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Roasted Marinated Beets (from Recipes )
Dec 5, 2020
I’ve been making roasted beets to add to salads lately and it had been a while so I’d forgotten how good they are. This is originally from Thomas Kellar’s “Bouchon Cookbook”. Take 3-4 beets, trim the greens down to about 1/4" off the top. Trim the trailing root end a bit. Wash them. Don’t peel. Wrap them in AL foil and add 3 tbsp oil and 3 tbsp water and salt and pepper. [Read More...]

Thanksgiving 2020 - A Report (from Blog )
Dec 4, 2020
First, lets start with being thankful for making it this far through 2020. Second, presenting “Thanksgiving Dinner” as a take-out experience worked very well. We had it at lunch time in the covered patio with a propane heater and everyone was very comfortable. We started with salad which included dressing on ths side and delivery of the cranberry sauce cup. Salad Course. Dressing + Cranberry Sauce After came out the dinner box of turkey, brussels sprouts, slow cooker mashed potatoes and slow cooker lasagna. [Read More...]

Exciting Clients (from Blog )
Dec 4, 2020
My clients are generally pretty fun to be around. One in particular I only see every other week for 1/2 hour. It isn’t a big project by any means and she keeps getting a lot out of it. Basically I listen to what she is doing lately and give feedback and ideas. She works with successful woman managers and executives. She does one-on-one coaching as well as running a number of groups. [Read More...]

Email Blues (from Blog )
Nov 25, 2020
Last week I realized I was having a pretty serious problem with email. My business emails weren’t getting to GMail users. For a business, this is a pretty bad problem. Luckily I have been wanting to move away from my Digital Concierge brand and was already planning on using michaelhelmke.com as my mail website and business identity. So all I had to do was create a new email set up for myself under that domain and I was ready to go. [Read More...]

Calibrating Rain (from Blog )
Nov 17, 2020
I’ve always been fascinated by the rain. I attribute this to California not having much rain, in general. Despite growing up in semi-arid conditions with lots of landscape watering, I enjoy seeing green things and water. Minnesota when it isn’t snowing, has lots of rain. Often when it rains, it’s very hard rain. Rain I hardly ever see in California. So when visiting California recently, and it was “raining”, I thought about comparing the volume of rain coming down in a way that makes more sense than “number of inches this season”. [Read More...]