Groundhog Day is for small household appliances!
16My mother and I have a tradition which we started… I don’t know, sometime in the '90’s. We try to buy (or use for the first time) a small household appliance for Groundhog Day. It was probably in response to every holiday being marketed as an opportunity to purchase a new mattress coupled with a fortuitous small household appliance purchase, maybe a bread machine. Or a yogurt maker? Anyway, I hardly ever actually observe this holiday tradition, but I scored a cheap, brand-new egg bite maker at Savers earlier this month and I’ve been saving it. So I’m pretty psyched! I don’t know why I’m sharing this. Maybe for egg bite maker recipes. Anyway, consider buying or using a small household appliance for Groundhog Day and sharing my made-up holiday observance!
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I wish I had known about your tradition a few days ago because I just got a Ninja Creami. But I already used it.
Take photos of your egg bites?
@sammydog01 Damn it, I let you down. I will post egg bite photos in penance.
@mossygreen @sammydog01 maybe just blame you know who
@mossygreen @tinamarie1974 I have an 11 in 1 ninja foodie that I’ve only used on two settings. Would making something different count?
I just remembered I bought dehydrator racks for it. I can dry some apples!
@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 YES!
@mossygreen @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974
I did that year before last, when all the fruit trees in town were absolutely laden with fruit. I was going to do exactly that but didn’t. So I could try mine, too.
I’ll try to make sure my small appliances don’t see their shadows on my kitchen counter-tops this Feb 2. I’m tired of winter!
(But not too eagerly looking forward to 100+ degree temps this summer, either.)
@phendrick The seasons are a delicate balance of near-constant disappointment, aren’t they?
@mossygreen That’s poetic! But I’m not sure the “delicate” or especially “constant” parts apply to weather in this part of Texas. For instance, when I walked my dog after midnight last night, it was about 40 degrees. Right now, it’s about 65, and supposedly will stay in the 60’s all day Sunday. Then Tuesday and Wednesday, will not get out of the 40’s in either direction. I get to choose heavy coat, light jacket, or no outer layer at the door for each walk.
But I can vouch for the “disappointment” part many times when I have a look at the forecast for the day.
Current expectation is 8-9 days of rain instead of sunshine, but at least my son picked up tree debris and mowed my yard yesterday, so it won’t be too wild when it’s next unsoggy enough to mow. (Why is “unsoggy” not a word, according to my built-in spell-checkeer? That’s the way I’ve liked my toast for years.) Though with the forecast winds and possible storms, there will probably be a good collection of branch detritus on the ground again. We were only about an hour and a half drive from Houston’s last tornadoes earlier this week, so closer as the
crow2x4 flies.@mossygreen @phendrick Mowing the lawn in January?
@ircon96 @mossygreen @phendrick I do my sidewalk grass edging in the winter.
I just run the snowblower far enough over to the edge of the sidewalk until I see grass flying out with 8" of snow, and I know I’ll be ready for spring, with nice even edges, and a few chunks of missing sod.
@G1
Yeah for multitasking!
@ircon96 @mossygreen
[I see a lot of furriners (non-Texans) chimed in with the likes they gave your comment…]
What got mowed the other day was mostly leftover from December before the freeze and needed mowing back then but didn’t get it, plus it had A LOT of twigs <= STUFF on the ground <= branches, from winds we’ve had. And it had traces of green starting to show from underneath the very brown St Augustine grass. So, this was pre-emptive.
That was two days ago.
My neighborhood has been undergoing street renovations and about a month ago they put down some sod (to replace what they trenched up around the curb) that was very brown and I figured was dead, but this morning I looked and it was about half green now, so it is rejuvenating with the weird weather (very cold, then sunny, then unseasonably hot, then monsooning, then cold again, …) so by the end of the promised week of rain, the yard will probably need a trim again to even it out.
Usually here, I’m still mowing late December but not again until the weeds start coming up in late February, so this is uncommon even by our standards.
Texas weather (sigh).
@mossygreen @phendrick Weeds in February?! Well, i don’t think I’ll have to worry about those, since we just got over 2 feet of heavy, wet snow in the span of less than a week, & this weekend, we’re supposed to get below-zero temps & brutal wind chills.
I’ve decided to hibernate. Move over, Yogi! 
You found a new appliance at a Savers?
@PooltoyWolf Yes! I believe it was probably an unwanted Christmas gift.
@mossygreen Being a Florida native, we don’t have Savers…but I am currently on Long Island and just picked up a sweet vintage JVC T-X30 stereo tuner at a Savers store a couple days ago!
@mossygreen @PooltoyWolf They probably donated it cuz they couldn’t afford eggs.
Although, that thing should pay for itself in no time if you factor in what they charge at Dunkin’ for their underwhelming versions. Yeesh!
What is an “egg bite” ? Never heard of such a thing.
I mean I googled it but when did this become a thing?
@unksol Same here - I had a mental picture of a little toothed blob of scrambled egg clamped onto my finger …
@stolicat @unksol Ever since everyone went keto, i guess.
@stolicat @unksol I guess it’s a bite-sized, poached omelette? You can allegedly also make flan in this.
@unksol
Starbucks.
Maybe miniature hogs are common in your area, but the porkers around here require way more than a small appliance to grind.
@macromeh Silly!
At some point, I should see if that sous vide I bought works well or not. It was under $8, so no big loss if it doesn’t.
I’ve still yet to justify an air fryer, though, as I already have spare convection toaster ovens to the spare convection toaster ovens. Still waiting on Breville to restock a crumb tray to complete one of the spares, though, as I don’t feel like paying almost $30 for one third party on a toaster oven I bought for <$15.
/showme an egg bite
@mediocrebot Looks yummy, but wrong.
@Kyeh Is it me, or does most of the food depicted by the bot look like it was spit out of a faulty Star Trek replicator?
@ircon96 @Kyeh so do most of the people
Egg bites
Oven on - check
Muffin tin - check
Feta with basil and tomato - check
Eggs with salt. Pepper, and a dah of cream - check
Beat egg
Put cheese in muffin tin
Add eggs
Bakery
Eat
Yum
Ready to roll- see you in eight hours.
@sammydog01 Success!
@sammydog01 Yum! I didn’t get to it today but I intend to try that.
@sammydog01 Those look amazing!
@mossygreen They’re pretty good but so are apples and you don’t have to run a kitchen appliance for 8 hours to eat them.
@sammydog01 PATIENCE BUILDS CHARACTER. AND CRUNCHINESS.