Domestic Nemesis

In today's cooking news, I bought a salmon steak and cooked it in the George Foreman! I seasoned it with salt and voila-so easy! Cooked fish, just like that! Who knew??? I also ate some stale peanuts. The dirty dishes in the sink are getting bad, but I KNOW I can make my challenge of not washing them until Saturday! Thus going 12 days without doing dishes. Awesome! Yesterday, after a day of meetings and thinking, I decided to meet my Uncle J at the terrace for "a beer." There is a little story which involves U J telling me to buy a 22 oz. glass of beer--which I don't feel like explaining, let's just say it ened in warm beer which made us both unhappy and...okay fine...I'll tell it quick. J says, "Gina, get us a 22 oz. beer" I say, "Okay" I come back with a pitcher, because I think I'm being helpful and thus "over-ruling" my dear uncle. But I find out there is method to his madness- The reason you have to buy the 22 ...

So I'm not using teflon because....well I'm not sure why- but apparently it will give you diseases. So when I made my eggs this morning in a metal pan of some sort and they completely stuck to the it, I was so mad at pans and teflon. I guess if I use more butter, perhaps this little problem might solve itself? At least I have garlic salt which is the best seasoning for EVERYTHING. I put it on eggs, tomatoes, avacados, bread, meat (that's not pre-seasoned) cucumbers, salad, etc. I don't put it in my yogurt though. Regarding moldy drawers, we had to move a desk and dresser for cousin R yesterday. They had been sitting in this basement and were covered in MOLD. Gross. We couldn't decide how to remove the mold. I said just spray it with some household cleaner and then air it out-- seems reasonable. Unless the mold has developed some kind of immunity to cleaners and air. I've also decided to become a medicine woman. I'm reading Clan of the Cavebear aga...

So, in preparation for the party at my uncle's house on Sat. I have to carefully plan out my taco dip strategy. Since I'm trying to be calorie concious I've decided to switch up my normal recipe-- I'm going to use yogurt instead of sour cream. Now, I have no idea if it really has less calories, but somehow...I just think it will be better. I was considering using yogurt instead of the cream cheese, but that would just be too runny. Actualy Cousin Q told me it would be too runny. Hmmm.... This is how I make my taco dip cream cheese + sour cream (this time with yogurt substitute) add taco seasoning and mash together and paste on plate layer on lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and black olives and voila. I wanted to make guacamole today until I realized it was too hard , so I just ate the avacado and the leftover chicken. Speaking of Mexican (K from China, I know it's not REALLY Mexican). Cousin Q made tacos tonight. She doesn't use shells, she just uses chips an...