I wish I could say that I am a health nut, but sadly all I can attest to is that I’m just a nut. I eat healthier than when I was young, but I’m not a fanatic. I love junk food and when I eat at Subway I convince myself that I’m eating healthy of course when I eat a Whopper from Burger King I really have to do some convincing.
My other unhealthy choices happen to be deep fried foods especially wing dings, but since I eat the celery and use vegetable oil I convince myself that it’s healthy also. They always taste better when I order them at a restaurant and I know it’s because they use those big fryers so they taste better than when I do them at home.
So yesterday we went to Target and guess what I bought? You got it right I bought a T-Fal deep fryer which is so cool and I wasted no time using it as you can tell by the basket and my wing dings were great. I never had any luck with those electric frying pans or even those small deep fryers, but this is great and it’s easy to take apart and strain the oil.
You just need to make sure you keep the level of oil where it’s suppose to be and change it after 8 to 12 uses. Now I can have all those great appetizers at home and they’ll taste just like the ones in the restaurant, like onion rings, fried zucchini, cheese sticks and I can’t wait to see how my fried chicken turns out in this.
We normally use the rotisserie and I know that is much healthier, but sometimes we get hungry for fried chicken, but our cast iron skillet doesn’t fry the way it’s suppose to. We basically eat very healthy, but sometimes I like to feel decadent and splurge because I see no reason to deny myself certain eating pleasures.
I love surfing food blogs and checking out different recipes, but lately I must be hitting blogs from other countries because I don’t recognise any of the items that are being used and if it’s not recognizable then I don’t eat it. I really hate to cook even though I earned a wage cooking because I make too big of a mess although I do try to clean as I go.
I always hated draining those huge deep fryers at work because I always burned myself, but you have to keep them clean and you don’t want to fry fish in your oil because everything will taste fishy afterwards. Well at least now I’ll look forward to preparing a few things because I picked up quite a few useful food ideas working in the restaurant industry, I just hope my T-Fal cooker holds up.
I’m trying to think of something to post today while Bill is cooking breakfast for his son and 2 granddaughters, but my mind is a total blank which is not unusual and can at times be very frustrating. Like the time I looked all over for my favorite coffee mug and even accused Bill of breaking it and not telling me, now how stupid do you think I felt when I found it in the microwave the next day.
At times I do worry myself and do think I’m getting (hate to say the word) senile. I have learned over the past 6 years that Bill is usually correct when we start talking about an event or someones age or who died and when. I have been proven wrong more times than I care to admit and then I have to eat crow and apologise, he never argues over anything he simply states what he knows and I’m the one that tries to contradict.
I don’t try and contradict any more I simply check what he says on the computer now and if he’s wrong then I show him proof, but he’s seldom ever wrong. Darn man has the memory of an elephant. We don’t get to see Billy and his daughters much because Chris has such a big family and they are always doing something with them so this is a treat for Bill.
Since Chris is out of town this weekend Billy is own his own so this will be a treat for him also because he loves his Dad’s cooking and we can see the little girls without a group around. The oldest one is spoiled rotten and the youngest is the apple of Pappy’s eye because she’s so much like him and doesn’t let anyone run over her, she’s so comical and even favors him.
Well the dogs are barking so it sounds like they have arrived so I’ll wrap this up so I can get on with my Sunday we have lots to do. I hope everyone has a lovely, restful day and I’m sure we are all praying for the people in Texas and surrounding areas.
I’ve worked in restaurants since I was 19 and regardless of where I moved I could always find a job either as a waitress, hostess, bartender, prep cook, or cook. Over the years I have done them all and that’s why my back and feet bother me so much now. I always liked being around people until I hit menopause then they (people) really started to work on my nerves, not good if you rely on gratuities or tips or tokes in Nevada.
Tip actually stands for To Insure Promptness so I could never understand why people didn’t give the tip before hand to make sure that they received excellent service. Well, of course I knew why and it’s because most people don’t know how to tip and the majority are very stingy so if they tipped before hand they might never get served (joke). If you have a steady clientele then you learn quick where your money is coming from and you cater more to them.
Of course you want to give everyone good service if you take pride in what you do and I was a very good waitress, I always pat myself on the back because I was a professional when it came to my job. I learned over the years that it was the female that actually determines how big your tip is going to be unless it was someone dating then the guys were always trying to impress their date so I always got a bigger tip with new daters.
People that work in the business are usually better tippers because they know what it’s like. I also learned that you shouldn’t judge by how they are dressed either because some of the poorest looking people left better tips than those that looked rich. Young people always proved to be better tippers than older people and that was true also when I cut hair. I always felt that restaurants should pay better wages so people didn’t feel obliged to tip.
When I worked in Nevada I found that the Canadians by far were the cheapest tippers I have ever run across. Sorry to all you nice Canadians, but it’s true. I loved working in Nevada because I loved to gamble back then, that is one habit that I kicked after it got the better of me, but it took years to accomplish that because I had the fever as we always called it. It’s so cool when you’re on a winning streak, but they are very few and far between.
Okay, that’s enough information from me for today.
Bill had to get blood work done yesterday so he took the rest of the day off and we went for a 3 hour bike ride because it was such a nice day and tonight we are going to the fair to eat junk because it’s going to rain tomorrow. You can certainly do alot of thinking and meditation when the sun is shining and your looking at all things that God has created.
I did manage to do the drops for this blog, but I didn’t update for yesterday so the post about my son was still there and because I appreciate all the prayers from the people that took the time to stop and leave a comment I have all of their blogs listed below, that’s the least I can do for all the support that was given and Thank-you so much.
Manilenya
Karen, author of “My Funny Dad, Harry”
Carole
Hilary
Margaret
Chris
Pam
Lilly
Debbie Lane
I am also adding Lea because she always leaves me encouraging comments and gave me the “I Love Your Blog” award.
