- Creepy that the day after I make Brian promise to go with me to see the tree at the Rockefeller Center, Tanya asks if I want to go see the tree. Great minds think alike.
- I spend far too much time on Facebook
- Wednesday night, I was baking cookies in the oven and the oven starting clattering like it was alive. I freaked out, thinking mice or, heaven forbid, a rat was in my oven. While debating what to do, I checked to see where the cats were and Leela was missing. A while later, a white paw reached out from under the stove. She was, I don't know how, under the oven. My oven does not sit up high; the cat had wedged herself in the 2-3 inch space under the oven. Brian had to move furniture to give her enough room to climb back out. Stupid cat.
- I really am enjoying the new Lady Gaga album
- I read 2 good books this week: Ice Land by Betsy Tobin (fictional novel based in Icelandic myths) and Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (novel about a U.S. Marshall sent to investigate the disappearance of a patient at an experimental facility for the criminally insane).
- I tossed aside a few books that were not good and rejected without finishing: Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton, Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire.
- It is getting cold in the apartment as the temperature finally drops below freezing. The cats respond by burrowing under blankets. It's cute.
For Valentine's Day this year I cooked a dish that reminds me of home like no other. It's a family recipe that my Mom knows by heart and my Dad gets on special holidays. Spareribs, sauerkraut and dumplings: Here's my plate before I started inhaling it. Not everyone likes it. I didn't like it until I was an adult and came across a very similar dish in the Czech Republic. I craved home-cooked food at the time and I instantly became obsessed with the dish. The tricky part about the recipe is that it wasn't really written down. My Grandmother, Anita, wrote a copy for my Mom a long time ago but my Mom has since changed parts to simplify the recipe. This is the recipe that my Mom told me and I adjusted on my own. For the Dumplings: These are the dumpling when they were boiling, as they start to get done, they float to the top of the water. 3 c bread crumbs (about a half of a loaf dried on a tray for a day and broken up in a food process...
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