Chili Verde
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
My new toy
I got a new toy this week-well, last week but I was too sick to play with it. It's an Instant Pot. I've heard amazing things about them, but I'm just too cheap to get one. And I don't need one, I have a rice cooker, and a pressure cooker, and a slow cooker. I'm fine. But it was on sale and like I said, I've heard amazing things about them. So I bought one. I've used it 3 times so far and let me tell you. I love it. I've cooked beans twice. Both times without soaking them, and going from dry to fully cook-if even a little mushy- in 1 hour. I'm sold. Tonight I made beans then I turned around and cooked a pork roast for chili verde in about an hour too. It was so melt in your mouth good. I'm posting the link to the recipe. TRY IT!!! You can do it in the crock pot too, it will just take you all. day.
Chili Verde
Chili Verde
Trying to do better
When we started this blog I thought for sure that I'd have plenty of time to post. I needed a creative outlet, and this was perfect. But I apparently forgot that I have 6 crazy busy body children, a smoking hot husband that I just want to hang out with, I was taking classes and had a church calling. Life is busy. Since then, I still have 6 crazy kids-its summer though and they can fend for themselves for the most part, I still have a smoking hot hubs who now has a new calling that takes him a way from home more (meaning I may have more time to myself to blog), I'm done with my classes-Now I have an AS in generals and a new calling that may or may not take more of my time. All in all I hope to have more motivation and time to blog.
Lets talk books. I just read an amazing book for my book group. It was my turn to pick, and I hate picking. We've had a few duds and I don't want to be the one to pick a book that nobody likes. Or even worse, a book that is inappropriate to read. We've had a few of those too. Lesbian love scenes aren't great for a mostly Mormon women book group-FYI. So I asked a cousin for a recommendation. It was amazing.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
It takes place in Afghanistan before the soviet invasion. A girl is born to a servant woman and her dad is the master of the house. He casts them out of the city so that he won't be shamed for sleeping with the maid. Her mom is very bitter, but the dad comes and visits every week. When she insists that he takes her into town for a movie, he never comes. So she goes to him and he refuses to see her. Upon arriving back to her home, she discovers that her mother has hung herself. Her father takes her in for a week before marrying her off. She's fifteen, being married to a 60+ year old man. He turns out to be abusive and mean when she fails to give him a child. 20 years pass and he marries his second wife. The first wife isn't thrilled but they grow an amazing friendship when the 2nd bears a baby girl, not a boy and the husband is horrible to her also. She does bear a son though eventually and the husband is still awful and beats both women.
While reading this book, I was a little worried that it was too graphic for our group. Or that the sex scenes were too much. But after alls said and done, this book needed those scenes to make the book what it is. To really portray the lifestyle of those who live in the middle east. So while it is a tragic and graphic book it wasn't unneeded. I loved this book because it has a few different plots and I sit on the edge of my seat waiting to see how they connect. This book did not disappoint. I also love that i could relate to the timing of this book. It mentioned the 9/11 attacks and other things that I've heard about in the news so I felt connected. Great book. You should definitely read it.
Lets talk books. I just read an amazing book for my book group. It was my turn to pick, and I hate picking. We've had a few duds and I don't want to be the one to pick a book that nobody likes. Or even worse, a book that is inappropriate to read. We've had a few of those too. Lesbian love scenes aren't great for a mostly Mormon women book group-FYI. So I asked a cousin for a recommendation. It was amazing.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
It takes place in Afghanistan before the soviet invasion. A girl is born to a servant woman and her dad is the master of the house. He casts them out of the city so that he won't be shamed for sleeping with the maid. Her mom is very bitter, but the dad comes and visits every week. When she insists that he takes her into town for a movie, he never comes. So she goes to him and he refuses to see her. Upon arriving back to her home, she discovers that her mother has hung herself. Her father takes her in for a week before marrying her off. She's fifteen, being married to a 60+ year old man. He turns out to be abusive and mean when she fails to give him a child. 20 years pass and he marries his second wife. The first wife isn't thrilled but they grow an amazing friendship when the 2nd bears a baby girl, not a boy and the husband is horrible to her also. She does bear a son though eventually and the husband is still awful and beats both women.
While reading this book, I was a little worried that it was too graphic for our group. Or that the sex scenes were too much. But after alls said and done, this book needed those scenes to make the book what it is. To really portray the lifestyle of those who live in the middle east. So while it is a tragic and graphic book it wasn't unneeded. I loved this book because it has a few different plots and I sit on the edge of my seat waiting to see how they connect. This book did not disappoint. I also love that i could relate to the timing of this book. It mentioned the 9/11 attacks and other things that I've heard about in the news so I felt connected. Great book. You should definitely read it.
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