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oh my .
8 hours later the truck is done . intake gaskets on the 4 . 3 notoriously rot out and leak antifreeze . figured id better fix it before antifreeze got into the motor oil . 6 months ago i wouldnt have had the energy or stamina to do such a big job with only a couple of smoke breaks . its nice to have energy again . with low energy level theres a sense of dread towards anything that uses muscles . i dont even have the dread anymore -- i just meander outside and tear into things ..
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captain thought about a hot plate for canning but would really like to keep canning in the kitchen where I can keep an eye on the process.
Going all out tonight -KFC haha!
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nothing like KFC!!!

Fried onions, cabbage and pierogies for our dinner.
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man , fried onion and cabbage sounds good . i only had one leg and thigh of cold , boiled chicken today . that'll hold me .
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Picked up Popeye chicken for dinner.... it's been a while since we had that, gosh the coating is sooooo good on the chicken.

Oops, I just checked on-line the sodium level for what we had.... YIKES.... looks like a week of fresh veggies and salads after that !!
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Ate at a park pavillion (Como Park for you Minnesotans) before a bandshell concert. Had Wild Rice Chicken soup and a slice of French bread. And an ice cream cone during the concert. :)
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Raging headache. Didn't want to go home after work and find out that there's no ready-to-eat food. The thought of microwave dinner made my stomach queasy. So, I did a no-no. Bought KFC for dinner, took the Excedrin. Headache is still here throbbing.
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ah, my favorite breakfast -- coffee and tobacco . going back to my beloved wood cutting today but my knees feel like theyve been slammed with a ball bat from the 8 hours of automobile work yesterday .
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Capt are you seriously suicidal?
Coffee? tobacco?
Wood cutting?
All you need is some alcohol and a few drugs.
RIP
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check , and check ..
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Had my smoothie for breakfast well 1pm as didnt get up until 12pm just didnt want to havnt felt hungry all day so just had some tinned sardines in olive oil yummy these are new and d*mn expensive as they are "no bones" sardines!! cant wait for my boring dark chocolate later!
Dont know if anyone tried the smoothie recipe but i do feel very energenic since i took it and feel full for at least half the day which is great got mum drinking it too although she hates it i just tell her to down it quickly! yeh mum hates anything healthy?? guess thats why shes like this now!
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CAp my breakfast was always a cig and a latte now its a "smoothie" and 5cigs!!!! yep off the coffee 3wks now and headaches are gone! I love coffee but it dosnt love me so had to stop was getting too many palpatations although i miss those palpatations they somehow made me feel i was alive as i could feel my heart beating out my neck!!
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i was rained out of my woodcutting today . took a nap for a couple hours . it felt great . now im frying me some chicken livers . aint gonna eat em till theyre nearly cold , i think theyre better then .
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thats your crazy mom causing the palpitations , kaz . sometimes i used to have a muscle in the back of my neck slam for several minutes at a time .. stress . the cure ; booze ..
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Tonight's dinner brought to you by the local diner. Thank you to my painting friends for (not quite) completing the painting job, and for leaving most of the items in the house uncovered (I bought drop cloths, darn it!), so that everything in the house is covered with a fine layer of dust from them sanding the walls. No cooking in this house for the next few days, until I get everything re-washed again.
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Susan - A little under the weather here...do I understand you correct...you have to wipe everything from all the sand dust :( but at least the painting is almost complete and it isn't all over the furniture? :)
What kind of take out from the diner?
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Preparing the chinook salmon I caught yesterday. Half is being baked, the other half fried with cornmeal. I'm not too into baked fish... chinook and steelhead are just awesome fried!!.... grilled asparagus drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette and cottage cheese with pineapple junks. whew..... hot here, gonna be 94 tomorrow!!

Susan, sorry about all the extra work that is causing you! Hope the new paint job looks good enough to squelch the angst!
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Came back from a challenging exercise class (I am out of shape so it was challenging) and then home for a big salad for dinner: fresh dandelion greens, cilantro, radishes from the Farmer's market, sweet red peppers, cucumbers, sweet raw onion, tomatoes, raw snap peas, and a blue cheese dressing I made with some goat cheese from Trader Joe's and goat yogurt. Goat products are easier to digest and are healthier than regular diary that you find at the supermarkets. Dandelions are super blood cleansers and taste great with other veggies. They are better for you even than Kale.


I met with a perspective client who treated me to Thai lunch which was yummy.

