Thursday, February 13, 2014

Good Morning . . . ?

I am in a fog when I wake up (and at other times too). This morning I went into the bathroom and I was befuddled. Why is there a washcloth in the toilet? And more on the floor? Then I saw her trying to be invisible (in my morning befuddlement it worked for a minute) . . .

Midge . . . in the towel cabinet! How did she do that? It had to be difficult for a fat Mallaney cat to accomplish such a maneuver without landing in the toidy! The angles are all wrong and, frankly, she is not that coordinated  . . .

And Finn has resorted to playing with dangerous non-cat toys! He was doing sort of a "Spin the Scissor" game . . .

Come on weather, get warmer, melt some snow! My cats are going crazy! LOL


Saturday, February 8, 2014

Blogworthy

Banana nut bread with black walnuts and orange glaze. Served warm with butter. Sigh.

Stoup and a biscuit . . . two bits! Seriously, this soup was spectacular. Try to melt some parm on your meatballs. That is my advice. Yum! Some leftover corn found its way into the stoup, and a bay leaf, some Italian seasoning, and a clove of garlic and lot of black pepper. Yum.   




Well, only one casualty because of church. I have been chauffeuring the folks and  Joe to church because it is hard to get a good parking spot. It was snowing, and had been all day, so there was talk of them going tomorrow instead of tonight. No way man! I have no intention of getting dressed tomorrow! I kept my outside clothes on all day today even my bra because I knew I had to go out to do my driving duties! LOL  Everything went OK on the drop off. Well, on the way into the house, Joe was waiting for Dad, I was backing up, trying to stop strategically so we wouldn't lose Dad in a snowdrift or something, and I saw Mom go down. Joe was right by her, with his back to her lol. I'm not sure what he thought my wild gesticulations were about, but finally he realized she had taken a header. While I was trying to get him to turn around, I saw her start to get up and boom, down she went again. I know what she was doing, I've done it myself. You want to get up really fast; if you are successful it's like it cancels out the fall and no one needs to know. It NEVER happened. Well, it backfired on her this time. I ask her later if she is OK, maybe she should take an ibuprofen or something in case she is sore tomorrow. She said she was fine, that it was a very soft landing. I said what happened, did you slip, and she said no, she thinks she just walked into a huge pile of snow. Just walked right into it . . . lolol and fell on top of it. Good thing she's pretty sturdy for a 76 year old. Definitely could have been worse. And turns out Mom was probably right. She thought it was crazy to be out on a snowy night like that.

And because karma is a bitch, I'm sure I'll be falling soon. 

Kay

More snow . . .

Whew! Dad got a  haircut and mom manscaped him! He looks good! Mom was nervous about driving on the snowy roads, so I played chauffeur again, to barber, library, bakery, down to the river to feed the gulls. It was nice.

I am throwing together a stoup out of some random refrigerator/freezer/pantry stuff. The baby carrots I dug out of the crisper drawer didn't look so hot; I had to peel them to give them some pep! I sauteed those with some celery, a tired green pepper, onion, and cabbage; sprinkled on a little flour, then poured in some beef broth, some tomato sauce, some tomatoes, some cooked chickpeas from the freezer, and some frozen meatballs I got on sale with a coupon. I gotta spice things up once I see how things are looking. I'm still deciding about my mystery ingredient . . .

What is this red stuff, and why did I save it? It is thawing on the kitchen table. Ironically The Blob is on the Movies! channel soon, and I have a vision of this stuff starting to ooze  . . .I hear tell of some peeps who label and date the stuff in their freezer. It takes all kinds I say.

If the stoup is a flop I have some black bananas, my back-up plan includes banana nut bread made with my clearance black walnuts and an orange glaze. Hmmm. Who needs stoup anyway?

Snowing again! ARGHHHHHHHHH. Though I have to admit this is a pretty one.

We shall see what we shall see with my cooking endeavors today. We shall see if it is blog worthy or not! If I don't post a pic, it was just OK . . . or I done myself in due to eating mystery freezer stuff! People will say . . . "Kay, that dumbass! What was she thinking eating that _________!" You can fill in the blank yourself in case I never make it back.

Enjoy your weekend folks. I'm off to fill the stray cat bowl at work. Though from the looks of it, the birds are helping themselves too! LOL

Kay