A Random Thursday Post

Welcome to Thursday.

Dinner tonight was corned beef and cabbage for D and a cabbage wedge with blue cheese for me.
Ever since having Little O I can't eat cooked cabbage. It's hard enough to cook it if ya get my drift but I do love me some blue cheese.
So, correction I had blue cheese with some sour cream/milk dressing and a sprinkling of raw cabbage and tomatoes. hehe!

This evening I realized that my T-day stock is running dangerously low! Thank goodness it's nearly T-day again so I can re-stock. Did I mention I have a HUGE issue with canned stock? Cause I do.
So, I chopped up some leftover leek stalks from dinner, a wedge of cabbage, a carrot, two or three (okay, four) hot peppers, a potatoe, parsley, aaaand s&p.
Damn it, the toilet just flushed and again.
BRB...





I'm back.

He likes the whirling me thinks.
Weird kid.

Stock Phase 1:

Then I decided I should chop up the cayenne peppers that have been drying in my "herb space". It's basically just this shelf with hooks that I think were meant for pot and pans that Sam bought years and years ago (we're talking btown days here peeps) but it's perfect for herb, pepper, veggie drying.

I took the thread out of and the
stems off of the peppers...

And put them in a bowl...

Small break for sweeping the kitchen, folding some laundry, and checking the stock.
I so wish you could smell this!

Back to the cayenne peppers.
Squash them in a food processor.
Listen to Little O say "OH WOW!" to the sound of the food processor.
Chuckle because he isn't scared of the food processor but he is scared of the vacuum.
Maybe that's a sign I need to vacuum more and cook less.
Let me think about that.
Bwahahahahahaha.
end of discussion.

The broth is bubbling away.
Smelling delicious.
Ready to be cooled off.
Little O has thrown himself on the floor because D has said the "N" word after two sparklers.
Or in Oliverism..."sparskles".
Time to cool the broth.
Pour wine.
Freeze some broth.
Some in Fridge.

Drink wine while D gives into one more "sparskle".
Watch Fiddler on the Roof cause I miss my Grammie.

Listen to Little O say "COOOOOOooooOOOOL Fiiiiire" as D
gives into another "sparskle"...

Serve the man dinner...
Corned beef and cabbage...
(gag me)
(literally)
(ugh)

And I leave you with my 2nd favorite part of the day...
Little O is obviously my 1st.
hehe...
My wedding dress pattern!
Now to find fabric!