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End of January
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olga
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31 January 2013
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It seems like winter just started, but here it is, the last day of January already. Baboo and I have been noticing that it's not dark at 5:00 PM any more, and when I'm in the greenhouse, I can see that the sun is noticeably higher in the sky. Time to get that seed order done and start thinking about what to plant for spring crops in the greenhouse.
Let's see.....I have a kitty picture first. My stepdaughter has two kitties, and they don't get along. They don't sleep together or groom each other, or play in any way. However, yesterday the weather down in that area was pretty scary, with tornadoes and heavy rain, and she said the house was shaking in the wind.
So the cats found a hidey-place in a closet to wait out the storm............together. heh
I think it's funny that bad weather makes strange bedfellows. I'm surprised the dog wasn't in the closet with them.
We've had a couple of strange weather days. The temps were up in the 50s yesterday, which is way too warm for January. Overnight, we had torrential rains and high winds, so there is standing water everywhere because the ground is frozen and it can't sink in. Tonight, the temperature has dropped below freezing and it will be in the teens and 20s for the next 4-5 days. All that water in the fields, ponds, streams and roads will now turn to ice.
I'm trying to get back into my routine. I went to yoga class this morning, and I've been walking with the pack every day. There has been a lot of comfort eating going on for the past few weeks, so it's time to retire the ice cream bowl and get back to normal.
To that end, I made a virtuous meal last night, and it turned out to be pretty tasty. This is a sweet potato curry, with peas, onions, garlic, garbanzos,tomatoes, and sweet pepper. I used two different kinds of my homemade curry powder, plus turmeric and cumin. We had it over brown rice, with a Tuscan kale salad. (Shredded kale, a lemon & onion dressing, dates, toasted almonds, and Parmesan.)
Oh, I forgot the flatbread. Anyway, it was pretty much an all-veggie dinner and low in fat. Not low in carbs, but we burn up lots of carbs with our level of physical activity.
Today I decided to make muffins for Baboo. My stepdaughter gave me a muffin pan for Christmas, and it's a nice heavy one. This recipe is for Pumpkin/Cranberry muffins, although I substitute winter squash for the pumpkin. Anyway, when I cracked the eggs into the bowl with the squash, I was struck by the fact that the yolks were darker orange than the squash.
If you eat supermarket eggs, they probably have pale yellow yolks. Free-range chickens have a more varied diet, so the yolks get darker.
Back to the muffins: here they are, just out of the oven.
They rose pretty nicely, so I think this pan is a good one.
Do you like those Christmas muffin papers? heh I'm out of the plain ones, so I'm using what I have.
I had planned to make a squash & pasta casserole for dinner, but I don't have any Provolone cheese and I was too lazy to drive down to the village store. Instead, I thawed out some turkey soup, added noodles, made some seeded rolls out of leftover pizza dough, and put together a salad with Chinese cabbage, red cabbage, grated carrot & Daikon radish, red onion, and pineapple.
I'll leave you with another kitty picture. I took this one 5 or 6 years ago. Miss Kitty was hanging out on our screen porch on a warm June day, and she posed like a little feline model.
I love that photo, and I had misplaced it. My iPhoto is so full of pictures that I have trouble finding what I want.
Gotta go---Pilates in the morning. ack ack!
olga
Let's see.....I have a kitty picture first. My stepdaughter has two kitties, and they don't get along. They don't sleep together or groom each other, or play in any way. However, yesterday the weather down in that area was pretty scary, with tornadoes and heavy rain, and she said the house was shaking in the wind.
So the cats found a hidey-place in a closet to wait out the storm............together. heh
I think it's funny that bad weather makes strange bedfellows. I'm surprised the dog wasn't in the closet with them.
We've had a couple of strange weather days. The temps were up in the 50s yesterday, which is way too warm for January. Overnight, we had torrential rains and high winds, so there is standing water everywhere because the ground is frozen and it can't sink in. Tonight, the temperature has dropped below freezing and it will be in the teens and 20s for the next 4-5 days. All that water in the fields, ponds, streams and roads will now turn to ice.
I'm trying to get back into my routine. I went to yoga class this morning, and I've been walking with the pack every day. There has been a lot of comfort eating going on for the past few weeks, so it's time to retire the ice cream bowl and get back to normal.
To that end, I made a virtuous meal last night, and it turned out to be pretty tasty. This is a sweet potato curry, with peas, onions, garlic, garbanzos,tomatoes, and sweet pepper. I used two different kinds of my homemade curry powder, plus turmeric and cumin. We had it over brown rice, with a Tuscan kale salad. (Shredded kale, a lemon & onion dressing, dates, toasted almonds, and Parmesan.)
Oh, I forgot the flatbread. Anyway, it was pretty much an all-veggie dinner and low in fat. Not low in carbs, but we burn up lots of carbs with our level of physical activity.
Today I decided to make muffins for Baboo. My stepdaughter gave me a muffin pan for Christmas, and it's a nice heavy one. This recipe is for Pumpkin/Cranberry muffins, although I substitute winter squash for the pumpkin. Anyway, when I cracked the eggs into the bowl with the squash, I was struck by the fact that the yolks were darker orange than the squash.
If you eat supermarket eggs, they probably have pale yellow yolks. Free-range chickens have a more varied diet, so the yolks get darker.
Back to the muffins: here they are, just out of the oven.
They rose pretty nicely, so I think this pan is a good one.
Do you like those Christmas muffin papers? heh I'm out of the plain ones, so I'm using what I have.
I had planned to make a squash & pasta casserole for dinner, but I don't have any Provolone cheese and I was too lazy to drive down to the village store. Instead, I thawed out some turkey soup, added noodles, made some seeded rolls out of leftover pizza dough, and put together a salad with Chinese cabbage, red cabbage, grated carrot & Daikon radish, red onion, and pineapple.
I'll leave you with another kitty picture. I took this one 5 or 6 years ago. Miss Kitty was hanging out on our screen porch on a warm June day, and she posed like a little feline model.
I love that photo, and I had misplaced it. My iPhoto is so full of pictures that I have trouble finding what I want.
Gotta go---Pilates in the morning. ack ack!
olga
