Wodan's Day Update

[robby]

I had the permanent crown put in today, so I'm happily done with dental work. I will probably need some cosmetic modification on the incision over my eye. It's not fully healed yet, and the dermatologist will decide later.

Driving to the dentist was hell this morning. It's only 60 miles, but it took two hours.

The newly planted beans are coming up, after 5 days. I made some killer spaghetti sauce with my own tomatoes, onions and eggplant. I've been cooking a lot, usually simple things but I try and do it right.

I was watching "Hell's Kitchen" when I started cooking my tomato sauce, and when I finished, "Master Chef" was on, and they were making tomato soup. i was listening to them talking about cutting the acidity of tomato dishes, and sort of accomplished that with red wine, and some olive oil. i think the eggplant also served to counter acidity. I didn't have any sugar, but a bit of that is good in tomato sauces.

Comments

[a1icey.livejournal.com]

food is awesome.

[robby.livejournal.com]

I'm going to pick tomatoes tomorrow. I'm never sure how many are ripe until I actually get down into the tangle of plants and start picking. Then I'll make sone chili con carne, and can the rest. I've been spoiled, and can't eat store tomatoes anymore

[a1icey.livejournal.com]

well i am allergic to all of them in any form...... enjoy it!

[sammason.livejournal.com]

2 hours to drive 60 miles? Was that due to road/traffic conditions or were you limited by your eyesight? You don't blog much (or at all) about your personal life but I'm guessing from this that you live alone. I wish somebody had been available to drive you to the dentist when you needed help.

[robby.livejournal.com]

I should write more clearly. It's the horrible, soul destroying traffic jams in the urban areas to the west of me. It's stop and go for miles on the freeways, and even on the last stretch via surface streets, I was stopped by every possible red light.