Mother's Day Treat & Preferences

 I decided well before Mother's Day that I was going to make a dish Tommy objects to eating--Mediterranean Pasta. Well, he ate it even with basil in it and other ingredients he has said he does not like. 

While I had decided to have this treat and let him eat leftovers, I did not plan to make it on Mother's Day.  You have to believe that he in incredibly kind, nice to me...until he explodes in nastiness and downright cruelty. He made Mother's Day this year one of the worst days of my life. I told him I wanted Jim n Nick. We each had a bbq sandwich. I did learn something. When I asked for slaw on my bbq, the woman said, "Oh, you want a Memphis BBQ?" She explained that bbq with slaw on it was "Memphis BBQ." I told her I was from Memphis and did not know that. So, she called me Memphis from then on. 

Today, Tuesday, I had slept for over 8 hours, did nothing much and decided to cook. So, I had Tommy fry the little pieces of chicken in a skillet with olive oil while I assembled the rest of the ingredients. There are a lot of recipes for Mediterranean pasta, but the ingredients I used were different.

chicken breast

sundried tomatoes

artichoke hearts quartered

feta cheese

olive oil

basil

pasta

I forgot I had sundried tomatoes, so cut up a whole package of grape tomatoes. Then, I found the sundried tomatoes, so the recipe got both. I forgot I needed artichoke hearts so thought we could do without. Nope. Found a bottle on the shelf. 

After I had mentioned feta cheese tonight, Tommy said I have some in the refrigerator.  So, I won't have to buy any for next time. I had told Tommy that feta cheese in the deli was more expensive that feta from the packaged cheese section. That is when he told me I had a chunk in the refrigerator. So, I will break that down before I make this dish again. 

Then, instead of serving the dish over angel hair pasta, I put a bag of cooked rotini in the skillet with the other the other ingredients and stirred it. I have used penne in the past. 

I am stuffed and cannot wait until tomorrow to eat more. Tommy needs to lay off it, though. I am serious.

Is there anything you love and your SO or kids says they hate and then he eat it? 

Is there anything you are grateful he does not like? Tommy hates bananas.

This and That

For Mother's Day I received a box of candy and a dozen yellow roses. I love yellow roses and pink roses. Red roses do nothing for me. When I was about eleven-years-old until I was eighteen-years-old, we lived in a house with a pump house covered in yellow roses. The pump house was not a short one, but tall enough an adult could stand easily in it. So, there were lots of roses. I was confused when I saw a short pump house. I don't think we had well water there. 

Tommy ordered me a DNA test for a gift, just what I wanted. I am really looking forward to getting the results from the spit I send them. 

Monday, I felt so awful, just exhausted, so I made slaw and heated up meatballs and carrots. It was actually really delicious. For lunch, we each had our leftover bbq from Sam's BBQ. 

Next week, I will be getting a blood test for covid antibodies. The doctor is all for this. Have you had one? 

My dishwasher is still not repaired. I am so sick of washing dishes because I cannot do them all at once. Yes, I miss a day or two now and then. Calling about that again is my top priority. 

This video is amazing and HEARTWARMING.

About the magazine IN STYLE--I have received this for a year, from where I knew not, and have enjoyed it and passed it on to someone else. I finally figured out why I received it when I received an offer with the last copy. It seems that this magazine can be sent to someone else if I buy a subscription for myself. Sooo, thanks whoever sent it to me. 

Tinnitus has not returned, thankfully. That was the most bizarre and disconcerting thing I have ever experienced. But, I still feel unwell and weak. But, I am grateful not to be waylaid by noise.  Still, I need to know what to do if it ever happens again. 

My to-do for today is cooking several packages of chicken and a ground pork. Plus, I have one little cleaning project. If the little cleaning project is successful, it will turn into a huge cleaning project. 

So, have you or are you going to have a covid antibodies test? 

Mother's Day

I have a new hummingbird feeder. Today, I will make a sugar solution to fill the red glass vessel. Since rain is predicted, I will wait until Monday to hang it.

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned to Tommy that I wished I had hummingbirds in my yard.  He said he saw them all the time when he was out in the yard, mowing or feeding the hens. WHAT!?!?!? He never told me that! He swears he did.

When I was in Lowe's about two weeks ago, something swooshed past my head. I flinched a bit and turned my head to see a hummingbird landing on flowers and going round and round, gathering nectar. This was in the store proper, not out where there are flowers or even out further where the nursery is open to the sky.

I was so shocked and so inspired, deciding someone could give me a hummingbird feeder for Mother's Day. In another store, I found a moat to hang above it so that once filled with water, ants could not get onto the feeder.

My one fear now is that a raccoon will climb up and knock the feeder down.