or "fritters". Been craving it for a while. Not that hot soup is needed, as we're in a mini-hot spell. I called my dad and he said the north-east is down-right bone chilling. Ugh. Hang in there, and double up on the comforters!

It's 15 degrees in Chicago so it's good comfort food. Had Brussels sprouts as a side.

Tomato salad.

All hell is breaking out all over DU but we're just discussing dinner. What a relief We're having broiled delmonico steak with a wonderful sauce...I'm not sure what, DH is cooking...and sauteed asparagus

Every time I turn around, I'm being asked to do jury duty.



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or, me three... which is funny, because I just got a summons for actual jury duty in the mail yesterday. Hope I get selected.

North of NYC, it's 4 degrees with wind chills down to 20 below zero.

During the winter, I save a turkey breast in the freezer for occasions like this, when I'm essentially housebound due to the weather.

I chose sweet potato fries to go with. I tried items other than lettuce at the salad bar, as I've had plenty of green salads recently. This place has an interesting bread basket, and there's raisin-walnut bread in there that makes even me have a slice of bread. On their salad buffet, they have oddball things like chicken livers, which are very good. The regular items, too, like cole slaw, potato salad, and all kinds of raw vegetables.

Great time--one of the teachers recently returned from Uzbekistan. She'd been in a number of other countries in that part of the world. Told a scary story about how, in one of them, she was asked to return six months after she'd been there. She performed the job duties required, but when she left, they wanted her to say she'd been there the entire six months! Why? Because they were trying to get the grant money for that time. She refused to do it and contacted the American consulate , who got her out of there immediately. I'd have been scared. She admitted she had a sleepless night.

This teacher had worked in dozens of countries, many of them in places of strife. It was nice to hear her say that in every situation she'd been in, the American consulate was there for her.



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I got the Sea Bass from Whole Foods yesterday because it was just too beautiful to pass up. It was my splurge for the week, and some three creme cowgirl cheese, Italian cherries and crackers was my Valentine's gift to my self. I took the crackers and cheese and cherries to mom's and left them with her last night. We ate so many of them that I wasn't hungry when I got home, making tonight a MUST DO for the Sea Bass. I made a pan sauce with a little butter, capers, garlic, lemon and extra virgin olive oil, but even though it was tasty, NOTHING needed to be served with that Sea Bass.

It was the most spectacular thing I have ever made (that's why Sea Bass is capitalized like a proper noun)