Iced in, for real



It only looks like snow--it's ice. 1/10/11

It sleeted last night, stayed right at 32 degrees all day, and re-sleeted.  School's out again, brass band rehearsal is cancelled, and I have another two days off.  If we had band tomorrow night, I'd drive to Atlanta tomorrow, work for the afternoon, stay over, and work Wednesday before coming home; now I'll probably just wait till next week. 

I overfed the cats last night to keep them from waking me this morning.  Backfired: I slept till noon.  There wasn't much to do today, anyway.  I made soup, which ended up being some kind of bean porridge, and walked to the grocery store when I ran out of bread.  Practiced for a couple of hours and decided on a program for my recital.  Started watching "DeLovely," the Cole Porter movie.  Cleaned up the mess from making candles in my kitchen yesterday.  It was so nasty outside that I even got out my ridiculous little coffee pot and made coffee, which I drank with a little almond milk.  Lunch was blue cabbage (blaukraut), edamame and toasted cinnamon bread with peanut butter. 

Dinner consisted entirely of The Porridge.  It was going to be lentil soup, but first off I discovered I'd forgotten to buy normal lentils, which I almost always keep in my cabinet.  I had a package of mini lentils, so I dumped a bunch of those and half a bag of dried kidney beans into a pot with vegetable stock.  Added some onion and tomato that I needed to get rid of, some garlic, a potato, and some spices that I want to use up.  It's all about using stuff up now.  I put in some cut up chicken breast that I had in the freezer.  Toward the end, I dumped in some of those little pasta stars that you're supposed to put in soup, because what else am I going to do with them?  I have a huge bag of these things, so I think I'm going to dump them into everything I make for a while.  Maybe I'll cook them and put vegetables or lentils on them, like rice. 



1/10/11



Spices that I dumped in included paprika, celery seed, cumin, garlic powder (yes, on top of fresh garlic), chili powder, red pepper.  Maybe some others, I forget.  With the exception of the cumin and chili powder, I hardly use any of that stuff.  I *love* cumin.  The rest of it just needs to get out of here.

I added water more than once, but I like my soups thick, and this one definitely turned out thick.  I have a ton of it, too.  I was going to take some to brass band to give to friends, but I guess I'll be eating it for the rest of the week, instead.  It would be fabulous with parmesan cheese.  :P

 

Going to eat some bread with peanut butter, finish this movie and try to get to bed early.  I'm teaching Thursday, Friday and Saturday, assuming the weather cleans up its act, and I don't want to be miserable when I have to get up at 5:30.