Siouz Q I love leftover night!
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Siouz Q I love leftover night!
hmmmm, I will look for a recipe for a biryani in the crockpot. The year I retired I swore I would learn to make a good biryani and it was so complicated! My version ended up not like anything that reflected the time put into it. It was perfectly edible and it was good. It was just… Not like restaurants.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiouzQ.
to combat the boredom and food issue, I went to the international food store yesterday and stocked up on a few things. I knew it needed to do a little bit more tie and Indian cooking. I only know a couple of recipes, but that’s what I crave, something interesting.
My rant today is online dynamic pricing on everything from airfare to amazon products. Very frustrating to spend a lot of time looking for a good price only to have a higher price when you get ready to check out online. Seems like it ought to be illegal since it is a deceptive practice.
Iris lilies: We found this recipe for a samosa filling. WE simplified it and use it as a side dish without the tortilla. Also good with an egg on it. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/27...sa-quesadilla/
Trying a new vegetarian burrito filling today with cooked rice, beans and a variety of veggies.
The Chicken Biryani was servicable, if not a just little bland in my book. Next time I'm going to tweak it a bit. I often cook stuff by using up to three different recipes. I'm also notorious for not reading recipes all the way through to the cooking instructions - I just look and see if I have at least 3/4 of the ingredients, lol!
The Samosadilla recipe looks awesome - I wonder if my spouse would eat it though...
That samosa filling would be good. I love samosas of course, most people do. And I learned in my Indian cooking class to make them with a particular brand of tortilla but now I can’t remember which brand is best. But the filling would be great without the tortillaQuote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
I made chicken salad from the rotisserie chicken left overs. Cran berry raisins , tarragon, mayonnaise, an apple. The husband does the chopping so I just have to mix. It's good and we have enough for tonight as well!!!!
That sounds good! We recently had tuna sandwiches with arugula, capers and heirloom tomato, and it really elevated it to something quite special. We often pick up grocery store sushi for a quick meal in the hot weather, and we've decided to do tuna sandwiches on those nights instead since it's just as good (if not better) and a whole lot cheaper. If we're really craving sushi, we're better off waiting until we're at a good sushi restaurant.Quote:
Originally Posted by nswef
Happy little plant, sad little plant:
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One is a Calcatera, the other one is a Wire plant. Purchased on the same day. One immediately started pushing up new leaves and has unfurled itself into a handsome little plant. The wire plant just as immediately went into decline, deciding it hated me. It hates living here.
I do like it when they make it known immediately we are not a match! But I am sad because the wire plant was pretty cool.
Yesterday was quite the challenge. I was slated to fly out of Albuquerque on Wednesday morning at 10:00 am and arrive in St. Louis by 5:30 with one longish layover in Dallas. I didn't sleep very well because you know how it is when you are going to be traveling - you start waking up every hour so you don't miss your alarm. When I did get up, there were two text messages saying the flight from Albuquerque was delayed by a significant amount of time. So I waited over an hour to leave the house and drive the 50 miles to the airport. Twice more while I was driving I got more text alerts about more delay.
The 10:00 flight didn't leave until 12:00, which made my connecting flight out of Dallas uncomfortably close, so I decided to be proactive and switch my ticket to the later flight to St. Louis. Weirdly enough, we somehow landed in Dallas with about 30 minutes to spare for my original 2nd flight (which I no longer had a ticket to).
I decided to make a mad dash on the SkyTrain to the other terminal in the hopes they had an extra seat remaining (along with about 12 other people with the same idea on standby). No such luck, the earlier flight closed and so then I had to wait two more hours for my new flight.
My hope was to land and get the shuttle to the car rental place and drive the 18 miles into St. Louis so I could find IL's condo before it got dark and I actually succeeded! I literally pulled into the guest parking spot as the sun slipped behind all the tall trees.
Between not sleeping well the night before and the stress of waiting and waiting and running and waiting some more, then listening to a toddler screaming in the seat behind me for a solid 30 minutes upon approach to St. Louis, it was the most stressful day I've had in a long time. But I slept really well, and today everything I set out to do on this visit has been accomplished. I'll post about that later because I'm still pretty wiped out, but suffice it to say, I will be visiting St. Louis again in about six weeks when I have my surgery. There are a LOT of moving parts to arrange and I'm not going to worry about it just yet. I'm flying back home tomomorrow and it will be another really, really long day by the time I land and drive back from Albuquerque.
it was pretty humid today and it was a little bit better yesterday. I hope that window air conditioner is keeping it cool. If you haven’t used it, you need to turn it on to see how it will work for you.
If I was going to live there, I’d have another unit in the living room.
the botanical gardens are great, they are one of the best in the world. I know we say that because MoBot is in our city, but I love all the old architectural on the grounds.
The new main building is impractical for our plant societies and I’m mad about it and no longer donate other than an annual membership. Tower Grove Park across the street is bordered by Grand Avenue and it is a Victorian park. Is my favorite park in the entire city.
the Compton Hill water tower is Victorian and it’s pretty cool.
I just got back from dinner at Crafted on Shenandoah - decent food and a great walk back on Hawthorne. Those houses are so AMAZING! The architecture all over is amazing!
The window air conditioner is doing a fine job once I settle in and stop moving around. We only have one window air conditioner at my place in the desert, plus about four fans in various rooms and I'm always quite comfortable.
