This month, I was really hoping for the recipe for Friday's Tuna Chow Mein (served with wedge salad, bran muffins, and tapioca pudding, obviously!), but no such luck. Most of the recipes are for desserty-type things, which I guess should be no surprise given that menus often end with a lot of sweets: fruit salad and baked custard, cinnamon apple salad and devil's food cake, or hot cross buns and chocolate chip cookies. We mostly get recipes for pretty boring sweets, like various types of custard. I guess the baked frosting (a brown-sugar-sweetened meringue) is about the most intriguing recipe of the lot unless you're excited by the thrifty chicken loaf meant to use up the last of Sunday's chicken dinner.
This month's horoscope definitively proves that I am not a Pisces: sensitive, sympathetic, and agreeable? Excellent companion? Deeply religious? No on all accounts! (I can't resist suggesting that the some of those qualities seem self-contradictory to me anyway, so you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find anyone who fit them all.)
And since Rawleigh is always trying to sell their home remedies, they want to remind us that the arrival of warmer weather may also mean the arrival of more farm work.
March is apparently a real pain in the back! But "Don't let an aching back or sore muscle stop you right in the middle of your work!" There's no point in using back pain as an excuse to slow down and enjoy a beautiful spring day (or at least the fact that the kids are now occasionally tracking mud inside instead of snow). Use Rawleigh products so you can get back to tractoring the fields, or strawing up the barn, or admonishing the living room furniture to look sharp, or rearranging the tomatoes you canned last summer to try to convince yourself that you may actually have used a few jars for something at some point and not just spent the better part of a week sweating to produce something that no one actually wants to eat...
Yes, Rawleigh will help you keep your March marching on. No lollygagging just because the flowers are starting to come out! Now eat some custard and get back to work.
The Pisces we know exhibits exactly one of those characteristics.
ReplyDeleteThe name thrifty chicken loaf scares me. The recipe doesn't help much. Also, what's so thrifty about pimentos? Sure you only use a little bit, but a jar of those suckers was a few bucks back when I worked night stock at the grocery store more years ago than we care to discuss. I hate to think of the price now. I don't think it would help to economize by buying green olives and picking the pimentos out for this recipe and eating the olives later.
Yes-- and it's the one that impresses us the least.
DeleteEverything seemed to call for pimentos back then. I think cookbook writers thought of them as something that people just had on hand all the time, and thus kind of free (even though they were obviously bought at some point).