This was the Old Testament lesson today at church:
Proverbs 9: 1-6
Wisdom has built her house; she hewn her seven pillars.
She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed
her wine; she has set her table.
She has sent out her servant girls, she calls from
the highest places in the town, " You that are
simple, turn in here!"
To those without sense she says, "Come eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
What a wonderful passage. It spoke to me last night before I'd even heard it, because after a day slouching around in the house so miserable because of the heat, I thought that from now on, if I had my way, I'd just live for music and for art.
I'd build my pillars on them. I'd get rid of the junk.
I'd tidy up the stuff. I have no servant girls beyond my meager talents, but I'd send them out as I might. And they would tell those without sense of the wonderful life I had discovered. YAZZYBEL
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Now Apple Cake
Yesterday I was reading two different recipes, one for Yuma Dump Cake, a rather primitive concoction with a very simple batter and apple-pie-filling all mixed together and baked, and the other a lemon blueberry cake of the same type but with a more sophisticated cake batter.
Today at the Walmart I saw "Southern Style Fried Apples (Fat Free)" in a can and figured they'd be a fine substitute for canned filling. So I came home and made the following, using ideas from both recipes.
Apple Cake
Sift into a mixing bowl:
2 1/2 c. flour
1 t. baking powder
1/4 t. soda
1/4 t. salt
In another bowl mix:
3/4 c. reduced fat sour cream
1/4 c. low fat milk
2 eggs
1/4 c. melted butter
grated zest of one lemon
1 t. vanilla extract
Beat all the liquid ingredients together.
Add the apple slices after chopping them into small bites....
BAKE for 1 hour at 350 degrees or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan 45 minutes...It is amazingly DELICIOUS but would be better made on a cool winter's day than the hottest day of Chula Vista history.
YAZZYBEL
Today at the Walmart I saw "Southern Style Fried Apples (Fat Free)" in a can and figured they'd be a fine substitute for canned filling. So I came home and made the following, using ideas from both recipes.
Apple Cake
Sift into a mixing bowl:
2 1/2 c. flour
1 t. baking powder
1/4 t. soda
1/4 t. salt
In another bowl mix:
3/4 c. reduced fat sour cream
1/4 c. low fat milk
2 eggs
1/4 c. melted butter
grated zest of one lemon
1 t. vanilla extract
Beat all the liquid ingredients together.
Add the apple slices after chopping them into small bites....
BAKE for 1 hour at 350 degrees or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan 45 minutes...It is amazingly DELICIOUS but would be better made on a cool winter's day than the hottest day of Chula Vista history.
YAZZYBEL
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Haiku Monday
Good evenin'.
I was awake in the night last night and spent my time constructing a haiku in my mind....
The thought I had was really too big for a haiku, so I kind of gave up and drifted off...
Now I cannot remember what the haiku was about. That's the trouble with working on poems in the middle of the night: you don't always remember those brilliant thoughts the next day.
There is a group who work on and present individually every Monday a haiku for the rest of the group to read and judge. I am never in on this group because I don't know where to find them. The few times I have stumbled into "Haiku Monday," I had read their efforts with pleasure and joined in twice.
If you do not know, haiku is a Japanese verse form that is strictly controlled by number of syllables per line; it's 5, 7, 5. Period. No deviation.
The best subjects are those of nature. Animals and bugs are welcome. So are clouds, rain, sun, wind...I'll make one about grocery store flowers to show you. See, five syllables for the first line already.
Grocery store flowers
Colorful they are, and cheap;
Appreciated!!!
That is a good one because it is ordinary, and it does follow the syllabic count to the dot.
It also presents a common problem--If you pronounce grocery as gro-ce-ry , you already have too many syllables. But groce'ry is a common pronunciation so it adds up right and it okay.
It is also far from beautiful, so not a winner in anyone's estimation. But you try it!!! YAZZYBEL
I was awake in the night last night and spent my time constructing a haiku in my mind....
The thought I had was really too big for a haiku, so I kind of gave up and drifted off...
Now I cannot remember what the haiku was about. That's the trouble with working on poems in the middle of the night: you don't always remember those brilliant thoughts the next day.
There is a group who work on and present individually every Monday a haiku for the rest of the group to read and judge. I am never in on this group because I don't know where to find them. The few times I have stumbled into "Haiku Monday," I had read their efforts with pleasure and joined in twice.
If you do not know, haiku is a Japanese verse form that is strictly controlled by number of syllables per line; it's 5, 7, 5. Period. No deviation.
The best subjects are those of nature. Animals and bugs are welcome. So are clouds, rain, sun, wind...I'll make one about grocery store flowers to show you. See, five syllables for the first line already.
Grocery store flowers
Colorful they are, and cheap;
Appreciated!!!
That is a good one because it is ordinary, and it does follow the syllabic count to the dot.
It also presents a common problem--If you pronounce grocery as gro-ce-ry , you already have too many syllables. But groce'ry is a common pronunciation so it adds up right and it okay.
