Meatless March

I feel too exhausted by the depressing assumption that omicron is coming for all of us to say anything more about omicron, so let's just skip to the food, okay? Okay. I have a good one for you today: " Crunchy Cabbage Skillet Dinner " (Delicious Living). The link is to an instructional video rather than a recipe, but one viewer was kind enough to transcribe the instructions in their comment on the video, so I give it to you here, with my all-important change in blue: Crunchy Cabbage Skillet Dinner Ingredients for 4 generous servings: Olive oil -- about 2 tablespoons 5 tablespoons butter 1 lb lean ground beef Jaylbyrd urges you to use FAKE MEAT! 1/2 to 1 teaspoon kosher salt Grinds of black pepper 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder Half head of cabbage, thinly sliced or shredded 2-3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 1 cup full-fat sour cream Add 2 tablespoons of oil to a large skillet and 2 tablespoons of butter, heat until butter is melted. Add the ground bee...

Days are getting longer. And I got some adorable shoes on sale after stalking them online for weeks. And thanks to negative COVID tests, my backup dancers and I actually celebrated the new year with friends.  I'm trying to buoy you with some positives before hitting you with some gloom. Looking back on my posts from last January, I was reminded that this blog a chronicle of the zeitgeist, and that last January, the zeitgeist was seriously not good (see, for example, my Jan. 10, 2021 post ). THIS January, I'm afraid that the zeitgeist is also seriously not good. Thanks to omicron, school is again remote this week, and a parent can't help recalling the last time school went remote "for a week or two" and then kids didn't walk back into a school building for 14 months. Walking into stores seems ill-advised again. Going to the dentist seems ill-advised again. Enjoying oneself seems ill-advised again. So all that is very deja vu, and we are all SO. TIRED. OF. THIS....