Its -3º here today and even though we are running out of stuff, I don't want to go out and shop. I'm making bread because we are out of that.
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Bugster2 wrote:I just went by a chair in the living room where two of Katie's cats were sleeping. I bent down to pet the one that was actually asleep and found that she was dead. No signs or symptoms of illness at all. She ate dinner last night and for some reason she died during the night. It was so sad because her baby was sitting right next to her. I am going to beat myself over the head wondering what I missed, what could I have done. A necropsy is too expensive to have done. She was by far the sweetest, most loving cat I have ever known. I had to wake up Katie and Joe and tell them. They have been sitting around the deceased cat for several hours. Frankly, I want to wrap up the cat and put it in a bag in the fridge until we can get to the vet tomorrow. Katie always has her cats cremated. Unfortunately the vet is closed on Sundays.
Bugster2 wrote:About 9 years old. I did some research on the net and 90% of sudden cat deaths are due to cardiomyopathy or heart worm disease. I guess I will have one of the cats tested for heart worm and hope it is negative.
bethk wrote:I grilled a marinated London Broil for our supper.....green beans were on sale at Aldi today and really nice and fresh......and I made a skillet full of GRATED HASHED BROWN POTATOES WITH CHOPPED ONION!!! Mr. Amazing saw the hashed brown potatoes and exclaimed, "FRIED potatoes! It's been a long time since we've had fried potatoes!" So, needless to say, my worry he would be upset with my menu choice was unfounded.
He's in maintenance mode now with his 'diet'....he still goes to the gym to exercise every day but that's because he's more and more OCD the older he gets. But as long as I can fix food I'm hungry for every once in a while it's all good. There was a time in the not too distant past that he would have accused me of trying to sabotage his diet with my cooking. But I think he's past that now. If he isn't happy with something I fix I just tell him that 'portion control' is all on HIM and not my problem. I know he didn't eat even ONE of the little individual Lemon Pudding Cake desserts I made. I had 3 that I ate (one each evening before bed) and now they're all gone. And they were good! LOL
NormM wrote:I broke down and went to the store for milk and eggs and fruit after it warmed up to a balmy 5 degrees. Charlie told me it was -9 earlier this morning. Our kitchen sink pipe is close to the outside basement wall and will freeze whenever it gets that cold but a plumber told me that the kind of pipes I have there are ones that can expand without breaking and have done so half a dozen times so far. We put a hole in the ceiling under the pipes and covered the hole with a vent, so the heat from that room will keep them from freezing and it has helped a lot but today was too much I guess. The pipe thawed out when it was about midmorning and everything is back to normal. Tomorrow will be a lot warmer.
bethk wrote:I'm pushing my luck, I know.....but the last time I made ham I served it with baked sweet potatoes and all I could think of was how good it would be if I had made scalloped potatoes instead.
So, I have a HUGE casserole of scalloped potatoes in the oven ~ when they are cooked through I'll add the sliced ham slices shingled on top and let the ham juices mingle in with the creamy potatoes. I should be ashamed of myself for tempting Mr. Amazing with such an old-time family favorite the night after I surprised him with hashed brown potatoes but it's what I've been hungry for since....well, since I can't remember!
So, I'll put my 'innocent' face on and pretend I didn't know it's a carb-laden, fat-laden, oooooeeey, gooey, wonderfully satisfying comfort meal.
(Did I sound convincing there?)
LOL
bethk wrote:I am one HAPPY cook!
You know how your mouth is all ready for a certain taste / texture and the first bite is pure nirvana???
Well, that's what I felt at supper! The potatoes were soft and almost sweet ~ not sugar sweet but the texture was just right....and there was plenty of sauce to soothe my tongue! YUM!
Crybaby wrote:
Beth, you made the kind of potatoes I've been thinking of lately. Brian doesn't eat potatoes but I made a potato casserole years ago that he would eat. I parboiled the potatoes with the skins on and then thinly sliced the potatoes. I sautéed onions with seasoning and garlic, and cooked some bacon and made some cheese sauce. Then I layered all of that in a big shallow baking dish. It was sooooo good and there was enough cheese and bacon and onions in it that he didn't mind the thinly sliced potatoes. It was creamy and tasty and looked like yours did on the plate -- to die for!
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