Of Matzo Ball Soup and Men
Husband definitely has my cold. Poor guy.
During one of my feverish days last week I ordered groceries from Prime Now (I know, I know) and added some Matzo ball soup mix to my order. Usually Husband picks some up from a Jewish deli fairly close to our house when I get a cold, but he's been under pressure at work recently and I didn't want to add to his workload. Which is why I ordered groceries in the first place. It also seems to never stop snowing this year, so there is no such thing as a quick trip right now.
Matzo ball soup is my favorite medicine for a cold. It's hot, salty, and soft. Very comforting on a sore throat. Before today, I had never made it. Oh, what I was missing! It was easy and tasty and oh so good! I'm sure that there are much better recipes than what I made, but I think it was good enough under the circumstances.
The box I got had matzo ball mix and a soup mix. Kinda boring. I ended up sauteing carrots, onion, celery, and several cloves of garlic in olive oil and then adding the water and soup mix. To that I added a chicken breast that I had shredded and an half cup of small elbow noodles. Brought that all to a boil and added the matzo balls.
I considered adding some chicken Better than Bouillon, but it really didn't need it and we don't really need any more sodium in our diet.
It was lovely! I will be adding Matzo ball soup mix to my pantry from now on. It wasn't any harder than making chicken noodle soup and for me, it was much better. Husband liked it as well, so that makes it perfect.
I hung up some laundry on an electric drying rack a coworker had given me. The wet clothes seem to add a tiny amount of moisture to air as they heat up and dry. It's very dry right now, so every little bit helps. We are so behind on laundry that hang drying everything is not going to be an option. So I'm going to hang up as much as I can and use the dryer for things that starting to look a bit furry. That's a downside to air drying while living with five cats and a dog. I do periodically have to run things through the dryer to get the fur down to a dull roar.
I'm in a bit of panic to get most of the laundry done right now because we're heading for a warm spell with rain most days this week. Perfect conditions for our basement to leak. This has happened so many times in the years we've lived here that it's not that big of deal. We have a plan and a protocol for when it happens, but it's a total pain in the ass.
Yes, we need to fix it. But it's costly and so much fucking work. Ugh. I hate to think about it. Anyway, those are thoughts best left 'til spring. Winter is for maintenance.
During one of my feverish days last week I ordered groceries from Prime Now (I know, I know) and added some Matzo ball soup mix to my order. Usually Husband picks some up from a Jewish deli fairly close to our house when I get a cold, but he's been under pressure at work recently and I didn't want to add to his workload. Which is why I ordered groceries in the first place. It also seems to never stop snowing this year, so there is no such thing as a quick trip right now.
Matzo ball soup is my favorite medicine for a cold. It's hot, salty, and soft. Very comforting on a sore throat. Before today, I had never made it. Oh, what I was missing! It was easy and tasty and oh so good! I'm sure that there are much better recipes than what I made, but I think it was good enough under the circumstances.
The box I got had matzo ball mix and a soup mix. Kinda boring. I ended up sauteing carrots, onion, celery, and several cloves of garlic in olive oil and then adding the water and soup mix. To that I added a chicken breast that I had shredded and an half cup of small elbow noodles. Brought that all to a boil and added the matzo balls.
I considered adding some chicken Better than Bouillon, but it really didn't need it and we don't really need any more sodium in our diet.
It was lovely! I will be adding Matzo ball soup mix to my pantry from now on. It wasn't any harder than making chicken noodle soup and for me, it was much better. Husband liked it as well, so that makes it perfect.
I hung up some laundry on an electric drying rack a coworker had given me. The wet clothes seem to add a tiny amount of moisture to air as they heat up and dry. It's very dry right now, so every little bit helps. We are so behind on laundry that hang drying everything is not going to be an option. So I'm going to hang up as much as I can and use the dryer for things that starting to look a bit furry. That's a downside to air drying while living with five cats and a dog. I do periodically have to run things through the dryer to get the fur down to a dull roar.
I'm in a bit of panic to get most of the laundry done right now because we're heading for a warm spell with rain most days this week. Perfect conditions for our basement to leak. This has happened so many times in the years we've lived here that it's not that big of deal. We have a plan and a protocol for when it happens, but it's a total pain in the ass.
Yes, we need to fix it. But it's costly and so much fucking work. Ugh. I hate to think about it. Anyway, those are thoughts best left 'til spring. Winter is for maintenance.
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