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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
Last week, Carl told me he wasn't feeling well and stayed home. The moment he said the words from across the room, I whipped out my mask and banished him, keeping my mask on and avoiding close contact with the whole family.
It turned out to be a good thing. He tested positive for Covid the next day, and his parents a couple of days later. They're all on the mend, but it meant i didn't do his room yesterday. Ms. V called and asked me if i could make soup for her family instead, and i was happy to do it.
Because i was masked and avoided contact with them while i was there, and have had no symptoms (thank heaven!), all my other clients have been okay with me doing their houses while they are not home and with me in "full regalia" (KN-95 mask, face shield, gloves). Grandma and Grandpa let me come and simply make sure i stayed out of whatever room they were in at the time.
That's why yesterday i went and did my new every-other-Monday client in the morning instead of the afternoon, then shopped, then made so much Chicken Vegetable Soup there was enough to leave at home for Sweetie and Brother-in-Law.
My soup method this time:
sauté Cajun "trinity" (onion, bell pepper, celery) in the cast iron pot, separate into two other pots (one for the sick family, one to stay here)
cube and sauté chicken breasts, some in each pot
dice or chop and sauté, one at a time, carrots, potatoes, and cabbage, some in each pot
deglaze the pan with low sodium chicken broth (Ms. V specifically asked that it be low in sodium, and since she asked on Sunday and i did this on Monday, i didn't have time to boil up my own stock)
pour some of the broth in both pots to cover and cook until all the veggies are tender
add no salt petite diced canned tomatoes
season to taste (the pot that stayed here got plenty of salt!)
There have been no complaints from any of the eaters at either house, so i think it turned out.
In honor of chicken soup, some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Backward Day -- no info on the origin, but if you want to do something backward, go ahead
Eat Brussels Sprouts Day -- sauté in olive oil with some garlic, they are worth it!
Eve of Brigantia -- Ireland (St. Bridget's Eve, the night when she crosses the countryside and bestows blessings)
Feast of Great Typos -- another that no one will claim inventing, but since we've all made them, we may as well celebrate them
Feast of Isis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
H&ll is Freezing Over Day -- internet generated day to review the list of things you said you would do when h*ll freezes over
Independence Day -- Nauru(1968)
Inspire Your Heart With the Arts Day -- begun by Rev Jayne Howard Feldman as a day to use art to feed your soul
National Brandy Alexander Day
National Bug Busting Day -- UK (this is one idea that needs export to the whole world! the aim is to have every child checked for head lice on the same day, and thus get rid of them in one fell swoop, so they don't circulate endlessly)
National Gorilla Suit Day -- Mad Magazine's Maddest Artist, Don Martin, said this is the day to pull that gorilla suit out of the closet and step out in style.
Phlegm-Green, Moldy-Grey, and Gazzard Day -- Fairy Calendar (don't ask what color Gazzard is, it doesn't exist in the human world, and you don't want it to)
Play An Old Game You Haven’t Played in Years Night -- internet generated, and a great idea
Scotch Tape Day -- it hit the market this day in 1928
St. John Bosco's Day (Patron of apprentices, boys, editors, laborers, schoolchildren, students, young people-especially youth of Mexican descent)
Birthdays Today:
Justin Timberlake, 1981
Kerry Washington, 1977
Portia de Rossi, 1973
Minnie Driver, 1971
Kelly Lynch, 1959
Jhn Lydon, 1956
Nolan Ryan, 1947
Charlie Musselwhite, 1944
Richard Gephardt, 1941
Jessica Walter, 1941
Stuart Margolin, 1940
Queen Beatrix, 1938
suzanne Pleshette, 1937
Philip Glass, 1937
James Franciscus, 1934
Ernie Banks, 1931
Jean Simmons, 1929
Carol Channing, 1923
Norman Mailer, 1923
Mario Lanza, 1921
Jackie Robinson, 1919
Thomas Merton, 1915
Garry Moore, 1915
Tallulah Bankhead, 1903
Eddie Cantor, 1892
Zane Grey, 1872
Franz Schubert, 1797
Robert Morris, 1734
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan, 1543
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"These Are My Children"(TV), 1949 (first daytime TV Soap Opera)
"The Green Hornet"(Radio), 1936
"The Lone Ranger"(Radio), 1933
"Three Sisters"(Chekhov Play), 1901
"Hedda Gabler"(Ibsen Play), 1891
Today in History:
Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England, 1606
The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital, 1747
The Corn Laws (tariffs on imported grains) are abolished in Britain, paving the way for more free trade, 1849
The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations, 1876
The Bulletin of Sydney is founded, publishes for 128 years, 1880
An automobile exceeds 100 mph (161 kph) for the first time, at Daytona Beach, driven by A. G. MacDonald, 1905
The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky, 1929
Scotch tape is first marketed by the 3M Company, 1930
Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, US receives the first US Social Security monthly payment check, for $22.54, 1940
President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb, 1950
A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands, 1953
Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit, 1958
James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt, 1958
Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space, 1961
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program, 1966
Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon, 1971
The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, 1990
Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake, 1996
NASA reveals the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR), a lunar mining robot which could be used to produce fuel and water directly on the Moon, 2013
Sergio Matarella is elected President of Italy, 2015
"World's best chef" French-Swiss Benoît Violier is found dead after apparent suicide weeks after being named world's best by La Liste, 2016
Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah is crowned King of Malaysia (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) to serve a five-year term, 2019
The United Kingdom formally withdraws from the European Union, 2020