so many this was their last meal.

I went to a Chinese restaurant supply house to get my instant pot accessories. I got a small trivet, a tall trivet, a small perforated stainless steel colander for a steamer and a double stacked Chinese steamer basket that fits in the IP. And I got them all for less than it would have cost me to get the tall trivet on Amazon.

Yes, @JoNorvelleWalker, a stumbling, bumbling, clumsy, absent minded dear, but you are our stumbling, bumbling, clumsy, absent minded dear and we love you. You never fail to amuse and amaze us.

These look delicious. What gives them their delicious golden color? Does it have any egg at all in it?

I actually found mine in a bookstore. Find a bookstore that sells lots of bookmarks and gadgets.

For some of us that is sad but true. Our house is huge with a weird floor plan. After 22 years I still need Night Lights to find the bedroom doors.

You are so lucky. I very seldom get lost because I'm able to retain a visual map in my mind and once I have been somewhere I never forget it. But if you ask me if I had to go north, south, east, or west to get there I couldn't tell you. I have one friend who is so challenged that she had to give up on driving a car because she could never find her way back home again.

The weird thing for me is that I can get it right every time if I'm giving directions in Spanish but in English, I have to point and say that way. Does not being able to distinguish north, south, east, and west count as directional aspasia? There is no such thing as a straight Road here in Costa Rica. I get so turned in my directions that it is scary. For instance, for me, at my house the Sun comes up in the south and sets in the North. This makes it really hard for me to find places in Costa Rica because they have never been able to figure out how to put street addresses on anything. Everything is given by directions. For instance, our official address is 25 m. South of Farmacia San Joaquin. It doesn't help that that pharmacy has been gone for 10 years. I usually have to hunt up the nearest church because all churches face West except for the ones that don't. But that is Costa Rica.

How about a backpack?

I have something like this that I take to the farmer's market. Maybe it would work for you. Although I can't believe the price. I think I paid about 16 bucks for mine.

I did a double-take when I saw your light fixture. I had to blow it up to make sure it wasn't a Birdcage. I once catered in a house that had a Birdcage right over the cooking Island with a huge parrot inside. Yuck and double yuck. By the way, I love your pantry space and I agree with you on the dishwasher. Too far away from the sink.

That might work well in some supermarkets but I have found that they are going for thinner and cheaper bags in most markets and they are impossible to tear off cleanly and almost impossible to open.

I had the same problem so I bought these. They're kind of a lightweight nylon mesh with drawstring tops and I got them on Amazon. I don't have the link but they were one of the best investments that I've ever made.

Labels on grocery items are a complete pain. I don't go anywhere without this in my pocket.

Is that where you have trouble telling your left from your right? Or at least trouble telling others to go left or right. If it is, I've had it all my life I just didn't know what it was called. As for not being able to do what you used to do, that creeps up on all of us. I can no longer multitask because of mobility issues. I have learned to cook a lot of things ahead of time and just reheat them in the microwave. I understand that you don't have a microwave but it might be a good investment for you because it saves a lot of work. You can make whole meals when you are able and reheat them when you want to. Might save you from a lot of early am meals. I would say that surviving old age is a lot easier if you readjust your priorities.

I have been craving Swiss steak for ages. I like it with lots of onions but since it's a No-No in our house, I had to make do with mushrooms and tomato. Doesn't photograph well but it sure was tasty. I used to shy away from making popovers because I've had some colossal failures but I found a no-fail recipe that always turns out perfect. Served it with a salad made with broccoli, mango, celery, and walnuts in a Greek yogurt and honey dressing.

And double shit for the white print on a light blue background. What are these people thinking?

Just recently, I have been able to download most of @Jazz's cookbooks for the instant pot and I am really enjoying reading them. Although I have been using my knock off instant pot for about 3 years, it seems that every page I turn, I learn something new or a new way to do something. Her directions are so precise and so easy to follow that you feel like you have an instructor right at your elbow. I particularly like the way that they are written to be used in the computer format. The links within the chapters are invaluable. They are the easiest ebooks to navigate that I have ever seen. Now I just have to go from reading to executing. There are so many that I want to try that I just don't know where to start.

That sounds like the way my foot looked when a Tennessee Walker stallion stepped on my foot, picked up the other three feet and pivoted. At least it felt like he did. I was wearing sandals at the time.

That was about 45 years ago and God hadn't made clogs available where I lived.

I've had a #10 can of tomatoes fall on my foot one time. It broke two toes.