Friday, September 20, 2024

Yellowtail meets Yeung Man Cooking, Boud meets bursitis

 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.

 
Then this friend showed up, and gave me two profiles.


on the autumn joy sedum, a great plant for all kinds of pollinators.


Here's the current stage of the fusion quilt, completed patches there with more waiting to be played with.

I called the auto dealer to make an appointment, as urged by the letter Honda had sent, about the fuel pump. Oh, we don't have the parts yet, we'll call you. Ah. HQ getting ahead of themselves.

 The current BBC series I'm watching is North and South, adapted from Mrs Gaskell's novel 


Up to now, it's promising.

Happy day everyone, outdoors is worth getting out into if you can. If you'd rather not, here's a Haggard Hawks puzzle, ages since we had one


To be clear, which I don't think he was, it's one five letter breed, and you rearrange the letters to make the new words.







33 comments:

  1. Ouch on the bursitis! Love the quilt and that dish sounds good. Happy weekend.

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  2. Great capture of the butterfly, Boud. They are hard to capture in my experience!

    It always sounds wrong when a specialist tells you to keep moving when something hurts so much.

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    1. Tiger swallowtails tend to sit a while. And the specialist asking me to get up ow on the exam table ow!

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  3. I'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.

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    1. It's a shiraz, and I've had it too. A bit harsh for my taste.

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  4. I'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.

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    1. Close! 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.

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  5. Great 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.

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    1. They're resident, it seems. I just looked them up. They winter over in the chrysalis stage. Easier life than the poor old monarchs.

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  6. I 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.

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    1. These are not so hard to photograph. They land and stay a while. N and S is very different from Cranford!

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  7. I 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.

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    1. That'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

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  8. Your quiet life still seems to have a lot going on.

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    1. It does get busy around here, surprisingly so

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  9. Your 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

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    1. I think they were legally required to issue the recall even though they couldn't fix the fuel pumps. Awkward.

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  10. I've never eaten Yellowtail. I guess yours was frozen or being farmed locally.

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    1. It was chilled, not frozen. Not sure of the origin

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  11. Yes, one ailment at a time, please! Hope you tame the bursitis quickly, now that you know what it is.

    The 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

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    1. 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.

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    2. I omitted to acknowledge the sneaky clue! I'm out of practice.

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  12. Beautiful butterfly shots. So very hard to get.
    I 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.

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    1. 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.

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  13. I was bitten by one of those once. The dog not the fish.

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  14. Please enlighten me as to the ring fungus? Do you mean the green plant or the 'spiderweb'?

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    1. The sparkly veil is the fungus, on the pachysandra.

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  15. Hmmm - 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.
    Beautiful flutter-bye photos - lucky catch.

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    1. 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.

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  16. I 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.

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    1. This sedum is about 25 years old. It's indestructible!

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