Thursday, September 19, 2002
I missed my time with my pal M this week. We were suppose to try creating English garden troughs. It was to be an all-day adventure lugging around bags of peat and concrete and sand. But Tuesday night around 11 I finally decided to eat. (I had been really busy getting ready for a show.) I made a toasted cheese sandwich, minus the crust and added 3 strips of leftover bacon.
I slept fitfully all night...sleep 2 hours, up for 2...finally rising at 10:45!
When I called M she said that one of her exhusbands worked on the pipeline in Alaska. Well, you know how they have hours and hours of nighttime? Guess how they stay awake? They eat fat...BLUBBER! Fat keeps you awake!!!!!!!!! So if you are ever really tired and need to stay awake eat bacon.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2002
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Yes! I went to see Train today. One of the guiarists is from Chicago (I believe his name is Stafford.) and the band loves Chicago, so they did an impromtu set up in Lincoln Park and jammed. They even did a new song. Amazing, and so up close and personal. There were only fifty people or so!
WGN mentioned it on the noon news (I am such a news freak.) and I ran out of my house so fast I didn't even take my digital :(
The local teevee peeps interviewed some girl who said something like "this is no big deal and I am bored." Another cynic trying to spit on everyone's good time. Go away.
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Bob Greene...you can't sit on a pedestal and....oh man free TRAIN concert in Lincon Park....gotta goo.........
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hello hello is this blog working today???????????????
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Tuesday, September 17, 2002
How to Live on Soup
I live on soup and you can too. Here are my secret recipes. All of them start out with a can of Campbell’s. (I have tried to make soup from scratch but it ends up tasting like water and veggies. I mean REALLY bland. Yes, I do add herbs. Still they are failures.)
Now to the good stuff…
* Chicken Noodle: I make this three ways…either add a clove of crushed garlic or do it Greek-style and add a big squeeze of lemon or I sprinkle on crushed red peppers. Sometimes I do all three! These miraculous broths are what I call my healing soups and everyone I feed them to believes they work like magic…because they do!
· *Cream of Celery: Do this one the morning after you had bacon and eggs or pancakes for dinner. Reserve two strips of bacon. Then make up your celery soup as usual and crumble the leftover bacon into the simmering soup. Tasty!
· * Vegetable Beef: This is a really good idea for those days when you were so busy doing stuff that you forgot to eat. Put your soup on. Oh, add a quarter can more water than usual. Meanwhile make dumplings right off the Bisquick box. Well, actually half the recipe: 1 cup Bisquick, 1/3 cup water. When the soup comes to a boil, drop spoonfuls of dumpling dough into the saucepan. Cook as it says on the box: 10 minutes uncovered, 10 minutes covered. This is hearty and delicious.
· *Cream of Mushroom: Slice up 5 mushrooms and sauté them in butter. Add the soup and the milk. Heat. This is deluxe. Good enough for a party. Use the rest of the mushrooms with the rib eyes you will make for dinner.
· *Cream of Chicken: This is actually a brunch thing I do. Crack open a can of flaky biscuits. Bake. Cook soup using only half of the milk recommended. Place biscuits on plate. Pour on some of the chicky soup. Viola! I think this might be my Northern Girl version of biscuits and gravy. Try it. You will like it.
· Get well soon.
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