The poundage is loss of ‘wild weekend pounds’ and therefore not a real weight loss. One more to go and I’m back where I was Friday morning.
Having Thai chicken tonight: chicken bits with salt and pepper, then smothered in raw spinach, and dosed with House of Tsang Peanut Sauce, wonderful flavors. I cooked it last night, dismissing any concern about Jane’s absolute detestation of cooked spinach, because she always has a bit of mine when we go out to the Thai restaurant, and the taste is the same. She was dubious at the first bite, then today, when I went to the store, asked for a repeat tonight of the same recipe. 😉 I can oblige: dead easy to fix, and serves as many as you have spinach for…MUST start as raw spinach, no frozen stuff.
I bought myself a new purse. The other one had gone all the way to looking, well, disreputable doesn’t cover it. But I’m very fussy. It has to have 3 or more outside pockets, shoulder strap, interior divisions, be able to hold a cellphone and camera, and have some security against an accidental spill. You could hand me a 12,000.00 Vuitton bag and I’d sniff and pass it up for one from Freddy Myers if the pricey one didn’t meet my conditions, and if I had the spendy bag, I’d treat it just the way I treat my succession of other sad bags. Trade purses until the current one dies or begins to resemble road kill? No way! But I’ve been looking for 3 years now, and finally found one that meets my criteria…looking like something I’d carry is at the bottom of the stack: it’s faux grey crocodile, which I refer to as neo T-Rex. Looks pretty spiff, and let’s hope it absorbs scuffs well, because I do hang it from chairs, set it on the floor and kick it under the table.
And the snow is coming down: we’re forecast to have our January this month, so we may need green woolies for St. Paddy’s Day!
I am the same way about a purse. It must be very close to exactly right. I had one maroon leather purse for at least 10 years. I prefer leather for the durability, but I refuse to pay the designer price for one. I just keep my eye out when I am thinking of a new one and I don’t mind waiting. I have had good luck actually at TJ Maxx. My current one, which I got last year is a new color – mustard yellow. I never thought I’d get one out of the more muted earth tones, but it has grown on me. I like what I like and that’s it.
Tsang’s peanut sauce, you say? I’ll add it to my grocery list. Spinach and chicken on hand, a recipe with these sounds *great*.
I have a strange yen for baby corn, and for some edamame soybeans, after having each recently. The soybeans were in a stir fry, nice texture and taste. Corn, always nice. I’missing corn and tomatoes; not in my grandmother’s diet. I will have to check with a mgr or stock boy to find the baby corn and soybeans. Maybe in their intl foods.
I know many people find frozen foods anathema , but often you can find edamame in the frozen foods section, either whole or shelled.
I’m tremendously fussy about purses, too. I don’t mind imitation leather if it’s a good quality, but it MUST have a cloth lining, not plastic or vinyl; and at least 3 compartments, but still not be too large as I can’t carry anything very heavy on a daily basis. Don’t you love it when you find just the right thing? 🙂
In a purse, the lining has to be a light color so I can actually SEE what’s in there. I agree with outside pocket(s) for keys and phone. Fashion matters not at all to me on purses and very little else!
The one thing I know about purses is that I stay out of them. I didn’t go into my ex-wife’s purse unless she asked me to get something. I don’t see how you carry those things around. Her’s weighed at least 10 pounds and I have NO idea what was in there. There could have been a baby black hole for all I knew.
You found something that Jane likes! Wow, just remember always in moderation or it loses its appeal.
You’re getting snow, I’m getting freezing rain again for the second time in as many days. Tonight maybe it’ll snow, but it will also be blustery and that means drifts in the driveway.
Real purses have those egg things from GLORY ROAD. Kinda like a tardis or that magical contraption from HP7. I literally lost a bottle of asprin in my purse and couldn’t find it for over a week. The bad part is a black purse with black lining and trying to find a dark cell phone in that thing! The cell phone now has it’s own pastel, crocheted bag. The MP3 player’s bag is emerald green. The purse is only 10″ x 12″.
Generally what weighs a purse down is the change dropped into the bottom. Unless it’s large enough to carry a change of winter clothing.
I have a piggybank in the bath, one in my bedroom and, should I miss anything, one in the laundry. I refuse to carry change. And the habit of saving all metal money adds up!
