Thursday's Tale

Before I forget, a long time reader reminded me off-line that I had taken one morning supply of meds to work, just in case I ever did forget to take my morning medicine. As I told him, yes, I did and I even remembered that. But, when I took out the pill container, I found that two of the prescriptions were the old medicine that my new doctor had changed. So, I figured taking them would not really help and might be counterproductive. I did, however, take that the pill holder back home and refilled it tonight with my actual medicine for the next time, if it ever happens again.

And, another thing I keep forgetting to mention, did you ever see a cat chase its own tail? I've see dogs do it, but never a cat. But, Caley does it, all the time when she's bored. It's the damnedest thing. She spins around until she catches it, bites it, then jumps up (surprised), runs, lies down and watches her tail until she twitches it, then the whole thing starts all over again. Ridiculous!

So, anyway, I got home and relaxed a bit. Then I started thinking about dinner. I checked the fridge and the only leftovers I have is that spinach-stuffed chicken, which I wasn't fond of. I thought about it (could I scrape off the filling, warm it up, cover it with barbeque sauce and eat it?) but decided it wasn't worth the effort. But, I do still have some of the ham and the pepper-jack cheese that was part of the filling left. Hmmm... Let me think...

I ended up taking 6 slices of the buttermilk bread and buttering them. On the inside, I put some stone ground mustard. I divided the ham and cheese into three piles and put that on as well. Then I grilled each of them in my smaller, non-stick pan. I do it on medium, covered with my domed sauce pan lid (helps to melt the cheese) for exactly two minutes a side.

Result? Nice taste, but pepper-jack cheese, when melted, is stringing, not gooey like American. The sandwiches were a bit more difficult to eat neatly, but the cats didn't seem to mind.

I ate two of them with dill pickles while watching more of my America's test kitchen CDs. Next, I switched to a taped "No Reservations" and then ended up reading until 10:00 PM. I shut off the lights and went to sleep.