Wednesday Wash

The snow was over when I woke up on Wednesday. To tell you the truth, I think it stopped around here about 7:30 PM Tuesday night.

I stripped the bed and started the wash machine. I’ve decided to do the washing on Wednesdays now instead of the weekend.

I put a big pot of water on the stove to boil and then boiled some of the cabbage leaves for a couple of minutes to soften them. I want to make cabbage rolls for dinner. I would like them to taste like my Mother’s, so I disregarded any recipes that called for, say, white wine and so forth. I finally found a crock pot one that sounded like it would work.

So, I mixed one cup of cooked rice (after I cooked it) with a beaten egg, 1/4 cup of milk, 1/4 cup of minced onion and one pound of hamburger. I seasoned that with salt and pepper. Then I rolled a portion in each cabbage leaf. That was a bit of a problem as I had deliberately bought a small head of cabbage, so in some cases, I had to use two leaves. I put each roll into the slow cooker.

When I was done, I mixed together one (8 ounce) can of tomato sauce, one tablespoon of brown sugar, one tablespoon of lemon juice and one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce. I poured that over the cabbage rolls and turned the slow cooker on low for about 8 hours.

I made up the bed while the next load of laundry was washing. When it had dried, I hung up my shirts and pants and folded the socks.

I walked out to get the mail about 5:00 PM. I’m guessing we didn’t get much more than three inches of new snow, here.

I finally ate my dinner. Hmmm... these cabbage rolls are not bad, but they don’t taste like Mom’s. Maybe it was the lemon juice?

I stayed up until 10:30 PM and then went to bed.