Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
And very funny Cap about "smells" i was out looking for my cat when my neighbour commented on the nice smell of chocolate i told her to pi.. off she wasnt getting any of it. Do you know theyve just moved in at xmas and have being doing the whole house up and STILL the vans are outside getting more crap done rubbing it in out faces!! Mums going mad (pardon the pun) with jealousy and im getting a bit peed myself i think theyve so much money they just want to show off you see i dont get it why buy a fairly decent maintenance free house then spends thousands making it look slightly better? Why not just buy the house you want to begin with? yeh think they are showing off and they think theyre going to eat my cake?
for the last 6 years its been the same only with a big green parrot instead .
somehow they " know " ..
book ,
when youre baking , the dish is done when the odor has become irresistable to everyone within 100 yards . its true . odor is mostly what i gauge by ..
i copped me some more chicken livers . i realized today that livers are over a buck a pound yet whole chicken quarters are 69 cents a pound . meh . the grain fed chicken tastes like styrofoam and then you haveta pick it off the bone and get grease clear to your elbows . no thanks . i want iron and i want it NOW . lol
I just knew that sis didn't cook rice. So, I bought some take outs (2) bowls of soup - chicken (sis) and beef (me). I threw mine into a small pot and threw in a cup of water. This restaurant always make their soup so salty.
I bought several recipes books (yes, captain, I know your viewpoint on this). {{chuckling}} I bought the book "Clueless in the Kitchen - A cookbook for Teens." I will read this first. I want to mark all the pages with simple ingredients and no oven/baking. Just from scanning it, they give great helpful hints like Practice Safe Beef... Mom never taught us to cook. And well, fave sis' cooking tends to come out bloody inside but burnt outside. Anyway.. I think I need to buy a meat thermometer. I guess I can't base on the meat being cooked just because the outside's burnt.
smashed red beans in the sauce gives it some real body and flavor . if you cook the hamburger then run it thru a hand grinder you get the fine topping like is found in the best resteraunt chilidogs .
my easy pasta skillet supper tonight except I bought spicy italian sausage instead of mild. Everyone survived even dad who told me twice he liked it!
watermelon or ambrosia salad for desert. It's hot... too hot to have a heavy meal.
Rice is high-carb, no matter its color. Doesn't mean you should never eat it, just realize that it does count as a carb!
My father always like rice with his chili. (White rice, and on the side, not mixed in.) There was a restaurant near where he worked that automatically added rice when he ordered chili for lunch. That is what my mother did, too, of course. The rice and bean combination is apparently a good source of protein, but when your chili has a lot of meat in it that isn't as important.
I took a stew out of the freezer and we are having that with watermelon, jicama salad, and rhubarb bread tonight.
im with kaz on the rice . i make chili with lots of beef , red beans , and just a little rice , bell pepper and a metric f*ck- ton of onion .
macaroni belongs in the oven with ham bits imo .
Cereal/toast
hot dogs/baked beans/veggie
Dont laugh but next week my dinners will be sardines and that green stuff as im eating far too much and getting fat "chubby" is ok "fat" is not ok!
Whats the point in any cheese when its not milk? nah tried to go vegan but couldnt good luck with that!
I could use about six face cords of that wood for the winter if you can drop it off sometime before the snow flies.
So no supper. Probably just a snack later...
wacked my last 3 cold chicken livers . now im out of chicken livers and i WILL be getting some more .
i can live frugally and enjoy a state of early retirement at 55 , or i can let money get away here and there and have to work myself to death . its an easy decision for me ..
i ' bout knocked a jicoma in the head today but with 6 legs them s**ts are quick .
ill go back to stalking the mule ..
I'm eating pretty poorly for past week, lots of take out and delivery of pizza and asian dishes... lots of fried, oily, heavy foods. By now I'm so sick of eating like that and I went to grocery finally because that was the real problem, I was out of most things at the house so just ordered in a few nights in a row. So back to lots of veggies. I'm trying to get nutritional consult for my father, either through VA or through his new PCP because I think it would help him to learn what foods are better for him... and he doesn't listen to me, he needs to hear from another "professional" source.
I am putting Turmeric on just about everything I eat these days. It has such a mild flavor and supposed to be so beneficial for you. It does stain things a yellow-orange color so have to be a little bit careful with it. But... yeah, it goes on everything now. :-)
Strips of jicama (hee-cama) are good on a crudites plate for scooping up dips. I like it in stir-fries, too -- it has a texture like water chestnuts but a fresher flavor.
And Captain, I wouldn't consider a salad of jicama and cucumber to be a fruit salad. :) Like your song lyrics, though.
There are probably only a few more days to the asparagus season here (Zero asparagus at farmers' market Sunday -- stores have it from Michigan) and I'd like to try that.
(We are planting asparagus this fall.)