Okay, so let me start by saying the dip was a bust. Here I was thinking I was coming up with some culinary genius, but not. I make things go from gross to more gross. I still intend to eat it, but i am out of crackers.
So, I have had a good week, I walked to work twice, which was good. It takes me less than 10 minutes to get there. I had to take the van a few times because I had to bring stuff with me. I am running summer camps for the town, and I have collected all kinds of stuff that can be used to make crafts. Recycling day is a good day for me!! I don't paw through the neighbours' bins, but if there is good stuff on top, it's mine!!
I haven't been on the computer for a few days because we decided to change our internet. It began because my husband and I discussed the point of having a home phone when we both have cell phones. We decided to get rid of the home phone. So Tyson called Rogers, and got talked into a faster internet service for the same price we are paying now. That sounded good, so he decided to take it. Then they said that this plan included the home phone. What a deal! The unfortunate part was that my husband took three days to figure out how to hook up the internet, which ended up taking less than 5 minutes.
So, now we no longer have call display, but we do have a phone and an answering machine, so that is all a plus!
My money-saving idea for today is what to do with leftover salad. We consume a lot of Kale in our house. Kale is an excellent lettuce substitute; it's full of calcium and other goodness, and it's great to dress in the mornings so that by lunchtime the crunch is perfect. That is, if you eat the salad. I took the salad to work and then was reminded of the staff bbq. Not one to turn down free food, I gleefully headed to the bbq, leaving my salad in the heat of my van for the day. Perfect crunch a thing of the past, I wondered what I could do with my kale-olive-oil-and-balsamic-vinegar concoction.
Side note. I live in a small town, which has many wonderful rewards. One of which is that if you don't know what you are doing, you can always ask a neighbour, who has likely been watching and can provide you with a full report. Another is the cheap eggs. We have eggs delivered to our door for the low-low price of $2.50. A local farmer sells his good eggs to the local stores, and is odd-sized eggs to whoever wants them! So, we get eggs delivered every week. Sometimes they are really big, and sometimes they are really small, but they are always fresh and tasty.
So, I decided to make scrambled eggs with some yumminess. I tossed the salad into my mini-food processor (ten bucks, best invention ever, except apparently for freezer burned beans), and opened my fridge to see what else was in there. Olives. Black Olives. From the deli in Metro. No idea how old they are. I can't; remember the last time I bought olives. I love me some olives, so I tossed those in too. I mixed them with the eggs, and cooked them up. Voila. Yummy egg concoction. Not terrible either--zingy, in fact. I also found some potatoes in the fridge so I cooked those too!
Being a condiment person, I have fallen in love with a condiment from Costco called Chipolte Garlic somethingorother. It is amazing, and I found myself making things just to be a vehicle to consume the condiment. But, I am nowhere near a Costco now, so I have had to be inventive. I once was at a sushi restaurant and I knew the waitress quite well. I told her how much I loved the orangey sauce they used on the spicy salmon rolls and she said it was just siracha sauce and mayo. My new favourite condiment. I even saw siracha mayo in the grocery store. Why buy it when it costs half as much to make it and you control the spice level? Now there is an ongoing supply of siracha mayo in our fridge. Like bacon, it makes everything taste better.
I realize this is not the most exciting post. But please stay tuned as I eat my way through the cupboard and the freezer and eventually cut my own hair. I also need to figure out where to buy a cheap bathing suit and how to give myself a bikini wax in the next couple of weeks!!!
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