So glad the trip (and stay!) are working out SiouzQ! Continued safe travels!
okay---this(see photo)
IL: What is it with people from Missouri and trees? Do you know these peeps? :~)
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/19/nx-s1...ri-couple-bond
This story popped up on my phone yesterday. Yikes.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Rosa, sometimes trees must be tamed, kept in line. That’s just the way life is!
haha, kidding.
it is kind of amazing for me that our great view is not blocked by treetops. The treetops form a U where the Vista of the church and it’s steeple are perfectly visible, framed by treetops. All those trees are fully mature so none of them are going to be blocking my view.
I would have a tree problem were they not fully mature. I can’t see this view changing in my lifetime.
Where I live was a mostly treeless, high plains grassland smack up against the mountains. Very few trees other than conifers and aspens, etc at higher altittude. Nevertheless, people moved in and planted trees everywhere. The pervasive winds knock them down regularly and those that remain in the older neighborhoods completely block the gorgeous views of Pike's Peak. I think I am one of the only people on my street that doesn't use some sort of herbicide. My brother once worked for Monsanto and told me things so I avoid them all.
Wow. Just wow. I'm glad she was prosecuted but I am absolutely stunned at her behavior. It reminds me of a situation in Florida that my college friend told me about when I visited her in Key Largo. She lives in a very exclusive community--the type of community where people are so rich even money is considered crass... no one exchanges money at the shops or restaurants.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Well, one of the people there lived on the water (as did almost everyone) but he didn't like the mangroves in the water in front of his house, so he flouted the law and had them removed. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law--it may have even been jail time.
I say it's the wealthy, selfish, immoral, entitled people that sometimes have to be tamed and kept in line. The trees are usually minding their own business.
Chigger bites. Chigger bites in places where the sun don't shine. Me, extremely, supremely aggravated by said chigger bites. That is all...
I didn't think there were chiggers in NM.
I didn't either, but apparently they are here. I remember I got them very badly while camping in Texas - I was using my hairbrush to scrath my ankles it was so bad! I am highly suseptible to getting extreme allergic reactions to any sort of insect bites. It seems like it is getting worse as I age. My mom always used to say it was because I had the "sweet blood" that bugs like.
Well, I have a health related rant. Female stuff. Had my last period in late 2016. Nothing since. Back in April I had one brief instance of vaginal bleeding. Took me weeks to get into GP, who then gave me a referral to a gynie. I’ve only used GP for years. Anyway vaginal ultrasound and doc appt today. Uterine lining is very thick and I have fibroids I didn’t know I had. When I was younger I had nasty endometriosis, diagnosed in 1988, and a number of surgeries to remove the scar tissue. Anyway, doc wants to do an endometrial biopsy just to make sure everything is OK. I only went to the doc due to bleeding as a friend in mid 60s had that about a year ago and she ended up with cancer.
Biopsy appt is the 16th. I’m not particularly worried.
Doc did give me progesterone rx for my sleeping issues. I’ve never been on HRT at all to this point. No estrogen until after biopsy results back.
I hope all goes well, Tradd.
Will be hoping for good results for you.
Sending good healing thoughts your way!
Trade, I think you’re right not to worry too much. Doesn’t fibroid tissue shrink as we get older anyway? You may be on the downside of this.
In our particular family history, fibroid tissue doesn't shrink with age, it expands. So it's good to get it checked out! I too have lost a friend due to uterine/cervical cancer, with little or no symptoms until it was quite advanced. Hoping all is well, Tradd.
Thank you all! Will keep you updated.
Good luck with it all, Tradd. Agree with the others - good to stay on top of it, but probably not too much to worry.
Sorry to hear of this Tradd - I hope all goes well and sorts itself out.
In a show of solidarity with President Biden, DH and I have developed covid for the first time. This was not on my list of things I wanted to do! Thankfully it just feels like a head cold, worse for me than for him. We've had all our vaccinations and MD is prescribing meds because we have significant risk factors. I'm just glad we're getting it now and didn't get it back in the days of refrigerated morgue overflow trucks.
oh no!!!! I still have not had Covid.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
I stopped vaccinations after shot #3, but am not opposed to more, just haven’t got around to it.
I've had 8 shots so far. Hopefully that will make me one of the mild cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Hunh. How often are we supposed to get them now? I’ve lost track.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
I know several here recently diagnosed with Covid. I thought I might have it due to head cold symptoms but test was negative.
Jeez. I thought there were 4 covid shots. I stopped at #3 also.
My wife and I stopped at 3 as well. Neither of us has ever had it either, at least not to our knowledge, although we both got very sick with what we later found were covid like symptoms during our annual Christmas at the beach trip in late December 2019 and early January 2020. This was a few weeks before the first confirmed case in the US so it probably wasn't covid but since neither of us gets sick very often, I've always wondered, what if?
I remember my friend came over to our house February 2020 after checking with a doctor about pneumonia. She didn’t have it but she said this is as sick as she’s been in a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Later, she figured out it was Covid. She figured she got it at her hairdressers who has many clients, businesswoman, who fly internationally.
I suppose by the time she was sitting on our couch she was no longer spreading it.
DH feels fine at this point and I feel like I'm in the recovery phase of a head cold. The Paxlovid has the weird side effect of leaving a metallic taste in my mouth, but DH is not experiencing this. It's nothing I can't live with for a few days; it's just weird. The CDC guidance now is so wishy-washy that I don't wonder about the spike in cases. Once symptoms are subsiding and no fever for 24 hours, you are OK to go forth into the world. Oh, you may very well still be contagious, so it would be nice if you wore a mask, and took the usual precautions, but we're not trying to force you or anything. Geesh. We're definitely going to err on the side of not spreading illness around.