It was a nice day.
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Yup, that's the general idea, Shilo. There was wood paneling on the walls that was 40+ years old, put up by my dad in the early 70s that was taken down - it was glued/nailed to the walls, so the glue had to be sanded off the walls before they could be painted.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the work my friends did (and I'm paying them for it, of course), but I bought drop cloths for a reason - a lot of drop cloths - yet the dishes in the cabinets, pots/pans, and every single flat surface in the house is covered in dust....dust from walls that were last painted about 50 years ago and contains God only knows what. The dust is all over the furniture....and there are flecks of paint everywhere. Anyway, I'll get it cleaned, but there's nothing like driving 12 hours and then coming home to that kind of mess. :-/ I'm happy the painting is at least most of the way done - there are still things that need to be done to finish it - but it looks worlds better already. We're talking going from 40-year-old dark brown paneling to antique white walls in the living room and hall and pale yellow in the kitchen. SO different.

Mom had a hot turkey sandwich (turkey with gravy on bread w/mashed potatoes & gravy on the side) and I had a bacon cheeseburger that was HEAVENLY.
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Kazz, I've been getting palpitations fir about a month now. I had two doctors tell me to see a cardiologist. I saw one and they saw an irregularity in both the EKG and Echo cardiogram. I have a cardiac event monitor fir a month. It's about the size if a cell phone. If I feel my heart racing I put it on my chest and record it. One event happened the other day when me and my sister were feuding via e-mail. I blame her for that and my cancer! Lol
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kaz - I haven't tried the smoothie yet but I did buy everything except the maca for it. Going to switch blueberries for the bananas for my smoothie as I can't eat bananas. I have to wait until Wednesday before I can give it to my mom. She is on some meds until then which have to be taken with food.
Ha, I haven't made the smoothie yet and already changing the recipe. That is me though, I don't follow recipes.
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Susan - Yes, at least you don't have to clean up from your dinner and it sounds like it helped wash down a little of the pain you felt when you first saw the a "mess" you were left to clean up. So sorry, but it does sound like it will be a brighter more enjoyable place once finished. (I am not sure which sandwich sounds better. I would have had to split the sandwiches with my mother.)
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Ice cream. It is 105 outside. Too hot to cook.
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I think the heat wave is all over the place, Sherridene. It's been 90 or slightly higher here all day, heat index higher that that, and now we have lightning/thunder and possible severe storms headed our way later tonight. The A/C is staying on all night tonight. It's not going to get below 70, and that is just *not* comfy sleeping weather!
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i knew a farmers wife when i was a kid who made an oven stew that i havent forgotten . long story short ; the vegs were in like halves . halves of bell pepper , potato , carrots , huge chunks of cabbage , whole sweet peppers and fist sized chunks of beef . the stew was melted down in the oven till it could be smelled from a mile away . cutting up the size of pieces you wanted and mixing them as you pleased was half the allure of this delightful oven stew ..
ive duplicated it . a big shot of wine in the finishing gravy adds a lot of flavor .
homemade bread or cloverleaf rolls a must ..
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Wow, that oven stew sounds good. Might be good in a crockpot, too, especially in hot weather. I would think it needs to cook a looooon time. Does it, captain?
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i think if you cover it with foil it could melt down in a couple hours jeanne . a crock pot would never create the glaze that the oven does . i spect broiling it uncovered near the end would help with the glaze . " muriel " made it hot enough to burn you up but that was cool too . to continue eating something so fiery because it was so dam delicious ..
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Jeanne's Kitchen Tip 2: Measuring salt with your hand

Have you ever seen a cook pour salt from a box into her hand, and then dump it in the pot? What's that about?

Pouring the salt into your hand first serves two purposes.
1) Holding an open container of salt or any seasoning over a cooking pot is like praying for a disaster and the kitchen gods will be more than happy to answer that particular prayer someday. If you are being a little more cautious and you are shaking it from a shaker, the steam from the cooking can clog up the holes or get to the seasoning. Putting it in your hand first helps prevent accidents.
2) It is a good way of measuring without getting out the measuring spoons. Train yourself this way: The next several times you need to put in a teaspoon of salt (or oregano or celery seeds, etc.) measure it with a spoon and pour it into your hand. You will soon be able to judge what a teaspoon of salt looks like in your hand. This is not a good method when you need a precise measurement, as you do in most baking. But for most savory dishes it is close enough and quick, handy (you never have to go looking for your hand), and easy to clean!
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corn starch makes the glaze sticky . muriel catered this stew to some pretty high falootin gatherings . shes always been my role model . suck it rombauer sisters ..
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Thanks Cap, you made me think of Beef Bourguignonne that sounds much like your stew and I have Sangria to use up. I don't spend much time chopping up meat and veggies, use big chunks so the fork doesn't have to wrestle with them.
I use chuck roast, mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, onions, thyme, beef consomme`, cornstarch, and Sangria. Usually have this with noodles but none in the cubbard now, may have to have it with spaghetti. Sometimes I make dumplings but don't have ingredients for those either.
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