Week Three Begins

The first couple of weeks of the semester are always hectic. This time around, it was compounded by the move. If I need an excuse for not posting much lately, there it is: prep for a new-to-me class; a senior project student with - no, I'd better not mention that; getting stuff unpacked and put away (mostly, but not completely, done now); and weather oscillating from single-digits F to fiftyish.

I've been thinking about the "Sunday Music" posts. Too many of them have been perfunctory, dealing with albums I really have nothing to say about. I'm going to continue the series, but just with the albums that I have some feelings about (stronger than "ok, pretty nice").

I think I'm also going to do some posts about webcomics, starting, probably, with El Goonish Shive. I'm rather enjoying the current plot-arc, dealing with the fallout from Elliot and Sarah's break-up.

And maybe there'll be some math. And maybe baseball. And cooking. And whatever else comes to mind.

Slow Cooking

As I mentioned, one of the books I got over Christmas was a book of slow-cooker recipes. Today, I flipped through it and settled on a recipe for pork chops with apple-cherry dressing. I went to Shop'n'Save for the ingredients (and other staples), quickly fixed them up, and got the cooker to working at about 1:00.

Six hours later....

I just finished the first helping. The chops are melt-in-the-mouth tender, and the dressing is delicious - even if I couldn't find dried cherries and had to settle for Craisins (infused with genuine cherry juice!). This should take care of all my dinners for this week. Mmm....

Slow cookers are great when you already have something to do while they're at it. I found myself trying to come up with things to putter around with... but it was worth the wait.