Poor Me, El Papa, Busy Week

So sorry there was no blog for Tuesday. Sunday night I was taken rather ill with a gastric condition and neither of us got much sleep. We did go bowling although it was touch and go for me until the last minute when I decided to risk it. My first game turned out to be great, the second two, I might as well have stayed at home. By the time I did get home, I was drooping and not feeling too good anyway. I ended up going to bed early and a good night's sleep appears to have helped. Hence, no blog. I was supposed to make an important phone call to Father Dragon that evening, but didn't do that either. I didn't do much in the way of visiting other blogs either. I just heated up a couple of Cornish Pasties for supper and that was the extent of my efforts all round.

Actually we have quite a busy week, Tuesday we were supposed to go to the optometrist. I cancelled

that as I was still feeling rough. Wednesday we have our foot nurse and later we are going to visit a company about the CD player from the car. Thursday it is our first Travel League bowling which means lunch at the local Red Lobster and then Friday is our 43rd wedding anniversary. No idea what we are going to do to celebrate that yet. Especially as we are planning to go to the Mandarin on October 1 when they are offering seniors 50% off.

Sitting here typing this, I have just seen the Pope landing in the States. I am not a Roman Catholic but I must say I am very impressed with this current Pope. I do hope nothing happens to him whilst he is in the US. I guess I am a bit like the Queen, I have seen several Popes, lots of US Presidents and lots of Prime Ministers in both Canada and the UK. Of course, she has met them, I have not. Actually I did meet one UK Prime Minister, a couple of times. Edward Heath some time between 1970 and 1974. Once at a yacht club in the UK and once in a yacht club in Malta where my parents lived for a few years.

I love pineapple and I particularly like Grilled Pineapple which they used to serve at our local Brazilian restaurant, you know, the one that closed and about which I was moaning a while back. However, this morning I came across this recipe;

Brazilian Grilled Pineapple

1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 pineapple - peeled, cored, and cut into 6 wedges

1. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat and lightly oil the grate.

2. Whisk brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Pour sugar mixture into a large resealable plastic bag. Place pineapple wedges in bag and shake to coat each wedge.

3. Grill pineapple wedges on the preheated grill until heated through, 3 to 5 minutes per side.

Servings: 6


Have a great day
 

Snow, Laptop, New Pope.

Everywhere was beginning to look dirty at the beginning of the week with all the snow melting and the sides of the roads being mud splashed, looking quite horrid. Tuesday it snowed a lot again, just enough to make everywhere look nice and clean again. Not sure whether it will thaw some more, haven’t looked at the forecast. I know on the radio they were calling for floods, very often the rivers are iced up and when the thaw sets in the broken ice gets jammed causing floods. Wednesday it snowed a lot too, very fine snow. By bedtime the roads were quite white again. Wonder when spring will arrive. Tell you what, the groundhog, Wiarton Willie, got it all wrong.

Having a weird problem on my laptop. Every so often I can’t click on the icons on its screen desktop although I can click on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. It seems to sort itself by re-booting, but later it happens again, occurred 3 times so far and then I also had trouble being unable to follow links in an email – that again solved itself by rebooting. My computer guy says he’s never heard of such an odd problem, he was coming over at 8 a.m. Wednesday, but through a confusion, that got cancelled although I was up and ready. I have to leave the laptop unbooted until he can take a look. Now the icons have disappeared and I have white sheets of paper.

I am not a Catholic, never have been, but I am, nevertheless, excited that a new pope has been elected. The white smoke was seen at noon today. Didn’t actually take that long, 4 votes is my count. Matt couldn’t be less interested, but I certainly am and am waiting with bated breath to see who it is. Turns out to be Cardinal Jorge Begoglio from Argentina. The 77 yr. old Cardinal was runner up to Pope Benedict when he was elected. He will be known as Pope Francis (after Francis of Assisi). It also appears he was an Italian immigrant to Argentina which should please the Italians. I was wondering about the name, do they choose their own or are they presented with a list of choices, anyone know?

This looks pretty yummy. I have seen yellow cherry tomatoes, in fact I saw yellow grape tomatoes last week.

Roasted Yellow Tomato Salsa with Cilantro

By The Gluten Free Goddess
 
WebMD Recipe from Foodily.com

If you cannot find these tiny heirloom yellow tomatoes, any grape or cherry tomatoes will do. The roasting coaxes fresh tomato salsa from bright and acidic into complex, subtle and sweet. If you don't care for cilantro, try using basil instead, and serve this salsa as a bruschetta topping on toasted gluten-free bread rubbed with a clove of fresh garlic.

Ingredients

• 2 pints yellow cherry or heirloom tomatoes, halved
• 1 small red onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 3/4 cup corn kernels
• 2 teaspoons dried or fresh cilantro
• sea salt
• olive oil
• white balsamic vinegar

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. In a roasting pan combine tomatoes, onion, garlic, corn kernels, cilantro and salt.
3. Drizzle with olive oil and white balsamic vinegar. Toss to coat.
4. Roast in a preheated oven until the tomatoes are soft and sweet, about 25 to 30 minutes. I stirred the mix halfway through roasting. Cool before storing. Store covered in the fridge. Just before serving allow the salsa to come to room temperature. Garnish with fresh chopped cilantro.
5. Serve with tortilla chips, corn chips, or triangles of toasted gluten-free garlic bread

Have a great day