Not sleeping is horrible. Do you take a magnesium supplement? I found that really does help me.
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Name Three things - 2023
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Yesterday, I managed to do peanut brittle. In the microwave, it took maybe 10 minutes. No thermometer. Easy. I also got our pickled red beet eggs done for Christmas dinner; that took a little longer. I should have gotten them done sooner, but they'll be fine for Sunday.
- Breakfast for the girls, no dishwasher to empty, and I'm back here with my coffee.
- Rick will vacuum for me and I'll do a quick swiffer about the kitchen and living room. Wipe down the bathroom.
- I must put some audiobooks on Rick's mom's Kindle. (I think I mentioned that I figured out a way to do it without actually accessing her Kindle, which is nice for me. I use Rick's library card and put the books on my iPad. And poof! they show up on her Kindle.) There's a lot of stuff going on at the nursing home for the holidays, so she asked for only 2 or 3 books. Rick will visit at some point today. We have some cookies and candy for her. She'd like some ring baloney and some of our baby Swiss cheese. She would also like sticky buns, but I'm making them on Sunday afternoon and doubt Rick will make a special trip up to her.
- I'm going to try to hit the Shed to watch Reacher this afternoon.
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I haven't had peanut brittle in ages- I liked it alot, is it easy (10 minutes) even for me ,the non baker?
Oh, yes,
Kwik
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MICROWAVE PEANUT BRITTLE
1 cup sugar
½ cup light corn syrup
1-1/2 cup salted peanuts (chopped or not, up to you)
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
Get all your ingredients together on the counter because time is of the essence. I put everything on the counter to get ready.
Spray a cookie sheet (or grease it with butter, but it takes longer to grease than spray).
Put sugar and corn syrup in a microwavable bowl. Microwave on High 5 minutes. (I have a wonderful glass Pyrex 10-cup measuring bowl that I use.)
Add peanuts and butter. Stir well to combine. Speed is key! The cooler the mixture becomes, the harder it will be to stir.
Replace bowl in microwave and cook on High 3-4 minutes, depending on wattage of your microwave. Higher wattages will cook quicker. My microwave cooked the mixture for 3 minutes, which was enough. Watch carefully; you'll see it start to change to the caramel color.
Add baking soda and vanilla. The mixture will bubble furiously; it's supposed to do that. Stir and stir.
Pour onto your greased cookie sheet and spread as evenly as you can. (I can never do this; it's always starts to harden on me. I don't worry about it. I get it as thin as I can, say, "Yep! Looks good!" and move on. It will set up fast! I also like to sprinkle the brittle with a bit of sea salt for a bit of sweet and salty. Let it cool and set, about 30 minutes, break it up and store.) And honestly? Ten minutes of prep work and cooking....TOPS!
Note: I also do almond brittle the same way. Just sub the almonds for the peanuts. You'll have to chop the almonds.
Kwik
.MICROWAVE PEANUT BRITTLE
1 cup sugar
½ cup light corn syrup
1-1/2 cup salted peanuts (chopped or not, up to you)
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
Get all your ingredients together on the counter because time is of the essence. I put everything on the counter to get ready.
Spray a cookie sheet (or grease it with butter, but it takes longer to grease than spray).
Put sugar and corn syrup in a microwavable bowl. Microwave on High 5 minutes. (I have a wonderful glass Pyrex 10-cup measuring bowl that I use.)
Add peanuts and butter. Stir well to combine. Speed is key! The cooler the mixture becomes, the harder it will be to stir.
Replace bowl in microwave and cook on High 3-4 minutes, depending on wattage of your microwave. Higher wattages will cook quicker. My microwave cooked the mixture for 3 minutes, which was enough. Watch carefully; you'll see it start to change to the caramel color.
Add baking soda and vanilla. The mixture will bubble furiously; it's supposed to do that. Stir and stir.
Pour onto your greased cookie sheet and spread as evenly as you can. (I can never do this; it's always starts to harden on me. I don't worry about it. I get it as thin as I can, say, "Yep! Looks good!" and move on. It will set up fast! I also like to sprinkle the brittle with a bit of sea salt for a bit of sweet and salty. Let it cool and set, about 30 minutes, break it up and store.) And honestly? Ten minutes of prep work and cooking....TOPS!
Note: I also do almond brittle the same way. Just sub the almonds for the peanuts. You'll have to chop the almonds.
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Then what?lol.... I have everything except light corn syrup.....what does it go in or on?Smash the peanuts a little or no?Oh, yes,
MICROWAVE PEANUT BRITTLE
1 cup sugar
½ cup light corn syrup
1-1/2 cup salted peanuts
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
Don't smash the peanuts. You'll need the light corn syrup. Just spread it out onto the greased sheet, let it cool, and then break into pieces. Store in a tight container. And munch!
Lol- on my way to Publix!
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Clean basement
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Nice to see you posting, I don’t think I have seen a post for a while and just thinking about you and your basement project. Is it all done or are you still having to work on it?
