Is Sissy mad at me? Because of what I said about her "TACO BELL DOG"???

She hasn't said anything on here, and I wonder if I pissed her off...

 

Got rid of the airstream in 05. Had a few since then. Sissy has forgotten her username and password. She also has no wish to find them out. She doesn't do the Internet forum thing anymore.

 

The 26 acres is all up the side of a mountain. That is one of the things I should have known before I bought the place.

 

Hope everyone is having a good Monday....mine has definitely been a Monday.

 

Typing on an iPhone gets old real fast. So today, in the Chinese embassy store (walmart) I came across an interesting thing - an Acer Chromebook. Basically it is an empty netbook with a browser - that is all it does. Cost a couple of hundred bucks, and works, so now I can browse easily, type on a laptop size keyboard, and do nothing else.. I can read kindle books on the Amazon Cloud reader, listen to music on the Amazon Cloud, and do other browser related things, but can't install any other browser, or programs - mainly because there is no file system accessible to the user. Didn't much like how it wanted a lot of information, so I invented a name and history, and went with that. Now I have a gmail account again, but this time in a fake name.

So one minor problem fixed, now to set about the three major ones..

 

Well done! At least you are making some progress. How goes the Mack?

Tonight I made three magnificent pizza crusts - I used a french bread recipe:
3 cups flour
1 cup water
1 Egg (optional)
1 packet of yeast
~Whatever spices you want to introduce to the crusts

PER EACH!

PROOF the yeast in a measuring cup with at least a tablespoon full of sugar, add salt to the dough as you prefer

An alternative is to get frozen bread dough rolls from a grocery that makes their own french bread - one roll makes one sixteen inch pizza, but remember that I said this:

When you bake it - cover the pizza pan with the dough in it with another pizza pan, and use clothes pins to center the pans while you are letting it rise (here again I cheat, I heat the oven to it's lowest temperature and use it as an incubator) but anyway - bake the crust COVERED with a second pizza pan.

~This traps the moisture in it so it doesn't dry out!!!
325 degrees for 35 minutes if the oven is not pre-heated, 30 minutes if it is.

If you do that - you will have a better "BOBOLI" that you can tailor to your own taste with spices you choose. The ones I made tonight I baked Parmesan and Romano cheese into to make the cheese flavor come out better later.

Don't forget to grease the pans, top and bottom...

They came out gorgeous! Not completely browned, so that they can go back into the oven and bake with a load of goodies added...

AWESOME PIZZA SAUCE:

Mix a can of tomato sauce, with a can of Diced Tomatos and Green Chiles (any brand)
About a cup of this mix does wonders, a pizza made with just plain tomato puree or paste can turn out dry...
I like to add extra diced tomatos too.

*Besides, pizza's made with not enough tomato don't taste nearly as good A PIZZA should be SPICEY!!!

Use at least one half pound of cheese...

NOTE: This is for a sixteen inch diameter pizza
NOTE 2: For a more Sicilian style, sprinkle it with Italian Spices - but be careful of Oregano , which can blister the gums

 

Wow that pizza sounds great! I'll have to get that recipe to my wife. My cooking ain't safe.

 

Happy Wednesday to all! Weekend is a-comin'.....

 

Happy Wednesday!

 

Happy hump day!!!

 

Got someone coming out in an hour or so to diagnose the Mack air problem. I don't know any where near enough to mess with it myself. So, hopefully, I will have a working Mack sometime soon. That will make me a lot happier, as being stuck is not a nice situation to be in..

 

I looked for the mack but sow no pic. Which Mack do you have? Hopefully he can fix it easy.

 

The Mack is a 1979 RS600L Value Liner, fitted with a 1980 Callen Camper body. I have not uploaded any pictures and can't as my office equipment is 2686 miles from me..

 

Oh OK. I love those trucks. They are tough as anything I have ever seen. I used to be a mechanic for a road construction company that had some of them. Did mechanic make out today? I know I can't diagnose the problem over the distance, but I would like to know the symptoms of it. I am not sure where Baileyton is but if it is close enough I know the guys at Truckpro in Kingsport. I could ask them of a good mechanic who is honest and reasonable. And maybe get them to discount the parts some. It could be as simple as a broken air line. I have seen the one between compressor and air tank get holes in them quite a few times and can be challenging to find because the engine makes more noise than the air leak. Anyway, if I can help let me know.

 

Mechanic came, fixed a few problems and the truck works as it should. I am very relieved. Being stuck in a broken down RV is not much fun at all.