Sunday

Frank got home on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately I cut my thumb trying to open a new bottle of Balsalmic Vinegar that morning, I couldn’t get the metal top to budge and had to use a knife to pry the edges up to break the “seal”. I was so very careful, all for naught.

Ouch! it was pretty deep on my right-hand thumb, and so from that point on the dishes I’d planned on doing before Frank got home weren’t able to be done.

It still, 2-days later, is trying to pull together. It opens up easily at will. It’s not a “stitches” situation, just a nice deep slice that is taking time to knit together, since it’s on my hands that are frequently used for many things 😉 It is healing from underneath, it’s not quite as deep as it once was. It’s probably a 1/4″ deep now.

So thankfully though this happened the day Frank was slated to arrive home, so that some dishes could be washed more easily as we needed them, worst case. [Frank is a good dish washer. I prefer plates and pans, he doesn’t mind the cups and silverware as much as me, I like the pans, he doesn’t like the pans. 🙂 ] It does figure that I needed to be sure and do something dastardly before Frank was home though, eh? :rolleyes:

It was nice making dinner for that day, since Frank would be there for it too. 🙂 I made a roast, marinated it in Balsalmic Vinegar and Tamari sauce, granulated garlic, and dried herbs: basil, and parsley, and salt; in the fridge for a couple of hours, then roasted for an hour and a half. I let it rest 15 minutes, then sliced it thin. I made gravy with the left over juices from the roast, and beef base, water, butter, flour (a rouge base). Then I put the sliced beef into the gravy and kept it nice and warm/hot.

I served that over homemade bread slices on each individual plate. We had baby carrots gently cooked with some orange juice too. The other thing we had is something we got at Costco, Rosemary Garlic Olive Oil potatoes. They are a frozen product, potato wedges, skin still on, and coated with the titled products. You just put them in the oven on a baking sheet and heat in a hot oven for 25 minutes or so, stirring once or twice during baking time. They are really tasty, and easy to make, and made with basically good ingredients, nothing bad, except for some added “sugar” as is normally added to frozen products. I mean though, they were made with some kind of olive oil coating, not another sort of horrible oil. 🙂 It’s the first time we made that.

[We don’t eat many potatoes any more. We used to do more, and I cut way back, that sure makes a difference in how I feel after meals. I also had some arthritic feelings in my right wrist, that first started feeling like a sprain sort of, then got worse and then after three weeks sort of dulled down, then my left wrist started feeling like that. Once I cut out potatoes –I did not serve any for a few weeks– guess what? Major part of that wrist pain is gone, and usually it doesn’t bother me at all now. I’d long ago read via EatRight4YourBloodtype that “nightshade” plants are not good for O’s and actually very bad possibly. We ate a lot of potatoes, really super German affection for them. 🙁 Potatoes are in the “nightshade” family. Besides that though, I know and have known for a long time, potatoes aren’t filled with nutrition at all.]

We went to church for the evening service then. That was nice, out of the house for the first time in so many days for us! It’s good to go to church, in any case. We are mid-point into Isaiah.