AKA GEOGRAM WEEKLY
What to do? What to do? while social distancing alone in the shelter of your home?
The Great Woosaloodle (woosanudeln?) Challenge! (water noodles in German?)
Saturday, one of my sons texted to ask if I had a recipe that their Grandma Rose from Park Falls made for family many years ago....
I dug out my musty 50 year old cookbook of personal recipes. I couldn't find it, but decided I could probably come close...(most of those recipes were various proportions of flour, egg, milk, salt). I found a recipe for homemade noodles in an older cookbook. Sunday I experimented.
Basically the dish is thick fresh noodles, boiled and then cooked with scrambled eggs. I used butter, but Gram Rose probably used lard or bacon grease. A meal to sustain one during an afternoon of farming, hand washing laundry, weeding the massive garden or logging.
Enjoying the food for brunch, I thought it pretty much resembled what I remember from many, long years ago....my son/sons have not yet responded that they have tried making it.
Using the cabbage left over from last week's cabbage rolls, the remaining noodles, butter, salt and a hunk of kielbasa from the freezer I came up with SDSD!
Grate cabbage and saute in pan with butter and little salt, mix in warmed up noodles, keep sauteing, then mix in fried pieces of kielbasa. Add pepper to taste. WALA!! SDSD!!
SOCIAL DISTANCING SKILLET DINNER! YUM!!
Pairs well with whatever you watch on the telly.
"Apple Betty" for dessert! YUM again!!
I have discovered an inexpensive do at home COVID-19 test. Don't shower for 3 days and if you can smell yourself, you probably don't have the virus. This works best if you live alone. I'm quite sure I don't have it.
Sunday afternoon was chilly, but partially sunny.
A good time for a 2 mile walk in between our several days of rain. It is our season of pink snow.
I also got a visual of year 20/20... Equal amount of bad and good....dark and light....thinking about this later on I realized that the dark comes and goes; the blue sky remains forever!
Proof my little finch parents have returned to grow a new family! Hope not to scare them off and quietly observe their progress! (Each day's sneak photo up to today, Thursday, is a repeat of this one. She does move...I unintentionally scared her and she flew away for about 15 minutes.)
I have been handling self-quarantine, social distancing, sheltering at home alone quite well. Though the other day I caught the Cheshire Cat staring at me from the neighbor's roof!
Tuesday was a cold rainy stay inside day. We even had a moment of throw back Christmas as the hail collected on the back deck!
I took the day off today, Wednesday. I took it off from listening to the news and latest reports. I needed a break to rest in the familiar and routine.
I talked with one of my sons to schedule future travel and family activities. The sun came out later in the day so I could walk 2 miles in the crisp air. Watched some Star Trek while stretching and relaxed to the old movie, Stand By Me. It was filmed in this area and I hadn't seen it before. I am feeling restful and ready to face the present realty come morning.
I had decided to order groceries for pick up. I can pick them up a week from tomorrow. Guess I will rethink that approach.
I invite you to read the second chapter, part 1 of
I Will Not Leave You....(2. My Foster Family)
This has been a good GeoGram week in the life of Grandma G.
"Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most high will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord,'He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust'...You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday." (Psalm 91:1,2-5,6)
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