The squirrels were out Thursday morning to check on the pumpkin seeds. Word has got out.
This is a favorite food and they lost no time in finding and setting up to guard and eat them.
Thursday the misfits insulated bag and ice block went out early, good thing because the delivery came very early shortly after nine am.
I wonder if the drivers didn't get the message, since for years they've been delivering just a box. I reported it and their system must be blinking, because they only credited me with one bunch, instead of both. No doubt they'll fix this. They're good about it.
So, extra canned goods for the food pantry, cranberries for next week's sauce. I'll make it ahead and freeze it, not knowing when we celebrate this year, HS always working Thanksgiving.
Here's the cranberry sauce in progress
Garlic paste because it's so useful everywhere I use garlic. Spinach and parsley for greens, to be added into tofu, see it there, dishes and other things. A bunch dropped into hot soup is good, just wilts it enough.
Apples as usual, blueberries for desserts and maybe muffins this week. Sardines for quick protein sandwiches. Diced tomatoes get in everywhere. One of my easy meals, really more assembly than cooking, is chickpeas and tomatoes heated together with seasoning. It works like a stew, spinach gets in there, too.
Thursday early the car buyer called, wondering if I'd like an earlier appointment, he had cancellations Thursday. But I left it at Friday, not wanting to be rushed. I didn't want to be wrangling groceries and the car sale together.
About anniversaries: I remember none of the dates of death of any relative other than one brother when I was young, and Handsome Partner, because that was also Handsome Son's birthday. I remember everyone's birthday though. I think it's better to remember them then, anyway.
Happy day everyone. It's okay to remember or forget, often it's not our choice.
Sardines on toast, and also with spaghetti (nigella lawson recipe) are regular meals for us!
ReplyDeleteI love sardines. On toast is a good winter thing.
DeleteI’m sure once the bananas arrive you will enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t of changer the date either. Trying to reconfigure my plans always makes me very anxious.
And as for memory, you will see in my post that I’m not good at remembering these days at all
Yes, I like to stay with what I set up. The buyer wasn't very pressing, just checking if I was able to change. One day we will have bananas!
DeleteOoh, Oceanspray cranberries. We miss those!
ReplyDeleteOddly, our NJ cranberries are never available -- the growers are all contracted to Ocean spray for juice! These are Canadian. I used to loyally buy only NJ berries but that was a while back. But the Canadian ones are good.
DeleteI also remember birthdays of those who have died, rather than their death dates…and for many it seems much longer ago that in reality, the missing of them. I wish we’d celebrated birthdays more lavishly…just in passing I thought, I couldn’t remember a one.
ReplyDeleteI like birthday memories better, just seems like celebrating life.
DeleteI prefer to remember when people showed up here on Earth, not when they left.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteI bought two bags of cranberries as I usually do because I make the cranberry relish with one bag and regular cranberry sauce with the other but this year I have decided to just make the relish so into the freezer the extra bag will go.
ReplyDeleteI know your squirrels love you right now.
Here's hoping the car deal goes quick,quick, easy, easy.
Just waiting for the buyer now. Hoping for the best.
DeleteCranberries freeze fine. Like a lot of things I freeze. Right now the sauce is in the freezer because I don't know when Thanksgiving will happen here.
Hope the sale goes smoothly today.
ReplyDeleteSo do I!
DeleteI make cranberry sauce with middle grandchild when we are having turkey. She loves it and making it together is special.
ReplyDeleteIt's an easy one to make, too, with an adult.
DeleteI'm just working through the first of events and anniversaries for myself so it will be a new experience.
ReplyDeleteMy big cooking of the week was to get some broth and make a huge veggie soup with a bit of meat in it for protein. Delicious.
No Thanksgiving here. Just peace and quiet and some Lego building. ;)
Yes, there's a year of firsts. It's a good time to think of new ways to handle special days.
DeleteI'm thankful that our Thanksgiving has come and gone already. It must be stressful having it so close to Christmas.
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed for a quick, easy car sale.
Both are low key around here. About my level! Hoping the sale is good. He's here assessing the car as I type.
DeleteSardines are good, so rich. Sardines on toast is quick and easy, with lemon and black pepper. Spinach is good, too, to add iron and vitamins to so many dishes. Shame about the bananas, though.
ReplyDeleteMy comment vanished. I agree about sardines and some of these are for the food pantry.
DeleteI hope you get your bananas. Crans look so good. I enjoy making my own cran sauce too. Have a good day today.
ReplyDeleteOne day/we'll get some/bananas 🍌🍌
DeleteTomorrow we will be playing with cranberries and trying a new recipe for Christmas jam made with them as well as strawberries. Should look Christmas-y at least. So sorry about the missing bananas because I know you were looking forward to them.
ReplyDeleteI hope we'll see a recipe for the jam. I'm ordering bananas again. Hope triumphing over experience again.
DeleteI am humming.
ReplyDelete"yes, we have no bananas
We have no bananas today"
You and Kirk can harmonize
DeleteI don't have many dates to remember. I remember parents birthday's and date of death. I remember my grandma died October 1974. I hope all went smoothly with the car buyer.
ReplyDeleteI have eight siblings, two parents, numerous aunts, uncles and cousins but most of them I don't keep up with. Except aunt Kitty shared a birthday with Hitler, and her brothers thought it wasn't the only thing!
DeleteToo bad about the bananas, but everything else looks great.
ReplyDeleteHope the car sale goes well.
I don't think I remember the date of a single death, but I remember a lot of birthdays. Don't care to remember the deaths, I guess.
Yes, the deaths were mixed with trauma, so I think memory is kind, not letting those dates be noted.
DeleteOh no, those squirrels really know how to stake their claim. I can totally picture them camped out like little guards over the pumpkin seeds. And the missing bananas, ugh, I’d be frustrated too, but at least they credited one bunch. That cranberry sauce looks amazing already; I love how you just throw the greens straight into everything, makes it so easy. Also, your chickpea-tomato “stew” idea—I might have to steal that one. I just shared a new post too; come check it out when you get a chance.
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