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J’s Chicken Milanese
Last year, I posted a recipe for avocado and grapefruit salad, which is refreshing and delicious. I’ve messed with the recipe a bit (OK, not the same at all really) and made it into a light meal, basically a Chicken Milanese. I’ve made it with both grapefruit and orange, and both are wonderful. Here’s my version, with oranges. J’s Chicken Milanese Ingredients 4 large navel oranges 2 or 3 avocados, depending on how much you like avocados and how big they are 1 package baby arugula (I don’t know how many oz those little bags are…5?) 1 lb chicken breast, sliced or pounded thin into 4 cutlets. One of our…
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Wordless Wednesday – Bath time edition
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Wordless Wednesday
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Savory Oatmeal
My grandma used to make me delicious oatmeal, with butter, milk, and brown sugar. Sometimes my mom would make it similarly, and throw raisins in as well. I like oatmeal, but have only had it sweetened, either with brown sugar, or in my middle aged years, seasonal fruit, usually raspberries and blueberries, add a banana if I’m very hungry. I’ve seen people rave about oatmeal with banana and peanut butter, and I tried it once, but it wasn’t really for me. Then Nance posted about eggs in her alphabetical post series, and a discussion ensued about savory oatmeal in the comments. I adore eggs, I like oatmeal, and it seems…
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Meme Monday – Snaily Edition
Again, I am using a cartoon instead of a meme. Is that wrong of me? I don’t know. When I was 9 or 10, I was playing outside on the lawn, when I stepped on something that went kind of crunch. I didn’t step hard, but hard enough to hear and feel it before pulling my foot back. My brother said that it was probably a snail, and that I had cracked its shell. I was horrified, and went inside to ask my mom what happens when you step on a snail and crack their shell. She said she thought they died. Wrong answer. I was a sensitive, tender hearted…
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Bonus Meme – because this will hopefully not be a thing anymore by Monday
And why not, here’s another….
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Meme Monday
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(No) Meme Monday – Happy Birthday Ted!
Today is Ted’s Birthday! We had a wonderful weekend….Saturday some vaccinated friends had us over for a very small (there were 4 of us) get together, and gosh it felt great to not wear our masks and be around people and see their faces for a change. They made Ted a special birthday treat that was low carb, no sugar, no dairy, so he got to have some sweet for a change. We watched the Kentucky Derby, and for once I actually bet online, which was a mistake because I lost. It was a great day. Then yesterday, we had another small get together with vaccinated family, just the same…
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Resolved
My New Years resolution this year was to eat more pancakes. I didn’t set a goal or a number of pancakes that I had to eat. Just more than last year. In 2020, I probably had pancakes two or three times, so it was not a difficult resolution to keep. I remember when we were first married, and when we lived in Philadelphia, we used to have pancakes every Saturday. It was a fun tradition, aided by Aunt Jemima and Mrs Buttersworth. I remember when I was pregnant, late 2nd trimester, and being so hungry…I gobbled down my pancakes, and then I eyed Ted’s pancakes and he sighed and gave…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Meme Monday – A Saturday Morning Walk
I didn’t ride through the desert, but I did drive to my old hometown last weekend to take my Great Aunt for her second dose of vaccine. I haven’t spent much time with her since COVID began, for obvious reasons, and it was really nice to have some time together. I spent the night with her, since I’m fully vaccinated, and I wanted to spend the night with her just in case she had any side effects. I didn’t like the idea of her having a fever or aches in the middle of the night, and being all alone. Happily, she had zero side effects. No fever, no aches, no…
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Meme Monday – Karma
Many years ago, when Ted and I were dating, we found ourselves with his family, out in the suburbs, playing miniature golf. I don’t remember why. One thing about Ted and his brother is that they love to tease people. His brother especially gets a kick out of pushing people’s buttons. Not really in a cruel way, but also not in an especially kind way. He loves to see people’s reactions. So here’s the scene. I’m trying my best to play miniature golf, but I have very little skill and I’m missing quite often and getting frustrated. It’s not fun to fail. Ted and his brother are pretending that they…
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Wordless Wednesday – Construction next door
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Meme Monday – Golden Birthday
April 6th was Mulder’s ‘Golden Birthday’. Your ‘golden birthday’, also known as your ‘champagne birthday’, is when your age matches the day of the month you were born, so Mulder turned 6 on the 6th. Due to the lifespan of dogs, and poor planning on the part of those creating our calendar, a lot of dogs never reach their golden birthday. Anyway, we decided to celebrate by giving Mulder his own hamburger for dinner. He loves hamburgers, and he loves carrots. Lucky for you, Ted took a video. If you have a dog in your life, do they took treats to their bed to eat? Genevieve used to do this…
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Meme Monday – Working from Home
As I do so often, I brought a cartoon rather than a meme, but I choose to look over that technicality. I’m not new to working from home. I last worked in an office in 2006, when my company moved their headquarters from my California town to a suburb of Chicago. A few years later, the headquarters again moved, this time to Atlanta. Rather than moving California employees, or laying us off, they sent us home. I wasn’t sure I would like it, I like my coworkers and thought I might be lonely being home. I’ve never had to deal with a commute, I have always lived in the same…