The spinach/chicken thing went over well, but you have to watch it like a hawk to be sure to get it off the fire before it totally cooks. Chicken first, and once heated/cooked, then a big lot of spinach, add the sauce and toss, cover, cook for about 3 minutes, stir, and serve. You could also add sunflower seed or peanuts for interest.
Yay for saving change! We keep ours in a coffee can. On our first camping trip of the season, we package it up into rolls. We’re usually very pleasantly surprised by how much is in there.
ROFL, joe! I feel the same way about Better Half’s wallet. How he manages to sit on it and not hurt his back is beyond me.
My purse varies between being a Bag of Holding and a Bag of Devouring. Whichever one I want it to be, it’s the other. 😀
I looked through all the bottled / jarred Asian and Indian sauces today and didn’t locate Tsang’s peanut suace or any peanut sauce. Bummer. Didn’t see a manager to request it. Next week, I’ll hunt at a couple of other stores for it, and I expect I’ll ask a manager at my local supermarket. This sounds too interesting to pass up. I can likely find it at an Asian market, if I really need to look.
There were plenty of other tasty choices. I may have to sample periodically. They’ve expanded their choices to meet the tastes of the neighborhood. … Black bean garlic sauce … several curries … some very hot chili and wasabe sauces, if I were a chili-head … milder but tasty, spicy fare — I plainly have not tried Indian and Thai food enough; must remedy this.
It looks like the bagged dry beans are now almost exclusively in the Mexican / Latin part of the ethnic foods aisle. It seems halfway between fitting and not-fitting, since nearly all beans are common across cultures. But then, it gives me an excuse to check what new Latino foods they have in.
I managed to leave both cans of baby corn at my grandmother’s. Will have to pick up one of the cans tonight, LOL. Now I know where they keep them. — I did find (after some searching) not one, but three brands of frozen edamame soybeans. Yay, now to add those to a stirfry this weekend.
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Purses. I found I know much more about the proper selection of a purse than I thought, when I needed to replace my grandmother’s favorite black purse. Hah, I was expecting a much bigger, funnier adventure, heading to J.C. Penney’s and sidling up to a saleslady, as a mid-40’s, bearded guy, and asking about a purse. LOL, but the saleslady didn’t bat an eye. … If I knew enough vocabulary, I could’ve (and maybe should’ve) switched to Spanish. Heheh, but following this eager, middle-aged saleswoman around, showing me several purses, until we’d picked the right one… heheheh, there was definite humor value. Better yet, they were on clearance, I got her a very good bargain, given the original sales price. However, the store (the chain) is having rough times, as clothing was hit-or-miss for sizes, both for women and for men, and when I ordered online for her (pants) (trousers, that is) they are back ordered until St. Paddy’s Day. ..lAnd htey’re not even green… — In fact, that was a problem: It seems we are in a very conservative / puritanical / militaristic fashion-designer stage. Lots of dark or drab colors. Lots of greys and earth tones, but few of them very warm. Very few bright colors, outside the red or turquoise range, or occasionally, oranges. Now, I like reds, teals, oranges; I like any color. But it seems there are not so many color choices the past year or so. Maybe spring and summer, near and after Easter / Spring Break, will liven things up. I miss the exuberance of plenty of colors and patterns. Designers these days can choose almost any color or pattern that they can imagine and draw/paint, so … the limited choices are from current cultural preferences, either where they think we are or where they think we want to go … but not necessarily where the buying public really wants to be. True whether you’re a guy or girl. (Hmm, I’m so uncool… at nearly 45, I don’t feel quite right saying “girl” or “chick” for “girls-and-women generally, the females of the species as individuals or as a class.” (…Duuude…)
Lol—look for Padang sauce. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/House-Tsang-Bangkok-11-5-Ounce-Bottles/dp/B000LLMAVU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=grocery&qid=1298675965&sr=8-3
Maybe you and five neighbors can do a group buy!
Aha! Thank you!
When I was still at my day job I used to carry two purses. One BIG for all the work stuff I needed plus meds etc.and a SMALL one in the BIG one to be used when I went into a store or something. I still carry two when I travel except that now it has to hold my laptop…bigger…stronger! 😉