Scorching the World

How to process pistachios: 1. As most nuts, pistachios grow with a skin over the shells. This can be removed easily by rubbing the pistachios between your hands, then peeling it off. They must be peeled immediately after picking or they will go moldy. 2. Once they are all peeled, create a brine using 4 t salt and 1/2 C water. Simmer 8 cups pistachios in brine for 20 minutes, until all absorbed. 3. Put single layer of pistachios on a baking sheet and bake for 2-3 hours at 250, till shells open. DONE How to NOT process pistachios: 1. Bring hundreds of pistachios home at 9:30pm on a night when your spouse has a migraine and has to peel with her eyes closed and her head on a pillow. Her bruised palms from mowing the lawn make it impossible to rub them between her hands. Work on this till well after midnight. 2. The next day, create brine, but when brine all disappears within 5 minutes, clean salt residue off pan to try to save it. 3. Instead of baking hundreds of pistachios in oven which w...

New Earth by Ekhart Tolle I haven't finished this book yet, but I have to say how much I'm not enjoying it. The beginning was all about evolution and how we are how we are because of that. Then he got into the ego and what it is and how we need to not let it decide how we think and what we do. So I disagree with his basic premise; I guess because it comes from an agnostic point of view. But there are things that he says that are very true; I probably agree with 40% of the things that he says. So if I just focus on the things that I can agree on, then do I like to book? Surprisingly, I still don't. As I've listened to it, I've tried to analyze what I don't like about it. It is very painful for me to continue listening to it. If I were reading with my eyes instead of my ears, I would have thrown it across the room after the preface. So I decided after the 3rd chapter that I'm not enjoying it because it all comes from a negative point of view: this is what is w...