maison rustique
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My food-gifting friend brought me smoked Italian sausage and country-style beef ribs because I mentioned I was craving BBQ. So I had a bit of both last night with some potatoes, arugula, tomato, butter and German potato salt.
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Yes, it was a battery issue. I didn't think to ask if it might have been prevented, but the design of the thing had the disk drive next to the battery. As the battery got hotter and hotter, it damaged the drive and the case of the laptop was literally expanding and breaking apart. It looked like there was an alien trapped inside that was trying to break out.
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I had no idea that the battery in a laptop could overheat to the point that it melted the PC. I learned this the hard way. The guy at the Geeks said he needed to get it in sand immediately and was afraid it would catch fire if he didn't. The laptop was toast. Data lost. It was only about 3 years old and a really nice HP. Geek could not believe it and naturally it was just out of warranty.
I have my previous Dell and am trying to get it updated and going. It hadn't been started since I got the HP so it has been nothing but MS updates since I turned it on a day and a half ago. I'm thinking of just biting the bullet and getting a new one, but I hate setting up new computers. I'll think about it tomorrow.
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I must confess that I'd forgotten about her and likely wouldn't have come up with her name, but the instant I saw your post, her face flashed into my mind. In those days, I wanted so badly to be Twiggy or Peggy or whichever other skinny big-eyed girl hit the magazines that year.
RIP Peggy.
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Made up a soup with some of the chicken from the skewers I roasted the other day. Used a packaged cilantro lime rice, some chopped tomato, chicken stock and a dollop of jalapeno something from Trader Joe's that's been lurking in the fridge for a long time.
I have to admit that I am really getting hungry for "real" food, i.e., meat to eat with a knife/fork, veggies and a nice glass of wine. My dear friend who always beings me food texted me yesterday and asked me what I'd like to cheer me up and he'd make it for me. I politely declined. I was afraid it would be chicken drumsticks. LOL.
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A friend dropped off some wonderful chili lime chicken skewers while I was visiting my husband. I popped them into the oven for a quick roast before it got too hot. Froze some for later and ate some tonight with arugula, sliced tomato, avocado lime dressing and buttered baguette.
And as long as I had the oven on, put in the shriveling cherry tomatoes I had and a huge green pepper to roast for freezing to use in whatever.
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14 hours ago, StephanieL said:
RG Borlotti Lamon beans in a homemade tomato & pepper sauce over polenta. The recipe calls for sauteeing 2 oz. of prosciutto along with parsley until brown, about 10 minutes, before adding it to the cooked beans. Doing this to prosciutto makes the dish taste very porky IMO.
Thanks for the prosciutto tip!
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@small h Congrats!! The cake looks/sounds delicious!!
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Very best wishes to you! Looks lovely!!
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Not quite sure this fits in this category, but I'll go for it. After much whining and complaining to everyone, including the doctor, about my hip pain with him shrugging it off as merely being arthritis, I finally put my foot down with him yesterday. He did a couple of quick x-rays in the office and said, "Oh! Your hip is a mess! That's gonna have to be replaced. And your spine is not good!"
Me: "Well, what did you think I kept trying to tell you!!!!!
Anyway, I'm being referred to an orthopedist. Both hips are actually bad, but left is kaput. As far as I know, they have not developed spine replacements yet. And he is trying to get my colonoscopy and EGD bumped up on the calendar and a CT scan is ordered. I will be so happy to finally get something happening and get my life back!
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21 hours ago, bloviatrix said:
For @Sneakeater
OMG! I so wish my husband was still able to understand things. He had a ginormous vinyl collection--about 7,000. Sold most of the LPs, but 45s are still here in the basement. I would have had this made into a poster to put up by the stereo.
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17 hours ago, splinky said:
I'm on week 4 of living with an 11 year old. Kids are not all they're cracked up to be.
Glad I made the choice I did not to have one. I'd say one to take care of me in my old infirm age would be nice, but I don't think you can count on that, so I'll muddle through.
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I had half of my beautiful home grown tomato left so decided to make a BLT for supper last night. My bacon from the freezer had been in there too long--freezer burn. I went ahead and used it. Bacon was dreadful, bread was stale and I felt like I wasted that wonderful tomato. Harumph.
Edited to say that I am going to clean out the freezers this week!
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My sis brought me some pasta salad on Friday and what she said was their last home grown tomato of the season. So, last night I had some pasta salad, tomato and a bit of potato salad that I'd made the other day.
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21 hours ago, small h said:
The leader of my wedding band informs me that our hora will be a mashup of Hava Nagila and Walk Don't Run by The Ventures. I hope it works!
We need video!!!
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I started about 3 different series this past week and found them to be depressing me so I aborted. Last night I started re-watching Northern Exposure on Prime. I hadn't seen it since it was originally out, so it has been a while. I'd completely forgotten how well done it is and how delightful the characters are.
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I might finally be getting the hang of cooking for one. A loaf pan fits nicely in the toaster oven with supper for tonight and leftovers for another night.
Penne with a little creamy white wine tomato cheese sauce topped with paradise locker (local purveyor) bacon, soffrito and more cheese.
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So young!! Wonderful clip, Thanks, @Wilfrid.
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7 hours ago, StephanieL said:
I found deep in the freezer a package of Italian sausages dated December 2020. Cook or compost?
I'd cook them if they don't look completely freezer-burned.
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Home grown tomato from my sister and some local bacon from a friend meant a delicious BLT.
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Yes and a wonderful song she sang, too.
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I guess different parts of the country are on different schedules. First day of school is August 14 here--kids have been back from camp for a long time. Mind you, this is vastly different than when I went to school in this area--we started school in September and got out beginning of June. Now they start in August and get out mid-May.
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Alain Delon
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The epitome of cool.