Must. Have. Recipes. For both the PB muffins and the Madras coconut chicken curry! There’s no posting about food without posting recipes! :mad:
Yes. And it’s the guy who plays Booth on Bones. ::drool::
Cute niece, Nava!
Yay on the librarian job going so well, rigs!
Don’t remember anything else I read so yays, boos, hugs, etc.
This week’s going fast, but I want it to be over. It’s tough when Mon and Tues are so busy because then the motivation to work hard during the rest of the week just doesn’t happen. Bleh. And this will be the pattern for the foreseeable future. Yippee. Doesn’t someone want to come here and do data analysis for my team? We’re really fun!
Me, too! I’za gonna meet Spaz tomorrow after my EMT re-test if we can manage it. I promised her I’d leave my axe at home.
I don’t. But I will after quit o’clock. And I promise Spaz that I’ll be wearing jeans with a zipper in proper working order. I’ll be nice to her on the first date…
Glad I didn’t come to work commando today. :rolleyes:
W00ts! for your G-paw, mousie. I’ve had my parents go quite young and my grandparents go quite old. I don’t which is worse–the unexpectedness or the cascade of elder issues.
Continued good thoughts for your Da, Rebo. I give my very first trout slap to whomever or whatever has caused your section to move twice (the bastids). The second slap is for the longer commute.
It was delish, taxi. Here ya go:
Madras Coconut Chicken Curry
1 chicken breast, sliced thin
½ onion, chopped or sliced
2 celery sticks, sliced thin on an angle
12 pea pods, or ½ cup frozen peas (I nuke frozen peas first till warm-ish)
½ red bell pepper, sliced, chopped or finely diced
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
6-8 scrubs of frozen ginger across a microplane—about 1 T minced
1-2 T Patak’s Madras curry paste
fresh cilantro and/or green onions
squeeze of fresh lime
vegetable oil for stir frying
1/2 can coconut milk (the kind with the least ingredients)
NOTE: If you have the premium coconut milk, just can just use the thick stuff on top, or shake the whole can before you open it for a thick cream.
Add a good splash of canola oil into hot wok. Stir fry the chicken. Add onion, garlic, ginger, curry paste. Toss briefly. Add celery and pea pods/thawed peas. If you chopped your bell pepper into chicnks, add them now too. Toss a minute or two. Add enough coconut cream to make sufficient sauce. Squeeze lime to taste. Continue cooking just until it starts to boil, then remove it from heat. Toss in cilantro and/or green onions and stir to wilt a bit. Serve over rice.
VARIATION: You can use less coconut cream and add chicken stock for an awesome soup.
Results from all of Dad’s testing - zilch. The doc says he recommends no driving.
:eek: <–That’s Dad. The two docs will discuss Plavix treatment (a bloodthinner,) and let him know. Continue with aspirin therapy, and take your cholesterol meds.
Have fun at the TinyDopeFest you guys! Remember the camera!
Brief moment to post between insanities. I came home from work, took the doggies out, and came into the house with doggy poop on one shoe. Stoopit doggies! I made up a great big pot o’sketty sauce - some for supper, most for the freezer.
Talked to **FCD **- he got an email from one of the company VPs wanting to know if he’d like to discuss being a division director - having up to 100 people under him. :eek: On the plus side, it’ll be more money, and he’ll have real engineers working for him, not like that idiot woman he had at NASA. On the down side, he doesn’t like being in charge as much as he likes being a designer. Still, he’s only been there less than a year - obviously he’s impressed someone. I knew he was a good 'un, even if he doesn’t believe it. Anyway, he needs to decide if he’s interested or not.
I need to do a sketch for my first project in class, and I need to pack my tote so I’m not taking a wal-mart plastic bag for my stuff. That’s kinda tacky. I also need to change - don’t wanna get my nice pink top all grubby.
**Nava **- what an adorable baby!
Bbbobbio - do good on your re-test - that’s an order!
Hugs all around, just because.
*mmmmmmmmmmm *sketties smell good. Doggies want to be fed. Guess I should tend to that.
