I had to go to an office with a loved one while they had an exam. I always read whatever magazines I can get my hands on while waiting in any sort of office. So, here is what I learned just the other day while reading mostly dated women’s magazines.
I saw a good advertisement for a company called Eyebobs. Loved the name and I need new glasses frames and they seem to have funky colors so why not have multiple frames for any occasion? Why not be weird now and then?
I learned how to make a DIY latte instead of paying $5 to Starbucks. You start with milk. You microwave it for 30 seconds. You add coffee or espresso and top with cream. I can do that. That isn't too complicated.
I saw, but didn't memorize, an amazing recipe for Beef Barley Soup. I've never made it or, to my knowledge, ever tried it but it looked amazing. I will search and download the recipe later and try it.
I saw another appealing recipe for scrambled carbona. I need more pasta/starches in my diet so I've added this to my to do list. This thread probably sucks but thought I'd share.
This is how I make a quick latte. Nuke the milk. Take a whisk and whisk air into it. Add strong coffee. No need for cream.
I have a freind who buys glasses on line - I think from Weebly's every time I see her she's got a different pair on. I think if you wear glasses everyday, it's fun to be able to coordinate them with your outfit. I haven't tried it yet - I wear progressives, and I worry about getting the positioning right, but I am definitely tempted.
@GoNoles85 You could have take a picture of the recipe with your cellphone. I still see pages ripped out of newish magazines when the staff is happy to make a photocopy and almost everyone has a smartphone.
No. And correct me of I wrong but what @mathmom described in #1 is coffee milk. If that was all that was needed I could figure that out. But, if I am not mistaken, a latte is a different thing.
Sometimes waiting rooms are great places. I used to love Readers Digest. Also, I have met many interesting people waiting around. Yes, I’m that annoying person who chit chats with people around them. One time my husband was wearing my daughter’s college t-shirt - we live very far from there. An elderly gentleman sitting next to us attended the school in the 50’s, and another woman had a child applying there for the next year.
Last time I was in an office like that, I read an issue of Cosmopolitan and realized how old and decrepit my wife are, given the way they present how couples are being intimate lol.
Why does there seem to be an inverse relationship between good waiting room magazines and short waits? The doctors who see you right away and stay on schedule have current subscriptions to a wide variety of interesting magazines. The ones that keep you waiting for over 30 minutes have a 3 year old copy of Women’s Day, a boring trade journal and Highlights for Kids. One of life’s conundrums.
Waiting rooms with an array of magazines are made to take distract you from the present problems and send you somewhere else so you can think more clearly later.
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A real latte is made with espresso and a combination of steamed and hot milk. I don’t claim, my short cut is really a latte, but it’s pretty darn good and better than just milk in your coffee. I’ve had the electric frothers, and they are great, but they never seem to last too long.
July 1986. I was sitting in the OBGyN waiting for my appt. I was 7 months pregnant. I picked up a health magazine and was thumbing through it and stopped on some pictures of skin cancer. There was the exact same looking mole that was on my husbands shoulder. I knew it was skin cancer and had been bugging him to go to the Dr.
I read the captions under the pictures and was dumbfounded…my jaw actually dropped… Melanoma…the deadliest skin cancer. What? Deadly? I thought they just scrapped this stuff off.
After very serious surgery, hundred of sutures, skin graphs and reconnecting cut muscles he was given a 50/50 survival rate.
The gifted surgeon saved his life. That magazine article in the waiting room made it possible.
Easy way to froth milk: Put a little bit of milk in a mason jar. Put on lid. Shake jar to make milk bubbly. Take off lid Put jar in microwave. Nuke for 30 seconds. Milk will foam up to top of jar – and can be easily added to a cup of brewed coffee or espresso. I’d note that nonfat milk works best.
I was waiting for a haircut this weekend and saw a couple recipes that looked good in Family Circle (had not even thought of that magazine in years), so I took pictures of them. Now I just have remember to buy the ingredients and make them!
You can buy manual milk frothers that work very well and cost $15 or less. They tend to be tall and made out of glass or short and made out of stainless steel, so neither option works well in the microwave. You’d have to froth first, transfer to your mug, and heat it up. Some of the metal ones can go right on the stove.
IKEA used to make a small plastic frother that you could use right in your mug. Alas they have been replaced by small battery powered ones that do nothing. Don’t waste your money on one of those.
Aerocinno frothers can do a hot or cold whip, and can do a tight cappuccino foam or a looser latte foam. Cost around $100 and you can sometimes get them free around the holidays if you order a Nespresso machine. They only make a single serving at a time though.