Playing on a Cool Day

After walking, I trimmed the periwinkle plants with scissors to keep them from growing under the wood siding. It was very pleasant to be outside when it was sunny and cool. Surely it couldn’t be classed as work! On the way to dispose of the trimmings, I cut back low-growing evergreens that were creeping out of their boundaries.

The heat pumps have been off for several weeks, neither heating nor cooling. Because it was cold last night, the house was cooler than usual. I had a sudden longing for a sweet and sour sauce to go with cooked chicken. That brought up the idea of rice, which reminded me I wanted to boil some eggs. The rice cooker is my method of choice these days. The eggs were done in 20 minutes, and then I used the appliance to cook rice.

While the rice cooked, I looked for a sauce recipe with an Echo device on the kitchen counter. That was no short cut! I flipped through 20 recipes it offered me, and every one of them called for pineapple. It would be one thing if I were cooking a dish from Hawaii, but for a plain sauce, it was overkill. I probably could have found a recipe among my own. Finally a simple one came up. Rice and sauce were ready at the same time, and I put chicken chunks on the rice and covered it with sauce. Oh! What a treat! I might be tired of it three days from now, but today it was perfect. Playing in the kitchen paid off!