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I must say today was a much better day for me than yesterday was. No corporate people showed up at my house to give me a hard time…ha! I slept in until…oh…5:30 or so…got up, fed the cats, put the tea kettle on, fixed breakfast and sat down at the computer for an hour or thereabouts. Quite peaceful.
I made a small pot of turkey chili…probably four servings altogether. It was really easy to throw together. I had some turkey in the freezer that I’d shaped into patties when I bought it, so I pulled out a couple of those, threw them in the pot with some diced onion. Once that was all good and browned, I opened a can of chili beans and a can of tomato sauce, mixed all of that together, added a little water and some chili powder. Cooked for a while, then added some pasta (now don’t go crazy here, I’m from southern Indiana, not Texas…we always put pasta in our chili and I’m not changing that…I like it that way).
Okay, so I didn’t really make this like my mom used to…she always used elbow macaroni. I didn’t happen to have any elbow macaroni, but I had some whole wheat pasta and figured it would serve the same purpose. And it did…this was pretty good and I was able to make a small enough amount of it so that I’m not going to have to eat it for the next 30 days…just kidding…more like 2 weeks, but you get what I’m trying to say, right? So, I also didn’t have any saltine crackers in my house (I’m going to remedy that tomorrow) so I subbed flaxseed crackers…hmm…not such a great substitute…not terrible, but it definitely didn’t evoke memories of my childhood down on the farm…wonder if Grandma even knew what flaxseed was?!
As I was sitting here writing this, I realized I haven’t eaten anything since that bowl of chili while watching Days Of Our Lives (holy moly, did you see that Jack is coming back?!)…could be why I’m hungry. I’m thinking a bowl of cereal and a banana sounds pretty good.
I didn’t do a lot of anything today…a couple loads of laundry, vacuumed the whole house, changed sheets on the bed, and made that pot of chili…a nice, fairly lazy day after that corporate fiasco yesterday…forget about it, Patti…I’m sure they’ve forgotten all about you~
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Chili is definitely a comfort food 🙂
yep, one of the foods that my mom made consistently…she could feed her three kids for several days with this simple meal.
Sounds like a nice, relaxing day. I did several loads of clothes today, only have sheets left for tomorrow. I got in about 5 mins. exercise. Hubby called and asked me to pick him up for lunch–couldn’t turn that down. I made baked pumpkin yesterday, pumpkin pie filling (cutting fat & cholesterol where I could) without the crust. I could eat the whole pan! But I didn’t.
Sounds like you had a good day yesterday too, Patti…lunch with hubby three times in one week…cool!
I make the pumpkin pie filling without crust too…I call it pumpkin pieless…that sounds like something I just might need to bake today or tomorrow..yum!
Pumpkin Pieless! Love it!!
Yum…me too!
I put pasta in my chili too. It must not be winter yet tho since I’m not ready for chili.
Today I’ve given you the very prestigious Giddyup Bloggers Award. You deserve it and you can check out the details over at my blog. Forget about that C! You have an award now!
It’s going to feel like winter here tonight…football weather, for sure! Well, hey…thanks for the award…I’m going over to check it out right now!
Hey, did you see that Marlena and John are going to be at Bo and Hope’s party?
I didn’t know that Bo and Hope were having a party!! Cool~
I’ve never watched a soap opera in my life (besides my own pathetic love life…but that’s a whole other story haha) and I don’t plan to. That said, JACK’s coming BACK? haha.
Felt like putting that. I have no idea who Jack is. lol
You’re so funny!! This particular soap has been on the air for years, I used to watch it with my mom and still catch it every once in a while…most of the time I’m at work…but yes, Jack is back!!
Captain Jack is Back. Err, wrong Jack!
Now how do you know that’s the wrong Jack? He could be exactly who I was talking about…except, uhh…who’s Captain Jack?
Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy? ;D
uhh…yeah…sure…you betcha!! I still have no idea what you’re talking about…guess I better google it, huh?
http://tinyurl.com/msy2wz
you little wise #@$…very funny…actually it was funny and educational!
I love lmgtfy! =D Glad you enjoyed!
very much so…now behave yourself…or not, it’s a lot more fun to misbehave…oh heck, just go out and have a good time!
oh, I have and intend to continue to…:D
good for you…enjoy life!!
hey, speaking of your (pathetic) love life…did you ever ask that girl out? I always kind of felt sorry for guys, having to do the asking and all…you gotta do what you gotta do to get the girl of your dreams…
Funny you mention that. So it goes like this…she liked one of my closest friends, he didn’t like her, I liked her, but I don’t think she likes me, but I’m good friends with her good friend who is a dude, so he invited me to hang out with him and her tonight, except his sister went into labor so he couldn’t hang out obviously. We’re going to reschedule the hang out and we all wanna group Skype but at this point, I fear it’s most unlikely. At the most optimistic, it’s a 50/50 haha but thx for asking!
I thought you said you didn’t watch soap operas…heck, why would you? You’re living smack dab in the middle of one!!
Yes. =/