From My Chair

 hello to all! Hope this new year is much better to all than that of last year.  We are finally going to open the bottle of bubbly that Mark bought two years ago!  Don't know if this is good luck or not, but booze and a wheelchair don't mix together very well so special occasions is the only time I take a sip and that is it.  I never disclosed the reason the blog is called "From my chair". (desde mi silla).  On February this coming year, it will be exactly 20 years since I became totally dependent on a wheelchair and this is not an anniversary I look forward to.  After a full laminectomy that NO ONE told me would put me in a world of hurt (to give an idea, I was being given morphine intravenously and it did not even register the pain level), to point that one of the specialized nurses looked at me and said, "with the level of pain you are going through, I honestly don't know why you are still alive".  Not something one wants to hear.... The famous diagno

 Esta receta fue puesta por Mark y como su apellido es Slaw, le hace gracia ponerse como Cabbage Hill!  Humor sureno! El nunca vio receta parecida y sale bastante bien.  Si alguien quisiera probarla, haganlo y avisen como les fue!   CABBAGE HILL PAELLA DE TOMATILLOS 1 ½ A 2 LIBRAS DE TOMATILLOS 1 PIMIENTO DULCE VERDE CORTADO CHIQUITO 1 CEBOLLA CORTADA FINAMENTE 1 MANOJO CILANTRO CORTADO FINAMENTE ½ LIBRA DE TOCINO 2 TAZAS DE ARROZ TIPO ARBORIO 3 – 4 AJIES TIPO JALAPENOS, CORTADOS EN TIRAS FINAS 4 TAZAS CALDO DE POLLO O DE GALLINA (PREFERENCIA PERSONAL) 1 CDTA. PIMENTON DULCE (PAPRIKA) 1 TOQUE DE AZAFRAN 1 BOLSA DE ARVEJAS CONGELADAS, QUE HAN SIDO DESCONGELADAS) CORTAR EL TOCINO EN CUADRITOS Y FREIRLO PARA QUE SUELTE EL ACEITE. UNA VEZ QUE ESTA COCIDO, SACARLO Y ESCURRIRLO SOBRE TOALLA DE PAPEL. PONERLO AL LADO Y GUARDARLO POR EL MOMENTO. SALTAR LA CEBOLLA EN EL ACEITE DEL TOCINO HASTA QUE ESTE TRANSLUCENTE. ANADIR VERDURAS Y COCINAR

 

  FROM MY CHAIR: Hello dearest all! Today is Thursday, December 23 rd , and in four days time, will be 30 years since we got married! It still seems incredible that we are together after all these years! Let me start now with the purpose of this blog and it is to connect families together that are far apart in distance and not knowing where we are. This blog is to connect people together and can be used for that. One of the things that connects us all is food, flowers, and art. Here I would love to have family post memories they have of cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, kids etc. Some memories are of recipes, for example, Violeta’s famous Christmas cookies and the cookie fest she would throw for the nuns in Lima, and some of the nuns had to get dispensation from the Archbishop of Lima to attend this get together. One time, she made about 9 kinds of cookies and spent most of the nights decorating the cookies so that my brother, my sister and I (and our da