2012 February 24 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

Last Night’s Dinner

February 24, 2012 · by JudyL

When Vince grilled chicken night before last, he grilled a big batch. It was all boneless chicken breasts that had been marinated in garlic, olive oil and lemon juice. I sliced the breasts in half thickness wise so they’d absorb more of the marinade and would be easier to slice into smaller pieces.

Last night I sliced some of the already cooked chicken breasts, sauteed them in olive oil with a little garlic and then added a few tablespoons of orange juice and cooked it down to where there was kind of a syrupy coating on the chicken.

Mixed greens were placed in a bowl, then slices of mango, sliced strawberries, sliced celery were added. The chicken was placed on top, and then topped with toasted almond slivers. The dressing was a bit of olive oil, balsamic and orange juice.

This salad was great and another one that we’ll have again.

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A New Old Popcorn Popper

February 24, 2012 · by JudyL

Once upon a time, when Vince was on another diet, he bought an air type popcorn popper. He never opened the box. It sat in my kitchen for months. I moved it out to the shelf in the garage. It continued to sit. It threatened to throw it away. He said he was going to return it. He didn’t.

Last night he decided to get it out and make popcorn for a snack. He bought popcorn when he bought the popper. We used it. We survived.

It worked great. There was even a coupon in the box for cents off our next popcorn purchase.

Too bad it expired in 2007!

Vince did enjoy the popcorn and that’s what matters. Sometimes it’s hard to know if the look on his face is saying “WOW, This is good!” or if the look is saying “Would you please put that *&$%#@ camera down while I’m eating!” I’ll assume he was saying “WOW, This is good!”

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Comptuer Switcharoo

February 24, 2012 · by JudyL

There were so many decisions to make when setting up the sewing room. I thought I wanted the notebook in the sewing room and the desktop in the house but the only place to put it was in the master bedroom. I have another notebook that I was going to use in the house but I’d have to buy another copy of EQ to run it on a third computer and I didn’t want to do that and working off two computers is bad enough . . a third one really confuses me. In the evenings, I read email on the iPad and I don’t like typing on it so I intend to respond to emails when I get to the laptop and I never remember so it was kinda getting to be a problem. And, when I’m too tired to sew, I enjoy playing on EQ but hated going off in the bedroom by myself.

Every day when Vince gets home from work, he says “What do you want me to do today?” That might sound great but about 80% of the time, he isn’t in the mood to do what I want done and that’s ok. When he came in yesterday and asked, I said “I want the desktop moved out here and the laptop back in the house!”

You should have seen the look on his face. But, he began disconnecting cables from the notebook. My poor desk is about 20 years old and it’s had lots of different computers sitting on it.

It didn’t take him long . . don’t look at the clock because we stopped and had dinner and did some other things in between him finishing up and my taking the picture.

Much better! I can now sit in the family room at night and answer email and play on EQ.