I don’t know why I’ve had such a hard time finding beef and barley soup at the grocery store! That’s been one of my favorite soups ever since I can remember but the last couple of years it seems to have dropped off the face of the eastern coast! I’ve resorted to eating vegetable beef soup instead, which is a disappointment as a substitute. Right now I’m craving a bowl of beef and barley soup, but heating up vegetable beef instead. My taste buds will be disappointed. Oh well, I’ll keep looking! On the subject of soup, I’ve noticed that in spite of all of the advertising that “soup is good food” it is way too high in sodium to be healthy. That’s why I don’t eat much soup anymore at all, so when I crave a particular soup, I want what I want!
My wife and I have been talking about how to best dispose of our garbage. She would really like to compost and has been asking me for months to set up a compost pile. She keeps telling me that the compost would be good for our garden. We don’t have a garbage disposal: and I tell her that I’d rather just get a garbage disposal. Composting sounds like a lot of work, and I don’t feel like doing the work. She tells me that garbage disposals are bad for septic systems, but I know lots of people with septic systems have garbage disposals!
I was reading an article on the Slate.com news website that discusses whether people should use garbage disposals or just put their garbage in the trash to be hauled to a landfill. The article assumes that no one has a septic system, and it recommends compost piles as the first and best choice, the garbage disposal as the second best choice, and putting garbage in the trash to be hauled to the landfill as the worst choice. I wish the article had addressed septic systems!
My wife’s birthday was a couple of weeks ago and she had to work all day, and into the night. So I couldn’t take her out to eat supper on her birthday. I felt bad about that and promised her that I’d take her out to eat supper tonight. Her favorite local restaurant is Applebee’s, so that’s where we’ll be heading tonight. She LOVES their riblets. Almost every time we go out to eat she orders what their version of spare ribs are, to see if they are as good as Applebee’s riblets, and so far she says no one’s as good as Applebee’s. She’s said a couple of places have come close, but Applebee’s is still the best. I can remember one time we went to Applebee’s to eat on Mother’s Day and they were out of riblets so she insisted we leave the restaurant and go eat somewhere else that day! That woman is SERIOUS about her riblets!
