It was sunny and warmer on Friday morning. Before I left for
work, I started the dishwasher and washed the main bathroom floor with the
Swiffer Jet.
When I was walking in the parking lot between Building 3 and
4, a car pulled in. I stepped to the side of Building 3 to let it pass and
immediately, a swarm of bees came out of the wall! I didn’t get stung and I
watched them all fly back into holes in the mortar between the cement blocks.
Now, this was my problem, but not my responsibility. So, I
put in a maintenance request to have them sprayed.
I was telling Kelly, the receptionist, about it and she said,
“That explains it! The night cleaning crew left a note on my keyboard saying
there were bees on my keyboard saying there were bees on my desk!”
So, they are not only in the walls, they have found their
way into the building.
I went to Time Out and got a chicken quesadilla. For the
first time, I ate the whole damn thing. I was hungry, I guess. Then I went to
the 24-hour grocery store and bought a green pepper for tonight’s dinner.
It was noticeably warmer and sunny on my afternoon walk. I
avoided the wall altogether.
When I got home, I emptied the dishwasher (after treating
the cat). I changed clothes and started the weekend wash, since I sloshed
coffee on my bathrobe this morning.
I watched the news for
a bit and then started dinner. I was making was so many American housewives
called goulash. Of course, it’s not Hungarian goulash, so let’s just call it “macaroni
and beef” goulash.
So, I browned a pound of ground chuck in the Dutch oven while
I diced a medium-sized onion and half a green pepper. When the beef was done, I
drained the grease and let them took until they softened.
I grabbed what I thought was a large can of whole tomatoes
and a little can of Rotel (diced tomatoes with green chile peppers) I opened
the “whole tomatoes” and found they were tomato puree!
Sidebar: Read the damn labels!
Well, I wasn’t going to throw them out, so I threw them in.
Now it was too thick, so I added water until I thought the consistency was
about right. But, what about the tomato chunks I wanted? So, I diced up the six
Italian tomatoes I had from my garden.
Sidebar: That was a mistake, sort of…
I added about two cups of elbow macaroni, brought it to a
boil and then turned it to simmer. I put the lid on it and set the timer for 15
minutes.
When the timer went off, I checked and the macaroni seemed a
bit undercooked. So, I let it go five minutes more.
One final taste test (it needed a bit more black pepper) and
it was done.
It was pretty good, except the fresh tomato skins had come
of and were an unpleasant texture. But the taste was excellent (I ate two
bowls, LOL).
I watched some TV during dinner and until the goulash
cooled. Then I put it into three containers and into the fridge. I filled the Dutch
oven with soapy water and left it to soak overnight. Then I went to bed.
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