Cold, working through the anxiety and the dentures still hurt here and there. I'm making sure to cook things I can eat - but so often I just want to get dinner done so I can take the teeth out, huddle in warm, and sleep for the rest of the night. Took Grandma's little dog to the vet and got it spayed - and held it for a few days, to make sure healing was doing good. Esme went to her college orientation session, and she had to do a few more things before next month. She is trying hard to keep her math grade up because that is what her graduation hinges on. Last week I had pulled my shoulder out badly somehow on the postal route - probably actually know the mailbox that did it - one of those that is too low and on the edge of a large ditch, so there is no doing it except pulling close and then leaning out the window awkwardly. I did exercises but was still quite annoyed by it for two days - then one morning it just went 'click' again like a bungee cord being drug over another one, and it felt much better. I was worried it would be injured further by getting our propane cylinders, which we have to refill every few days.
Doing Romanian lessons on both systems, somehow segued to that and I've kept at it. We haven't went Christmas shopping yet, and I haven't put up the tree yet. I did buy a few things for Esme last week that I need to wrap up - bought the roll of wrapping paper today. It is going to be severe cold tonight - so we had put some insulation on Grandma's hydrant and ran the little car around a bit to make sure it has had a good charge. I have hardly even been running it around the block much, because there is just too much going on and there are only so many hours in the day. I ran it a good distance tonight. Now dinner is in the oven, and I have a little language lesson to do, some budget figures to put in, and again, crawl into bed as soon as I think isn't too early.
The 'what is this, falafel?' chickpea loaf I made and brought to work with me four days in a row
although this was a very similar process to the black bean meatloaf - it did not act at all the same when stirred up - the rice flour is a very different texture than the whole wheat flour, and the chickpeas had a thick flavored sauce with them instead of the black bean aqua faba
1/2 can of seasoned chickpeas, ground up
about 5 tablespoons of cooked carrot, ground up - this is less than what was in the black bean loaf
more of the orange beef seasoning packet
1 egg
1/2 package of saltine crackers, crumbled and smashed
a few tablespoons to a 1/4 cup of brown rice flour
about a tablespoon of bacon grease heated in the bottom of the pan before spreading the mixture in it
cooked at 400 degrees for 20-30 minutes, uncovered in a glass pan and then brought it down to 350, when the top of the crust started to get brown, I removed it from the oven and covered it with aluminum foil for a while until I could cut it up and put it in another container. I wondered if I should have put another egg in it, but then it firmed up really well after it cooled.
also made some zucchini soup with two kinds of zucchini, kielbasa and bacon
I found a new seasoning mix that says it has toasted onion and red bell pepper flakes in it, with chili pepper flakes - it is quite good. I had to look at a couple of places in order to find it - after someone had brought some to work for a grill out.
The other night I dreamt of blueberry pizza, with spinach, cheese and I drove a block away to a pizza shop to ask them for a cup of tomato sauce to put on it - as it had all blueberry sauce on it instead. I poured it on right there at the counter and they told me the pizza box would be all soggy - so I started to eat it right there. I have no idea what that is about except that I did buy blueberries that day after a long time of thinking about them. In honor of this strange cooking dream, I opened spinach last night and had it with some blueberries and the last of the 'falafel' chickpea loaf.
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