Its now Thursday

      Trouble sleeping, of course I did take a short nap early and the dang tv woke me up. I was exhausted from work and had to nap it off. Now I sit here with a ton of stuff on my mind, and these dang cats have revved up their little game of "I chase you now you chase me." All except I have to be up for work in just a few hours all is good. I made a new friend through my blog, and in the beginning that is what I hoped would happen. Its a new chapter in book of Pirate, been about a year since the big change went down and I decided it would be best to run my ship alone. Yes it was very lonely at first, but as the days became weeks and the weeks months I started to not only get used to it but actually found myself less lonely than I had been for the previous year... Strange how one can appreciate being alone when given the time to think about it. 
     Just a little thought, pertaining to my experiences on the "Social Site" Face Book- When someone sends me a message I almost always send a reply. Why do people "collect" friends if they are not going to stay in contact with them. Like its a contest to see who can have the most friends. How in the world would I even begin to keep up with 1,234,774 friends? Just a random number, but you know what I mean. Yes I do have friends on that site that I don't make daily or weekly conversation with, but then I only have 96 contacts on Face Book. 

     Dinner was great tonight, I roasted a chicken but didn't make stuffing for the bird. The base of my stuffing is seasoned croutons, I don't have any in the kitchen, and I am out of celery and money. Helps to have a few bucks if you intend to buy things at the store. Did get a suggestion from a friend to stuff onion and carrots in the bird, I think I may just try that sometime. I cooked up a batch of rice and steamed some asparagus, was a real treat. Took this shot about 30 minutes before the bird was done. I think its cool how the burners of the oven are purple in the cams eye.  No I don't have a neon-oven. That is an interesting concept though.


     Well seems the cats have settled down and are just hanging around now, the one looks bored out of his mind, the other looks ready to start playing again.
      I think I better lay down at least and rest up, 
I'll talk with ya later...Pirate Named Neo

Cooking my goose...Chicken actually

Now this is what we call a change in tradition, instead of beer or pork this week its bird... Chicken to be exact. As always this is the before pic. Stove seems to need a bit of cleaning, but that's not what I am hear to talk about.
        Today was a rare one, I slept in till about noon, and usually I am up before the sun. I really didn't get much out of the sleep in except the day was half gone by the time it started.


Had an interesting thought, if defrost means to (un)frost wouldn't dethaw be to un-thaw ie refreeze something?


Well back to bird cooking, it a waiting game at this point, I do need to be on my watch however, as the green beans will not be cooking at the same time, in the same container as the bird. 


Well spend the last 1/2 hour or so on the phone, talking with someone I would really like to know better... 
Now just waiting on the veggies to get cooked and the end product is such... 

                                                                                                              

roast again

        I finally got a roast cooked on sunday again. Was a tradition for a few months, dropped off for a bit. So this one I think I found the secret, a small dash of bud light. Not an experienced cook, no schooling in that field so its all experimental at this point. This one I went the distance with the spices salt, pepper, garlic and all that. It came out great. 
        Best part of tonight was MsNeo stopping by for a visit. I do miss her when she's not with me, but situation is what it is, I will be happy with the time I do spend with her.  She had to go back to her place and take care of her kid, dinner and what not.



        I am sitting here writing a post with nothing better to do... Not so lonely in my alone times anymore, this is a good thing.


Dinner was great and will last into the week so no more cooking.

The Secret

Some of you know I like to cook. I find it to be very relaxing. Well at least on my pot roast. Usually I get a sirloin, pork or beef ,  heat the oven to 335* not only will this prepare the oven, it makes for a warm kitchen. Even summer time it adds a mood. having peeled 3 potatoes, of course this can be more depending on the size of roast. I generally go with about 1.5 -2 lbs. My cooking utensils limit me a bit after I dropped and broke that one. 3-4 carrots, 1/2 or so of a medium onion, white, yellow, get what you like. A bit of salt, pepper, garlic, you know, spice it up a bit, different spices can work, I have tried crushed basil, you can do what you like. I also like to throw a handful of fresh green beans on the top. Put it in the oven.

So now I just sit and wait,  never really figured, as I use different size cuts, seems about 2 hrs in the oven and we're there.

  The real magic to the pot roast is you only dirty a few dishes in the prep and prepare....   Just me here, so it lasts into the week and only a brief clean up, its a snap.