Breakfast!
food
Glenn’s birthday
Aizlynn called me, thinking of Glenn’s birthday.
We talked for a bit about dentistry (root canals, extracted teeth, and implants), Glenn (his life, his death, and things between), and pierogies (in England, they don’t have pierogies, but the closest thing they have is filled with strawberry!).
Glenn has been gone 10 years.
ribs
For Floyd’s BD, I wanted to get some beef ribs from London Road Market. I went there by scooter only to find that they had none. (Why would have display beef ribs online if you don’t have any?) So I bought some pork ribs instead.
Happy BD!
meatloaf muffins
This just an experiment. I made meatloaf muffins!
It’s a mixture of ground beef and turkey along with finely chopped vegetables. It turned out well but maybe a little too well done.
how to microwave corn on the cob
Some folks say that corn on the cob can only be barbecued. Or boiled in a pot. My favourite way is to microwave it.
cereal with coconut, cereal without milk
I really don’t like coconut. So why did I but PC Organics Muesli, a cereal with coconut? It’s a good cereal, one of the only ones without sugar (or some sort of sweetener) added. Except this cereal has coconut, like so many others! So I pick out all the coconut and give it all to Floyd.
I am also trying something new (to me) – non-dairy “milk” in my cereal.
I don’t see any problem with this. I used almond drink (sorry – I have a hard time calling it “milk”), but, if you do some research, you’ll see that almonds consume just as much water to produce as does (dairy) milk. So I’m trying soy and oat. I can’t tell the difference between the two, really. But neither of them has the taste or texture of milk.
You’re not supposed to see the bacon, eggs, bottled water, or Coca~Cola in the background. It’s just there for decoration. Just to be clear, I never buy bottled water (this bottle is continuously refilled) or Coca~Cola (left over from Christmas a few years back). I bought the bacon, though – first time in years. And, yes, I do eat eggs.
humble supper
Supper.
a week without coffee
No coffee for one week now. The last coffee I had was 1/3 Folgers, 1/3 Starbucks house blend, and 1/3 nothing but empty space. The second-to-last was one spoon of Folgers and the rest Starbucks house blend. Before that, nothing but straight high-test espresso beans steamed in a mocha pot. But all that’s history now.
I had a couple of days where I ate enough Tylenols and ibuprofens to kill a good sized horse, but I’m pretty much in the clear now. Only 2 ibuprofens. So what are the side effects of quitting almost cold-turkey? Headaches, a couple of backaches, sleepiness, and, believe it or not, sore hips. Yes, three nights in a row I woke up during the night with sore hips. I never would have imagined. Yes, it could be from something else, but I don’t believe so.
So – will I ever drink coffee again? Hmm. I once went 346 days without coffee overseas. I walked by a Starbucks on Jungang Ro (Street) and had a triple Americano. I remember the euphoric rush of caffeine wash over me as I sat at my little round table with a copy of the IHT. Utter and complete bliss.
All that is a distant memory now.
Heinz Hot Dog Pact
Holy cow. The world is being turned upside-down.
Now Heinz wants to even out thing on hot dog related.
It’s about time, I say. The hot dog-eating-world has put up with this injustice long enough! I personally think they should be sold by the dozen as that has how things have always been done! Dammit!
Can you tell I have nothing better to do today than rant and rave about nothingness?