Track Your Wins 👊

[SkyzykS]

Yeah, she’s a big lovable maniac!

[Dani_Shugart]

@Brant_Drake

I’m curious about what Dani did, they look great and I would eat the entire tray.

Aww thanks! That means a lot coming from you.

So for the green ones I mashed an avocado with the yolks, then added a bit of Primal Kitchen mayo, then a few squirts of Siete jalapeño lime sauce, and a pinch of salt.

For the other batch, I did basically the same idea minus the avocado, and swapped the siete sauce for Primal Kitchen buffalo ranch dressing. If I had it to do over again, I’d add some little chunks of blue cheese to the top.

[Dani_Shugart]

@LoRez

Do you know how this changes with altitude? I’m pretty sure Dani is at 5,000 feet or so.

Great question! After I added the eggs to the boiling water, the instructions said to lower the heat for the 12 minutes that they were in the pot. But about half of them were underdone – kinda more of a softer boil where the yolk looks a tad darker and wetter.

Was that because of elevation? I assumed elevation would have the opposite effect. Maybe next time I’ll keep them on the heat for 13 minutes.

[Dani_Shugart]

@Brant_Drake

There are variables like egg size, age, temperature, shell thickness due to the chicken’s diet, that can make a difference bit unless it’s molecular gastronomy it’s not worth sweating over. Yolk fat content is what I look for (mostly sous vide is an issue since the yolks set faster than the whites, so that’s a little more finicky.)

This explains a lot! Awesome info!

[Brant_Drake]

@Dani_Shugart

lower the heat for the 12 minutes

Don’t do that. The eggs are going to make the temperature drop once they go in. And your water is boiling at a lower temperature due to elevation anyway. I’d just keep a hard boil all the way through.

There is a technique where you start the eggs in cold water and bring it to a boil, cover the pot and remove it from the heat for whatever doneness you want. But that’s sissy cooking. And they are harder to peel.

It sounds like the instructions were trying to do both techniques.

The green ring will form eventually in the fridge once you store them for a few days, due to the sulphur egg-fart compounds forming between the whites and yolks. Unless you want to use a pressure cooker which forces them to the shell.

[Dani_Shugart]

@Brant_Drake

The eggs are going to make the temperature drop once they go in. And your water is boiling at a lower temperature due to elevation anyway. I’d just keep a hard boil all the way through.

Excellent advice! Thank you!

Next time I boil eggs, I’ll follow this advice and keep that heat up.

[EmilyQ]

Husband and I had a budget meeting yesterday, and I peeked into my long term savings account. No real surprises there, but I happened to notice that the amount I’ve added to the account in the five years it’s been open was a nice, round sort of number. Not sure why I haven’t thought much about my savings beyond actually doing the saving, I guess because I’m generally focused on the total and rate of return, but I was really pleased. Also pleasing was the amount of money I saved while in private practice for 3 years, which is what indirectly prompted the opening of this account (I moved my stuff to my husband’s guy, who is his cousin and a PhD).

Anyway, it feels like a win. The total makes me feel even happier, but that’s not about my diligence as much as it is luck and the diligence of my money manager. My win is accruing a nice nest egg.

Unless the both-sides-of-the-aisle looney weirdos running everything destroy the economy and blow up my nest egg. In which case I’ll be really mad.

[Dani_Shugart]

Woohoo!!

That’s huge!! Congrats on that awesome win!!

[Moonflower]

Some wins from the past year or so because today is a day I need to remember to be grateful:

• Graduating college and achieving my academic goals
• Significantly changing my attachment style from anxious to so much more healthy now
• Changing jobs twice in the past year, both better paying and more fulfilling than the one before it
• Starting to invest money and hitting a few solid financial goals
• Understanding human nature and psychology a bit better to help understand other people more
• Learning to communicate better and gently say what I mean, how I mean it, while thinking of others more than myself
• Learning and putting into practice the opportunities I have to be humble, to serve others, and learn from others
• (Maybe not so much my own effort, but watching some difficult family dynamics improve in the past year and a half)
• Growing in my spiritual journey, and my relationships with God and others and learning more about healthier relationship dynamics
• Helping my four-year-old niece finally overcome her fear and anxiety over our Roomba
• Relearning how to trust again in some situations
• Learning so much more of how to not be as hard on myself
• Seeing progress and growth in so many areas

[Dani_Shugart]

@Moonflower

Some wins from the past year or so because today is a day I need to remember to be grateful:

Thanks for celebrating with us!

