April 21, 2013
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christmas leftovers
I’m back from fullfilling my chrismas gift of a massage. I’m pleased the lady was 20 years into this and this good…she without directly manipulating adjustment was able to chrack my back. I left there more pleased thoughthat stiffer brother can seea and later choose potential relif….he’s a fused neck vertebrae or two and finally now because a new to him reliable vehicle is in the driveway can perhaps consider real attention. taco snack on the way back never hurts my feelings
and nor does hearing that this gift was not from the friend but mom directly was a detail I didn’t fail to overhear.
. it was interesting that the lady working with her husband office managing HER business were trying this being their 21 wedding anniversary were out to a romantic dinner hoped for at home of something perhaps. scallops or perhaps that and steak.. I was able to learn in practice a new technique to isolate should muscles for releieving tension which ammounts to the arrest position of arm behing the back in the small… this is dangerous as techniques to share because while it isolates that back muscles set, it alllso puts a LOT of stress on the shoulder joint which may be highly painfull to thouse with shoulder injuries… but remember I’m not without some intelligence and discression to appreciate learning something perhaps helpful in aiding a select group of people in new and far more powerfully comforting ways. yes this is a blob of information because such is how life sometimes comes..in blobs. I am enjoying my coffee with milk and brandy. I slept about 15 hours and was stuffy still today or duh the cold may be leaving but the hell that is sugar control is shown in how much a simple back after amidmorning potty turns into a wow 8 solid hours of sleep more atop seven?…something was up somewhere! toastadas
3.79 shells of jalepeno and corn
1.19 usually but lately 84 cents refried beans a pound canned
79 cent half head lettuce
79 cent 3 plum tomatoes
1.66 (3 for 5) sour cream full fat second use
1.39 medium pitted black olives
2.25 8 oz store brand marble cheddar 3-4 oz worth cheese shreds
84 cents can of red enchilada sauce
perhaps 1/2 can but can not be stored so will likely be wasted if not fully used store brand 10 oz sauce you just need about a teaspoon ish worth per toastado 3 is a honking meal’s worth for one. toastadas are about 1 oz beans maybe two per disc maybe an oz cheese shreds a quarter of a dice plum tomato across 3 of the things two olives is sufficient for slice olive garnish and about1 oz lettuce ish depending on size of lettuce shreds mounding for 3 toastadas.. I mean the complaint isn’t that they’re not cheap but that you really have to get after a lot of ingredients that seem epensive but $13 bucks in toastada fixings is enough for 2 full days of each meal toastadas burp. or 2 bucks a meal better than the average meal cost and within the 2 days lettuce shreds will keep without being ucky browned. if luck and proper storage occurs. consider that at 1.49 a tostada at the taco bell this is 3.80 x 6 ordouble the cost and you get no tomato and sourcream or olive. for nearly double the cost. this is something about economyy… there is some and remember I was pleased the letuce find was reasonable I saved 2 dollars over having to buy the ingredients in todays economy pricing versus typical array of procurement. that perception of value and not wasting a half head of lettuce was a nice thing as cheese is typically 2.50, tomatoes typically larger and 20 cents a pound more, sour cream 50 cents off, lettuce double cost, and canned product 99 cents or more often 1.19 full price not on special.. I mean that’s economy. I caught a break 2 bucks off
I’d not have mentioned that normally because most of the time I am too busy thinking that there is a huge bill coming and this piss ass savings doesn’t register on my horizon if I’m caught up in miseries… but
it should be notied I saved a good 15% off my yummy treat food
that’s a minor blessing and worthy of note
35 bucks in emergency this or that’s out this week alone…which is why most of us forget little blessing as we’d gloss over them thinking oh my god I used to pay 8 bucks for toastadas boo hoo hoo prices are sooo expensive wanh wanh wanh…when in reality i caught a modern day break
I got a massage. in fact many this month fiscally, a lot of excitement about lady or potential paydays….yeah I got neither in the end and a bill atop it lol but
I had a lot of excitement and it was useful to read actual facts and figures
and realize again today that momma loved us all enough to get a massage gift to her kiddos even if we’re stodgy nearly middle aged grumps.
overly concerned with thises or thats unrelating
. like economy.. blah blah moan. lol. there little blessing out there if you try to smile
please do so. may it be a toastada huge one.
