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I was quite surprised to see an email from “US Congressman Paul C Broun” in my inbox this morning. (I’m most definitely NOT a Republican, and I moved out of his district over a year ago.) He seems to be looking for some input from his constituents regarding the “economic stimulus package” currently making its way through Congress! What an honor, for a Congressman to ask my advice on such an important issue! I hope he doesn’t mind, but I’m reposting his email below, so that maybe more of the American public (even the teeny bit more that actually read this blog) will see it and contact him with their good ideas!

(If you’re interested, click below to read his email, and my somewhat tongue-in-cheek reply.)
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I has a food processor now!!!

Thanks to my awesome aunt, Tracy, who graciously let me use her Macy’s employee discount.

First run was this morning and the making of the omelettes. They didn’t turn out quite as expected… I need a bit of practice getting the food processor to “dice” onions, peppers, and mushrooms, rather than “mince” them all together into a veggie-mush. Oh, well — I mixed them with the eggs anyway. The end result didn’t look very appetizing but luckily we had some pita bread. It made a pretty good filling for our “breakfast pita pockets”, topped with salsa, cheese, sour cream, and baby spinach. Yum!

I really hope to get a lot of use out of this food processor. I’ve got visions of homemade salsa… veggie burgers… falafel (or hummus for that matter)… super-easy cole slaw or egg-roll filling… the list goes on!

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Yeah, even vegetarians get cravings for typical carnivore fare like sausage from time to time. Luckily, there’s a pretty good soy-based ground sausage replacement called Gimme Lean. It’s super versatile, finding its way into various dishes such as egg rolls, spaghetti, “dirty rice” & beans, and — of course — breakfasts, such as sausage biscuits.

This morning, I wanted to try something a little different, and somehow the idea of white “sausage” gravy popped into my head. A quick Google search turned up this recipe.

It was really, really, really good… so good, in fact, that it was greedily devoured long before I had the idea to take any photos. Maybe next time!

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So around 6:00 this morning I was still lying in bed in that half-awake, half-asleep sort of state, and I heard Walt get up to take the puppy outside. During this time, I had a dream that it was snowing outside! So when I finally dragged myself from my slumber around 7:00, I revealed my wishful dream. He was sorry to disappoint me, but he told me to look outside. No snow, just a few patches of ice on the roads.

Less than an hour later, here’s what it looked like:

I tried to get a photo of the puppy with snowflakes on her, but she wouldn’t stand still long enough!

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XXX being, of course, the Roman numerals for 30. (What did you think I meant? Perv.)

Dinner was a home-cooked Linguini with White Wine Clam Sauce and salad. I took the recipe from this site but also incorporated some of the suggestions from the comments.

Dessert was a “marble” cake, made from a box (I know! The shame!) of vanilla cake mix. I divided the batter in half (for the two cake pans), then took about a cup of batter from each half and mixed it with a generous portion of cocoa powder and Hershey’s chocolate syrup. The vanilla batter was poured into the round cake pans and the chocolate batter was dropped by spoonfuls onto it and mixed just enough to get a “swirly” look. After the cakes had baked and cooled, they were iced with some yummy vanilla frosting and the whole cake was drizzled with more Hershey’s… and then it was time to “Dig In!”

Yum!!!

Happy Birthday Wally Bear! I love you SO bunches!!!

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