two thirds of a post ...
Feb. 3rd, 2011 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oThing the first: Today is the first day of the year of the rabbit. (Happy year of the rabbit!) This year we kept our observance small, but I still wanted to do something festive. Usually I steam a whole fish, but neither RM nor the BG likes fish, so I went with a whole chicken instead -- and since we were eating on a weeknight, I cooked it in the slow cooker. (I've made a whole chicken that way before, and it was amazing -- just falling off the bone.)
Anyhow, I got home, and the slow cooker was sitting all warm on the counter, and with the BG's help I worked on the sides, the nian gao, etc., and then once everything else was ready I opened the crockpot -- and the chicken was practically RAW. =(
Thing the second: Operation Ranch Hand was an ongoing mission to disperse the Agent Orange defoliant in Vietnam. Their motto? "Only you can prevent a forest." (Obv. I am an EVIL person, because this made me laugh and laugh.)
Anyhow, I got home, and the slow cooker was sitting all warm on the counter, and with the BG's help I worked on the sides, the nian gao, etc., and then once everything else was ready I opened the crockpot -- and the chicken was practically RAW. =(
Thing the second: Operation Ranch Hand was an ongoing mission to disperse the Agent Orange defoliant in Vietnam. Their motto? "Only you can prevent a forest." (Obv. I am an EVIL person, because this made me laugh and laugh.)