I made blueberry muffins today.   And then I was exhausted.  So now I'm on here.  I should do something productive, but beyond laundry and the muffins, I'm beat.  I attribute this to some kind of Covid hangover.  I feel so much better but I'm just tired.

Apparently, white button mushrooms are known as cogomelos de Paris in Portugal.  How these common grocery store mushrooms became associated with Paris is a mystery to me.  But I had the best mushroom risotto of my life at the "Monastery of Piglets" (Mosteiro de Leitão) near Batalha.  It was so creamy and the mushrooms seemed like wild large brown ones.  Not crimini, not portobello, but I'd love to know the recipe so I can replicate it.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever really tasted the vodka in vodka sauce, but Simek's has something special going on there. Also a woman run business, which surprised me. They do a lot of good works as part of their business. Apparently when I bought my ziti, another was donated to food banks. I like that.

They're mostly a meatball company but I guess I got lucky. I got mine at publix. I didn't post in the plant based thread, but so far of the michaelangelo frozen ziti, I prefer the meatless one best, it's more like mac and cheese than a lasagna. For me, Ziti is about cheese.

We got a frozen green bean cassarole for next week and I joked about how we never have green beans and those crispy onions at the same time. My aunt said she has the same problem! The crispy onions sit and sit and then they're past date and you're left wondering why you bought them if you never used them.

Cream of mushroom soup has been a massive "no" for me from childhood. I once heated up a can for "lunch" when I was maybe five or six. I ate WAY too much of it, and the obvious happened. Since then I can't stand the smell or flavor. Mom said she once had that problem with ketchup.

Just noticed this post and I'm posting so it shows up in my list. I haven't the time to reply right now but this topic definitely interests me considering I haven't eaten meat for 33 years.

Yeah.  I'd really have to rethink whether it would be advisable to keep a dog that attacked people like that.  It's one thing for a dog to feel threatened and to protect itself, its turf, owners, etc.  It's quite another thing for it to flip out and go on the attack like that.

There's a whole book called "Born Under Saturn" about famous left handed artists, one of the most prominent being Leonardo da Vinci.  Left handed people are special, just because they're different.  I wonder that being inclined that way gives one an entirely different spacial orientation.  I once took a modern dance class and was astonished at what a clutz I was just trying to do moves that were simple and easy to the right when I attempted to replicate them to the left.  It's odd how our brains get structured by repetition of bodily tasks.

The Covid has taken away much of my motivation to cook, so we've been eating what my dear husband wants to fix.  Last night it was a big salad.  That's fine with me since it's been kind of warm here lately.

I like a variety of pasta sauces although I tend to stay away from the creamy white sauces due to the heavy calorie load.  The vodka sauce ziti sounds pretty good.  I was surprised to find that the Safeway (Albertsons and its many subsidiaries carry this) Signature Select Vodka sauce is cheap and tasty.  It's an odd mix of tomatoes and cream.  If there's vodka in it, it's pretty much cooked off all the alcohol.

We started watching a quirky black comedy last night on amazon prime, The Sticky.  It's pretty dark but also funny.  Maple syrup farmers out for revenge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sticky

The show was pretty odd but really entertaining.  Sad that they pulled the plug after only one season.  6 episodes and we are left hanging with no further episodes.  Oh well, now to find something else to watch!  I'm open to recommendations...