With Daryl gone all week, there is one thing that I have to do today. And guess what that is? Well if you guessed that I have to wash a couple of dog blankets – then you guessed right!
I had a pretty good routine down this past week. I would get home from work, change clothes, feed the cows and feed the chickens, hang out by the nipco heater for awhile with the dogs and cats, and then off to the house we all would go. All I had to do was to open the french doors and the dogs soon found their spots on the living room floor. Now the only trouble that I had was the kitties also followed me to the house and well… they didn’t get at night at all. But they did get in the morning before work, so it wasn’t all unfair.
Now of course as the night would go on and I’d be in the kitchen, I’d have my visitors sneaking into the kitchen looking for some ham or cheese. I guess they wanted a small snack to tide them over too. So today the blankets are in the washing machine and the dogs don’t even seem to mind playing outside. The weather is warming up pretty nice!
Other things today? I was in the kitchen making some ham and potato soup for dinner so I decided that I wanted to try to make a roasted red pepper hummus for next week’s lunches. Hummus is really a good alternative to other sandwich spreads, so I thought I should be able to do this! First things first, I needed to roast my peppers. The first thing that I did was to get rid of the skin. Now I’ve never really done this before, but I’ve seen it like a bazillion times on the cooking shows. I took the peppers and put them under the broiler until they started to turn black. I think it turned out OK and the skin did just peel off like their’s did.
They look bad, but that’s how they’re supposed to look
So the next thing was to roast them and into the oven they go after they were cut up and had a little olive oil added to them. And in no time they were smelling great! I kind of made up the recipe as I was going (only because I was too lazy to find the real recipe!) but it didn’t taste too bad. I saw on one of the containers in the Health Food Store that they added celery powder. Now I couldn’t find any of the celery powder to buy, but I bought celery seeds the other day and was able to use my new handy dandy coffee/spice grinder to see if I could get some powder. SCORE! It worked pretty good. Now I have no idea what the celery powder tasted like because I just dumped it into the mixture, but it was a pretty good excuse to try out the grinder.
Roasted red pepper hummus.
Other things that got done today was to work a couple of hours on catching up on some paperwork, ordered some more soap stuff (shhhh) and then made a couple of cards that I really should have done earlier this week. Both of them are Thank You cards .
And now for the rest of the night, Daryl and I are going on a road trip to look at cars for William, pick up a couple of gift certificates at some local restaurants (to put in the one Thank You card) and then try out this restaurant that we’ve never been to before.
All in all it’s a really great Saturday!