You know I had all kinds of plans for today. And what really have I accomplished? One load of laundry. A trip to the dry cleaners, a stop at a friend's house to drop something off, a stop at the bead store to shop for someone's birthday, a quick stop at the grocery store. I think that's about it.
Mostly because inside my head looks like this painting.
Does not help that I'm reading Moonwalking with Einstein which is a book about memory.Speaking of which, 35 years ago today I graduated from high school.
Here's a pleasant memory. Taken in the early 1990s in Lee, NH, at the traffic circle while waiting for our order at Antonio's Drive-in. (It's a stupid McDonalds now. That is the opposite of progress.) My kids loved to stop here as much as I did. We'd play word games or watch the race cars being towed away or towards the racetrack down the road. They made a great Pizza Burger. But my favorite was an Eastern Sandwich on white bread with ketchup and it came steaming hot wrapped in wax paper.
Just trying to distract myself as surgery is tomorrow and what haven't I done or thought about that needs doing. See? I'm my own problem. Because I can't sit still long enough to stitch.
Yes. I have difficulties remembering to post here with any regularity. I'm working on it.
Here's a bowl of kale chips. That's right. It seems that someone found out if you tear up a kale, put it on a cookie sheet, douse it with a little olive oil, salt and pepper, you can put it in the oven at 325 for 20 - 30 minutes and instead of getting soggy, it gets crisp. Interesting. In my opinion, you cannot save leftovers.
Dinner then was kale chips, grape tomatoes, grilled chicken breast, and pasta salad made with Smart Taste pasta, cucumbers, cranberries, celery and Vidalia onion and peppercorn dressing.
Kale that didn't get made into chips was steamed, topped with sliced beets, and served with pork chops topped with a quick blueberry jam and couscous.
Everyone who lives near me knows it's been too hot to really cook. But today we're getting a break with highs only around 80. Maybe I'll figure out something good.
I am going to try this again. Let's see if I can post at least four times a week.
Here's Monday night's dinner.
The temperature got to 84 on Monday - a blessed sign of things to come - before plunging back into the fifties. But because I had the guys coming to install our new front door and window, I took advantage of my morning time and made a Hungarian goulash. And then a whole wheat bread with dill and onions. I served the goulash over orecchietti pasta with aspargus on the side.
Tonight was salmon with a yogurt sauce with dill and garlic. Those cute itty bitty potatoes, more bread, and french green beans. That's a Mudslinger red ale from Red Hook in the glass. I only ate half the bread, a couple of potatoes, most of the beans, and most of the salmon.
Someone volunteered me to make Aunt Martha's Finnish Coffee Bread for his office holiday party.
Came out of the over at 11:58 p.m. The house smelled terrific!!!
