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Thai Curry Stir Fry

May 25, 2006 by Tricia

Thirteen Things about Tonights Dinner

1…. This is such a fantastic dinner I thought I’d give you the recipe.

2…. Start with 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken breast cut up into small pieces.

3…. Add 1 tbsp Canola oil to a large pan or wok, heat on low until oil is hot and then add the chicken to the pan, stirring occasionally until the meat looks cooked.

4…. Add one can of Thai Green Curry sauce. Most grocery stores seem to carry this these days, just look in the aisle where rice is sold, or where products to make Chinese, Mexican and Indian foods are sold.

5…. The Thai curry sauce is hot, so I often add a half can of Coconut milk to it to tone it down. Works beautifully.

6…. Once the sauce, coconut milk and chicken has simmered on low for 5 minutes I add the rest of the ingredients.

7…. I was lazy this evening. I added two cups of frozen veggies consisting of cauliflower, carrot, broccoli. I also had some pre-chopped frozen peppers and zucchini in the freezer that I added to the mix.

8…. 1 can of sliced water chestnuts

9…. 1 cup snow peas (you know the green pea shells)

10…. Let this mix simmer for another 15 minutes on low heat.

11…. While the above ingredients were cooking I got out another pot and heated water in it. I then added a package of Rice Vermicelli noodles to the water and let the noodles sit in the warm water for 5 minutes to soften up.

12…. When the Thai curry stir fry looks and smells (mmmmm) done (approximately 20 to 25 minutes from the start of cooking) toss in the vermacelli noodles and serve. This curry can also be served over a bed of rice, which is the way we usually have it.

13…. Now I just need someone to feed. It’s almost 8 p.m. and our border hasn’t come home yet. He hasn’t even called to say he would be late. I’m ticked because he does this all the time. I think it’s just rude and disrespectful. Don’t you? My husband won’t be home until after 10 p.m. because he’s working an evening shift. He can, and will, enjoy the meal when he comes home.

Well, maybe my roomie Noi will enjoy this meal with me. She has her own Thursday Thirteen up now too, so go see her!





Filed Under: Borders, Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Recipes, Recreation, Thursday Thirteen Tagged With: Borders, dinner, eat, Food, home, Home and Lifestyle, hot, husband, Recipes, Thai curry stir fry, Thursday Thirteen

New Domain – Cheap? Contest

May 23, 2006 by Tricia

I need some suggestions. Contest involved!


I want to get a new domain but I don’t know which company to buy one from. I bought my last two directly from my hosting company, but they charged me close to $15 per domain. I’m pretty sure I can get a new domain or two for a little less.

Any ideas?

I can’t use Go-Daddy either. My hosting company has some kind of problem with Go- Daddy domains. I think they don’t transfer properly from one host to another.

I want to move all of my bl0gs over to one domain. Which will mean moving Tricia’s Musings and perhaps Odd Planet over to the new site. I’m not even sure what I’m going to do with Odd Planet. I was thinking about re-designing it, but I think I’ll hold off and possibly move it first.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good domain name? Something easy to remember, and not too long?

Now here’s the contest part:

1. Give me some suggestions on where I can purchase a domain for a low price. If I decide to go with the company that you suggest I’ll give that person 250 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits. If the company is suggested more than once I may only give credits out to the first person to suggest that company.

2. Name the Domain

Suggest a short but memorable domain name. If I decide to use it (and can secure it!) I’ll give the winner 1000 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits.

3. I may choose to go with a designer, especially if I move Odd Planet. It desperately needs a re-design. I like WordPress so the two new sites and likely Odd Planet will be WordPress sites. If I decide to be too lazy to do it myself I might get a designer to help me out. Suggest a designer that does wordpress sites (not too expensive, we might be talking three sites here!) and I’ll give the winner 500 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits if I go with a designer.

Filed Under: Blogging, Contest, Internet, Web and Technology, Web Hosting, Website Promotion, Wordpress Tagged With: blog, blogs, Contest, design, designer, domain, hosting, idea, ideas, Internet, moving, name suggestions, odd planet, secure, sites, Website Promotion, Wordpress

Cold as Ice

May 22, 2006 by Tricia

I just heard the ice cream truck go by blaring it’s loud monkey circus music, well that’s what it reminds me of anyway. I think the guy must be high on something. It’s freezing here! 9 C or for those on the other side of the border that’s 48.2 F. Yep, I want an ice-cream when it’s this cold. Not! Brrrr!

I’ve been freezing all weekend. I’ve been hanging out in an ice hockey arena though so that’s probably why. Chris’ brother came up from Chicago with his youngest son for a spring hockey tournament, so I’ve been hanging out and partying with a bunch of Americans all weekend.

