My ex mother-in-law hated my guts but she made an ass kicking sauce...
tuttorosa crushed tomatoes with basil...
sweet Italian sausage
fresh basil<------HAS TO BE FRESH
garlic cloves<----also has to be fresh
extra virgin olive oil
red wine
boil the sausage to lessen the fat content....greasy sauce is yucky
brown the sausage in the olive oil
add chopped garlic cloves...don't let them burn they taste bitter then....
add the sauce, chopped fresh basil, and wine...simmer
really simple delicious sauce....thanks Rosie...may you rest in peace... O :-)
Friday, February 24, 2006
the vagina monologues and 4 little pony tails
I've been wanting to see them since I saw Eve Ensler intervied on Oprah. I never had the time, the money and someone to go with...But I finally went to see a local production of it last night. I wasn't disappointed. It was dare I say??? a little ballsy, for lack of another word... I think instead of the "movie" they show kids in 5th grade they should do a tamer version of the vagina monologues...
so I never have a babysitter, my dearly beloved mother will only watch Lea when I work...which don't get me wrong I am extremely grateful for.... but the fact remains that I haven't seen a non animated film in going on 11 years....My mother God bless her sees that I don't go out and she wishes I would so occasionally she offers to watch Lea... this always results in disaster because she begins to revel in self righteousness as the date of my "recreation" approaches...then she feels put upon I mean really Isn't she so good??? really the least I could so after working full time, going to school, running my own life and house is...whatever...fill in the blank...i.e. send her on an all expense paid trip to Tahiti...buy her house pay her bills ...etc...when she starts to feel like this she gets very nasty... I mean really how could she be nice to such an ungrateful bitch like me....she will then come upstairs and berate me for any number of things after I calmly offer my apology for what ever I have done to offend (usually breathing) she accuses me of using her...sucking the life out of her and not being sorry for anything...she then revokes her offer to babysit...this is usually done as my ride is beeping their horn in front of the house... so then I have to make a choice...go anyway...as my mother will surely watch Lea or politely cancel my plans (which is what I usually do) out of worry of my mother taking her frustration out on my daughter but more to shove the whole situation up my mother's ass... the first time I was mad...the second time disappointed...then I just stopped going out all together.... which brings me to last night...
You already know that I'm f'd up...so I got the tickets to see the vagina monologues and called my best friend and tell her to save the date. Now the problem of babysitting... I could leave Lea alone...My parents do live right down stairs...I do leave Lea alone now while I go food shopping...she has my cell # and I'm close to home.... but this was different... it was at night and not for a necessity....see the headlines now..."child found alone while mother watches vagina monologues" sooooo what's a single girl to do???? BTW the two people who occasionally watch lea for me were unable to for their own reasons....
enter Ray... poor Ray.... he knows my daughter since she's 4...they love the hell out of eachother, they get along very well...so I go out on a limb and ask him to babysit...for once I just want ot go out and enjoy myself and not worry...remember that Ray is married so getting away from home can be challenging...But he works 2 jobs so he had to arrange for a night off which he did...Then he bought us a new TV and and some DVD's for Lea...we set the TV up ate dinner and off I went...Had a nice night I come home and....
Poor Ray is sitting exhausted and helpless in the blue arm chair with 4 tiny pony tails in his hair...My daughter God bless her is running wild in the house laughing at the havoc she's wrought... But everyone was relatively unscathed soooo it went well I guess...
I've stopped trying to live the "perfect" life, I'm 40 I have to live the life I have and that's what I'm trying to do...
XXOOXXOO
so I never have a babysitter, my dearly beloved mother will only watch Lea when I work...which don't get me wrong I am extremely grateful for.... but the fact remains that I haven't seen a non animated film in going on 11 years....My mother God bless her sees that I don't go out and she wishes I would so occasionally she offers to watch Lea... this always results in disaster because she begins to revel in self righteousness as the date of my "recreation" approaches...then she feels put upon I mean really Isn't she so good??? really the least I could so after working full time, going to school, running my own life and house is...whatever...fill in the blank...i.e. send her on an all expense paid trip to Tahiti...buy her house pay her bills ...etc...when she starts to feel like this she gets very nasty... I mean really how could she be nice to such an ungrateful bitch like me....she will then come upstairs and berate me for any number of things after I calmly offer my apology for what ever I have done to offend (usually breathing) she accuses me of using her...sucking the life out of her and not being sorry for anything...she then revokes her offer to babysit...this is usually done as my ride is beeping their horn in front of the house... so then I have to make a choice...go anyway...as my mother will surely watch Lea or politely cancel my plans (which is what I usually do) out of worry of my mother taking her frustration out on my daughter but more to shove the whole situation up my mother's ass... the first time I was mad...the second time disappointed...then I just stopped going out all together.... which brings me to last night...
