Mother's Day

Another Mother's Day come and gone.  Nice visit from my youngest and a phone call from my oldest was nice too!  Then of course as my mother is nearby hubby and I went to visit her and take her a card and Orchid and visited for a spell. 


My mom and dad are both hard of hearing and sometimes it is funny as I will say something and then my mom will say "What did you say?"  And then my hubby says something totally off the wall but using similar sounding words. Like today when I told her "I knew you liked yellow so that's what I got you ( a yellow orchid).  She said "What did you say?".  Hubby said, "We were going to bring you some Jello  (instead of yellow), and I start cracking up!  She got the gist of the joke though too.  He has done that before though when the joke wasn't caught and I have such a hard time not cracking up!
What can I say? Life it too short to not find some humor in things! :)


Tomorrow is another dreaded Monday. Oh well. It is what it is.  At least two Mondays from now is Memorial Day and we will have the day off. My sister from Ohio will be in town then too and it will be great to see her again.


I still love using my cast iron and used it this evening to make some stir fry vegetables. Yum!  I even threw in some cilantro, parsley and rosemary from my garden. Pretty cool!

What's new?

Okay I see that it has been weeks since I posted. So I'll try to catch up with what is new. Let's see.

There have been teasers of Spring when we've had a few days with weather in the 70's but that is just not sticking! Yesterday it was sunny and nice and got up to near 80 degrees. I started to pull some of the dead vegetable stalks from my balcony garden yesterday and still pondering to what extent I'm going to have a garden this year.

Today it started out in the 60's and hubby and I went to run some errands and by the time we got done at around 11 o'clock it was down to 34 degrees and it was raining and windy which got quite cold by the time I was running in to Walgreens to get some milk.

Enough about the weather, which should be in the 70's and staying that way by this point in time in TX! :=)

I enjoyed watching the Olympics and as always am proud that the US did so well. At the same token though, I am glad that some of my regular shows are back again now that the Olympics are over.

Lately I have gained a lot of interest in cast iron and cast iron cooking. My mom gave me a deep skillet years ago when we moved them here because it was too heavy for her to use. I really didn't use it much but I had pulled out the skillet to cook steaks on the stove. I've discovered they turn out great in the cast iron skillet and let the steaks sit out for 30 min before cooking so they are not 'cold' and also sear them first which keeps them juicy. Anyway after that a few days later I made a shrimp dish with it and the shrimp were done to prefection! Not raw but not rubbery either. They were just perfectly cooked and the meal that came out of the cast iron was delicious!

That was it!! I was going to use it more. I found some cast iron facebook groups including a cooking one and discovered there is so much that can be made with them. Since I definitely needed more than on sole skillet, I have gotten some treasures mainly from the local shops but some online. I got a cast iron waffle iron, corn stick, muffin pan, double griddle and 3 other skillets of various sizes. I have been using my cast iron several times a week now instead of just once in a blue moon. Here's a picture of the eggs I made this morning.  They turned out so light and fluffy and once again perfect!

Here is some Parmesan kale chips I made today too which are really yummy! Even hubby said they taste like potato chips :)

Right now I have sausage creole cooking in guess what, yes the cast iron skillet (that was mom's) for dinner.Yum!  So you can tell what my latest craze is.  :-)  Hey it is always nice to be interested in something new...even though this is something that is actually old...some older than when my parents were born.  That makes it all that more interesting to me!