I woke up early this morning, and quietly crept into the kitchen without turning on lights. I was able to drink almost a full cup of coffee before Lola woke up and demanded freedom, a good start to the day. I mostly have cleaning to do this morning, then visiting the aunt to drop off her gift early afternoon. When I get back I will get a batch of marinara going for tomorrow night’s dinner.
Up and out early, as soon as I had breakfast, coffee and gave G his meds..
wash dishes.
Out to bakery and Pasta shop
Starbucks for my Peppermint Mocha Latte
home, sipping on it-- listening to instrumental Christmas music on Alexa
Need to vacuum
Get some laundry ready to wash.. Do not know which day it will be..
Go to a meeting at 1pm...
nothing else..
Grabbed a stuffed baked past dish for supper, while I was at the pasta shop.. It is an Italian Christmas.. might as well start early..
Still very tired, but today is a pretty easy day..
Tomorrow, cleaner is coming in.. so afternoon will be quiet.
wash dishes.
Out to bakery and Pasta shop
Starbucks for my Peppermint Mocha Latte
home, sipping on it-- listening to instrumental Christmas music on Alexa
Need to vacuum
Get some laundry ready to wash.. Do not know which day it will be..
Go to a meeting at 1pm...
nothing else..
Grabbed a stuffed baked past dish for supper, while I was at the pasta shop.. It is an Italian Christmas.. might as well start early..
Still very tired, but today is a pretty easy day..
Tomorrow, cleaner is coming in.. so afternoon will be quiet.
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Thanks for thinking of me
It's as done as it will get for now. With getting all the fall stuff, Holiday stuff, a few emergencies and overall life stuff that was put on the backburner done, I'm going to do the rest later. The living space of the basement is almost complete...it's just the storage side (crawl space) that is still a bit in shambles. The only thing on the living side that needs to be done is to put floors in...but we need to save up for that, so I have a few area rugs down to make it comfy. I also want to wait till the spring to finish the floors to see if the flooding was indeed a one off due to extremely high water tables and several days of heavy rain before the ground was completely thawed (our neighborhood has NEVER flooded before) or if this will happen again from all the development going on in surrounding neighborhoods with the city creating water diversion projects to accommodate. It will require a pretty hefty price tag to get a sump system installed if this is our new normal.
artiemom
Maybe we should start an Insomniacs Club. After falling asleep while the evening news was on at 6:00, I got a second wind, talked to
lizzie
for awhile, and watched reruns of The Dead Files til around 10 or so. Turned the tv off and dropped right off. Only to awaken around 4:30. And there I was, wide awake. Of course, I moved and the girls noticed. I managed to stay in bed til 6, but got up and took care of them. Rick said, "It's too early and I'm not getting up!" "Did I say anything? No! Go back to sleep!"- Breakfast for the girls, emptied the dishwasher, and am back here with my coffee.
- Two loads of laundry. Not much in the way of housework as I vacuumed and swiffered yesterday while Rick was with his mom. I do want to clean the fridge.
- Get my bread ready to turn into Amish potato filling tomorrow, make iced tea, chop onions, etc. for tomorrow. Rick has decided that he wants another cheesecake for his dessert, so he's making it today; it's one of those easy recipes. So, I've decided that I can live without pumpkin pie and am not making one just for me. Scratch the pumpkin pie from our menu for tomorrow.
I'll sign up for the Insomniac Club!lol
- Breakfast for the girls, emptied the dishwasher, and am back here with my coffee.
- Two loads of laundry. Not much in the way of housework as I vacuumed and swiffered yesterday while Rick was with his mom. I do want to clean the fridge.
- Get my bread ready to turn into Amish potato filling tomorrow, make iced tea, chop onions, etc. for tomorrow. Rick has decided that he wants another cheesecake for his dessert, so he's making it today; it's one of those easy recipes. So, I've decided that I can live without pumpkin pie and am not making one just for me. Scratch the pumpkin pie from our menu for tomorrow.
Your 10 minute Peanut Brittle Recipe was a success!So tastey- my neighbor said its the best she's had since she was a child...... if I could do it anyone can,thanks to you and your great instruction
Thank you so much
I'm finished with reg chores and now I'm gonna start shopping for my stuffed mushrooms and stuffed artichokes
Get those together and oven ready and cook my ham today
Clean some fish for tomorrow,calamari,shrimp and scungilli need thorough cleaning.....
Kwik
I am so happy that you got the brittle to work out. It's so easy and it really does take less than 10 minutes. Excellent job! Ooooh, stuffed mushrooms. Be still, my heart. I love those things.
Wonderfully little to do today. I need to order a few gifts for others on behalf of my aunt and will make a batch of marinara later in the day but that is it. Not an lot of actual cleaning to do but cat toy collecting from every room in the house - mostly Willow’s doing.
My brother and SIL visited with us yesterday afternoon. We had such a good time and they stayed for quite a while. I needed to have a good laugh and he always provides me with laughter. I really needed to see him.
