lunch sort of, last Friday

 More of my lunch items... 

It proved my point that I'm only firing on one cylinder these days...though who knows how many I'm supposed to be running on!

I'd like a toasted cheese sandwich and tomato soup, myself said as lunchtime approached. OK, we've got stale bread, grated cheese and a clean skillet.

I then proceded to spray the bread with the Olive Oil spray rather than I Can't Believe it's Not Butter spray. But I put the 2 pieces of bread in the pan to start toasting. I started spooning the grated cheese into piles on each piece of bread.

But some of the cheese was nice cheddar color, and some looked a bit pink. Oh Oh! the dreaded pink mold had intruded there. So I sloppily picked each bread up and turned it on it side over a plate to discharge the bad cheese. With little bits of moldy cheese falling everywhere.

I had some unopened swiss cheese, which would do just fine. Sliced it, and noticed I had some ham slices still good in the fridge, so put one of those on the sandwich.

As it finished I wanted mayo but remembered the last jar had been pretty empty so I tossed it. Yet there was ranch dressing there, which was pretty drippy, so carefully I applied it to one slice as it came out of the pan. And then ever so gently I capped it with the other slice.

These simple things make me so happy. And then there are the fingers all oily from the sandwich...

...here's a ham and toasted swiss cheese with ranch dressing

Don't even mention soup.

Today's quote:

People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

SALMA HAYEK

A good day for my friends and myself

Are you tired of my orchid friends yet?

This sweet one has two stems of blooms...and the flowers know to not bump into each other.

Maybe my Kalancho buddies are saying hi also...they strive to catch any sunlight they can!

The other day I finally changed the water in the fish tank (there are 4 tetras in there somewhere). I decided to let them look at mountains as a backdrop, and haven't put the plastic plants back in. It was getting kind of full of algae, so I am trying to limit the amount of time I have the light on. 

Wintertime is actually when sunlight gets closest to hitting the tank, not directly, but enough to help that algae along. I am pretty tired of this little chore honestly. But I might be interested if I could get some guppies...I like them because they have babies, and I can save them from being eaten by the big fish...so that's kind of fun. These tetras are totally boring. But if I want to de-stress, there they are!

And surprise...from a plant based lunch. My sandwich has sprouts and some veggie patty that I browned a bit, and veganaise (vegan mayo), and I ended up putting the rest of the sprouts on the other side of the sandwich. Yummy! Chips aren't exactly on my diet, but that's how it goes...I do one good thing and another is not so good.

Today's quote:

 We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education, or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and timeless absence of moral leadership. We must dissent, because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. 

-Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (2 Jul 1908-1993)