msmoon | I made the yummies!

Today was definitely a day worth remembering. Admittedly, not much really happened early, and I ended up getting on World of Warcraft and enjoying/hating a bit of the ‘Love is in the Air’ festival. No lovely black dress, but from what I understand Scamp has a surplus of them so no worries there.

The afternoon/evening was great. Dad came in and asked me to help him with moving the wood surplus about. All he really needed was for me to sit in the back of his truck and get the logs to the end and hand them to him so that he could put them on the pile. So, I helped him move the truck bed which was full of wood. After we emptied that out, I fixed him a hot cup of coffee, and we just sat on the front steps while he drank it. It was nice, because we got to talk and we saw the cardinal that frequents our bird feeder. Then he pointed out the daffodil sprouts that are coming up in the flower beds. I noticed that there was a little green sprout on the edge of the flower bed near the steps, but the rest of it was buried under fallen oak leaves. So I got the rake and raked the whole flowered, and we found 2 dozen sprouts (they were yellow from the lack of sunlight) in there, buried under those leaves. It was actually pretty cute to see those tiny little sprouts and knowing I’d helped :D

Then, I went in to ask Mom what she wanted to do for supper. She hasn’t been feeling great lately - came down with a migraine Monday and then a little virus after that, so yeah. She isn’t skipping about and whistling show tunes. She wasn’t feeling up to cooking, but didn’t want anything we had in the fridge. So I went through the freezer and I did a small search online. I ended up cooking my first full meal tonight XD!

I made stir fried rice, egg rolls and shrimp lo mein. I must say, the rice and egg rolls were the easiest if only because (duh) they came in a box. The rice was in a little green box I’d found in the frozen foods, the egg rolls were in the frozen foods isle too. But I gotta say, you cannot microwave this stuff. I totally hate micro waving meals like that. The stir fry, it called for oil, but I prefer butter in there, and you just put it all in the skillet and stir it and it was done in a few minutes. The egg rolls, you put them on a pan and in the oven for 10 minutes then turn them and put them in for another 10 minutes. They’re done and gorgeous. The lo mein was harder if only because I just found a recipe for it and made it from scratch. The recipe was just Shrimp Lo Mein on the My Recipes web site. We didn’t have the broccoli and I can’t really eat bell peppers (they make my stomach hurt), so I substituted that with zucchini and mushrooms. Also, instead of using peanut oil, I just used butter....because better>oil :-D. It...tasted...awesome! I just hated that I kept having to refer back to my laptop, but practice right?

What was really great was that everyone loved the meal. I mean, I made sure to have plenty, so we have left-overs, and anything with rice and noodles usually gets better if it’s allowed to sit. But, everyone really loved it all. And, it was surprisingly filling. I only had a little bit and I felt huge =..= Of course...now they’re talking about me cooking all the time. I’m thinking maybe I should try cooking once a week, and then if I can do marginally well, start more often. Of course...now I gotta think of recipes to cook. Oi vey...

But, over-all today was a very good day. ....aaaand now CSI is on, so I’m thinking I should stop talking about food (corpses, bodily fluids....don’t mix well with the thoughts of food). So, I’m off for now. See ya’ll later, Sunshines :).

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