John Rynne

Lately I've switched to keyed chucks as I'm finding it hard to tighten/loosen the chuck with my hand.
One comment on using WD-40 to loosen chucks -- if the chuck is full of WD-40, it will spray all over the place the next time you drill.

In the Aragon region of Spain, where I lived for ten years, borage (borraja) is a popular winter vegetable. They harvest the stalks when they are about 30-40 cm long (12-15 inches), and chop and boil with potatoes. Serve like that with a sprinkling of olive oil and some bread on the side. Some people laboriously scrape the bristles off the stalks but, if the stalks are young, the bristles are perfectly edible once cooked.
Below is a link to a short video of a popular Spanish TV chef doing a more elaborate recipe in which he boils the stalks separately (removes leaves first but doesn't bother removing bristles), fries potatoes separately in chunks, then sautés garlic, adds chunks of Spanish cured ham (optional for vegetarians and then a few spoons of flour, plus some of the borage cooking water to make a sauce. Finally, cooked borage and fried potatoes on top.
The video is very clear even if you don't speak Spanish. In particular, it shows clearly what the stalks should look like for cooking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io8MF1Zov9s

In northern Spain, it's a winter crop, so I understand it's planted in the autumn. The only time I tried to grow it, I planted it in the spring, and it bolted before I had a chance to eat any!

Tina Wolf wrote:Are you able to access the Cider Press? I can post more about certain entities soaking seeds in certain liquids for certain purposes. They have been doing it for years.

Having looked it up, I see I do not have access to the Cider Press.  I find Permies very interesting but clearly don’t contribute enough.

Tina Wolf wrote:Many folks program organic seeds to their DNA by holding them under their tongue for 8-15 minutes so they soak up the saliva. It is said that the seeds then know what nutrients they need and work to provide them. If we program seeds for poor soil, low moisture and our own DNA, we can grow practically anything anywhere for our best health. Sounds cool!

That sounds like magical thinking to me. Though I'm not a biologist, I can't imagine how seeds would do that, or how you could show objectively that it is really happening.
In fact, some of the ideas in this thread remind me of Lysenkoism (the idea that you can "teach" plants to withstand conditions that would normally kill them). Reader, in most cases, you can't.

To help troubleshoot your baking problems, try making plain white bread. Wholemeal flour adds a number of variables to the equation, potentially making it hard to figure out what's going on. Plain white bread should "just work", giving you a baseline against which to compare your wholemeal outcomes.
For clarity, with plain white, your ratio should be 5:3 flour:water. That's 500 g of flour to 300 g of water. That should literally work every time, giving a nice supple dough.

Thanks Beau. That did the trick!

Just tried. Still getting "Oops".

Incidentally, I am able to download any of the other things in My Stuff, so it's not me, and it's not a general error with downloading from Permies.

Hi, still can't download. Tried on Windows as well as Mac. Always get the same "Oooops. You don't have sufficient privileges to access this message". Maybe it's blocking non-US IP addresses?

Hi,
Following the suggestion that it is a browser cache issue, I tried with a different browser (one I never use for Permies) after first deleting all history, cookies, etc.
I still get the "Oops" message when I click on the Download link.
I checked the email about the purchase and it just links to this page.
Just to check, I went into My Stuff and tried downloading some other things I had bought in the past.
They work fine. So it seems to be just this ebook.

John