‘Taters
OK, so I took a day off today and did nothing. G played hookie and came up in the morning and we went and had Mickey Dee’s breakfast. Tried their steak egg and cheese on a bagel thing, it was quite good. Then we came back and just layed around in bed all day until around 2:30. Then she took a nap and I cooked some cornbread. Then we went to the supermarket and got the fixin’s for supper. Which is why the title today is- taters…
So since we both openly joke that we have an eating disorder, and people are always amazed at the amount of food we can eat when we chow down, I’ll just say we may have made a little too much food! Like six pounds of potatoes for three people may have been overkill. And 12 boneless thin sliced pork chops may also have been a few too many. She cooked up a wonderful frittata for an appetizer, but there were nine eggs in that bad boy, it could have been a meal in itself with a nice salad…
Then she roasted up all those aforementioned taters, drizzled with olive oil and salt and pepper. I very finely chopped some parsley up and made a salad of baby romaine and shredded carrots, and shook the shake and bake onto the pork chops. She made a nice red wine vinaigrette for the salad and also to make a potato salad with a few of the taters. Then we roasted a couple heads of garlic, and mashed them into the taters with fresh parsley, butter, and loads of coarse salt and fresh ground pepper.
By the time it was all ready, we were both exhausted, Sam was wanting it to be done so he could go out, and we were a little full from the frittata! Well, the oven roasted, skin on, garlic mashed potatoes were delicious, the pork chops were a little dry, and I never even had any salad. By the time I did all the dishes and cleaned up, we were wiped. Smoked a couple butts, had some coffee (yes, the famous kind) and then she left and I’m sitting here writing this.
And I’m burning old stuff from my PC onto CD’s and deleting it, then defragging so I can free up some space. I guess you’d call it “archiving”. I want to make enough room to copy the whole disk from my old workstation onto here, so I can go through it and burn that onto discs too. I haven’t used that machine in almost 3 years, but it has a ton of stuff on it that I still need now and then. It’s a dual Pentium 2 all scsi box, so I’m gonna wipe it out, put Linux on it, and it should be a kick ass Linux box, eh? Well, I’m exhausted, gonna go crash, as tomorrow I have a lot of stuff to get done and some errands to run. And I guess I’m having mashed taters with dinner tomorrow night!
