Sue's Daily Drivel ...

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

~ Tucker's Baseball ~ Spinach Eggs/Apple-Celery Salad ~

Good 38º morning.

OMG, what a blustery day in 100 acre wood yesterday! This was 6:30am...

I have never had the rain come down so hard on me, ever, when I was driving to Medford before noon! It was so hard that it cleaned the car amazingly well! It rained like heqq, then suddenly as it started it stopped and the pavement was dry! Then it'd start again!

I had to go to the Medford Library for a meeting of our JCRW's board. I stopped for gas on the way home......

LOOK, 211 at the bank!!!! <g>

Happy to be home and Maggie happy too. The wind was awful here. Howling. Blooms blowing off trees. Yikes! Here we are at

4:30......

.... and the turkeys were not moving around much....

You don't see them laying down too often.

Tucker's baseball game was fun on Saturday afternoon. The kids are sooooo small. Cute. Tucker was in the field ....dancing!

It gets boring while you are waiting for the action!

And then he hit the ball!

And Sami danced for me.

We stood under the overhang by the bathrooms because of the rain.

Brian pretended he had an umbrella!

Historically this date.........

1928 – Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.

1956 – First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

And births this date include...

1900 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)

1933 – Carol Burnett, American comedian

1938 – Duane Eddy, American musician

1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer

He was so darned cute!!! Mmmmmm..... Bobby!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0zpm_1JhPI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jNOkTYiKI

Here's a couple of the recipes from Easter... I really liked the deviled eggs with salsa and cheese, but these are my favorite:

Deviled Eggs w/ Spinach and Bacon

12 eggs hard-boiled, cooled, cut in half, yolks in bowl.

12 strips Oscar Mayer turkey bacon, cooked crisp, and chopped

3/4 cup frozen chopped spinach, thawed, and squeezed dry

1/4 cup mayonnaise

2 T white vinegar

1 T sugar

pepper and salt

The Mexican Deviled Eggs:

12 eggs hard-boiled, cooled, cut in half, yolks in bowl.

1/2 cup shredded cheese

1/4+ cup mayonnaise

1/3 cup salsa

snipped fresh chives or 2 T green onions, chopped

1-2 T sour cream

salt to taste

And, I liked this Celery-Green Apple Salad:

Fresh or bottled lemon juice

2 T. Dijon mustard

1 T + 1 t Agave Nectar or honey

6 T. Extra-virgin olive oil

5-6 stalks celery

2 large Granny Smithy apples

salt to taste

1/2 c. walnuts, toasted and chopped

1/2 cup dried cranberries or cran-raisins

Cut apples in half, peel, take out core. Cut each half into halves. Slice the apples thin.

As you finish one, put in bowl and drizzle on lemon juice and mix to coat. This keeps the apples from turning brown. Slice celery stalks on a diagonal, enough to make 3 cups. (I had doubled the recipe)

Mix 2 T lemon juice, 2 T mustard, the Agave with a whisk. Mix in the olive oil and whisk well. I think next time I'll add a few drops of Sesame Oil also. Pour off extra lemon from apples and mix apples and celery and toss with dressing. Toast walnuts on high heat in large frying pan for about 3 minutes. Watch carefully. Cool and coarsely chop. Add the walnuts and cranberries to salad just before serving.

Dinner last night was "organic" mac and cheese and I added broccoli, green peas, and pepperoni. I know, you laugh at my

weird concoctions.....

.... but it was GOOD!!!!

By 7:30 last night we finally got a sunset. It's been a long while!

All I know. Happy Tuesday. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

April 26th

Secretary's Day

Monday, April 25, 2011

~ Wild Easter Weather ~ FOOD ! ~ Penguins

Good 53º wind howling morning!

It looks like we're in for another stormy day...

Yesterday was like this too. First it was drizzly, then sun would appear, then it would rain like mad, then the sun. On the way to and from yesterday there were cells moving all over and some patches of road were dry and some soaked. Weird.

Carol and Neil's was fun. Lots of wonderful food. Carol's famous egg bake, enchiladas, salads, deviled eggs (mine with spinach/bacon and salsa/cheese), Jen's wonderful cinnamon bites, Jean's spinach/cream cheese roll ups, my apple/celery salad, and the stuffed rolls (bacon, chives, cheese, and ricotta) OINK.... Then since it was Carol's birthday we had cake ..

Sami was a big help licking the frosting off the candles!

After the kids got their Easter gifts (I gave them baskets with "stuff" to play with) and they were going to do their own egg hunt at their house, the rain came down in buckets! Again. So I left for home.

I stopped at my neighbors, Frank and Cindy, they are just outside my gate. They were having a HUGE family barbecue and there were 7 dog in attendance! Lucy, their Jack Russell and 3 other Jacks (one painted up for Easter), a big black doggie, a doxie, and a fluffy puppy with different colored eyes!

I baked another batch of the stuffed rolls and headed to Debbie and Tom's. More wonderful food and lots of laughs.... Tom made 6 pies! Apple, pumpkin, cream cheese, blueberry topped cheese cake, and lemon meringue.

...and Tom made potato salad. PatC made a wonderful roast and gravy and sweet potatoes, PJ had fresh asparagus with hollandaise, I brought another apple/celery salad and rolls and stuffed eggs, Patty made ham roll ups with pickled asparagus in the middle...

And Debbie made a "Peeps" tree ^ !

I have to tell you after reading that email that went around about all the things you can do with aluminum foil...

I was skeptical about the ball of foil in the dryer taking out the static electricity. I don't use fabric softener so I tried it. IT WORKS!! No static ever! The foil absorbs it. Magic.

Here is the beautiful birdhouse I saw on Gary's FB page and told him I wanted. He delivered it to my front porch!

Now to figure where to hang it.

Historically this date...

1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.

1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.

1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

And births this date include...

1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)

1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player

1940 – Al Pacino, American actor

1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor and voice actor

... my favorite in Birdcage!

1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress

1970 – Jason Lee, American actor

There is more.... for later. Will share recipes then..

All for now. Nuff said.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

April 25th

World Penguin Day

Sunday, April 24, 2011

~ A little rain ~ Easter ~ Pigs In A Blanket ~

Good 45º morning. By the digital rain gauge, we got 11/100ths of an inch of rain yesterday.

Yesterday I was busy. Making stuff for the two parties, I will go to today. Went to Tucker's baseball game in the afternoon. It sprinkled. Tucker was awesome. Sami was a picnic! So cute. Pictures later. Came back to town and shopped. Home and more cooking. Tired. Early to bed. Up now and more cooking to do. Short blog today.

About those Easter eggs.....