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Self-tutoring about baking: the tutor mentions cream cheese icing and an easy way to make it. I finally made red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. Beforehand, I’d baked a red velvet cake, but not made cream cheese icing, so …
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Self-tutoring about surviving and working in the heat: the tutor begins. When you do almost everything by, and for, yourself, you might not work on a schedule. Rather, you do Task A “when there’s time.” Such is often my situation. …
Self-tutoring about produce: the tutor mentions something he learned. I’ve never bought mango, but tonight they were on “3 for 5”, so I thought I’d try them. I wasn’t sure how to eat one, so I watched the helpful video …
Self-tutoring about the electronic lifestyle and internet safety: the tutor mentions a way to check a site before you go there. The other day it happened again: I was referred, by an academic search, to a site so obscure, the …
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Self-tutoring about suburban life: the tutor mentions an ornery crow. Returning from a run last week, I noticed a crow following me. It wasn’t subtle – it was cawing loudly from just behind and above me, and would move to …
Self-tutoring about cooking: the tutor mentions the GI of couscous. I mention GI back in my post on June 16, 2017. Since then I’ve mentioned it in numerous other posts which you can find from the search box. To refresh, …
Self-tutoring about sugar density: the tutor looks it up. approx. 0.85g/mL = density of granulated sugar poured from the bag. The reason granulated sugar seems less dense than water, by that figure, is that the grains have air pockets between …
Self-tutoring about baking: the tutor mentions sponge cake. Back in the 70s you heard about sponge cake; I seldom hear it mentioned today. However, a few days back, I wanted to make strawberry short cake. I knew that the “cake” …
Self-tutoring about the running lifestyle: the tutor shares an instance. I’ve been doing heavy research lately, so, regrettably, haven’t been spending so much time outside as I would like. More is the shame, since the weather, for Canada, has been …
Self-tutoring about coffee: the tutor mentions a discovery. There’s new technology everywhere these days: a bag of coffee invites me to scan it to discover its source, etc. Eventually, I do. I open my smartphone from 2013 (Nexus 4) and …