Tofu Croutons
Last Thursday,
I wrote about making Tofu Croutons for a salad. I’ve in the
past processed the Tofu into a vinaigrette to improve the protein
content of salad, but I thought the croutons would also be useful
for soups. The cookbook
I got the recipe from said that if you kept them tightly covered
in the refrigerator they would last for 3 days. Mine were fine
the second day, but soggy and tough on the third day.
Logitech 550
I posted the day after the Logitech 550 Universal
Remote arrived. I intended to not follow up until I’d had
another round of programming, but I’ve found a couple more
problems that I don’t think programming is going to fix:
- I have my DVD player hooked directly to the Stereo
amplifier, since I generally prefer to get the better sound
quality on movies, although there’s lots of TV that I’m happy to
just use the TV speakers. I will look around the next time I
get around to booting Windows and running the Logitech program,
but the remote is making an assumption that you can adjust the
volume on a DVD with the TV volume control, and that isn’t true
for my system. - The software button labeled “Aspect” during “Watch DVD” does
in fact bring up the “View Mode” menu on my TV set, but the
arrows that are the only way I know of to select a view mode are
the DVD player arrows, not the TV ones. Again, I don’t know
that there’s a way to program around this.
Speaking of aspect ratios, the TV set I have (a
Sharp AQUOS 32 inch with 1080p resolution) has a very
unfriendly interface for picking this. What you usually want
(sidebars) is at the top, but then to get to anything else, you
have to scroll through the useless “Stretch” option that
distorts the aspect ratio. Then if you’re trying to play a DVD,
you have to guess which of the other two is the right one. On
some kinds of screens, it’s obvious, but by Murphy’s Law, you’re
always going to decide you want the bigger picture on one of the
screens where you can’t tell which ratio the director used. I
would expect an option for “make the biggest picture you can
without distorting the aspect ratio”, which it must know how to
do since it knows how big the sidebars are on the sidebars option.
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