Bode needed to go out about an hour ago, but I was up anyway, so gave him a bit to eat and made a pot of tea. He is snoozing away. Decided to go onto Facebook, the current refuge for insomniacs. I just now rinsed the pinto beans that have been soaking and put them on to boil. I am planning to make some chili with the Spaggy’s Madness Sale ground round I bought yesterday. Decided to give this blog some attention.
Yesterday morning I got up early too, ended up putting together a meat loaf to cook at my parents house. It was a lot easier to put the assembled ingredients into a plastic bowl and shape it after I got there than to carry a hot finished product in the car and probably have to warm it up at lunch time anyway.
My dad went to the hospital to have his blood work done while mother and I visited and I put the meat and potatoes in the oven to bake for lunch. It was cold in the morning but turned out to be a beautiful day. My dad returned and grabbed some peanut butter on crackers to chase his pills, then went out again for a haircut. Several kind people have offered to come to the house to cut his hair, like for my mom, but going to the shop is a special treat for him. We put the oven on low and had a nice lunch when he returned.
He found a pair of suspenders while going through things and has been wearing them. He looks pretty good in them! Both he and my mom seemed to be in good spirits, think the sunshine helped.
We are expecting a major winter storm to start later today, so was happy to get some errands done as well as visiting. My major flub-up was to grab some reduced fat sour cream instead of the real stuff when I stopped for groceries on the way home. Guar gum is no substitute nutritionally nor financially for butterfat. I shudder to think what is in the fat-free sour cream, even with two degrees in chemistry I just don’t want to look.
The fat is reduced 40% and it appears the compensation was to add a thickener, so if I use three tablespoons instead of two on my baked potato or add some butter to a recipe, should be OK. Feel dumb though, I know that I often end up grabbing the thing beside what I reach for when tired.
