I'm sure it's no surprise that it doesn't take much to excite me but cracking into an egg with a double yolk really excites me. I sometimes get them from my chickens but mostly it's when the hens are just starting to lay. Yesterday I was making meatloaf for our dinner. Chad was fixing himself something before he went to work. He was cooking eggs for himself and he handed me two eggs for the ...
Cooking
Breakfast
With Vince having been retired or off work for over a year (medical first, then retired), it's been a long time, and seems like even longer since since I got up really early and fixed breakfast. Addie had wanted bacon and eggs yesterday morning and they didn't have bacon so I got it when I was out and fixed breakfast for her today. Two eggs, bacon, toast with jelly, and strawberries. The ...
Cucumbers
Vince loves cucumbers. He only asked me to do one thing before I leave on my trip -- fix some cucumbers with yogurt. That was a very small request from him since I've been giving instructions for several days . . water all the plants in the greenhouse twice a day; watch for scapes on the garlic, cut the asparagus every day, make sure the garden is watered, clean the litter box, take good ...
Ham
I've been trying to use some of the bigger things out of our freezers so I had taken a ham out of the freezer and put it in the fridge a few days ago. Yesterday I baked it. I had to laugh . . that big ham and nothing got thrown out. I cut the ham from the bone (it was already spiral sliced), filled three vacuum seal bags for the freezer, put some in a zipper bag for the fridge (tomorrow ...
The Breville Steamer
The Breville steamer arrived today and I think I'm going to love it. There are, of course, huge differences, besides the price. The hole in the right side is where water can be added. On the small Black & Decker steamer I had, in order to add more water, I had to either pour it over whatever was steaming or removing the basket of hot food and pour additional water in. I'm not ...
The Bargains
We needed to run to town today. Last week one of our carbon monoxide detectors went haywire. Vince changed the batteries but it still kept going off. We reset it and put it outside for a few hours and it continued to go off so we knew it was time to get a new one. Those things don't last that long. We were at Aldi and they had the exact same ones we had in the house so he bought one. That very ...
