Weekly recipes?

I decided I should try a new recipe once a week.  I get tired of cooking the same old stuff, I get tired of eating the same old stuff.

So today experiment  is called Chicken with Vegetables with Pineapple, from Pillsbury’s Slow CookerCookbook. 

This is what it looked like in the book.  Not bad huh? Notice I am NOT posting a picture of what mine looked like.

 You can find the recipe here .

My opinion?   I'v had, I've made better sweet and sour chicken, I was hungry enough to eat a second helping, but it was not good enough to save for leftovers. 

Charlie’s opinion?   He doesn’t like sweet and sour stuff anyway.  He will eat one recipe that I do on the stove, but only occasionally.

Some people love their crock pots.  I don’t have very good luck with them excejpt for making soup or stew.  I think the problem is that during the week, I am gone 10 hours a day, and by the time I get home most meals are overcooked.

Since I don’t have time to try anything too complicated during the week, I will probably try new things on the weekends, so if you want to find out what’s next check back.

Adventures with Charlie 2

Book Review: Bent Road by Lori Roy

From the library catalog record:

“For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and that same small town where Eve mysteriously died.”

He is convinced that it will keep is family safe and help his son become a man.

In some ways it makes me think of Grapes of Wrath, but I can’t really say why.   The farmhouses they live in are usually described as old and run down, there is a passage where the son talks about wearing shoes that are too small, because he is growing too fast.

2/3 of the way through this book and I was still trying to figure out why I was still reading it.  It’s dark and rough, depressing and scary, I don’t usually read this kind of book, and I’m not sure I even like the people.  I feel sorry for some of them.  The father is mean, but not as mean as the brother-in-law. But I could not put it down.

I thought I was reading it to find out what happened to Eve, and that did surprised me, but there are a couple of other twists and turns that surprised me too.   I had to set in my car and listen to the last 3 minutes before I could go to work.

Last Rose of Summer (Fall)

It is cold this morning (32 degrees)  I was suprised to see these. 

 

 

Adventures ? with Charlie

Charlie is laid up AGAIN!!!
He fell from the hay loft on Saturday,  October 13.    He lost his balance while throwing hay down for the horses. 
was able to catch something so he did not fall on his head.  He broke the femur in is right thigh and shattered his left heel.  

He had surgery on Sunday morning, the Doctor said that the femur usually heals in about 6 weeks, the heel will take 3 months.  He came home Thursday evening (10/19), he is using a wheelchair and is getting around fairly well. 

Here are the x-rays the doctor gave me after surgery.  It looks to me like they just threw some nails into his heel, but I guess they know what they are doing.

Femur

The heel

One more of the heel.

 He had stitches out Tuesday (10/30). YAY, he can finally take showers. 
He goes back on November 29 for more x-rays. Hopefully he will be able to put weight on his right leg.

A couple of friends brought a scooter over  yesterday,  it is wider than the wheelchair so it won't go up the ramp or down the hall in the house, so it is currently parked in the carport, (or at least it was when I left for work this morning.)  I guess that means he can be a little more mobile, he still cannot put weight on either leg, so we'll have to see what kind of trouble he can get into now.
 
Thanks to:
Tom Moon, Ed Choate, Mike Townsend for putting up a ramp.  Thanks to Sharon Erickson, for the use of the wheel chair, and bath stool, and the scooter that they just brought over yesterday.  
Danielle Townsend for making sure our horses get fed. 
Laurie Mead for bringing dinner one day last week.  

P.S.  He did use the scooter today, he went from the house to the pole barn. Stay tuned for more adventures with Charlie.