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Sage Rubbed Pork Chops with Warm Apple Slaw
I was poking around the internet the other day, trying to find something a little different but still healthy to make for dinner, and I came across this recipe. It looked a little different, and healthy enough, and we had 1/2 a head of cabbage in the fridge that I wanted to use, so I went ahead and made it. The picture above is from Food Network, I didn’t think about taking one until it was too late. I used red cabbage and sherry vinegar, since that is what I had. I made the full recipe of slaw, but only 2 pork chops. I should have made 3 so Ted…
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The Hill We Climb
I was blown away by the spectacular Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, and her poem at the Inaugeration today. I am sure you saw it. In case you’d like to see it in writing, here it is. What an amazingly talented, hard working, brilliant young woman. “The Hill We Climb” Amanda Gorman When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast, we’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice. And yet the dawn is…
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Wordless Wednesday – Scenes from a walk on a ridiculously beautiful January morning
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Meme Monday
One last meme while the shit head is President. We are all looking forward to the end of this Presidency. What a relief it will be to know that the person in charge is not a psychopath. I like Biden just fine. I like Harris even more. But honestly, I would rather have a rock in the White House than Trump. Right now I’m wondering in what order the Presidential pardons will come…my guess is first, people who have paid for them, then friends, then family, then traitors and terrorists who attacked the Capitol building, then he will pardon himself. He’s going to have a busy couple of days. We’re…
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How I read now
Where do you find out about books? Recommendations from friends and family? New York Times Review of Books? Browsing the bookstore or library? Do you insist on a physical copy, or do you use a kindle app or some such? What about audio books? Personally, I love a physical book, and I have become quite enamored with audio books. I’m not really fond of the e-reader, though I think it’s great if you travel, or commute via public transportation, or if you have arthritis or something that makes holding a book uncomfortable. Anyway, here are some books I have read recently, or will read soonish, and how I came to…
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Salmon Piccata
We eat a lot of chicken around here, and sometimes, we get tired of it. The other night I had some lemon laying around, and thought I might make some chicken piccata. But being tired of chicken, I thought I’d look for a recipe for salmon, and look, I found one! Most of the recipes I find on Food Network are pretty good, though it’s helpful to look at the reviews…sometimes they give you some good pointers, like, “This was great, but too much salt” or “I love this receipe, it’s perfect!” and so on. The recipes on Food Network are mostly based on TV shows. I’m guessing that this…
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Meme Monday
The attempted coup last week was in no way funny. However, I am going to post a bunch of memes/cartoons that I saw online anyway. What I really want to say, however, is screw these assholes. I would add, “And the horse they rode in on” but I like horses, so I will omit that part of the phrase. I have some Republican friends that I love and adore. Thoughtful people who know better and do condemn the President, and do not think it was an Antifa hoax. This post is not about them. I have some Republican acquaintances, people I went to school with or worked with at some…
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Wordless Wednesday – Dark Day
Photo credit – Reuters via CNN
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Meme Monday – Birthday and Politics
I hope you all had a lovely New Year. We did…I had a four day weekend, to celebrate my birthday on Thursday, and then the New Year on Friday. Thursday, Ted and Maya both had asked for the day off but could not get the day off. She had to work in the morning, and he had to work in the afternoon. So in the morning, Ted and I went for a nice walk with Mulder, then we came home and took showers and so on, and he started work. Maya only had to work a half day, so once she was finished we went to our outdoor mall and…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Meme Monday – New Year Version
I’ve been saving this one, and I know in some ways it may feel true. Especially the first few months are bound to be desperate ones as far as this damn virus is concerned. I do hope that things get better as the year goes on, as the vaccine comes available, as we have a more sane administration, as hopefully people can behave after the surge that is bound to happen after Christmas and New Year celebrations. Here’s another meme, while we are bidding farewell to the year that has almost ended. Such a year. From it, I hope that we have learned a few things. Wash your hands Black…
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Meyer Lemon Cheesecake
I decided to make a cheesecake for our Christmas dinner. I’m not much of a baker, but I do like cheesecake, and I remember Maya talking once about how much she loves Meyer lemon cheesecake, which she has had once or twice at local restaurants. So I looked around online and found a couple of recipes, but I didn’t love any of them. I was talking to my neighbor, Barbara, about it, and she told me she has a cheesecake recipe that she loves, that came with her Oster brand mixer that she got back in 1972. It’s not really lemony flavored, but it does have some lemon in it.…
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Merry Christmas
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Wordless Wednesday – winter fruit trees
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Picture with Santa
We brought our daughter, Maya, up without Santa. My mom said she would not lie to us, so did not tell us stories about Santa Claus. Ted’s parents did raise him with Santa, but they failed him, in that when he learned Santa was not real, it was because his parents forgot to buy stocking stuffers, and left a note (In his mom’s handwriting) that said, “Sorry kids, I ran out of candy…see you next year.). Perhaps because he was the 4th of 4 kids, this was the amount of energy left. So we didn’t have the experience of a parent telling us that we were ‘part of the magic’…