Considering how cold it’s been here I should have gone to Florida and hung out at Mr. Dribble uh Drivels Fabulous Karaoke party. Sounds like it was a blast and heck it’s warm there!

Why would they hold a tournament on our long weekend? Don’t they know this is the big camping weekend in Canada? The May 24? Victoria Day? Did my nephew’s Pee Wee team win the tournament? No. He did play very well though, scored almost all the goals for his team, but then he’s half Canadian so it’s in his blood.

Friday night we staying in a hotel that’s attached to the airport. I have no idea why it’s important to tell you that the hotel was attached to the airport but I did, so whatever. It was surprisingly quiet considering … well our room wasn’t, but the hotel with all the air traffic flying overhead was.

We shared a room with Chris’ brother T and kept the people on either side of our room awake all night. Sorry to anyone that was next door to us … and oh, thank you for your very polite note of complaint. I can’t believe someone would write such a polite note, and compliment my husband on his guitar playing, even though this poor person had to get up early to work. I did try to get the guys to settle down a bit around 3 a.m. but they weren’t listening to me. We finally crashed around 5:30 a.m.

My nephews second game of the tournament was at 8:30 a.m. T and I didn’t make it … we just couldn’t get up, but my husband managed to go and watch them lose. It seems that my nephew only won the games I watched – Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. I guess I should have gone to Sunday’s game huh? Maybe they would have won the tournament.

All the in-laws were staying in the hotel too. By late Saturday night I’d had enough and wanted to go home to sleep in my own bed. Besides, T out did himself Friday night and early Saturday morning. He fell asleep in the van after his son’s second game on Saturday while we were traveling to this wonderful steak house that he really wanted to eat at. He’d been longing for a big juicy steak. We ended up leaving him in the van while we went in to eat the delicious food. We did get him something to eat, we aren’t that cruel, but after he ate he fell asleep again on the floor in his parents hotel room. Did I say he’d been drinking all day without eating anything up until the time we got back to the hotel? No, well he was. That’s when Chris and I decided to leave. We were afraid that if T did wake up he’d want to party again and while that might be fun he did have to drive all the way back to Chicago the next day after his son’s last game.

Sunday was another brief out-law day, and then home to relax in my own house. The out-laws are just nuts. I’ll tell you about them some time, probably when they do something stupid meaning it won’t be in the too far distant future.

If I ever warm up we might go and watch the fireworks this evening. There’s usually a spectacular display at Ontario place or Ashbridges Bay on Victoria day. Or I suppose we could take our chances and walk to the park down the street. There are always some fools out their with their own fireworks. Of course you have to be alert when you’re watching amature fireworks displays because they go off sideways and usually directly into the crowd as often as they go up in the air.

Maybe we will do the park thing. Running around avoiding misfired fire works is not only good exercise but it will also keep me warm.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music Tagged With: Chris, cold, Entertainment, Family, fireworks, freezing, Home and Lifestyle, husband, ice hockey, Life with Chris, Music, tournament, Victoria Day

Breath of Life

May 20, 2006 by Tricia

PSHunt
Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme.

Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

Todays theme is Flowers

This rose is called Breath of Life and it’s a climbing rose. I think this is one of the best rose photo’s that I’ve taken.

breath of life Climbing Rose

Links to Other Photo Scavenger Hunt Participants:

please only list your name if you have a recent Photo Scavenger hunt post

Filed Under: Photo Hunters, Photography, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: blog, Breath of Life, camera, climbing rose, digital camera, flower, flowers, Photo Hunters, Photography, Saturday photo scavenger hunt, Tricia's Garden

Who do I choose?

May 19, 2006 by Tricia

I put my site up for rent early this morning and when I checked there were 10 bidders! How am I supposed to choose?

Do I choose one of the youngest sites to promote it? I did think about doing that, but of the first 5 sites that I listed below one was created in May, and the other four in April! Arghhh.

Ok back to the old stand-by … who has bid here before and who has bid most often without yet being selected? Why that would be Noi from Voicing my thoughts, of course!

Noi has just finished redesigning her site and changing addresses too! She’s very happy with her new design so it would be nice of you to stop by and tell he what you think.

In her own words:
“You can call me Noi! From Singapore, this blog consists of thoughts I have chosen to share. Thoughts shape the person that you are and that is what this blog all about. Shaping myself under hot pressure so I can be a diamond. I am just a simple person with BIG dreams! I believe in the law of sow and reap and whatever you do you will get it back. So if you do good, good will come to you if not..u know what will come to you.”

I’ve found her site to be very thoughtful and inspirational and I hope that you will too.

Filed Under: Rent my site, Website Promotion Tagged With: beautiful, blog, blogs, design, happy, promote, Rent, Rent my site, Renter, singapore, Voicing my Thoughts, Website Promotion

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