It is also far from beautiful, so not a winner in anyone's estimation. But you try it!!! YAZZYBEL
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Tuesday Again--a Ranch House Supper
We had a ranch house supper tonight.
Greens with beans
Esquite
Greens with beans are easy and good.
I had some chard in the refrigerator and a can of white beans at hand. You should cut up the chard rather small and put it on to boil...when it is getting cooked, open the can of white beans, rinse thoroughly, and add to the top of the chard pan. Turn everything down and just let it warm up. I added a little garlic, s and p. But you do not need to add garlic if you dislike it.
Esquite is popcorn in espanol, but it is also pan fried fresh corn kernels....which one hopes won't pop. It is so hot in our house today that it is a wonder that the kernels didn't pop while waiting on the drainboard...but they did not. I put them into a skillet and put it on low to dry them out a bit, and then added a little olive oil, some chopped onion, and some chopped green pepper. I had no jalapeno so added a bit of cayenne...then you just fry it slowly until it gets a little brown in places, and eat it up.
It was not as good as it should have been, because the corn was TOO SWEET. Corn is sweet enough on its own without having the plant manipulators work on it to make it sweeter yet. The corn now in the markets is just too sugary sweet. I shudder for the poor diabetics who are woofing it down, every time I see it. They should not touch it with a ten foot pole, yet, who can blame them? Corn is really good (except for the too sweet part.)
Theo had his hamburger-patty-with-cheese as well, but I couldn't face it. Instead I had a piece of WW bread with a little spread of cream cheese with pineapple and chopped cherries...how good that was!
I am giving the leftovers to Patricia tomorrow for a Ranchhouse Lunch...if she has the nerve to drive down here tomorrow in this heat!! We shall see....YAZZYBEL
Greens with beans
Esquite
Greens with beans are easy and good.
I had some chard in the refrigerator and a can of white beans at hand. You should cut up the chard rather small and put it on to boil...when it is getting cooked, open the can of white beans, rinse thoroughly, and add to the top of the chard pan. Turn everything down and just let it warm up. I added a little garlic, s and p. But you do not need to add garlic if you dislike it.
Esquite is popcorn in espanol, but it is also pan fried fresh corn kernels....which one hopes won't pop. It is so hot in our house today that it is a wonder that the kernels didn't pop while waiting on the drainboard...but they did not. I put them into a skillet and put it on low to dry them out a bit, and then added a little olive oil, some chopped onion, and some chopped green pepper. I had no jalapeno so added a bit of cayenne...then you just fry it slowly until it gets a little brown in places, and eat it up.
It was not as good as it should have been, because the corn was TOO SWEET. Corn is sweet enough on its own without having the plant manipulators work on it to make it sweeter yet. The corn now in the markets is just too sugary sweet. I shudder for the poor diabetics who are woofing it down, every time I see it. They should not touch it with a ten foot pole, yet, who can blame them? Corn is really good (except for the too sweet part.)
Theo had his hamburger-patty-with-cheese as well, but I couldn't face it. Instead I had a piece of WW bread with a little spread of cream cheese with pineapple and chopped cherries...how good that was!
I am giving the leftovers to Patricia tomorrow for a Ranchhouse Lunch...if she has the nerve to drive down here tomorrow in this heat!! We shall see....YAZZYBEL
Tuesday
Bon soir....it isnt very late in the soir, but it isnt morning nor noon.
Nothing much to say today but the revised cherry pit count.
Theodore=1
Linda =3
Shame on me for letting pits fly into the batter. But our teeth are all intact anyway so quelle domage. YAZZYBEL
Nothing much to say today but the revised cherry pit count.
Theodore=1
Linda =3
Shame on me for letting pits fly into the batter. But our teeth are all intact anyway so quelle domage. YAZZYBEL
Monday, August 13, 2012
Enchufame
Good morning. Well, it's nearly noon, but still morning here in PDT.
I am waiting for a pan of ratatouille to come out of the oven. Debating: shall I put cheese over it before I take it out? As a vegan (!) I should not. As a person who wants to please the hubby, the answer is yes. Theodore likes cheese on everything.
I also have corn to boil but I think I'll make Theo cut it off the cob tonight and have esquite with it.
Oh, what does enchufame mean? Well, you know those little electrical outlets that adorn the walls of our rooms along the floor? Those are "chufas", and when you plug into them they allow electricity to come in. I'd never heard the word used as a verb before today, but was listening to Paquita La Del Radio today and the astrologist was trying to make a call and he said, "Ven, enchufame,''--to the operator. "Make the connection." I thought it was cute. The accent is on the u of course. (I put that for my monolingual sisters, LOL).
News in San Diego is that some rowdy young persons (though at least one of them is a mother, for God's sake) (leading one to deplore the state of the maturity of our youth)...anyway, 1000 of them trashed the sacred Lily Pond of Balboa Park on Saturday night/Sunday morning, breaking things, ruining plants, hurting and killing the sacred Koi. I feel scandalized and heartbroken about that. I feel like they should be enchufados themselves in the worst connotation of the word. YAZZYBEL
I am waiting for a pan of ratatouille to come out of the oven. Debating: shall I put cheese over it before I take it out? As a vegan (!) I should not. As a person who wants to please the hubby, the answer is yes. Theodore likes cheese on everything.
