Day 28 - Randy Made Dinner, Inspired by Leftovers

Randy made dinner for us 3 or 4 nights a week for 20 years. Seriously. Now he's gone for nearly 4 weeks without cooking. Tonight, wanting to try his hand at roasting peppers on the cook top, he used those peppers and leftovers to make a wonderful innovative soup. He used the meat and vegetables from the 1 remaining braised chicken leg quarter along with the sauce from the beef stew (which was partly the sauce from the chicken leg braise) and added the roasted chopped peppers. My goodness, it was heaven! We continued to put away the celery root remoulade, and ate the last of the oatmeal bread. I cleaned up afterwards! The nice part about making a couple big meals, spending a couple days hard at it in the kitchen, is that you can coast on leftovers for days afterwards.

Well, in the "when will this s&*t ever end" department, we're running into yet more snags in selling the Los Osos house. It seems a new problem crops up just about every third day. This time the problem is in the buyer's lap and I'm sure he's not real happy about it. It's nothing we can do anything about. The deal might still fall through.

We've had to cancel our upcoming Mark Humphreys/Andrew Lorand house concert due to lack of interest. I'm really disappointed and saddened, but there's nothing I can do about it.

Randy and I both stayed home all day today which was nice, even though the skies are overcast and icky gray. He got to rest his knee. I unpacked, unpacked and unpacked some more in my studio. I'd say the job is nearly done except that I know how many more boxes are still in the storage locker. It's frightening. This is a big studio, but it has to suck up all my stuff that was all over the old house and garage. Serious stash reduction is in order. The good part is that I can know see and access that stash! Yippee!! So, I started knitting a little scarf. First time I've touched fiber (or anything related) in a creative way in months. It feels so good!

Carry on. (Sorry to say I finished off the apple crisp and creme fraiche at noon today.)