Good evening. Sorry for being absent, but Jack is having multiple swelling issues with his tongue and it’s consuming my thoughts. All his allergy tests have been negative and his blood test came back normal so we are fit to be tied what it could be. Last night he started tongue swelling about 6 pm and it just got worse and worse. The poor man was dribbling from not being able to swallow very well, but his throat wasn’t swollen. He couldn’t do an epi shot because he had taken oral antihistamine and he kept vacillating about what he should do. He was so miserable and nothing helped. We put ice packs on his jaw area hoping it’d help but it did nothing. I put the tv on to try and relax him and we watched a ton of, “Delicious Destinations” episodes and finally around 1 AM he said the swelling was going down. The aftereffects are a very sore tongue, which is still sore tonight, but at least he ate dinner. I told him he needs to go back to the allergist and get them to figure out what to do next.
CeeJay: I’ll say a prayer for them all to get better quickly. Hope they can get the daughter away while they’re all sick since she is negative. My nephew got covid and was horribly sick for a month. I heard today getting a flu shot can help to lessen symptoms if you get it. I’ll do the best I can, but I’m a throw together cook.
Smothered chicken
4-8 dark meat chicken pieces
1/4 c oil
4 tbl butter
3 c chicken stock
3/4 c flour
1/2 tsp garlic powder
heat oil and butter in deep skillet
salt and pepper chicken then dredge in flour tapping off excess. brown chicken, remove and set aside
drain all but 1/4 c of oil/butter mixture
sprinkle about 4 tbl flour combined with garlic powder into oil mixture and stir to make a roux. cook it about 2 minutes but don’t let it burn. Pour your chicken stock in and cook on high to med high until gravy consistency. Place browned chicken in gravy, turn temp to low, place lid on and simmer for about 35-40 minutes turning every 10 minutes. Test by sticking a fork in chicken. If it’s done, fork will easily go to the bone.
Jean: I looked at your temps tonight.
We were in the 70’s today. I had to turn ac on yesterday. I figure out what I can do. The back with be more stripes than front, but I can cast on 3 colors, left, center, right in gray, white, and pink so they’ll be fat stripes but will be horizontal like the back. I saved a video of casting on for intarsia knitting that is better than any I’ve learned so will use that. I’ll do a photo when I get it finished, but I’ve been a nervous wreck about Jack and can’t keep my mind on anything.
Time to go to bed!
They aren’t visible in the store and the clerk went to the back room to get them. The doctor said either the local shoe store or a pharmacy would have them.
