Here we go, again... (maybe)

Well, it is still all up in the air about this weekend's snowfall. The National Weather Service had issued a Severe Weather Alert late Thursday, but withdrew it by Friday morning. Friday night, it's back in place. There's a big storm to our east, with the "Low" centered out in the Atlantic. If it stays there, we get 1-3 inches of snow. If it moves a bit west, we get clobbered (either 3-5 or 8-14 inches) I guess we will see...

When I got home and in the garage, I swept the garage floor with the push broom to get some of the melted snow out. I carefully walked out to the road (I still have a sh*t load of snow in the drive, you see) and removed two big chunks of frozen snow/ice/gravel out of the road that I encountered (read that as "hit") driving up to the mailbox.

I gave the cats their treats and changed clothes. I put some rotini pasta on to cook for tonight's dinner. Since I need 4 cups cooked pasta, and I know with the shorter, thicker pastas (elbow, rotini, etc.) 1/2 cup of raw is equal to 1 cup cooked, I put in 2 cups of raw pasta to cook for seven minutes (al dente).

When that was done and drained, it went into the fridge to cool. Meanwhile, I anxiously watched the local news for the weather reports. Damn! They still don't seem to know what's gonna happen. However, it's still not snowing here, so I guess that's a good sign it's missing us.

I read my book on the couch, waiting for the pasta to cool. Around 7:00 (and hungry) I moved back to the kitchen and started dinner. I wanted something light, so I am making a simple tuna salad. I might be making this up, but I seem to remember that when Lu used to make them, she would also put the cans of tuna in the fridge for a while. But, it's too late for that memory to help. So, here's what I did do:

I opened and drained two regular cans of tuna. The tuna went into a mixing bowl and the cans were presented to the cats (one each) on the kitchen floor. Then I added a cup of mayonnaise, a teaspoon of dried thyme, four cups of cooked rotini, four ribs of celery (diced medium for crunch) and two hardboiled eggs, run through the egg slicer. I stirred all that together and put it back in the fridge to cool while I worked on the critical last step.

[Carla, don't read this part] I took 1 1/2 cups of frozen peas and steamed them for just under two minutes, so they were slightly cooked, but still chewy (al dente, again, come to think of it, lol!) I ran cold water over them to stop the cooking and then added them to the salad and put it back in the fridge for an hour or so.

I went back to the couch and the book, until it was time for the Friday Night Fights. Then I seasoned my salad with salt and pepper to taste, filled a big bowl and went off to watch TV (there was an excellent main event that went the full 12 rounds and was very close so, even though my guy, Mashaba, didn't win, I was happy!)

I ate a lot of the salad, but there was a lot left and I had no clean container to put it in the fridge, so I tried a trick I saw. I got a big piece of Saran Wrap and pressed the plastic wrap right down on top the salad to keep it from drying out. The bowl went back in the fridge and I went to sleep (still no snow).