@Moonflower

• Graduating college and achieving my academic goals
• Significantly changing my attachment style from anxious to so much more healthy now
• Changing jobs twice in the past year, both better paying and more fulfilling than the one before it
• Starting to invest money and hitting a few solid financial goals
• Understanding human nature and psychology a bit better to help understand other people more
• Learning to communicate better and gently say what I mean, how I mean it, while thinking of others more than myself
• Learning and putting into practice the opportunities I have to be humble, to serve others, and learn from others
• (Maybe not so much my own effort, but watching some difficult family dynamics improve in the past year and a half)
• Growing in my spiritual journey, and my relationships with God and others and learning more about healthier relationship dynamics
• Helping my four-year-old niece finally overcome her fear and anxiety over our Roomba
• Relearning how to trust again in some situations
• Learning so much more of how to not be as hard on myself
• Seeing progress and growth in so many areas

These are incredible! From the big ones – communication, trust, relationships, and serving – to the funny ones like helping your niece with the Roomba! How cute is that?!

Congrats on all your progress! I hope you continue to update us with all the good stuff you’re accomplishing. Seriously, way to go!!

[Silyak]

I hard boil eggs in a pressure cooker. I have an insert that holds them out of the water and just put a half inch of water on the bottom. I set it for 6 minutes after it gets to pressure. When it finishes, I immediately depressurize it and put then in an ice bath. The eggs come out perfectly hard boiled with no green.

I have found that if I want to do a second batch, I need to get new cold water since starting with hot water means that they don’t cook as long and they will come out raw.

[SkyzykS]

Win for today-

A simple ginger steak sauce.

2 tablespoons ginger paste

2 tablespoons lemon juice

A couple dabs of hot pepper oil

A dash of salt.

Its a win for me cuz I like reinventing the wheel, so now its My wheel.

[Silyak]

This had To been scary #mulahdavinci #explore #comedymusic #funnysongs #viral #foryou #explorepage

It’s official. Geese are probably worse.

[LoRez]

I [mostly] successfully explained how police speed guns work to a 5 year old this morning. On the way to school, we’d passed a state trooper using a portable speed gun.

We managed to cover radar, sonar, lidar, air traffic control, submarines and weather in the process.

[cyclonengineer]

Weighed in at noon fully clothed, fed, half a gallon of water in and with shoes at 291 at the doctors office today.

Which means that slacking off the workouts the first few months of the year didn’t impact my weight hardly at all (and with diet not great). I was 287-290 most days fasted in December.

Good starting point for hopping back on the wagon.

[Dani_Shugart]

@SkyzykS

A simple ginger steak sauce.

That steak looks like it was incredible and same with that killer sauce recipe! Might have to steal it.

[Dani_Shugart]

Awesome video!! Fighting a bear on a cliff is definitely a win for that climber! He basically has the coolest story to tell for the rest of his life.

[Dani_Shugart]

@cyclonengineer

Good starting point for hopping back on the wagon.

Awesome job! LET’S GO!!

[SkyzykS]

@Dani_Shugart

Might have to steal it.

Please do!

I was trying all kinds of stuff before arriving at pinch of salt & dash of pepper oil. Akin to guacamole with the “wow that was way easier than I thought” factor.

[anna_5588]

@SvenG Advisor and collaborator are very excited about the idea I pitched and it’s very feasible

This comes after 2.5 failed projects and 6 meetings for this project in which we switched directions every meeting.