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auntiemeeshWoke up slow to a rainy morning and a cat tugging on my hair. I struggled to figure out what day it was before deciding it must be Saturday since my alarm hadn't gone off. No, wait, it's Thanksgiving! Got up, fed the cats (only surefire way to get them to stop poking at me) and went back to bed.
Mal moped around, meowing piteously all morning, before I realized he wanted me to clean the litter boxes. Which meant a walk in the rain to Rite Aid to buy kitty litter. I also picked up a student desk lamp so that I have some form of light in the living room - or at least some form of light in one corner of the living room. This is a fairly unsatisfactory, temporary solution, but it's better than sitting in the dark for the next unspecified amount of time until I'm able to get something better.
Before I headed out, though, I threw an experiment into the crock pot. It's been simmering and smelling delightful all day. I wouldn't go so far as all that, and it definitely needs some tweaking.
Recipe:
One chicken breast
two potatoes
1/2 large onion
1/3 bag baby cut carrots
2 tablespoons curry powder
3 cups water
1/3 c. instant mashed potato flakes
I misread the recipe and put too much water in, and didn't have the can of chicken broth it called for. When I realized it was going to be too bland and watery, I added salt, pepper and cumin, and about 2/3 cup of rice. This was enough to soak up all the water but it also gummed everything up a lot. Next time I will remember to use significantly less water and put more seasonings in to start. As is, it's edible, and it smells great, but it's not really as tasty as I could have hoped.
As it's Thanksgiving, I thought it might be nice to have some wine with dinner and since I don't actually have anything like that at home, I stopped at the state store to see if it was open. But, yeah, this is Pennsylvania. The state stores are almost never open, certainly not on the sorts of days where people might actually be wanting alcohol. But I do have a tiny little single-serve bottle of Absolut Citron (no idea at all where it came from) in my freezer, so I got a bottle of orange juice and I'll have a screwdriver later if I'm in the mood.
This afternoon, I watched a 1993 version of the Secret Garden that I don't remember ever seeing before. I couldn't find any record of the version that I have vague memories of, so maybe I'm just remembering wrong. Anyway, this one was nice enough. A few too many stop-motion montages of flowers blooming and trees greening up in the spring, reminding me of middle school nature films, but I quite liked the girl that played Mary Lennox, and there was surprise Maggie Smith as Mrs. Medlock, so it was okay.
All in all, this has been a very pleasant Thanksgiving-for-one.
Mal moped around, meowing piteously all morning, before I realized he wanted me to clean the litter boxes. Which meant a walk in the rain to Rite Aid to buy kitty litter. I also picked up a student desk lamp so that I have some form of light in the living room - or at least some form of light in one corner of the living room. This is a fairly unsatisfactory, temporary solution, but it's better than sitting in the dark for the next unspecified amount of time until I'm able to get something better.
Before I headed out, though, I threw an experiment into the crock pot. It's been simmering and smelling delightful all day. I wouldn't go so far as all that, and it definitely needs some tweaking.
Recipe:
One chicken breast
two potatoes
1/2 large onion
1/3 bag baby cut carrots
2 tablespoons curry powder
3 cups water
1/3 c. instant mashed potato flakes
I misread the recipe and put too much water in, and didn't have the can of chicken broth it called for. When I realized it was going to be too bland and watery, I added salt, pepper and cumin, and about 2/3 cup of rice. This was enough to soak up all the water but it also gummed everything up a lot. Next time I will remember to use significantly less water and put more seasonings in to start. As is, it's edible, and it smells great, but it's not really as tasty as I could have hoped.
As it's Thanksgiving, I thought it might be nice to have some wine with dinner and since I don't actually have anything like that at home, I stopped at the state store to see if it was open. But, yeah, this is Pennsylvania. The state stores are almost never open, certainly not on the sorts of days where people might actually be wanting alcohol. But I do have a tiny little single-serve bottle of Absolut Citron (no idea at all where it came from) in my freezer, so I got a bottle of orange juice and I'll have a screwdriver later if I'm in the mood.
This afternoon, I watched a 1993 version of the Secret Garden that I don't remember ever seeing before. I couldn't find any record of the version that I have vague memories of, so maybe I'm just remembering wrong. Anyway, this one was nice enough. A few too many stop-motion montages of flowers blooming and trees greening up in the spring, reminding me of middle school nature films, but I quite liked the girl that played Mary Lennox, and there was surprise Maggie Smith as Mrs. Medlock, so it was okay.
All in all, this has been a very pleasant Thanksgiving-for-one.
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Date: 2010-11-26 04:10 pm (UTC)