Playing on a Cool Day

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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!

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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    2. I’ve cooked eggs in the rice cooker several times. I put water where the rice would go and put the eggs in the steamer. I set a timer for 20 minutes and check the eggs. After they are cooked, I put them in ice water for a few minutes before peeling off the shells.

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  6. You are so clever! I’ve never heard of using the rice pot to boil eggs! Saving time in the kitchen is kind of my superpower but you’ve taught me a new truck!

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  9. It has been cooler the last two days here, also, making early morning pleasant, and evening nice as well. The in-between is the deal breaker! Your meal sounds a lot like ours last night, only ours was a Mexican rice bowl with chicken! Randy cooked on the griddle, always a welcome treat. I hope you are enjoying your Thursday also!

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    1. I lost my reply. I’m having a nice Thursday. I worked on the waterfall and found the upper connection was not blocked, as I had thought. The system lost an inch of water while running for two hours. I THINK I know what to test next.

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  11. We were in Kansas part of this week and came home to 95 degrees and a shut up house…I am so thankful that we will have a week of cool weather (they say in the 60’s) starting Wednesday. I need it to recover from the heat and humidity last week!

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