A Recipe to Keep

 When I read recipes that sound good I bookmark them and save them under recipes. Tuesday as I prepared my grocery list I went looking for a shrimp recipe I thought I'd bookmarked from Denise of An English Girl Rambles but couldn't find it.  Instead I came across her recipe for Healthy Eggroll in a Bowl.

One of the key ingredients is a bag of coleslaw mix (cabbage and carrots). I realized I didn't need to purchase that because I had a head of Napa cabbage from last week's CSA pickup plus carrots from same source.  I did have to purchase the ground pork.

I made the recipe Tuesday night and it was so good.  A keeper.  Here are the ingredients:

Healthy Eggroll in a Bowl

1 lb. ground sausage (we used ground pork the first time, ground turkey the second and both were very good)
1 bag fresh coleslaw mix with shredded cabbage and carrots
5 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon ginger
A sliced green onion

Here are my modfications:

*instead of 1 lb. of ground pork I used 1/2 lb.

*I quartered the Napa cabbage and used one carrot plus two stalks of celery

*to the sauce I added some sesame oil

*I used three cloves of garlic instead of 5

*I added a cup of leftover cooked rice

To serve I added some Chinese noodles and a drizzle of sweet and sour sauce (not shown).

In case you're wondering the other bowl has our dessert: Cara Cara orange slices, banana and coconut.

Thanks Denise, for this recipe.  Now can you tell if you've posted one about shrimp in the last year?  I did buy a bag of frozen fresh shrimp to use.

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Lest We Forget

 

On the 5th anniversary of Jan 6th, NPR launches a public archive of evidence Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR It’s been five years since the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the days that followed the riot, the story the country coalesced around seemed straightforward: a violent attack by Trump supporters that interrupted the peaceful transfer of presidential power — a stunning incident of “violence, lawlessness, and mayhem” that “defiled the seat of American democracy.” Those words did not come from Joe Biden or Liz Cheney. That’s how Donald Trump himself described the attack the following day. The riot stunned the country and triggered the largest criminal investigation in modern American history. Five years later, that consensus has shattered. Trump now describes Jan. 6 as a “day of love,” and issued mass pardons to nearly every rioter, including the most violent. His administration has pushed a version of events that bears little resemblance to what played out in courtrooms and on camera.  In response to this disinformation campaign, NPR’s Investigations team leaned into the evidence. Just after the riot, our team began tracking every criminal case stemming from that day, collecting the evolving information on 1,575 defendants into a public and searchable database, which formed the backbone of our reporting.  Now, NPR has built the most comprehensive, evidence-first archive of Jan. 6, so you can view exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there: Rioters who filmed themselves, Capitol surveillance feeds, body-camera footage from cops who were assaulted, screenshots and video podcasts and charging documents. In total, a comprehensive accounting of the riot from evidence vetted in court. As part of this process, I spoke with rioters in jail as they awaited trial, police officers who defended the Capitol, and the families of both Ashli Babbitt, a rioter who was shot and killed by police, and Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who suffered multiple strokes after being pepper sprayed by the mob. Along the way, we broke stories about how rioters descended into bitter infighting over donations, with one likening it to "Mean Girls, but with racist, antisemitic extremists”; about Trump's Bedminster golf club hosting a Jan. 6 rioter alleged to be a "Nazi sympathizer”; about police bodycam footage showing a Trump Justice Department employee calling police “Gestapo” and yelling “kill ‘em” as rioters assaulted cops; and about another Trump appointee comparing Jan. 6 prosecutors to infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. (In one way or another, the people I covered seemed to constantly reference Nazi Germany.) We’ve envisioned the archive to be like a Jan. 6 museum — you can wander through the timeline of what happened that day, go deep on some of the most persistent myths, search the database by name and explore charges, outcomes, and key court records. In hundreds of cases you can also view video evidence pulled from federal exhibits. (Fair warning: many of the videos include profanity and violence.) — By Tom Dreisbach, correspondent on NPR’s Investigations team

What a New Year Beginning!

 I could be referring to what our idiot President has done but it's a given that it's a mess.

No, I'm upset by what we discovered this morning.

Dan gets an email whenever our Visa card is used.  I get the one for Discover. This morning he got notice of a $1 charge to GooglePay.  I made the call wondering if this was for extra storage on this blog. The service agent didn't think it was a concern because it was likely some charge we hadn't realized we'd agreed to.  She did refer it to claims as a disputed charge.  No need to cancel the account she assured me.

Then this afternoon the same charge shows up two times along with a $3000+ charge to Microsoft! Not us making that purchase.

I got on the phone to call the claims department and was put on a long hold.  After a bit Dan decided to call the number on the back of our cards and he got through so I hung up on my call which was still on hold after 20 minutes. 

The agent Dan spoke with took his information and canceled the account.  New cards will come in the mail.  She said not to link the new account to anything until after the new card arrives as those links on ApplePay and Mobile may be compromised.

This is not the first or the second time this has happened with Visa.  After the last time we shifted to PayPal when we could and linked the other credit card to it.

Here's the mystery though.  All the previous incidents were after shopping at Home Depot.  Guess where I was on Friday to get birdseed and a new suet feeder? Yes, Home Depot.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.

How often does this happen to you?