DINNER DONE!

 I always forget how tasty our family recipe for curried chicken is.  You take that first bite and it immediately takes me back to the beginnings of that recipe that my sister and mom invented a hundred years ago.

I have had to make a couple minor changes.  For one thing Lipton doesn't make dry mushroom soup mix anymore and that was what was used to make the roux that thickened the sauce.  And no matter what I did by the time I had browned the chicken, the flour dredge in the frying pan was too burnt to use. So I would brown the chicken, layer it in the pan with the onion rings and pepper rings and then make a proper roux with butter and flour (lots), add the curry and seasonings, use chicken broth and make a boatload of yummy sauce, and lastly add fistfuls of brown sugar til quite sweet but not overpoweringly so.  I would pour the sauce over it all and into the oven til all brown and bubbly.  So darn good.

I also made subjit with carrots peas and potatoes.  But I did find out something new.  I made an apple crumble (and absolutely no oatmeal in the crumble...it's a big shovel list for me).  I bought ten apple crisp and eight grannies.  So at six in the morning I was sitting in my chair watching Water Rats, peeling and peeling and peeling.  All went well with the apple crisps.  Then it was the grannies.

Now I do not know who that Granny Smith was but she invented a crap apple.  Not only is it not fun to just chomp down raw but they are impossible to peel easily.  Jeez!  Thanks Granny Smith, thanks a freaking bunch!

Anyway it all turned out super delicious and by end of day I was completely bagged, my back was beyond help and my neuropathic feet were swollen and screaming.  What a loser.  But I so totally enjoyed the whole day and the visiting was awesome.

  Bryce is so bright and interesting and a real sweetheart.  At one point Monte and Bryce were into a heavy animated discussion about something I can't even repeat here it was so far above my mental pay grade!  At one point I just started to laugh.  I mean seriously you should have heard them.  Two men with ridiculous IQ's discussing something I have never even heard of or read about.  It was funny.

Now on another note...an embarrassing one.  It's the fact that I can't listen to music I love, new to me or old, without crying.  I have tried so hard to learn to stop that.  I start trying by distracting myself, hum loudly along, deep breathing, but nope.  Tears just roll down my face.  Jeez!!!  (shovel list). I don't know if it's because I am super sentimental or whatever or if its just old people cry too easily shit.  I don't know but it is just really aggravating.  And it isn't just crying!  I feel it right through me to my toes.  It's like my insides melt into pieces.  So painfully annoying and embarrassing.

But it isn't just music.  It is also tv.  I remember years ago watching Judging Amy with Tyne Daley.  She is one of my fave actresses.  But in the show if she started crying I would unbiddingly start crying right along with her.  I remember when a sad scene was coming to a head with her in it, I would start saying don't cry don't cry and sure as crap she would start crying...and so would I.  Dammit!!!

But now?  I start crying at any sad scene or anyone crying.  And boy! if they are playing a sad sad haunting song at the same time I almost collapse.  What the hell is that?

So now it is time to turn my attention to the next dinner.  Ange's birthday dinner is going to be her favourite, her choice, meatloaf.  On the sixth her friend Randi is coming over and we are going to have a birthday dinner.  I really like Randi. She is a lot of fun.

Next post I will tell you about the new cookies Ange bought.  There is a reason for telling this one!!!!

That is it for today.  I am going to try really hard to post a wee bit more often.  But only if I have something to report.  Have a great few days and TFL&TTYL

THEY WERE SO CUTE

I FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE

MY ARM AND SHOULDER SEIZED UP