My Random Reflections On Our Move To Texas Thus Far..

This is a random post from Claude with some random reflections on our move to Texas. Firstly, I am super thankful to Jesus for leading us here! Secondly, I love the fact that there is really good Pho noodle soup 2 mins down the road! That's something I've missed from Melbourne and how growing up we used to have this regularly. It's crazy and it just blows my mind but at the same time is really refreshing to me, because I remember my days in Melbourne being similarly diverse in interactions with people.

What's need is that the nations have come to us and so in some ways the Lord has made it really easy to witness and make disciples of all nations right here in our own backyard! Fourthly, I love the fact that we have connected with some young families and are in a growing Bible study on marriage.

That has been really refreshing to us and the Lord is already using it to transform how we live and interact and become one in our marriage on a day to day basis and also on an "airy-fairy" spiritual basis. We are super thankful for these people! Fifthly, we are also super thankful that we have connected with homeschoolers and homeschooling families who are like minded in our approach to character building and training to be like Jesus Christ and also rigorous academics.

As Becca has settled and grown in her rhythm in teaching and training these guys during the days, I've been really encouraged at the possibility of what is possible with homeschooling for Joshua, Hannah and Abby. It's been so encouraging to see how the Lord has brought us truly into a spacious place on so many levels and how He's growing our family!

Oh yes, and I love the fact that you can get spicy food in a lot of places here, Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, Tex-Mex, BBQ, I love that spice and chilli are just a natural part of the culture here! As a kid, I never liked spicy food but as I grew up, I started to really like it and now we're in a place where all different kinds of spice come together and it's just wonderful! You can even get really spicy things at Walmart like chipotle peppers in Adobo sauce, probably the best 80 cents I've ever spent!

I suggest, buy the smallest package first to try, and then buy in bulk once you are ready to make some more batches. In a simple term, tempeh incubator is just a warm place to put your soybeans so that it can transform into tempeh. The temperature of incubator should be around 82 to 90 F (or in Celsius, it would be 28-32 C).

Ideally, the incubator should have some shelving system to allow the soybeans to breath (wired shelves or something similar would be the best). I had a few experiments with the incubators. I don't want to fork out extra money to buy one so I just use what I found in my house.

Kitchen cabinetCheck the temperature of your kitchen cabinet. Usually the cabinet above the stove or microwave oven will have warmer temperature compared to the rest. If the temperature is around 75-78 F, you can easily wrap your bagged soybeans with hand towel and put them in that particular cabinet. When I first time made tempeh, I always use this method.

I would say, the chance of success is 50-50. Sometimes you get a nice tempeh, sometimes you don't. Your oven.If you have oven, then you have an incubator. In my house, I have an electric oven which does not have a pilot light. Instead, it has a big oven light, which if turned on, will create a 104 F temperature inside the oven.