Things I have learned about cooking.

 

These are recent tips I've learned about cooking and food.
1) Refrigerate an onion for at east a half hour before cutting. This way, you won't cry. For a crybaby like me, this is awesome. I've tried lots of things to not cry from onions and this works well. I didn't have a tear!
2) Salt eggplant before cooking. After you slice your eggplant, salt one side and let it sit for 15 minutes. You will see the liquid droplets on the surface of the eggplant. Then turn the eggplant over and salt the other side. Let it sit for 15 minutes and proceed to cook. This makes it much more flavorful.
3) If you want the medical benefits of garlic, use it within 15 minutes of chopping. After that, it loses 90% of it's potency. Bad news for me, who just bought one of those massive jars of prechopped garlic!

Monday with Morgan

 

 

Do you want fries with that ? 

 

Morgan with her new playhouse.  

Never Forget

Murphy’s Law

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog
The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Five things that makes me happy:

1. Calls from my children and grandchildren. I can't get enough of them. I want to know what they eat, what is happening at their work, what they are reading, what they are watching on television.

2. A clean house.
Not the actual cleaning, but the result, the end result. I can sit and enjoy the results and feel as though the world is now all right again.

3. New seedlings peeking up from the ground.

4. Fitting into old clothes. I know what you're thinking. Some things I can't give away; so, if I get into those outfits and still feel pretty and young, then they were worth keeping.

5. Finding stuff in the freezer that I can warm up and serve for dinner. While I enjoy cooking, having meals ready to defrost helps my mood.

Anger

Is it possible to be both angry and respectful at the same time? When feeling angry it is natural to say whatever immediately
comes to mind. And then of course, apologize, explain the reason for the anger, and realize some words might have been said that were not really meant. Oops…
Usually, a person begins to feel angry when he/she is experiencing some sort of emotional or physical pain/discomfort. Or when there is a perceived annoyance; Or when a need is not getting met. Or when there has been a perceived injustice.
There are a variety of situations that can trigger the emotion of anger. Some of them are justified, some are not. Lashing out with blame, arguing, defensiveness, and accusations will certainly lead to another feeling – a feeling of being attacked. And so goes the possible escalation of anger. As anger escalates, if it has nowhere to go, it could lead to physical fighting, assault, or battery. Actually, there is no need to ever let anger get that far
out of control. There really is a more respectful way to express anger without ever allowing it to escalate.