I also have corn to boil but I think I'll make Theo cut it off the cob tonight and have esquite with it.
Oh, what does enchufame mean? Well, you know those little electrical outlets that adorn the walls of our rooms along the floor? Those are "chufas", and when you plug into them they allow electricity to come in. I'd never heard the word used as a verb before today, but was listening to Paquita La Del Radio today and the astrologist was trying to make a call and he said, "Ven, enchufame,''--to the operator. "Make the connection." I thought it was cute. The accent is on the u of course. (I put that for my monolingual sisters, LOL).
News in San Diego is that some rowdy young persons (though at least one of them is a mother, for God's sake) (leading one to deplore the state of the maturity of our youth)...anyway, 1000 of them trashed the sacred Lily Pond of Balboa Park on Saturday night/Sunday morning, breaking things, ruining plants, hurting and killing the sacred Koi. I feel scandalized and heartbroken about that. I feel like they should be enchufados themselves in the worst connotation of the word. YAZZYBEL
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Sunday!
Good morning!
It's morning of a beautiful Sunday here in Chula Vista. It's already getting hot, but it just feels good to me so far, as a change from freezin'.
As long as we can keep the air circulating and keep the stuffiness out I can take the heat.
Today the flowers at church were put there by the family "To the Glory of God and in Memory of Gregory Neff by his family." They were not very pretty; he'd have preferred orange. But--they were sweet and they were there.
At church, people were chatty. I ascribe that to the warmth in the air; even as Episcopalians we just could not be chilly. My neighbor and I agreed that we both just hate applause in church. Fortunately neither he nor I ever get any. But we hate it on general principles. He even goes so far as to say he does not like air-conditioning in church (I'm not there.) Today was a day that even St Paul's could have used some air-conditioning, but none there was, nor even a breath of air. Was it always thus? Were the beautiful stained glass windows always fixed? Guess so.
A long conversation with a friend who has lost many pounds of weight revealed that she has been on a diet to improve her cholesterol and she certainly did, losing more than twenty pounds in the process. I need to do that.
Another friend who's long been absent showed up. She is now an "intermittent" church goer she confessed. Last time I saw her she was practically propping up the cornerstones so I wonder what happened. I did not get to hear it because I was discussing unseemly clapping as remarked above.
I skipped the Borum, I skipped a snack, and raced home to see if my errant mate had gone outside to perform forbidden acts of prowess and strength in my absence (such as carrying around large blocks of concrete, his favorite activity of late) but he was fine. Though it was nine-thirty, he was just preparing his breakfast and he ate it. Thank goodness I did not get there any earlier. I think it is good for him to fix his own breakfast once a week if he will do it. Yes.
So, on to the rest of the day. I am going to go around turning on fans and when I have done that I am going to read the Sunday paper (5 minutes) and when I have done that I am going to finish reading my mystery novel...it isn't good enough to recommend to you but so far it's held my interest. Kind of. YAZZYBEL
It's morning of a beautiful Sunday here in Chula Vista. It's already getting hot, but it just feels good to me so far, as a change from freezin'.
As long as we can keep the air circulating and keep the stuffiness out I can take the heat.
Today the flowers at church were put there by the family "To the Glory of God and in Memory of Gregory Neff by his family." They were not very pretty; he'd have preferred orange. But--they were sweet and they were there.
At church, people were chatty. I ascribe that to the warmth in the air; even as Episcopalians we just could not be chilly. My neighbor and I agreed that we both just hate applause in church. Fortunately neither he nor I ever get any. But we hate it on general principles. He even goes so far as to say he does not like air-conditioning in church (I'm not there.) Today was a day that even St Paul's could have used some air-conditioning, but none there was, nor even a breath of air. Was it always thus? Were the beautiful stained glass windows always fixed? Guess so.
A long conversation with a friend who has lost many pounds of weight revealed that she has been on a diet to improve her cholesterol and she certainly did, losing more than twenty pounds in the process. I need to do that.
Another friend who's long been absent showed up. She is now an "intermittent" church goer she confessed. Last time I saw her she was practically propping up the cornerstones so I wonder what happened. I did not get to hear it because I was discussing unseemly clapping as remarked above.
I skipped the Borum, I skipped a snack, and raced home to see if my errant mate had gone outside to perform forbidden acts of prowess and strength in my absence (such as carrying around large blocks of concrete, his favorite activity of late) but he was fine. Though it was nine-thirty, he was just preparing his breakfast and he ate it. Thank goodness I did not get there any earlier. I think it is good for him to fix his own breakfast once a week if he will do it. Yes.
So, on to the rest of the day. I am going to go around turning on fans and when I have done that I am going to read the Sunday paper (5 minutes) and when I have done that I am going to finish reading my mystery novel...it isn't good enough to recommend to you but so far it's held my interest. Kind of. YAZZYBEL
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