1. The high waters and flooding up the North Fork of the CdA River kept Gibbs' groomer at home Friday when he had an appointment. Today, however, the waters had receded enough and the weather was calm enough that Robin felt perfectly fine about driving into town.
So, Gibbs is groomed.
He enjoyed his time being pampered and he looks great all spiffed and trimmed up.
2. Christy hosted family dinner tonight and assigned me to make a rice dish. She gave me a recipe which looked really good, but required more steps and more effort than I felt like exerting.
I've made homemade, do it yourself Rice-a-Roni in the past for family dinner and I went online looking for a recipe. Lo and behold, I stumbled upon a recipe called Turkish Rice-a-Roni and it looked simpler than the recipe Christy gave me, but seemed very similar -- both dishes were, to some degree, Middle Eastern.
All I had to do this afternoon was melt some butter, and sautee chopped onion, basmati rice, and orzo pasta and season these ingredients with a cinnamon stick and allspice.
After these ingredients had sauteed for about five minutes, I added a chopped tomato and three cups of chicken broth. I brought it to a boil, put a lid on the pan, and simmered this mixture for about twenty minutes until the rice absorbed the liquid.
In the meantime, I melted more butter and browned a handful of slivered almonds and then added raisins and chopped dried apricots and when the raisins and apricot plumped up, I set this pan aside.
Once the rice was cooked, I added the almonds, dried apricots, and raisins to it along with chopped mint. I seasoned this nearly finished dish with salt, removed the cinnamon stick, put the lid back on the pan and let it sit until it was time to take this dish along with a vegetable tray to Christy's for dinner.
3. For dinner, Christy roasted a tasty bone-in pork roast and made delicious chunky applesauce. The Turkish Rice-a-Roni went well with the pork and we topped off our dinner with a selection of really good cookies Carol brought.
Our conversations ranged all over the place: Gonzaga basketball, the flooding in our county in the present and the past, Christmas music, versatile actors and actresses in movies, and more.
It was really fun talking about so many topics and helped make a very satisfying meal be even more so.
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