Life

Life and how we live it-----in my circumstance it's pretty scattershot and always has been. I came in from work last night----opened a can of Tamales ---yeah! yeah1 I don't know how healthy they are for you but I love them and besides I only ate half and put half in the ice box for whomever might be dropping by or myself. However back to the subject------I have found that Multi tasking is the best way to go. My mother, my husband and my sister all accused me of being the slowest, most disorganized person they had ever known but while they were running their mouths I was running my agenda. A couple of my kids accuse me of having aliens in the garage that fixed the huge meals they partook when they all came home at once with kids and spouses in tow. You two and you know what I'm talking about especially you ,Sandy who used to stick some of everything aside to take home to your Chef husband. I came in from work last night , washed my hands and culled the butter beans I had put on to soak before I left for work (they cook faster) if you soak them and that's what I did last night while I watched the 4th quarter of the Superbowl and put them up in freezer containers,------I also took time to put the ham out that I had put in the freezer left from a ham I baked a couple of weeks ago and put it in the butter beans also took some hamburger out of the freezer as I had a head of cabbage in the veggie drawer ----Are you keeping up?----sooooo this morning after a good night's sleep I woke up shortly before five fixed myself some of that beautiful instant oatmeal and coffee and set about making stuffed cabbage---to do that I put on a pan of boiling water to pre-cook the cabbage leaves ,two for every cabbage roll you plan to make. I looked at the amount of hamburger I had and mentally calculated how many cabbage rolls it would make when I got it all put together (and if I couldn't do that after all these years there's something wrong) so I cooked 12 outside cabbage leaves and while they were softening up I mixed the meat, It went something like this:1 lb ground beef or turkey if you like-- 1pkg onion soup dry added to the meat 1 egg--=season with1/4th tsp paprika and mix. add about a 1/2 cup of dried, uncooked oatmeal (some people like rice but Grandma Thomson taught me oatmeal had more protein and would stick to the ribs better 2 things I loved that beautiful Scotch/Irish woman who could conjure a meal up from next to nothing and believed what she told me and she was frugal---not cheap but FRUGAL----a lot of people today are going to learn the difference in today's economy.and Scots love oatmeal. I was told that that's what they have in that little purse they have on their kilts that covers their you know whats-----raw in case they got stranded and after being married to a Scotsman who had to guide his commanding officer through the Battle of the Bulge and years later back from Juarez ,Mexico to El Paso(but that's another story) so back to the stuffed cabbage---you mix all the meat together and make a small hamburger ball and wrap it in the softened cabbage leaf. Place in a slightly oiled pan and cover with a can of tomatoes and two cans of tomato sauce or one large can with a little water so the cabbage is covered and cook over a low heat for about an hour while you write your kids a letter on the computer or fold laundry or shower or whatever ---and if you are a working mother this can be done in the crock pot so when everyone comes in in the evening the house smells wonderful and inviting and makes everyone so much happier. There's almost nothing that smells like a home with good stuff cooking, I should have had a cooking show and ended up independently wealthy instead of cooking so much with your Dad and ending up with 8 kids. You can give the money away. Which crossed my mind about the kids when they hit their teens. Well----the cabbage rolls are finished and can be served over boiled or mashed potatoes , rice or eaten with a beautiful dark bread and a good , hearty red wine, Pickled beets would be a good side dish. I am trying to decide if I want to check my eyelids for leaks for about an hour or go on to work. The staff is not used to seeing me before 11 O'clock so I think I will just do the first thing. Tip for the day-----use you oven to the fullest by planning meals and desserts that can be cooked at once in the oven, LUV you guys MOMXXOO Terri can you put this and the letter I wrote last week on my Blog? Please Thanks love Mom