TJ Wilde Trilogy · Duxbridge Mysteries · Jennifer McCaffrey Mysteries
The last month has been wild and I’m having trouble keeping up. I desperately need to focus on the Full Sail revisions, so for the next few weeks I’m going to let Julia Child do the menus for me. I love that PBS has an entire YouTube channel of her shows.
Since it’s fall and apples are coming in, I thought we’d start with this one:
I can’t believe this is a thing and I didn’t know it. I follow Rick Springfield on FB, he’s funny as hell, and that man there is in his 70s (yes, Rick, thanks for making me feel old!), and he referenced this, so I had to go looking.
I have probably listened to it a dozen times today. Sigh…
Continuing the discussions about frozen versus fresh, this time focusing on beef, pork, chicken, and fish.
This past year has been ridiculously busy, and I have found myself taking more and more shortcuts when it comes to food prep. Two shortcuts I was reluctant to embrace at first, have become go-tos.
The first is frozen chicken breasts. I would shop sales and buy bulk “fresh” chicken breasts on sale and then spend an hour packaging them into freezer bags. It was messy and time-consuming. And the not-so-fresh packages were usually previously frozen, and then sold. This meant the quality of the meat was hit-or-miss, and I would often end up with tough, chewy chicken breasts.
One day, there was a not-to-miss sale at Costco on frozen chicken breasts. Since it was soup season, I took the chance and purchased a bag (it was Costco, it was a big bag, LOL), knowing a lot of inferior meat could be dressed up in a good soup. To my surprise, they were excellent, flash frozen, tender, and so easy to thaw and prep what I needed.
I have no idea why, but I purchased a five-foot LED skeleton this week. He is posable and will go outside for Halloween. When I unpacked him, hilarity ensued.
The new pet sitter seems nice
Second week of tackling the prep for the painters next week. The front door is painted and looks lovely. Although with the current trim colors (green and purple), the teal door looks like I might be living in a circus performer’s home. Or I had a stroke.
Regardless, by the time the new colors arrive, it will all make sense to the neighbors.
Annie DeMoranville 