Why this blog called Misadventures of Mr Nut

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Cyndy and Mr Nut made their yearly gaunt through Wisconsin to see our sons Michael and Charles.  

The guy in the middle is our son Michael. We stopped at his job in Chippewa Falls and had a nice but short visit.    We figured he would live in Mondovi Wisconsin forever, but it appears that may not be the case.

On to Mount Horeb Wisconsin (for the last time) since our son Charles will be moving to Oahu,  Hawaii on August 16.   He has accepted the position of Chief Scientific Officer, whatever that means.

  Mr Nut (notice the pained look on Mr Nut’s face) he was in pain, Cyndy, Aaron (Charles’ grandson) and Charles.  We were waiting for our gyro’s.

And now for the misadventure----

Yes that is an emergency room entrance.  Mr Nut’s Sciatic nerve problem was still there, only much worse.

   

Doesn’t Mr Nut look cute in his gown 

   Doing the vitals before the teenage doctor arrived.   They gave me to horse pills and Mr Nut felt great within an hour.  However, with the prescriptions for anti-inflammatory the pain reduction was much slower.  In fact Mr Nut is standing while writing this blog.    

À bientôt,  Mr Nut

Biking The Crosby-Ironton Biking Trail

Friday, August 5, 2011 

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This trail is one of the better trails, eleven and one half miles round trip, near our cabin (about 20 miles away).  It goes along “a string” of lakes that used to be open pit iron ore mines.  The mines were a major source of iron ore during the second world war in the 1940’s.

 Cyndy and Mr Nut on the trail 

  Cyndy with one of the many lakes (open pit mine) in the background.

In the early 1950’s, an ballon experiment  was conducted in the Portsmouth to see how a human would react to being in or near space for 24 hours. Because of wind problems they needed a deep hole to launch their balloon. 

  

Mr Nut with the Portsmouth mine lake in the background.  The lake is about  400 feet deep

   

You are looking at the bottom of Portsmouth mine before it was allowed to flood making the lake of today.

Next Tuesday we will make our Wisconsin run to see Michael and Charles, two of our sons.  Oh yes, Mr  Nut is still in pain from the Sciatic nerve problem.

À bientôt,  

Mr Nut

There is always room for improvement -- Potato Salad

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Mr Nut’s potato salad is tasty and good, however It could be better calorie-wise.  In the August- September issue of Cook’s Country an attempt was made to make potato salad more healthful.  According to the article one cup of traditional potato salad has 380 calories and 30 grams fat with 4 grams saturated fat.  The author (Carolyn Purpura ) successfully replaced the sour cream and mayonnaise with healthier ingredients and still had a creamy potato salad.  The new numbers were 130 calories and 1 grams fat with 0 grams saturated fat. 

The key was in the dressing:  By using mashed potatoes with a little of the potato water and some Greek yogurt a “creamy” dressing was possible.  Mr Nut tried this approach with his potato salad recipe with great results.

Mr Nut went back to the blog of May 9, 2011 and revised the Mr Nut’s Potato Salad recipe

That it for today from our cabin in the North country.

À bientôt,

Mr Nut

Bread Zucchini At Our Cabin In Brainerd Minnesota

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     It was a hot and humid day as opposed to “A dark and stormy night” referring to the winner of  the worst start of a story.  We are back near Brainerd, at or cabin, which this year will just be a place to visit between trips to Wisconsin.

This picture was taken from the end of our dock. Notice how clean the water is.

     Without my macho heavy duty stand mixer, bread making will be by hand, literally. 

Hand mixing by hand by Mr Nut.

However, the recipes will be written for my macho heavy duty stand mixer, as Mr Nut rewrites his recipes to reflect the recent purchase of the perfect sized  cast iron Dutch  ovens.

The first recipe to be rewritten was the yeast Zucchini bread. 

The dough was now in the second fermentation stage.

The Dutch ovens in action in the first step of baking (50 minutes).

 The finished loaf--- nice crust.

 The crumb was very good considering the amount of walnuts craisins and zucchini in the loaf.

That finished the zucchini we brought from our garden in St George, Utah.

Mr Nut went back and made a few minor modifications to the recipe from the July 13, 2011 blog.

À bientôt,

Mr Nut