Okra & Tomatoes

You all are so encouraging when I show a food dish! and since I fed you breakfast yesterday, I figured I may as well feed you for dinner too :o) Ladydi, are you there?..Okra and tomatoes are delicious over a dish of rice...I usually cook mine with a little onion and garlic..( I think I add onions and garlic to just about everything I cook) even Cecil has gotten to the place he will pick out the clove of garlic in soup for his plate:o)
The pan is almost empty because I was in haste to serve it hot and remembered to take the picture after eating :o( Sorry about that, but it will happen again!
Two out of three of my children love it and One could care less about it :o)

Shrimp and Fried Rice (with chucks of garlic pepper and onions

As I was preparing the rice,I felt I just didn't want plain white rice. So I started thinking of another way of fixing it....It's been a long time since I made
"Fried Rice" and I thought yeah! and add the shrimp to it :o)....When I was a kid, in our house and most of the houses in our neighborhood, Friday was "Fish Day" We lived in an area where there were a lot of people in their religion practicing no "meat on Friday's", So I think it became a custom for all of us and it seemed the custom stuck..

Butterfish defrosting for breakfast

Most times at night I think of what's for breakfast! When you have prepared as many breakfast as I have sometimes you run out of idea's....and that's when you let your stomach dictate :o)....The News kept repeating the weather would be cold....and that means "stay in"..and "eat well" :o)....Too cold to fry the fish outside..so next thing is cook it inside..(we didn't want any bacon or homemade sausage today). So on with preparing fish and Grits inside...
The butter fish is a breeze to clean....no scales :o) just take them out of the freezer and let it soak in cold water for about 15-20 minutes...they defrost pretty quickly...I thought I'd give you all a good breakfast before the day went on :o)

Now that the fish are cleaned, and simmering in the canola oil, while the grits are cooking ....you can see the pot of water with white vinegar also on the boil < that really helps better than any other little secrets I have heard about keeping fish odors from penetrating and staying in the house...I won't have time to "stage" a breakfast picture, this is as good as your going to get today :o( I'm hungry this morning...

"Woven Dish Cloth" or " Tea Pot Mat" :o)

I made my friend Jilly happy today by sending her one of my "Handwoven Dish Cloths", that she promptly changed into a "Mat for the Teapot" :o) and it seemed to make her happy in doing so and that's the reward...making someone happy.
I Don't care that she saw or found another use for it, in fact I'm downright happy about it.... I also think it's pretty neat using it to fit more than one use...
Just in case my girls see this, don't worry, yours is in reserve :o)
Just a short note about Jilly, we met on the internet around 1990, have never seen each other face to face (except traded snapshots), we both know where each others bones are buried :o) it's been a continued friendship thoughout these 19 years! Time passes so quickly.....

Two sockets under lamp says 150X2

Nobody had bulbs that said that....
and the first bulbs I had I took back...they still hung out too far down and didn't give off enough light....

Light all across the Loom

This is the results after two trips to the store...and I tell you there is no help available these days...the stores are about empty...I remember when Halogen lights were a danger, but I guess things change with time...some of us have to just get with the times , (me especially;o)
First mistake was the "new" 40 watts that advertise differently , even with two of them they were like working in the dark....
So Next time I outdid myself, I could have gotten two 75 watts, but I got greedy, especially since the two cost the same and the lasting 2 year being such a good incentive I bought the two..I now think the best decision :o).It looks like you can see the two bulbs hanging , but it's the way I took the picture....they are really out of the way...
Having this much light is sheer delight..I'll be able to see what I'm doing (even if I don't yet know what I'm doing :o)