We’re changing department names soon. Going from a torturously long name to Access Managment. I’m thinking “AxMan” as an abbreviation, and that we could somehow adopt a firefighter with ax as a logo. I was also thinking of married irons, but I fear that nobody else would understand.
However, I still think some of our users need a whack on the head with a halligan.
Heck, I ripped my shirt in two places, and didn’t realize it until I got got work.:eek: I stopped at the animal shelter. there’s a couple of beagles on hold till Monday. WANT.
Good luck to FCD on his choice!
Friendly fire is the worst.
Good luck to mmousedad and Rebodad.
Cute niece, Nava. “Paula Puñoprieto Terremoto” would be an excellent wrestling name.
Good luck on the re-test, BBBobbio! Don’t forget the fest pictures.
Posted curried chicken recipe to the blog. Sounds yummy.
Is there something about this January that makes it obligatory Angel-watching season? I’ve been watching season 1 on hulu since I missed it when it was originally shown. They have season 1 of Buffy too. I imagine I’ll make it to that eventually and then borrow the remaining from the library.
I’m making plain sketties with butter and cheese. That just sounded good. I’m sure I’ll find some veggies to go with that too. Maybe peas?
Howdy Y’all! The work week is over. WOOHOO!!! Ok, excitement over.
Good luck on the retest BBBobbio. Give Spaz a hug from her biggest Agony Aunt Ryl groupie.
Dindin was leftover sketties. Even the noodles were leftover. See, it’s just moi tonight so I mixed some skettie sauce and noodles together last night and nuked it tonight.
I have chawklit chips layin’ out on the kitchen counter to motivate me to make tollhouse cookies tomorrow since I’m off and all. Bakin’ up some cookies will make it look like I accomplished sump’n. Well that and defilthyfyin’ (is too a word!) da cave.
Honest to Og, this vendor is driving me to drink. In fact, over the past couple of days, I’ve developed a weird little tic in one eye that kicks in at the mere hint of an Israeli accent, because I know that a torrent of profound stupidity will inevitably follow. Gah.
Vundie, since you won’t need your axe, mind if I borrow it for a couple of days?
criminey, that curry sounds divine. I think I have all the ingredients kicking around the house, actually, so I just might have to make it for dinner sometime on the weekend. Nom nom nom.
Yay for FCD! Even if the offer isn’t something he’s particularly interested in, it’s fantastic to know someone has noticed his skills. Sounds like a good company to work for.
Notice: I am hereby canceled for tomorrow! Please celebrate appropriately. While I will miss the money, I am more tired than your average bear tonight…
The Librarian called–I did not destroy the library while she was gone. This is a relief and good to know…
and my radio works again in my car–thank god.
Spaz–I read an agony column about someone complaining about how their son’s GF dresses–I could hear the snark in my head!
I really don’t know what’s going on, but I think you all are doing at least somewhat well, so let’s hope it continues.
TTFN. Off to study my patient care protocols and my drug cards for tomorrow.
Parting shot: Probably because I made the axe remark, some asshole at Virginia Tech beheaded a fem grad student today. That school is downright dangerous.
Howdy, all. Have read all and retained not much. Except for cute pictures of cute little girls (HRH and Paula). Anyway, I’m feeling somewhat antisocial, plus I have a pile of work to do (finally!), plus I have that concert to watch on YouTube (thanks, I think it was gt!), and at some point I’d like to get some sleep since I’m yawning my head off already. I am truly pathetic sometimes.
Anyway, hugs to those who need them, and I’ll try to be more chatty when I get caught up on this work. And at some point I need to show you guys the pretty lacy scarves I’m going to make for my two nieces who are graduating this spring, one from college (she’s the one getting married in 2010) and the other from law school. But I’m too tired to dig up the links right now.
Where? I like mocking people who complain about petty things.
Gracias gt. Yep I is 29 for the first and only time. Finally I’m the same age as my sisters. We’re triplets this year!
WTF is up with Virginia Tech? All we do at ECU is throw snowballs at each other. The cops don’t like that too much. ECU cops don’t like much of anything. :rolleyes:
