Daily Archives: January 27, 2009

The resulting soup

“Today I took the cold stock and removed the fat, and added a 28 oz. can of tomatoes and their juice, 2 stalks celery and a couple of carrots, sliced, 2 15 oz. cans white beans (drained and rinsed), chopped romaine lettuce and some partially cooked egg noodles. It’s still kind of bland so I’m simmering it a while before I add more salt and pepper. I did put in some dried marjoram and basil. Will let you know how it turns out.”  This is from a comment from the prior post.

Now, I let it simmer for another 45 minutes and reduce by a cup or two.  Then I added salt and pepper.  Jim went back for seconds, in the large lion’s head bowl!  Now the kitchen smells like tomato and I’d prefer for it to smell like chicken broth, but it was good and we’ve at least 12 cups of soup left in the frig.  More frugal food, yea!  No, the broth didn’t get to be Zoe accoutrements to her dog food.  More about that later.  I cleaned out a beef stock box that I don’t really like for her food the other day.  She loved the boiled chicken off the bone today in the after-stock cache, however.

We enjoyed the soup with BJ’s sausage from East TX and frozen french fries.  Jim had ketchup, of course.  Cheers!  Dee

Resume

One could say that in the French, as re-su-me (don’t expect me to do the ague or whatever I haven’t done since college), or English as to resume.  I actually found a job of interest today.  It utilizes skills I learned at a younger age and have not been involved with for several years.  But one of them is writing, check on that, working with people, yep, and other qualities I exude.

Now I find that we have a couple versions of Jim’s (husband) resume and none of mine on this nearly two year-old MacBook and placed my old files on it.  I can’t find them for the life of me.

The worst of it is that our five year-old mutt Zoe has two resumes!  I wrote one to get her into a boarding/daycare facilities and another for instructions for feeding et al.

How can I look for a job at my age and a few years out of the public market when I have to start my resume from scratch?  Perhaps I’ll do it much better this time.  Perhaps a perfectly written letter will get me in the door for an interview.

My immediate circle of life has become about my husband of now six years and my dog who is now five and all the things that come with those responsibilities.  Cooking is a passion, as are free spay/neuter programs for low-income pet owners and education on the same issue for all.

Perhaps when Jim and Zoe arrive from their walk I’ll nearly have dinner ready and he can use his magic to find my old computer files.  Must go now.  Hope you had a great day.  Cheers, Dee