After we had our pizza, I crashed hard last night around 6 and slept like a log until around 8 or so. Got a second wind, got up and got the bread ready for the potato filling today and even made the gravy. My sister called, frantically looking for cranberries; she had been to Giant, Weis, and even Walmart and no cranberries to be had. "Pam, do you have cranberries?" "Sure, how much do you need?" And she took a 3-pound bag that I had gotten from Sam's earlier this season and tossed in the freezer in a freezer bag. I swear the next time I see cranberries in the store (won't be til next year now), I'm going to buy every bag they have! I'm down to two-12 oz bags now. I use cranberries often, even during the summer. My sister's DIL's mom is making something with cranberries and everybody in southern PA spent the day looking for cranberries.
Anyway, went back to bed around 11, and that was it until about 6:45 this morning when Tabby came back to bed. "Hey, uh, Mom, it's almost 7:00. That really means breakfast is late! Get up!" Rick got up with the girls, but I was done sleeping, so got up, too. He made my coffee first, so I have sustenance before I start my cooking today.
ETA: So late yesterday afternoon, Rick's mom called. I kept saying, "Hello? Hello? Evelyn?" And she yelled, "WHO AM I TALKING TO?" "Evelyn, it's Pam! What's wrong?" Well, somebody did something to her Kindle and it's all messed up. And she was downright angry. She didn't know what happened, but it's to the point where she can't do anything with it and neither can anybody else. I tried to understand exactly what happened, but all she kept saying was she couldn't use it. That's the angriest I've heard her in quite a while. I got her calmed down, told her to ask her aide to take it to the front desk and Rick would pick it up. I'll see what I can do with it. I have no idea what the heck is going on. She wanted Rick to take it last night, but he was watching football. I hope he goes up today because that woman was downright peeved last night!
After we had our pizza, I crashed hard last night around 6 and slept like a log until around 8 or so. Got a second wind, got up and got the bread ready for the potato filling today and even made the gravy. My sister called, frantically looking for cranberries; she had been to Giant, Weis, and even Walmart and no cranberries to be had. "Pam, do you have cranberries?" "Sure, how much do you need?" And she took a 3-pound bag that I had gotten from Sam's earlier this season and tossed in the freezer in a freezer bag. I swear the next time I see cranberries in the store (won't be til next year now), I'm going to buy every bag they have! I'm down to two-12 oz bags now. I use cranberries often, even during the summer. My sister's DIL's mom is making something with cranberries and everybody in southern PA spent the day looking for cranberries.
Anyway, went back to bed around 11, and that was it until about 6:45 this morning when Tabby came back to bed. "Hey, uh, Mom, it's almost 7:00. That really means breakfast is late! Get up!" Rick got up with the girls, but I was done sleeping, so got up, too. He made my coffee first, so I have sustenance before I start my cooking today.
- After preparing our Christmas dinner, just general clean-up and straightening up in the kitchen. Run the dishwasher and, while that's doing it's thing...
- I'm going out to the Shed this afternoon to watch Reacher. I swear today is the day. Now there are four episodes for me to watch, which is a mini-marathon. I am making time to do it and I swear that I am not going to fall asleep. Rick saw the fourth ep last night and he said I'm really going to enjoy this season. But I either haven't had time or I fall asleep.
- I do need to wrap Rick's things for tomorrow. I've been meaning to get them done, but just haven't gotten around to it. One of the things I ordered for his stocking will come after Christmas, but he'll like it then, too.
ETA: So late yesterday afternoon, Rick's mom called. I kept saying, "Hello? Hello? Evelyn?" And she yelled, "WHO AM I TALKING TO?" "Evelyn, it's Pam! What's wrong?" Well, somebody did something to her Kindle and it's all messed up. And she was downright angry. She didn't know what happened, but it's to the point where she can't do anything with it and neither can anybody else. I tried to understand exactly what happened, but all she kept saying was she couldn't use it. That's the angriest I've heard her in quite a while. I got her calmed down, told her to ask her aide to take it to the front desk and Rick would pick it up. I'll see what I can do with it. I have no idea what the heck is going on. She wanted Rick to take it last night, but he was watching football. I hope he goes up today because that woman was downright peeved last night!
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Vacuum a bit
Re-wrap a few gifts I have cats do I need to explain?
Relax
Re-wrap a few gifts I have cats do I need to explain?
Relax
* Up early for Mass
* medicated Geoffrey
* went to pick up script; however, the pharmacy part of Rite Aid, decided, on it's own, to open at 10 am!! I was furious! The store hours for this weekend said 9am!!
* went to a different bakery for a couple of rolls and a blueberry pie
* home, on line..
* Plans on changing sheets, washing down Litter Genie, nap--- another cup of coffee for the caffeine
* shower
* Go to Cousins for Christmas Eve
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
* medicated Geoffrey
* went to pick up script; however, the pharmacy part of Rite Aid, decided, on it's own, to open at 10 am!! I was furious! The store hours for this weekend said 9am!!
* went to a different bakery for a couple of rolls and a blueberry pie
* home, on line..
* Plans on changing sheets, washing down Litter Genie, nap--- another cup of coffee for the caffeine
* shower
* Go to Cousins for Christmas Eve
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL- Status
