Smartie's Oasis Bar & Grill #44

Lubbock is the place of my birth. Best memory:

Gentle Sundays in the Park. Mackenzie State Park to be exact.
Live bands from all around the region gathered for peace, love and brotherhood.

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All the good folks come from West Texas. Must be something in the irrigation system.

 

'mornin and welcome to another Moanday. Went thru 3 credit cards in the parking lot before I found one the darn machine would take. Lady behind me sez, "Honey, you have to put it in a jiggle it around a lil." Not that I haven't been parking in that same lot and using that same ticket machine for 7 years. Grrrrrrr, finally found one it liked. It's gonna get better from there... starting here!

Funny Voice Mail

If I'd a been there, I woulda been the one with the big black purse!

 

...it's all in the jiggle!



Hope you have a great day.

 

I hope the 'picked pool bird,' has a great day too!


...yeah you, Falena.


lol

 

Hi!

lol, yes, Southern I suppose. Picked bird, one with feathers removed, picked off, plucked nekked. ... in the pool.

No offense, was just being goofy.

Good weekend here, thanks. Sounds as though yours was too. Hope your fracture is healing quickly.

*hug*

 

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Morning Smartie. How about a great breakfast to start the week off.

 

A man after my own heart. Thx, darlin... just what the doctor ordered this morning!!

 

One for OT:

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Your welcome sweetie. Now today I am going to try to make something very different. This comes from the country of Moldova in Europe.

Sweet Easter Bread (Pasca)
This recipe is half of the original recipe I kind of modified certain parts of the recipe, like when it said to knead the dough for 45 minutes. I kneaded it for probably 15 minutes and it turned out just fine, but I’ve included the original recipe as written below for humor value.
8 c flour
1/2 c sour cream
1/4 c melted butter
2 tbsp melted margarine
1 packet yeast
3/4 c warm milk
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1.5 tbsp oil
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp lemon juice
Raisins and chocolate chips
1/4 to 1/2 cup oil in a small bowl
Combine yeast with half the warm milk (no need to be too precise). Sprinkle in a little flour and 1 tbsp sugar. Mix well. Let rise in a warm place (20-30 minutes).
Beat eggs together with sugar and vanilla. Beat ten minutes with mixer, or 30 minutes by hand (Hang on. Can you imagine beating something for 30 minutes by hand? My arm would fall off!) until it becomes a thick mixture. Mix in cinnamon and lemon. In a large bowl, mix together 6 cups of flour, sour cream, butter, margarine, egg mixture, oil, the yeast mixture and the rest of the warm milk. Knead until the dough comes together, about 5-6 minutes. Place in a very warm place and leg rise 7-8 minutes.
Next, knead dough while adding the remaining flour until it becomes tough. Then, dipping your hands in the bowl of oil from time to time, knead the oil into the dough. You kneading is finished when you see little air bubbles in the dough. Be patient, this takes about 45 minutes and lots of muscle.
Put dough back in bowl and place bowl in a very warm place. Wrap the bowl in lots of towels to keep in the heat. Let rise 2 hours. Knead raisins or chocolate chips into dough.
Put dough in butter baking tins (any shape). Only fill dough 1/3 of the way up the side of the pan. Let the dough rise in the baking pans uncovered for about 1 hour. Brush top of bread with an egg white/sugar mixture. Place in a very hot oven (about 450 degrees) and bake for 10 minutes. The lower the temperature to the lowest setting (about 350 degrees– the ovens you find in most Moldovan villages don’t have temperature settings in degrees; it’s just “high” and “low.&#8221 and bake for another 35 to 40 minutes until golden brown.

 

Uh oh. No wonder it looked like some brownies were missing this morning. Better get a lock for that 'fridge.

 

How handy! Just got this idea for a recipe holder via email! Makes sense to me!

 

Falena

Absolutely. I can empathize.

I'm glad to read that you're on the mend. I know it's no fun, but pace yourself, please don't risk further injury.

For the rotor cuff thing, I've blown mine out on a few different occasions. As dumb as it may sound (and as sometimes painful as it is), I learned to simply grit my teeth and try to work through it. Obviously not to extreme and damage it more, but (IMO) exercising it will help it heal more quickly. I have taken surgical cord, long enough to reach from waist to floor, tied loop in each end, toes through one end hand in other, and do a curling/lifting motion with my arm.

Uncomfortable? Hell yeah!! But it works better than babying it and leaving it immobile (unlike a bone fracture).

My latest is dealing with an injured achilles tendon for the past three weeks or so. Much better, but a very slow recovery injury. *sigh*

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About the "picked bird" remark, I assume that may come from days when folks prepared yard chickens for cooking. Having to pick or pluck the feathers.

Funny, I tried it once, was a pain in the butt... so, I said to hell with this, and I skinned it. (*)(*)(*)(*) thing was so tough after baking, it was barely edible.

Note... the skin left on, keeps it moist and tender. (and all that fat creates a bigger fire!!) hahahahaha

 

*rolls eyes**

WTHever!

Big ole 3" thick photo album hanging from a plastic coast hanger (that should have already been thrown away), on a cabinet knob no less. Dam thing pulls the knob off, knocks stuff off the counter, flinging flour all over hell and creation.......

... look like a Sat night meeting at a Pentecostal church!

 

Good for you. Yes, again, I know that sharp little pain. That will eventually go away.

I'm confident I initially did it lifting heavy on my toes, working on calves. I stand on one foot and lift, then extend further onto my tip toes. Weird, I can't explain it. Anyway, have further aggravated it running fairly steep incline.

It'll be fine, I'm working through it.