You already know that I'm f'd up...so I got the tickets to see the vagina monologues and called my best friend and tell her to save the date. Now the problem of babysitting... I could leave Lea alone...My parents do live right down stairs...I do leave Lea alone now while I go food shopping...she has my cell # and I'm close to home.... but this was different... it was at night and not for a necessity....see the headlines now..."child found alone while mother watches vagina monologues" sooooo what's a single girl to do???? BTW the two people who occasionally watch lea for me were unable to for their own reasons....
enter Ray... poor Ray.... he knows my daughter since she's 4...they love the hell out of eachother, they get along very well...so I go out on a limb and ask him to babysit...for once I just want ot go out and enjoy myself and not worry...remember that Ray is married so getting away from home can be challenging...But he works 2 jobs so he had to arrange for a night off which he did...Then he bought us a new TV and and some DVD's for Lea...we set the TV up ate dinner and off I went...Had a nice night I come home and....
Poor Ray is sitting exhausted and helpless in the blue arm chair with 4 tiny pony tails in his hair...My daughter God bless her is running wild in the house laughing at the havoc she's wrought... But everyone was relatively unscathed soooo it went well I guess...
I've stopped trying to live the "perfect" life, I'm 40 I have to live the life I have and that's what I'm trying to do...
XXOOXXOO
Monday, February 13, 2006
Grandma Betty's chicken soup
Chicken carcass or a small whole chicken (remove as much of the skin as possible)
place in large pot and cover with water, boil for a couple of hours, skim the bubbles from the top and discard.
now...if you have the time and the room in the fridge you can leave the newly created broth in the fridge overnight where the fat will rise to the top and harden, you can then remove it rather easily, if not then just skim as much as possible from the top, greasy soup is yucky.... I also put the broth through a sieve before I start but you don't have to I just have a fussy kid...
ok that was the hard/time consuming part...
put the broth on the stove and get it going at a gentle boil, add the following veggies, cut into bite size pieces...
celery
carrots
parsnips
turnips
onions
cut up and add to soup some fresh dill, fresh parsley and add some paprika too (for grandma Betty who came from Hungary) add to soup, cover and reduce heat, cook till veggies are tender.
ladle over wide egg noodles, or if you are feeling adventurous make some matzo balls.
season to taste with pepper and salt... enjoy, and remember grandma...
place in large pot and cover with water, boil for a couple of hours, skim the bubbles from the top and discard.
now...if you have the time and the room in the fridge you can leave the newly created broth in the fridge overnight where the fat will rise to the top and harden, you can then remove it rather easily, if not then just skim as much as possible from the top, greasy soup is yucky.... I also put the broth through a sieve before I start but you don't have to I just have a fussy kid...
ok that was the hard/time consuming part...
put the broth on the stove and get it going at a gentle boil, add the following veggies, cut into bite size pieces...
celery
carrots
parsnips
turnips
onions
cut up and add to soup some fresh dill, fresh parsley and add some paprika too (for grandma Betty who came from Hungary) add to soup, cover and reduce heat, cook till veggies are tender.
ladle over wide egg noodles, or if you are feeling adventurous make some matzo balls.
season to taste with pepper and salt... enjoy, and remember grandma...
Thursday, February 09, 2006
I was thinking today (in between cleaning and running errands) about nursing. It's such a wide field, with so many career options. That's one of the reasons I chose it. There are so many things I could (and I promise that I will whine about) but the thing that strikes me today is how I love my job. Besides it being the only thing crazy enough to temporarily block out the horrors of my personal life!!! I love nursing because I meet the greatest people on earth. I get to work with people who come from all over the entire planet people who on so many levels are different from me, grew up in starkly different cultures speaking different languages, practicing a multitude of different religions, and yet day after day we come together for the greatest purpose...to help our fellow human beings...and it works amazingly well, in such a high stress environment, my co-workers cheerfully offer their assistance to one another and to me and I to them. Amazingly the work gets done when shit starts to befall one member of the team, instead of running away, my co-workers run toward the problem everyone doing their part until it is resolved... Don't get me wrong... Put people together under stress with long hours and short staffing and they will get bitchy, but still amazingly they come back together again and again.
In these sad times when violence and intolerance seem to be spreading over our earth rapidly, a thought creeps up in the back of my mind repeatedly...healthcare as a model for living in the modern world. Here is a field, where on every level from housekeeping to doctors the men and women come from vastly different circumstances and yet every day put aside their differences and work together for the greater good of humanity. It is a very flawed system, but that is acknowledged honestly and evaluated for opportunities to improve our delivery of healthcare. God I can't help but think of the great things we could do as a species if we applied this model to living on the rest of our planet....
In these sad times when violence and intolerance seem to be spreading over our earth rapidly, a thought creeps up in the back of my mind repeatedly...healthcare as a model for living in the modern world. Here is a field, where on every level from housekeeping to doctors the men and women come from vastly different circumstances and yet every day put aside their differences and work together for the greater good of humanity. It is a very flawed system, but that is acknowledged honestly and evaluated for opportunities to improve our delivery of healthcare. God I can't help but think of the great things we could do as a species if we applied this model to living on the rest of our planet....
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