that’s life.

This weekend was incredibly productive.

The antibiotics that my Shelby-cat is on are irritating her throat, which has made her meow cracked sounding.  I didn’t want to have the vet sedate her just to confirm this, and then to give me more medicine to fix it, so I turned to my Natural Cat book.  Frazier has this great recipe for a Slippery Elm syrup (slippery elm coats mucus membranes and soothes them–works for humans, too, fyi), and from the first dose, Shelby sounded better.

I also made a spinach and artichoke pasta, southwestern egg rolls, orange chocolate chip pound cake, and chocolate pudding (milk style).  If you look at the pound cake recipe, you’ll see a picture of Joy the Baker’s book tour from Portland.  I’m in that picture somewhere.  The chocolate pudding is from my Harry Potter cookbook and is delightfully rich.  Although I did make it only with 2% milk, not a combination of whole and cream, as called for.

Oh yeah, most of that food is in the freezer.  Not the pudding, though.

I finally watched Frozen, and I love it.

I just wish I had one more day of the weekend.  Two days are never enough.