Britesea - Living the good life in rural Oregon

[goatgurl]

I've seen the avocado deviled egg recipe before. try them and let us know what you think.

 

[Britesea]

So tired. This is the last week of my physical therapy, and they are really going for the "physical" part of it. Tomorrow is the last day *whew*
I drank tons of water yesterday and more today, trying to flush the toxins from exercising out of my body.

Today I mainly caught up on dishes and laundry. Especially laundry as DH had no clean underwear left and I only had one. And work clothes- he didn't have enough shirts to make it to the weekend.

Bottled up the kombucha today; I added a bit of grape juice to it (about 20% juice to 80% kombucha) and capped the bottles. I'll let them work on the counter until Friday night, and then they can go into the refrigerator.

Dinner was a quickie-- I sauteed some chicken tenderloins with taco seasoning and added them to a salad of romaine lettuce, ripe pear chunks, and homemade blue cheese dressing.

 

[Denim Deb]

It's better to realize you need to do laundry when you still have 1 of something clean than to realize you don't have any clean to put on! Been there, done that.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Quickie supper sounds great! I have a chicken taco seasoning mix from Penzeys Spices that I keep on hand for just that reason - last minute supper. I want to try to replicate that mix as it is so good. It has more oregano and less chili powder than taco seasoning.
I try to stay ahead of the laundry, but usually end up at the one left stage anyway. I need to work harder on DH to let me know when he starts getting low on clothes. At 9:00 pm is not the time to tell me he is out of underwear...at least if he had one left I could wait until the next day. Too often I throw a load of laundry in before bed and then in the morning switch it to the dryer before I dash out the door at 4:30 am. It will be dry by the time he gets up at 5:30 to get ready for work.

 

[creativetwinszoo]

Hmm those veggies sound yummo! Can't wait for our hens to start laying again!
Ugh laundry

 

[Denim Deb]

My hubby is known for telling me in the morning that he wants a certain shirt-and it's not clean! I keep telling him that I need to know a day ahead of time, but it doesn't always sink in.

 

[Britesea]

We don't have a dryer, so it's imperative that I learn early enough in the day to allow for line drying. In the winter it's even worse-- if it's cold and humid it can take 24 hours to dry. Hopefully it will get easier when we have a wood stove as that is dry heat.

 

[Denim Deb]

And I thought it was humid around here! The winter is about the only time I'll use my dryer. I try to schedule my laundry around the weather. I don't think hubby realizes how much we save on electricity by not using it.

 

[Britesea]

Normally it's not very humid- we are considered high desert. But we do have several lakes and a river in the area and that makes things a little different; it's normally somewhere around 30%. Mainly, in the winter we'll be more humid if it's snowing or raining- I don't keep my house very warm (around 65F) and that makes the laundry take a bit longer to dry.

The Produce Connection is heating up; I came home with about 50 lbs of produce yesterday. We had another big bag of cucumbers (slicers), 6 ears of super sweet corn, 3 cantaloupes and a watermelon, 10 lbs of potatoes, 4 heads of broccoli, and a big bag of pears. I managed to cut and freeze the last of the onions I got last week, and I vacuum sealed some frozen watermelon cubes for making sorbet or agua fresca later. Now I need to work on freezing the corn and broccoli, dehydrate the potatoes and pears (although I'm thinking of saving some out to make pear butter), and then I want to freeze some of the cantaloupe as a sorbet (sorbets are rapidly becoming my go-to dessert, lol). I'm still looking for ideas to use up all the cucumbers though. I found a baked cucumber dish that actually sounds like it might taste good, and of course they are delicious in all kinds of salads, refrigerator pickles, and I can make a very refreshing agua fresca with them. I found directions for dehydrating them, but no idea of what to do with them after that?

 

[Denim Deb]

Sounds like you're going to be busy!