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Visit from a pretty girl

May 27th, 2010
by Pirate Alice.
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Smiley girl

This adorable little girl came for a visit last night. It was the highlight of my week. I was worried I’d get trapped at work until incredibly late and miss the incredibly short period of time I’d get to visit with her and her parents. Luckily, I was able to run out the door and make it home just as they were arriving.

Miss Violet was very interested in everything that was at her level. Things like pens, chip bag clips, books and cat toys were so incredibly exciting. She’d pick one up walk into the other room with it, set it on the floor and pick something else up. If anyone got a phone call or a text message on Wednesday night from me, that was actually from Violet. Although with the spotty reception in my apartment I’m sure nothing made it through (I’m sure I’ll see a very wacky charge on my next bill.)

Book or movie? Such a hard decision.

All thoughts of a possible “Violet’s in town tweet up” were pushed aside due to timing, and my wacky work hours. Leaving for work at 6:30am and getting home at 7pm or later just makes socializing extremely difficult. Hopefully they will visit again on a weekend and a much better gathering can be arranged. I’m sure Violet would love to hang with everyone. She’s already practicing for her teenage years on my cell phone and Sam’s cell phone. Nick is smart enough to keep his phone out of reach.

I can’t believe she’s walking already. And that blond wispy hair… such a cutie pie! Wednesday morning I set the crock pot up with a pot roast so when Sam & Nick arrived there’d be food ready for them to eat. The apartment smelled great when we walked in the door. Nick and Sam both were very pleased with the way the roast came out. I’m just glad it was good.

Checking the tweets, emails and texting her BFF

SUCCESS!

Aug 14th, 2007
by Pirate Alice.
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RESULT!

My first attempt at using Dad’s pressure cooker WORKED! I’m so excited. It was easier than I had thought thanks to Miss Vickie’s She’s got a whole mess of info on how to work your pressure cooker. I printed off recipies from other sites and came up with my own.

2lb beef rump roast
garlic powder
italian seasoning
1 cup red wine (I used the 2 buck chuck shiraz)
2/3 cup water
packet of lipton onion soup
1 large onion
1 cup beef stock
carrots
potatoes

brown the roast in the presure cooker pot no lid use some oil in the bottom. (I learned that if you don’t brown the roast first, it’ll come out kinda ugly grey). I seasoned the roast with the garlic powder and italian seasoning at this point. I added the chopped up onion after browning the roast. Then add the wine, water and beef stock. you might want to deglaze the pot at this point too. Use whatever red wine you like to drink. If you don’t like the flavor to drink, you wont like the flavor to cook with either. Add the lipton soup packet stir it up, get it nice and boily, then put the lid on, make sure you’ve got a good seal and wait for it to pressure up. Then lower the heat to maintain the pressure and let it cook for 25 minutes. At that point let it depressurize on it’s own (turn off the heat, move to empty off burner) let it sit. it’ll keep cooking as it sits and depressurizes. Once that is done get the juices and meat simmering again with no lid, put in the potatoes and carrots, boil up with a lid (no pressure) for like 20 min or so until soft. then gravy up your juice as you would normally. And voila! you’ve got an awesome pressure cooker roast.

It isn’t as scary as I thought. If you’ve got a pressure cooker with the jiggling circle thing, just make sure the rubber seal is good. and make sure the pot is clean and the valve thing is clear of any obstructions. Just read up on all that Miss Vickie says about it. you’ll be fine. a pressure cooker rocks cuz you can cook a whole roast in just an hour. Easy peasy… Although next time I’m going to try putting the potatoes and carrots in with the roast. I think I’m going to go get another piece of roast.

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