Waves “hi”
Back to work. 
- Rent truck.
- Fill truck.
- Take truck to local dump.
- Profit!!!
We did something similar last summer for our home renovations - we made a big pile of trash in the back yard with old toilet and old vanity and whatever else I could find in the house and yard that had to go, then got a truck and hauled that shit out of our lives. The kind of funny part was that neighbours were picking from our garbage pile - good for them. Take what you want.
Hi, IvoryTower Denizen!
Made a giant pan of chicken & seafood & sausage jambalaya. The recipe says four portions-hah!-maybe if the four people are lumberjacks.
It’s good though. The BF practically kissed my feet, and the meowing terror ™ has volunteered to help with leftovers.
Also eating my way through 5 types of homemade sorbet and ice cream left over from a potluck. Hey, I’m just trying to make space in the freezer.
I’m in love with a girl who likes me also but refuses to date me for a myriad of reasons. It’s a pain and a pleasure.
Other than that, just exercising and practicing my driving skills (I’m 24 and a good driver, but my parents don’t think so and until I placate them they wont let me use their car… well… that’s fair. Their house, their rules)
Oh, and I’m also making a schedule today for how I will spend my time. Here it is:
11AM wake up. 11-12 breakfast/lunch and check e-mails. 12-2 work on the house (home renovation… how I earn my keep). 2:30-4:30 study Japanese. 5-6:30 exercise (2.5 mile jog/run, shovelglove 15 minutes, then intenses pushups and situps to finish), 6:30-7:30 dinner. 7:30-9PM practice driving, 9-11 study Japanese, 11-3 relax and sing, whatever else I wanna do.
If I do that routine, I’ll get buff, perfect my driving, pay off my debt to my parents, improve my singing, and most importantly I will pass the 日本語能力試験２きゅう, the level 2 official Japanese Language test. If pass that, I can go into international business in Japan around April.
Of course, if I get into a relationship, that will blow my schedule to hell haha. I’ll manage somehow.
I was looking for a good jambalaya recipe a few weeks back. Care to share?
Thanks
Got all the ingredients for pork green chile, but ended up cooking a Boboli pizza thing for dinner since I don’t feel up to good food and the kids were hungry.
Picked up the Iron Man DVD, but haven’t had time to watch it yet.
The anti-nausea medicine makes me so sleepy that it’s better to just go ahead and throw up (but I got 12 hours sleep yesterday).
There’s a nasty metallic taste in my mouth, even though I haven’t tossed any cookies for a couple of days.
I’m watching the Food Network, very few of those ads. This makes me 
We made brisket smothered in caramelized onions for Rosh Hashanah, and it turned out really well. We won’t have to cook for a while if we don’t want to, since we’ve got so many leftovers.
We fixed up our house this summer. Our house had hardwood floors with no subfloors- the hardwood floor was directly on the joists. Combine that with a living room with a step down into it, and it’s a recipe for broken floorboards. We didn’t have problems with the floorboards breaking in the foyer and dining room, but they did creak alarmingly. This summer, we got new hardwood floors put in over them, and our house feels so much more solid now. We also got carpeting on the stairs, since we are klutzes and it hurts less to fall on carpeted stairs than on wood stairs (and yes, I do know this from personal experience by now).
I have strawberry Twizzlers.
My Lime Diet Pepsi doesn’t taste like a mouthful of iron filings today! Huzzah!
But I think the wife is sick now 
It’s from Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen, the chicken & seafood jambalaya.
My kitchen notes:
–The book says four portions. Maybe if it’s four teenagers or four lumberjacks.
–Look around to get good tasso and andouille. I posted on chowhound.com to get recs on finding them in my area.
–Use a wide shallow pan for sauteeing the vegetables, moisture evaporates faster and they brown better.
–I had a bunch of shrimp shells in the freezer that I used to make a really kick ass stock. I’m very much a proponent of using good stock/broth if at all possible. If you want to try making your own stock, there are directions in the book and you may be able to get your fish monger to sell you shrimp shells for a good batch. It’s pretty easy, just throw stuff in the pot and simmer, Not Boil, for a while. But for fish broth, 45 minutes is enough, not the hours and hours he talks about.
OK, you can tell I can go on about this. I love to cook.
I wish I had strawberry twizzlers. That might be my reason for exercising today - off to walk to the store for candy! Hmm, I think I might not be doing this exercise thing exactly right.
I think we will have taco soup for supper. Yum.
Merci beaucoup.
Alright dagnabbit!! New thread rule.
No posting tasty sounding dishes without recipes.
I know I can Google and get 20 recipes, but I have no way of knowing which ones are Doper tested and approved.
Taco soup is one of my cold weather favourites - yummy and easy. Let me dig out my recipe - okay, here it is:
1 lb ground beef (browned and drained)
1 package taco seasoning (half with beef, half in soup pot)
1 - 28 oz. can mixed beans or kidney beans
1 cup corn
1 - 28 oz. can tomatoes
1 - 14 oz. can tomato sauce
1 1/2 cup water
Mix all ingredients except beef in soup pot. Add browned beef. Mix and simmer awhile.
Top in bowls with grated cheese, crumbled tortilla chips and sour cream.
Thanks. I’ve passed that on to Wayne.
I promised, so here it is, my mom’s secret pecan pie. There are two secrets to it. First, When you make the crust, add pecans (put through a food processor twice to mince finely). Second, before you put the pecan layer in, put in a layer of mini chocolate chips.
Wonderful Pecan Pie
3 eggs
2/3 C sugar
1/2 salt
1/3 C butter, melted
1 C corn oil (light or dark, whatever’s cheaper)
1 C pecans (broken okay)
10-12 oz mini semisweet chocolate pieces
Pastry for one 9" pie (see above for secret recipe)
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Beat first six ingredients together. Put pastry into pan, sprinkle semisweet chocolate pieces over pastry. Add Pecan mixture. Bake at 375 40-50 minutes until filling is set.
Enjoy. Wonderful stuff.
Love, Phil