{"id":3136,"date":"2016-12-11T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2016-12-11T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:45:11","slug":"sunday-11-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/12\/11\/sunday-11-december-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 11 December 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:45 &#8211;<\/span> Barbara cooked dinner on her new propane cooktop last night. A pound of pasta, a pound of ground beef, a pound can of chili beans, a 6-oz. can of tomato paste, 1.5 cups of water, one tsp. of chili powder, and one Tbsp. of onion flakes. It turned out pretty well, although I&#8217;d boost the onion to 2 Tbsp and add a tsp. of garlic powder.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara really likes her new propane cooktop, although she&#8217;s having to get used to the burners. There are four: 15,000, 12,000, 9,100, and 5,000 BTUs. Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Tweenie Bear, and Baby Bear.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been building our collection of cast-iron cookware, which is particularly well suited to use on a gas cooktop with a heavy cast-iron grate. I just ordered a <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00063RXQK\">Lodge P14W3 Pro-Logic Cast Iron Wok<\/a>. We&#8217;re doing stir-fry more often. We have a cast-steel wok that works fine, but I want to have a reasonably full set of cast-iron cookware.<\/p>\n<p>If electric power goes down long-term, we&#8217;ll have to do all our cooking on the propane cooktop. I&#8217;ve never baked bread in a Dutch oven on a cooktop, but there are numerous pages on the web that describe how to do so. The next time we bake bread, I want to try baking at least one loaf in a Dutch oven on the gas cooktop.<\/p>\n<p>Email overnight from Brittany, who&#8217;s been following our progress on getting propane installed for cooking. They currently have an electric cooktop and oven, and have decided to switch to a propane cooktop. Brittany ordered the same cooktop we have from Lowe&#8217;s, and has contacted their local propane supplier to have a tank installed and connected up to the cooktop. They&#8217;re going to move their current electric cooktop down to the food storage area in the basement and use it primarily for canning. I plan to do the same thing with our old electric cooktop.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:45 &#8211; Barbara cooked dinner on her new propane cooktop last night. A pound of pasta, a pound of ground beef, a pound can of chili beans, a 6-oz. can of tomato paste, 1.5 cups of water, one tsp. of chili powder, and one Tbsp. of onion flakes. It turned out pretty well, although I&#8217;d boost the onion to 2 Tbsp and add a tsp. of garlic powder.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara really likes her new propane cooktop,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/12\/11\/sunday-11-december-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sunday, 11 December 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,63,39,44,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brittany","category-cooking-with-lts-food","category-personal","category-prepping","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}