23 Tuesday Jul 2024
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yesterday a friend brought me a large bag of fresh green beans…
this morning while I was watching a tv show I trimmed them all and put some into two pots…
I cooked the first batch for my lunch…
then the second for supper, with a few leftovers for tomorrow…
they were delicious…
I do love fresh veggies;-)…
16 Sunday Jun 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cook, dad, family, father, food, light, lunch, memories, moments, scrambled eggs, widow
was thinking of my dad as I was making scrambled eggs recently…
he was a great cook and always used a fork when scrambling eggs… he said it made them fluffier… he always added a touch of milk or water as he prepared them…
it was a lovely memory around Father’s Day;-)…
he was a very special person and I think of him often…
07 Friday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cook, curry, family, gifts, instant, Instant Pot, lentils, moments, red curry lentils, Technology, treat, widow
got a text from my grandson advising he would be dropping a few things off for me today… he was supposed to let me know the day before he was coming, lol…
I had promised to make red curry lentils so I got started…
usually I put the uncooked lentils into the sauce to cook slowly as they simmer, but as I wanted to be sure they were cooked in time, I did them separately…
while the sauce and lentils were cooking, I made the rice in the Instant Pot…
felt a little more rushed than normal, but I had everything cooked and in containers in about an hour…
he picked the containers up along with some other treats when he dropped off items he had collected for me;-)…
he also brought a couple of gifts from my younger grandsons… an Indigo gift card and a monopod for my camera;-)…
lovely to get a few late gifts…
11 Monday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cook, dad, family, favourite, grandson, meat sauce, memories, remembering, shopping, sprouts, widow
whenever I grocery shop with my grandson and ask if he wants Brussels sprouts for dinner he always says yes…
they are clearly his favourite vegetable, although he also has a thing for raw carrots, lol…
he cooks them much better than I, so I always get them ready, set out the butter and garlic, and have him do the cooking… sometimes we add a bit of red wine, if there is any around…
this time they went with leftover macaroni that I added to some meat sauce… tasty…
while I was making the sauce I was remembering my dad… his meat sauce was delicious, partly because he added something from every bottle in the pantry, lol…
he’s been gone for over thirty years… always surprises me what might bring up a memory…
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