RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

Because Recipes one might actually cook are SO necessary as a distraction from everything else in the timeline.  This recipe makes risotto style rice prep sound easy and satisfying.  In the can't / won't exactly follow the recipe camp, I might add a layer of spinach or chopped nuts or nuts roasted in a little garlic oil in the middle and less mozzarella. Maybe 4:?? hours of sleep. I think it was longer than that, but I woke up with the CPAP off.

 New chef with Sicilian flavor Note to self, toss the eggplant with oil and roast in the oven. Also olives? But I'm willing to try. 5:58 hours of sleep. Getting to bed early is everything even when I had to track down a lost yam from the oven. Don't ask. Random kitchen while blind moment with a burned out oven light bulb and an oven that REALLY needs to be cleaned. Adulting is SO MUCH FUN.

It vexed mom that her Christmas cactus would never bloom for her. But LOOK! Maybe it's an Easter cactus A sweet way to think of Mom 6:58 hours of sleep. Amazing what a decent bedtime can do.  

Interesting ideas: garnish with sliced banana or with cilantro and hard-boiled egg But I know one household that likes black beans with fried plantains so not too big a leap. 4:00 hours of sleep. Once again, I meant to get to bed earlier but I had to do last minute things like check about how to ripen a papaya and try to prep for a Zoom meeting this afternoon

 One of these days, I mean to get a pressure cooker. But this video is also fun for the spice, flavor combinations. About 5:00 hours of sleep. I definitely needed more and I also missed FCNL priorities setting on Zoom but oh well. Working on the right level of zen to be insightful but not drowned by floods in my newsfeeds.

 Any darn fool, or anyone with basic kitchen skills, can do most of this. The key insight is the lime juice at the end. One weird note: in college, I thought that boiling black beans just SMELLED REALLY WEIRD. NOw I barely notice. Curiously, no mention of fresh cilantro which, for people who like cilantro, would also be a lovely finish. 6.0 hours of blessed SLEEP. And apparently the various chair exercises and dishwashing were helpful for sleep even without more walking. I decided I had to go to bed when I started up writing about what I think of an Iranian attack on Israel's Dimona reactor and realized that I needed to let it percolate overnight if only so total inarticulate mush is not what comes off my fingers. And tonight I will try to brief and QUITE PROCRASTINATING about my resolutions presentation.