i gotta be up at 6:15 am tomorrow, ducklings. why, oh why am i NOT SLEEPING? i wish i knew. insomnia is no fun at all... by the time i actually enter dreamland that dang alarm clock will have gone off and i'll be driving my happy ass to the middle of nowhere to provide library services to possibly five people. i just keep telling myself that i love my job (repeat as mantra til i start to believe it) and that i'm thankful to have it. sigh. if i could just get over ambiguous job descriptions, people's hurt feelings, non-working phones, and the fact that i have to deal with middle school aged children, i would have a dream job. apparently this is why i went to college. don't tell my mom.
so, life hasn't been all that fun lately. work is hard, i got an awful creepy crud coming back from my vacation that made my 30th birthday both miserable and anticlimactic, and i completely screwed myself in terms of money and my husband (who is usually the most longsuffering dude on the planet) found out about it. guess which thing has caused the most trouble? yup, the money. i have got to figure out how to handle money. it's a weakness that i have had to deal with since i had money to spend resulting in a horrible credit score, a debt settlement, and a lot of marital spats. well, no longer. i have a budget spreadsheet, which makes me feel quite the adult, and a complete intent to use it. we'll see. the best part is that it does all the adding for me, as i am a moron who has completely failed at all things math. i'm going to say that math is more of a "concept" to us artistic types than "fact" but the "fact" is that math comes up and bites me in the butt every dang time. (i want you to imagine me doing the air fingers thing with the quotation marks in the last sentence.) so i am hoping that this will work. after all, if i can stick to the danged gluten free diet, i can stick to a budget, right?
speaking of the gluten freeness, i have been cooking and i have found a recipe! first off, i was having quite a time finding gluten free cream of mushroom soup and was despairing, as i am american and that's a pretty crucial ingredient to most of our haute cuisine. i was overjoyed to find out that walmart has a gluten free mushroom soup that's quite good and doesn't break the budget. so, i was going to make pot roast tonight, and i always use the packet for the slow cookert, til i looked at it this morning and saw that they third ingredient on the label was "wheat gluten". and then i panicked, cause i already had the roast thawed and i had no beef boullion and what the heck was i gonna do cause i needed to go to work in half an hour! and then i calmed down and made this recipe. it's good too! and i'm not just saying that- the three people i live with also really liked it. so here i go: first recipe on this site- just for you!
Gluten Free Pot Roast (capitalized so you know it's important)
1 5lb rump roast
1 can gluten free cream of mushroom soup (from walmart)
1/4 C gluten free soy sauce
1 small bag baby carrots
1 onion, sliced
1 C water
1/4 C gluten free flour
salt and pepper to taste
season the roast with the salt and pepper. put in crockpot, along with the soup, soy sauce, water, and veggies. (you can brown the meat first if you want it to stay together, i prefer my pot roast as more of a stew.) cook on low 8 hours, or high 4 hours. when you come back to the roast, there should be a lot of juices. take out about a half a cup of the juice and put in the bowl with the flour. add a little tap water til the mix becomes a slurry. add to the rest of the roast in the pot, straining if it's lumpy. this makes the gravy! give it another ten minutes or so and then eat with potatoes or noodles.
ok- gonna try to go to sleep now. i'll see every body on the flip side!
