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Cheese Harbour Biscuits by Reverse Engineering

 Now that Red Lobster® has filed for bankruptcy, we can’t be sure if or when it will be possible to get their Cheddar Bay Biscuits® fresh in the restaurant, or even the biscuit mix in the grocery store– We made some of their biscuits from the mix recently and had not quite taken the box to recycling.  Here is the box, including the ingredient list: From the ingredients, it looks like a buttermilk biscuit recipe, with shredded cheddar cheese added to the dough, and a garlic herb butter sauce to be poured on top at the last minute. Our 1964 Joy of Cooking Cookbook has a buttermilk biscuit recipe on page 584.   The box of mix makes only ten biscuits.  Joy of Cooking makes “24 x 1.5 inch biscuits,” so we’ll have to expand the amount of cheese and butter to make 24: Preheat oven to 425 F. Put parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Sift together: 1.75 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp salt 2 tsp double-acting baking powder 1 tsp sugar ½ tsp baking soda Cut in: 5 tbsp butter Add: 2/3 t
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Installing Linux on a Removable Drive

 Installing Linux on a Removable Drive Read This First You CAN put Linux on a removable drive and boot your laptop from it. HOWEVER You will need to make significant changes to your operating system to do this. You will  have to disable BitLocker and SecureBoot, features that make your laptop more resistant to viruses and trojans. At the end of the process, your laptop will have a very unusual start-up. This could be good if it prevents anyone but you from turning on your laptop. This could be bad if it annoys you—And may take a lot of time to reverse. The Laptop: Lenovo T16 Gen2 with Intel Core i7 processor. 16 GiB Memory 512 GiB SSD main drive Available USB-C and Thunderport USB ports The Portable Linux Drive Western Digital MyPassport Thunderport USB access 2 TB storage You also need A flash drive of at least 8 MB with nothing on it. Handy Access to your Microsoft Account ID and Password. Step One: Turn off BitLocker in Windows 11 Within windows, [Win] S --To bring up the search fie

How to install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 on Windows 11

  How to install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 on Windows 11. April 27, 2024 I love using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking ever since they had version 4. It is much faster than typing, and becomes more accurate the more that you use it. I used my previous laptop for a few more years than I should have, happily Using Dragon 11 without problems or much concern.  When the laptop suddenly and catastrophically died, I had to go through the process of replacing software as well as recovering my files. “No problem!” I thought, “I have installation disks from the last several licenses of Dragon NaturallySpeaking that I purchased, and I’m sure that they will install on my new Windows 11 laptop with no problem.” Actually, the most recent to licenses for Dragon NaturallySpeaking were version 11,Premium. My new laptop does not have a DVD drive, so it was not a trivial thing to find external DVD drive plug it in and spin up the DVD to install Dragon NaturallySpeaki

Wildfires advancing on Sorrento - September 2023

 After a summer of Wildfires, we thought we would be done by now. In August, when the firefront traveled 22 kilometers in 12 hours, we were sure we were done for. And yet, it's not over yet. Driving to work in the morning, I saw this column of smoke behind the post office, next to my store.   There were various explanations.  "Maybe the firefighters are putting down a new fire break." Maybe the firefighters are taking a break and smoking some of the local (and legal) weed." But it turned out that this was just a brand new wildfire! Several helicopters and a couple of Badger fire-planes dumped water on the fire all day.   The fire was burning in Turtle Valley, near Notch Hill behind the store.  My wife and I took a ride on Notch Hill Road and took some additional pictures: The fire looks bigger.  Firefighters are doing their best.  I hope it is enough.

Case Report: Diabetic Foot Ulcer Treated with Homeopathic Products

 In early July 2023, I had a walk-in visitor to my pharmacy.   "Doc, have you got anything for painful sores on my feet?" This was a 50-year-old male, First Nations, Height about 6 feet, weight about 230 lb.  He is self-employed as a chicken-vaccinator;  His full day of work consists of standing inside industrial chicken coops and vaccinating all the chickens against salmonella.  It is difficult work in a dirty environment. He complained that he had developed large sores on one of his feet-- And also a deep sore on his abdomen, near his navel, which he attributed to an accidental needle stick, courtesy of a chicken that had gotten out of control.   He was most concerned with his feet.  The pain from the sores was making it difficult to stand up, and he had to stand up in order to keep vaccinating chickens.  I was able to examine the sores.  The most troubling one was a tunnel about 5 mm in diameter going into the right second toe about 3 to 4 mm deep.  It appeared clean and h

Emmanuel Goldstein Is Dead

 What follows is a fictional story.  It is not actually true. 1. If you are reading this, Emmanuel Goldstein is dead.  He died roughly 72 hours ago, because he was no longer there to prevent the automatic posting of this message to his blog.  Check the blog anyway– Emmanuel was planning to post an expose´ about some recent discoveries he accidentally made on the internet.  If by some miracle the posting is there, print it out as soon as you can, then turn off your computer and hide the printout.  It will be gone very soon. What follows is a brief synopsis of Goldstein’s discovery, not the full story.  This account is really just an afterthought.  Probably I will find it on my hard drive by accident, laugh a bit and then erase it.  But, cautious fellow that I am, I can’t help jotting down a few notes from my larger study.  A trail of breadcrumbs through the forest may help someone else find the same discovery–unless, as Hansel and Gretel found, the birds get to them first.  To be clear,