My wife made it once, using lemongrass, which we grow lots of in the summer, but we never have enough freezer space for lots of lemongrass, in the winter. I’m not sure if she boiled the lemongrass 1st and then removed it, or not. In many recipes she just leaves a bundle in - like the egg drop soup she made yesterday: I just dumped some rice in after the fact. Sometimes I add a little left-over or pre-cooked chicken. :-)
Either way, the lemon-rice soup is good stuff. Snow, more wind, and colder (highs in the teens) are due next weekend. I suspect I could stand some more about then...
The You-Tubers are going nuts. At present that weekend snow looks to be about 5” of pretty dry snow — no big problem, but you’d think we’re gonna be Kamchatka. Or Buffalo. ;-)
The biggest problem is likely to be water for the chickens - the heater for it doesn’t keep up @ temps under 12 deg. F or so, depending on the wind. So, I’ll probably have to keep taking warm water out for them.
More soup, that is...
My wife brought home mung bean soup from a friend’s b’day party yesterday. It’s only “fair” — not nearly as good as wifey’s. I think they forgot the salt, or soy sauce, entirely. I had some salty-ish chicken nuggets and mixed them in. Much better (both). :-)
Yep. Caring for critters in this kind of weather is a lot of work.
Counting my blessings that Beau is home during this. We just cancelled dinner plans for the weekend and a hunting gathering due to the weather. Raccoons and pretty much anything else (including me!) are NOT going to be moving in this kind of weather. Ugh!
I’m ordering from Chewy and various seed catalogs, today. Fun! :)
Well, actually... The BIGGEST problem is our old male cat. He’s total sweetie, but otherwise useless (doesn’t chase / catch mice), and he’s long ago fixed but these days still pees all over the place, even when presented with a completely fresh litter box. He’ll be walking along and then just suddenly squat - usually (but not always) in a place he’s done so before.
In warmer weather we can reduce the problem by putting him outside as much as possible, but below 20 deg. F, I just don’t have the heart.
A couple years ago there were some pretty rough medium size coolers at a yard sale — I prolly could have picked up a couple for maybe $4 each and converted them into heated shelters. Really need such for a rooster we have to keep segregated most of the time too... But, I’d already pretty much blown my budget for yard sale stuff. Guess I should have bought the coolers anyway and forgone, well, something else, maybe a project I’m unlikely to get to...
Getting old and slowing down @ the same time so much stuff just keeps getting more complicated* is really a pain in the rear.
*I’ve had to give up on having my very nice but long-in-the-tooth Canon MF8280CW $600 color laser printer networked. Each Win 11 Pro update made it more problematic, until I can’t get it working on the network at all, even after literally days of troubleshooting and attempted fixes, re-installs, etc. Last night I deleted all that and simply connected it via USB to my “main” desktop machine. That works, and if wifey needs to print something in color, she’ll just have to e-mail or “sneaker-net” it to me on a flash drive.
It’s much the same trying to record music off the web: It appears that my best alternative is to play it on the new (Win 11 Pro) machine and feed the audio into my old XP machine, where I can run it through an app called “Wavosaur” for actual recording. I’ve looked at Audacity, but it’s much more complicated than what I need.
I often think I was happier in the good ol’ days of a small mixer, a nice Technics parametric eq., and my Nakamichi cassette deck! But, I gotta admit, the music selection now is bigger. If I want to be reassured my situation still isn’t too bad, I can play this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dFFh4Idl24