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I haven't started wearing thermals all day yet. And it is supposed to warm back up this weekend. But last night I did enjoy one of the few pleasures of the cold part of the year; I got to sleep IN my bed, wrapped in the warmth of flannel sheets and a heated mattress pad. I slept quite well.
So many folks I know have been down with the flu lately, this evening I plan on making a pot of chicken noodle soup and putting most of it up in the freezer so if my turn comes around I am ready.
Sunday I went home early to watch sports, drink beer and cook. In other words be like a normal working stiff.
Lets get the bad stuff out of the way first. Every game I wanted to watch was either a blowout or the wrong team won or both.
The weather was beautiful. I finished off a bottle of Merlot and then some beers.
Back in February I bought a chocolate fudge box cake to bake along with a jar of cherry frosting. Well the party I was to bake it for never happened and it was getting close to expiring so I baked it. I gave away 9 of the 15 pieces I created and there are no reports of anybody getting sick and or dying. :-)
Before I left for work in the morning I took 3 chicken breasts and put them in a zip lock with 1/2 jar of Thai green curry sauce and then grilled them in the late afternoon. Different flavor than marinating them in Italian dressing which is what I usually do. I expected a bolder flavor than I got but it was OK and different. I cubed them up for use in lunch salads this week. Then for dinner I had a brat with 2 sliced avocados and a tomato and some rice seasoned with Polish seasoning.
Saturday night I ate a lot healthier, I had a huge serving of steamed yellow squash and some swordfish.
In one day I leaped over my highest weight in almost two years. Hopefully it is mostly water weight. After I got home last night I drank 4 10oz glasses of water and a beer and didn't need to pee until this morning. But I must digress a bit. For lunch yesterday I went to Culver's and had a double cheeseburger, fries, a root beer, and a double scoop of strawberry cheesecake frozen custard and then friends called me at work and I met them at Jimbo's (a neighborhood bar) and had a grilled ham and cheese on sourdough with onion rings. Much of this food was salty enough I could taste it. Never the less I need to eat light for a couple of days. :-)
As to the food it was all OK. I'll put a couple of complete reviews on Yelp.
2005, pg-13, Jennifer Garner
Being brought back from the death she incurred in Daredevil she has her own movie. It is another Marvel sci-fi action movie. This one plays through much better and even has a couple of surprises in it. Maybe no so much so if you read the comic books. I liked it. It did take two tries though to get a DVD from Netflix that would play through.
It was that time of year again last night. The walk was larger than it was in the spring and attracted more people, which led to having to park over at the hospitall. The weather was perfect. One of the people in my party looked up the weather where she flew off to today and it was 11°, no thanks. We started off with Salvadorian food which was delicious and then were on our feet wandering and taking pictures for over two hours. I haven't uploaded them yet. Lots of jewelry but also craft work too, and I mustn't forget to mention sock zombies. Had a great time.
Met up with some Yelp friends for dinner here last week. Of course I reviewed it on Yelp:-) While most of the meal was OK I was disappointed in the sauerbraten. I feel that a piece of meat that has marinated for three days should has some flavor without the gravy and I should not need a steak knife to cut it. So I am thinking I should try it myself. I will most likely use a chunk of brisket as that is fairly forgiving of overcooking and that way I can do it in the crockpot.
I only buy about one jar of fruit spread a year for actual use on toast. I also keep some around for use in sauces. In my continuing effort to control what is in the things I eat I try to buy stuff sweetened with sugar instead of corn syrup. This spring I found Terra Verde Farms and is is OK, with the Apricot drizzle being my favorite, it is expensive and they tell you it will only keep in the fridge for 3 months after opening. It is however local so I will most likely keep some in the freezer for sauces. Recently I was at Albertson's looking for something to replace the empty jar of strawberry preserves and spotted Braswell's peach butter. I don't remember liking apple butter too much but for $3 I gave it a try. I like it. And it uses sugar instead of HFCS.
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