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Hi! How have you been? God speed, ~ Pete
“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side…then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; then the swollen waters would have gone over our soul. Blessed be the Lord…” Psalm 124:1, 4-6
@Evangelist_Guy -
yes sirree!
I’m well as in happy
blessing to ya Pete
I love a sale on groceries! I had quesadillas for dinner…chicken leftovers, rice and cheese, with freshly picked lettuce, on a tortilla…what’s not to love!
@moniet - you’d have liked the other nights chimichanga hootinany hoo hah.
crispy tortilla flour and yummy fixin’s
@starmanjones - Probably so, I love just about anything that’s mexican eats…hahah! (And italian, and polish, and german, and chinese, and…geeze I’m hungry now…lol)
@moniet -
and horses…for ridin… lol. oddly enough mom often made that although terming it vegetable soup versus goulash. but I meg
polish? my sister likes making what is goulash yet not the come to remind people it’s goulash as in wheres all this pasta coming from goulash dosn’t mean italian night!?! but i me and speaking of polish again antioned polish with very clear intentions and designs of sausage from my german heart. perhaps with obligatory potatos and mabye a lil cabbage litter.
and for that matter do you like cabbage rolls the greek hungarian way of a leaf stuffed and rolled in a tomato sauce? or the polish way of a puff of dough like an unsweetened danish stuffed bursting with cabbaged ground beef and perhaps too much garlic oh beware you vampire? back to polish and sausage yeah yeah kielbasa… have you ever noticed as in compared a brittish banger to that of a proper pork kielbasa? I mean there is a very close consistancy which is very much not a german bratwurst….its almost mealy soft by comparison. but oh boy and my german heart again you like those self serve singles green beans and spaetzle? or a sauce with pasta and gb’s? those are good. click for a pic singles…etc now back to germany the fatherland… ya ya.. hows about amish/german country? get you in touch with the interior beach blanketer? amana colonies iowa… I’m sad but the most magic thing I’ve ever had german was a smoked porkchop here and I didn’t see it mentioned… but to get your german on…a menu. for the ox yoke restaurant. talk about a splash of germany and iowa at the same time! of course i like sausage. and lemme tell you that there is a magic to the pastrami the corned beef… these things so much more of german decent and yet amazing how what would be a more german if not jewish thing east europe style becomes? the irish st patricks day tradition of corned beef and cabbage… how odd, my irish national friend said the rasher with cabbage that would be irish not the corned beef
it took til last year to learn a rasher is a fatty thin slice pork chop type cut on a fatty porker not tod but before I leave you lasagna lover.. I’d like you to consider getting quite high..ays far leaner ones brined not smoked brined… I’m like ba wha? weird never had it still haven’t in america we like american bacon me thinks
lol. I swear it’s mega frustrating searching a town of 20 plus restaurants to see only one listed next to a subeway knowing such isn’t the case… I’m after the listing of the what for me is a highlight of life best eggplant parmesian sandwich acheived up in fairplay… it was a deli like beary beary tastee but that’s not italianie enough but it wasn’t fancy land italian either just a place… forget and it’s frustrating in that this is not a simple acheivement to find… lol I can’t exa ctly get there easy either its a bit of a too much to peddle a bike to lol…mainly because there’s just too many chances to get flattened and I’m fat out of shape old blind and etc whine!…yes as in f the exercise bring on the wine.! but your mercy is I must end your taunt about food here.
Human contact can be good especially when the person knows what he or she is doing.
@sleekpunk - that has a f sundng ie t pes t mre than jst the sbject massage
@starmanjones - lol Eggplant parm sammies, love them, there was a place here that used to make them to go, but it is no longer in biz…I used to get at least one a week. Heavenly thing, coated in a whisper of crust, fried till Golden Brown & Deeeeeelicious, then laid on a home-made sub roll, with gooey, warm melted cheese and tomatoey marinara sauce with just enough garlic to make it known that it was there…all wrapped in foil…I loved them. And I’ve tried for years to make one that good, but I can’t quite get the proportions right and usually it’s just a bit too soggy, and the crust is not quite right on the eggplant either, but it’s close enough since I can’t get the other one anymore…lol.
