Just Passing Time

Just so you know I wasn't kidding, here's tomorrow's forecast, just in time for the rodeo.  The weather guessers aren't near as accurate as my crystal ball, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  Just in case however, I rounded up my cowboy hat, ski parka and warmest gloves.

In the meantime, I began work on my next quilt project.  This looks rather black and white, but really, it's tan, gray and white.  I thought surely there must be an easier way to cut out all those 624 pieces, but in the end, that's just what I had to do ... cut out 624 pieces.  I'm happy to report sewing them together is MUCH easier.

I kept looking out the window all day for critters, but it's just too cold for them to be roaming around.  Instead, I cooked up THIS critter for lunch.  I love pork chops, but I like them tender.  It's probably been fifteen years since I had a chop, mostly because I've never had them turn out cuttable.  They have bred all the fat OUT of meat nowadays, which is what makes it fall apart tender when cooked.

Pan fry it the recipe said, so I did, on LOW heat.  Truly, I think they used a different piece of meat altogether on the recipe card, because it didn't even LOOK like a pork chop.  At any rate, as you can probably tell, I did not roast the veggies, I nuked them.  

I LOVE couscous and the chicken stock, garlic and onions made it wonderful.  I whipped up the balsamic cherry sauce in a flash and drizzled it over the chop.  It all tasted wonderful, once I finally got that hard as a rock piece of meat cut up with my sharpest steak knife.  It quickly reminded me why I don't eat pork chops any more.  

This time I stepped out of my comfort zone and ordered bibimbap.  It's some kind of Korean food. 

That should be fun, right?  Interestingly enough, I just discovered I have the recipes for all the other dinners I don't order, so I can cook those too if I wish.  Click click ... I'm saving those to my phone.

In the meantime, there's nothing like rice krispie treats to make my sweet tooth happy, as well as a quick treat at the rodeo.  

So much the better if you melt chocolate over the top.

My little old girl is doing much better, thanks to Dr. Amy.  Unfortunately for me, she's also now on the chicken/turkey and rice diet.  It's bad enough I have to cook for myself, but now I'm cooking for both my kids too??

They say it's going to warm up next week (they said that last week) so I'm heading off to Harbor Freight today for some extra carving goodies I need ... like a face mask.  If it ever gets warm, I'll be out and about during the day and carving at night.