Sure thing ALLISON...as soon as Angie gets home from back-cracker.

speaking of bed...I thought YOU were going there....

I haven't seen this, but it sounds yummy.

Quick dinner idea

Frozen cooked shrimp (or leftover cooked chicken, pork, etc.)
chopped up garlic in a jar (optional)
chopped up ginger in a jar (optional)
onion - optional
pepper - optional
olive oil (can add sesame oil if you have it)
coleslaw mix
soy sauce (optional)
peanuts chopped up or a tsp peanut butter (optional)
Quick cooking brown rice in a bag (optional)

put the amount of shrimp you want to thaw in running cold water (in a bowl or colander)
Follow instructions for rice and put in microwave (mine calls for a quart of water and 10 minutes)
Put olive oil in a pan and heat
Cut up an onion and/or pepper if you have them and if you have time to cut them up. Add to pan.
Add garlic and/or ginger if you have it.
Add coleslaw mix (and onions and peppers) to the pan and stir until wilted.
Drain shrimp once it has thawed - minutes.
Add shrimp to pan and stir to heat through. Remove from heat as soon as food is warmed through.
Add soy sauce, peanuts, peanut butter (optional)

So this can be as simple as shrimp and cabbage stir fried and as elaborate as a 3 veggies and shrimp stir fried with a tasty ginger/garlic/peanut/soy sauce on brown rice. You can also add red pepper flakes if you like it spicy. Can take as little as ten minutes.

I did go to bed. Now I'm up and getting ready for work. Graves doncha know.

Well, now I'm gonna have to come back to these pages this weekend and put some feedbag on. These recipes look good.

By "weekend" I mean my days off. Who cares about the rest of the world.

IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!!!

Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe

Saute sliced carrots, celery, onion in olive oil
add 1 can Rotelle diced tomatoes with lime and cilantro
add 3 to 4 cups of chicken broth
add 2 - 3 chicken breasts simmer about 20 minutes or until chicken is cooked
remove chicken, shread it, and put it back into pot

serve soup garnished with fresh chopped cilantro and tortilla strips/chips

You can use a rotisserie chicken if you like. When I do, I add it about 5 minutes before serving.

OK, I'm off to find Rotelle diced tomatoes with lime and cilantro.

It just sounds good.



I take it that the new non-topic is for all of us to be concerned with da Operator's sleep cycle. Is she getting enough sleep? Is she properly shifting from day to night shifts? Dose she go to bed when she declares she's going to bed.

This could keep us busy for a while.

Gee whiz. Where is everybody? I'm lonely. I have abandonment issues, ya know.

No Rotelle 'maters up here but I am pretty good about substituting. Lime and cilantro, OK. Anything else?
As to Operator, I'm concerned about her digging graves at night. Does she wear garlic?

Morning!

What's this about Operator digging graves- Yeeepers, that is Scary.

Operators just got up from an unscheduduled nap. I love weather delays!!!! You people would be amazed at the weird positions I can get into on this haul truck. Laid out across the console with my head IN my lunchbag, one foot caught in the steering wheel, the other wedged between the seat and the door. Thank heavens I woke up about five minutes before they opened the road. If one of these freaks would have had to wake me up, that picture would have been on every cell phone in the mine by the time I got on the bus out at the end of shift. Drool and all!

Scuse me now. I gotta rub the thermos imprint outta my face and clean my truck before shift change.

....and then she fell asleep. Oy!

Trying to picture all of that Operator. How on Earth did you get your head in your lunch bag? That is the only part that miffles me, I can understand the other parts, just not the lunchbag.

First Gary's confused about about whether Operator was in bed or not.

Then it's whether she's asleep or not.

Then it's whether she's at work or not.

Then it's whether she's asleep at work or not.

Now I wonder if she's posting from her 100 ton truck in the middle of the night while asleep at work. Or not.

"Inquiring minds want to know."