jonah

jonah

@jonahedwards.com

Formalist, Lacanthrope, anti-architect. He/him. Ambient infrastructure / infrastructure ambiance at archive.org

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Tickets are up for the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad open houses this fall (November 14/15/21/22/28/29, December 5/6)! If you've never been I can't recommend it enough: www.cgmrhs.org/events

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Two weekends left! It's so cool!

poaching quince, sautéing mushrooms with shallot and thyme, making a garlic-rosemary-mustard pork shoulder roast.  FALL IS HERE (pics to follow unless I get too hungry)

I finally got to meet my snowplow (and drive a plow through an obstacle course) at the official @pbotinfo.bsky.social unveiling!

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Thank you @davidcel.is for pointing out that I named one of the @pbotinfo.bsky.social snow plows! Please welcome "Keep Portland Cleared": www.portland.gov/transportati...

hope you enjoy my forthcoming iPhone Duo app, Hot Dog Bun, that looks like a hot dog bun and lets you apply condiments so you can eat a hot dog out of the Duo. The front screen means that you can even make a proper Chicago Dog since you can correctly portray the poppyseed bun

from my small son, transcribed in real-time: dad do you know about virus software because what if a virus gets in your computer and it deletes everything and your computer falls apart and our whole house too and your own body falls apart everything could fall apart

this winter was so mild that my sage overwintered and is now enormous, and producing incredible flowers.  I don't think I've ever seen a sage flower before

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

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by now the beef stock has been at 15 bar for 90 minutes, so you turn off the heat, let it naturally vent, then fill your sink with ice water and strain it into a bowl while you think about how you don’t have enough room in the fridge to chill it overnight like you need to. I’m sure it will be fine.

anyhow the soup was delicious and I didn't take a picture of the final result. But I'm sure one can imagine. We're all going back to sleep and hopefully we feel better in the morning.

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

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Now they’re all cooked. I also put a little slice of lemon in there because it tastes nice and will keep anything from browning. Now cook all the scraps from the decorative vegetable cutting. You ate the chicken oysters, it’s only fair that you deal with the scraps. That’s for your bowl.

you can save that water to cook some noodles in if you want, or you could use a fresh pot. You want to do that part right before you assemble the soup anyways. Now you can slice some ginger to infuse into the broth and mince some parsley and chives to top it with. No picture with this post.

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

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you should have the nicer bits from the mirepoix, and some acorn squash (you wanted kabocha, oh well) and daikon. Since there’s no rush, go find your decorative vegetable cutters and make it a little weird. You’re cooking for sick people, and you should put optimism and joy into the food for them.

don’t mess with the onion, it’s bad luck. The celery is moons. The squash is squash. The daikon is the leaves of spring. The carrot is flowers (try not to think about Neutral Milk Hotel). Get a pot going, lightly salted water, and a little honey and thyme. You’re going to cook them individually.

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

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chicken’s done, pull it out to cool a bit so you can shred it, and strain the rest into a smaller pot. In a perfect world (this isn’t) you might chill it in an ice bath, fridge it overnight, but we’ll just skim. You can wait a bit, everyone’s napping anyways. Keep an eye on the pressure cooker.

shred it by hand. Save a few big pieces for the kiddo in case he’s feeling picky later, and if the legs included the oysters (they should have) put those on a weird plate and eat them. They’re the chef’s treat. The beef stock is still going in the pressure cooker, so now we’ll make the vegetables.

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

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(but actually you just remembered that as long as you’re cooking up soup, you have a bunch of beef shank bones in the deep freeze, so you decide to make beef stock as well to have later in the week. Set your oven to Gas Mark 5 and put them in there. No need for oil, they’re self-oiling)

the chicken’s almost at temp. Put the beef bones and all of their fat and scrapings (you’ll de-fat it later) in your pressure cooker with your stock stuff (leek greens, carrot & celery, garlic, thyme, parsley, peppercorns, and a bay leaf) — not too much — cover with cold water and start it heating

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

they’ll cook through later. Pull ‘em out and add your mirepoix from the scraps of what you’ll add to the finished product. We don’t need much because these were all in the stock we made and more will end up in it. Then deglaze and scrape with some lemon juice and clarified butter

now put the legs back in along with a quart of stock you made and froze awhile back (it was a Costco rotisserie carcass, leek greens, mirepoix, pepper, thyme, bay, and parsley). There will be an interregnum in this thread while we simmer it until the legs are tender enough to shred

I have no problem with this (it's a reshipper that I used 3.5 years ago IIRC) but I just like the phrasing of the subject line

Odysseus: we now set out in our Odyssey Sailor: what's an odyssey? Odysseus: a family-focused minivan known for its versatile interior

I had an extremely weird experience yesterday, which is that I woke up with an absolute conviction that it was the superbowl. Like, I planned my day around avoiding places that were going to be potentially crowded, and said aloud to at least one person that I was avoiding the superbowl? ???

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moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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Took the kid to the Lego bulk bins today and he found maybe the two creepiest BeatBits tiles. He's now made a "television" that he's using to identify where in the house ghosts may be haunting doors.

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Replying to @cstpdx.bsky.social

Don't trust these companies to do right by any films, but especially radical ones. Preservation is important. Art and media that challenges the status quo too often appears to be forgotten on purpose by those who have the power to make those decisions.

it is my great regret to inform you that the salty sea air finally consumed the mounting brackets for this dish and hurled it unbidden to the roof beneath (it had also been deprecated for some years so the primary impact is to myself)

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And the strict master Death bids them dance. He wants them to hold hands and to tread the dance in a long line.

Thank you @davidcel.is for pointing out that I named one of the @pbotinfo.bsky.social snow plows! Please welcome "Keep Portland Cleared": www.portland.gov/transportati...

portland.govNews Blog: Introducing five more snowplow namesThe results are in for the Portland Bureau of Transportation's second annual Snowplow Naming Contest.

Keep Portland Cleared, submitted by Jonah Edwards and presented here by PBOT Utility Worker ll Heidi Kleder.