I had Australian yellowtail fish this week from Misfits, another ingredient I can't get around here. It's a lovely fish, firm and very good.
I poached it in milk to tender and saved the poaching liquid to use as a cream soup base. Then I chunked the fish and mixed it with the last of that tofu broccoli rice dish, heated up. It's very spicy, so the combination was definitely one to go with again. That was a successful experiment. No pictures because it's not very photogenic.
In other learning this week, I found the dodgy hip has bursitis. My bone doctor did an exam, ruled out various other possibilities, which she didn't name, but I could guess at. Amateur doctor here -- not sciatica, not a pinched nerve, not the hip joint in any ominous way.
Anyway, ice, continue walking, stretches, keep moving, apply special stuff name escapes me, which I've ordered. Not too many ibuprofen. I rarely resort to them anyway, so that's okay.
I hadn't thought of ice, not realizing it was that kind of situation, but I'm doing it now at intervals.
How excited you must be to hear my organ recital! I had this in my shoulder years ago, from overdoing, when I installed the kitchen backsplash and got carried away and did one for my condo tenant. Ow. On the good side my pinched-nerve neck, that you heard far too much about last year, is just fine. One ailment at a time, please.
Misfits this week is welcome supplies of bread and various fruit.
The fettuccine will make a great fett. Alfredo, with the good butter and Parmesan cheese I have. And another meal with meatballs from the plant based sausage I have in the freezer, with onions in the sauce.
And there will be honey toast in the afternoon with tea, this great seedy bread.
I took a walk this morning, a bit shorter than usual, and here's a lovely dollar spot fungus, not a spider web. Ed note: I had this wrong and corrected it.
Ouch on the bursitis! Love the quilt and that dish sounds good. Happy weekend.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend, with rest, Mercy permitting
DeleteGreat capture of the butterfly, Boud. They are hard to capture in my experience!
ReplyDeleteIt always sounds wrong when a specialist tells you to keep moving when something hurts so much.
Tiger swallowtails tend to sit a while. And the specialist asking me to get up ow on the exam table ow!
DeleteI've never had yellowtail fish, but I'm pretty sure I've had an Australian wine named Yellowtail. It had a drawing of a kangaroo on the label, if memory serves correctly.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shiraz, and I've had it too. A bit harsh for my taste.
DeleteI've been hit and miss lately on reading. I finally figured out that you are recycling your leaf motif banner into a quilt. the tiger swallowtail is a welcome visitor.
ReplyDeleteClose! I changed the wall hanging into a slot and tab fabric book. The bits of applique you see are leftovers from the book. We don't often get tiger swallow tails, so it's always good. They're obliging about posing for pictures, too.
DeleteGreat swallowtail butterfly. Are they native? Or do they commute long distances? I believe I'd seen one of those in Greece. They look so exotic to someone used to red admirals and cabbage white.
ReplyDeleteThey're resident, it seems. I just looked them up. They winter over in the chrysalis stage. Easier life than the poor old monarchs.
DeleteI don't think I've ever got a photo of a butterfly. You have a good, healthy Misfits order there. I think I have seen North and South but I don't remember it. You should have a stretch of good weather for walking.
ReplyDeleteThese are not so hard to photograph. They land and stay a while. N and S is very different from Cranford!
DeleteI did quite an organ recital not too long ago. A big part of me didn't want to, but it is part of our lives, so I did it. Love the blue on that butterfly.
ReplyDeleteThat's good reasoning, I'll go with it. Those blue spots are lovely. I think this is a pretty newly hatched butterfly, perfectly intact, no run ins with birds or shrubs
DeleteYour quiet life still seems to have a lot going on.
ReplyDeleteIt does get busy around here, surprisingly so
DeleteYour keeping busy so that’s good. As we have a mechanical repair business I can tell you that sourcing parts is getting hard these days. There seems to be shortages everywhere. No clears answers for why
ReplyDeleteI think they were legally required to issue the recall even though they couldn't fix the fuel pumps. Awkward.
DeleteI've never eaten Yellowtail. I guess yours was frozen or being farmed locally.
ReplyDeleteIt was chilled, not frozen. Not sure of the origin
DeleteYes, one ailment at a time, please! Hope you tame the bursitis quickly, now that you know what it is.
ReplyDeleteThe swallowtail photos are very nice. I didn't realize they were so cooperative. We see them in the nearby mountains, but not in our backyard.
That HH puzzle: a short struggle and then success! I am royally pleased with myself.
Chris from Boise
Wow, that was great on the puzzle! Most butterflies are too active for pictures, but I've snapped monarchs and various swallow tails when they were engrossed in butterfly bush flowers or the sedum.
DeleteI omitted to acknowledge the sneaky clue! I'm out of practice.
DeleteBeautiful butterfly shots. So very hard to get.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever had Yellowtail. I imagine it's a very good fish.
Bursitis? Even the name is unpleasant. Glad you got a diagnosis. Keep on with the ice.
That fish is lovely, flavored, textured, makes chunks not flakes. I'm having the last of it as fishcakes with that umami seasoning I made recently.
DeleteI was bitten by one of those once. The dog not the fish.
ReplyDeleteSneaky! That's a posh bite.
DeletePlease enlighten me as to the ring fungus? Do you mean the green plant or the 'spiderweb'?
ReplyDeleteThe sparkly veil is the fungus, on the pachysandra.
DeleteHmmm - now you have me wondering if what RC has that we thought is sciatica is actually bursitis. Of course he refuses to go to the doctor for an actual diagnosis.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flutter-bye photos - lucky catch.
Sciatica hurts right down to your foot, I believe. It's the sciatic nerve inflamed. Bursitis is inflammation of the hip joint. No tingling, numbness, nothing hurts except the upper leg area. The ice is helping a lot.
DeleteI think what we have is autumn joy sedum. I discovered about mid-July that it had succumbed to powdery mildew. It was too hot, and I was too busy with the garden to deal with it at the time, but I think this is the week to finally cut it down. From what I've read, it needs to be cut and disposed of in the trash, not burned - as the spores can spread from a fire. It was beautiful the two summers before this one. I hope it comes back and is pretty next year.
ReplyDeleteThis sedum is about 25 years old. It's indestructible!
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