German…ahhh…sauerkaut, and sausages…never met a German sausage I didn’t like. Not wild about Italian sausage, don’t care much for anise/licorice/fennel. But wursts…and corned beef…and yes, I’ll eat stuffed cabbages anyway they are made, single leafed and stuffed, rolled, with or without sauce, or as my Penn Dutch/married into the family Auntie used to make it…a whole head of cabbage, set into a pot, with leaves separated/thinned out, but still basically a whole head, a meat mixture of unknown recipe, but base was hamburger ‘ground’ together fresh with some sort of sausage/breadcrumb or rice added…’stuffed’ between the layers of leaves, tomato sauce poured over it all and baked, covered, till it was yummy and soft and smelled insanely good…I never got her to get off the recipe, probably the best thing I’ve EVER had as far as cabbage dishes go. That and her homemade sauerkraut. Yum.Never had spatzele and green beans, have had it in stews though. I think that the fact that I learned to eat (literally) in France, and then some trips to Germany, Italy, Switzerland when I was little made me appreciate foods that some people around here wouldn’t eat. We have lots of Italian and Greek spots, and had some German ones but they are gone. There are several different Asian spots…Japanese, Thai, and Chinese. There’s an Ethiopian place here that I want to try out but just haven’t had the chance to go yet. And across from my mother’s was an Austrian/German Jewish couple who literally met during the Holocaust in a camp…as kids…and talk about some food, wow that woman could cook and so could her husband! She made cookies around Christmas time, (but not “Christmas” cookies…lol) that were the best things ever…molasses and all kinds of spices…just wonderful. We always got a batch of them, and I can still smell them when I think about it.I’m not one who will eat anything at all like the guy on travel channel, but I’ll try anything halfway normal at least once…lol
@moniet - saurbraten is areal normal perhaps not fod handling wise safest approach to a dish, but it’s normal so is fermented mustard greens I can’t do all the worsts as I an hang but my head to blick with the liver…. I have tried it since discovering hatred and it’s confirmation more than once and I cant stand it. it smells oddly good cooking but yuck I cant think of what sardine icecream made off the engine of a snowblower ‘d taste like… now remember I like sardines I used to think it was only herrings but gradually I like sardives now even an occasional achovies on pizza thing but that can get overdone…fast. ..then you’re eating pizza that somehow now tastes like yucky shoe….interesting culinary choices as a child
… still like that boiled boot campfire ash lapsang su chong tea btw. I don’t know, I am not dying to try deep fried cobra bones… or snake urine soup… you know stuff from lesser shock food presenters. but what the heack if you pay attention to them some times there is a little bonelette on the edge of a chicken wingg that if some one doesn’t is crispy enough to eat through after a good deep fry… thus I’m sure there is this tangy crisp out there for other bones…but don’t line me up for gaggis just yet… I’m not head over heels (and toe to toe this is the sound of my gotta roll.) for a lot of stuff being squeaminsh american and all. I have had tom yum and some world cuisine
I try.
Interesting tidbit about sugar- consumption and the impact it has on the quality and quantity of sleep; thank you!
And it’s a good thing to keep in mind about what you said regarding the perception of value — amazing how relatable that topic is to just about everything else in life.
@nov_way - HI you! thanks for poppin back over
haven’t seen you in quite the spell
hope youre well
and thanks for the above. yeah, we should becarefulto find some smiles if’n we’d rather them to frowns.
YAY for massages! I’ve never gotten one from a pro…just from a non-pro.
and some hot-salsa hugs for you!!!
YAY for tostadas! Thanks for sharing the recipe! I love fixing Mexican food!
I have a taco smile
HUGS!!!
@adamswomanback - here we go haiku, to be sayin I hug you, there’seven more too. I’m thinking burgers now, nuked wearing me pj’s loud.