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| Foggy morning today! |
Middle Child is in the middle of finals right now. I packed a picnic lunch and stole him away from campus for a couple of hours earlier this week. We have a favorite spot by the Jones Falls near an old mill where we like to picnic. We've had some fantastically warm weather this week, and I really enjoyed spending an hour outside with him, shooting the breeze and watching the river flow by.
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| Pumpkin Enchiladas |
I finally made the Pumpkin Enchilada recipe that I shared earlier this week. Good Lord, that recipe is HOT. It's fantastic, it's tasty, and I'll make it again, but I will cut the spices down by more than half. I think I'll divide the spices in half, and then half again. So, when it calls for 2 tsp of ginger, I'm going to add 1/2 tsp. of ginger. Let me reiterate - the enchiladas are amazing. They are great. But as the recipe stands, they are really spicy hot.
We have almost finished cleaning out daughter's room. Now that she's transferred back to the Community College, we need to move her college dorm stuff into her room. And we need to get the various assorted crap out of her room. I've been surprised at the memories we've found - like a photocopy of a comb that we made on our new scanner/printer five years ago. I can't wait to get the very last of the junk out of our living room so that we can get our Christmas Tree and decorations up!
I tried something new, too. Have you ever heard of Zaycon Fresh? It's a different way of buying food. Zaycon sells food online - and you pick it up from them - in your car, in a parking lot. (It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "fell off the back of a truck" doesn't it?) Seriously, the food is fresh, high quality - bought directly from the farmers. It is sold in large quantities, by the case. You pick up your case from the official Zaycon truck in a parking lot and take it home. You don't even have to get out of your car. You take it home and freeze it, and *BAM* you have high quality meat waiting for you in your freezer. I have bought chicken through them, and now salmon. The prices are phenomenal, and the quality is excellent. I will continue to buy red meat from our local farmers, but I really a Zaycon. I can am happy with the quality of the Salmon and Chicken.
I did make a couple of things with the Can You Cook from Scratch challenge that I posted earlier this week. The first thing I made was a pot of chicken soup, which helped immensely with the sore throat. I also made a chicken salad with more celery, mayo, paprika, ground mustard, and some pickles that I had on hand. I love chicken salad.
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I hit up the Pennsylvania Dutch Farmer's Market this week. I picked up spices! Look at those spices! I also got a couple of Gluten Free Whoopie Pies. I may have paid almost as much for my Whoopie Pies as I did for all of the spices, but my, oh, my, it was great!!! It's not often you find fresh baked gluten free goodies! (It's the little things.)
To top off my story of the week, I had to share my story about Saturday. I spent the afternoon at the Historic Colored School House, listening to the birthday reminiscences of a gentleman who is celebrating his 95th birthday, and attended that school from the time he was 6 until he turned 10. It was a very gentle reminder of how much our world has changed over the last 100 years. When he began school, it wasn't common for any man, of any color, to finish the grades and graduate from high school. Life was very different in those days than it is now. As we approach the beginning of a new election cycle, and hatred and fear begins to rear it's ugly head, it does pay to look back at the past, at our history, and learn from our mistakes and celebrate the progress that we've made.
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| The Historic Colored School House. |
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