Free food for St. Pat's Day

Here's a little something to go with your corned beef and cabbage: Seems Burger King is offering free fries with green dipping sauce ... better known as green ketchup.

Wonder how it would go with green beer?

And I'm still looking for the free pot of gold, LOL!

Here's the news release: www.bk.com/en/us/company-info/press/press-release2536.html

Garden report: seed alert

For those of you with Walgreens stores ... just wanted to mention that seeds are on sale 5 for $1 with the coupon in Sunday's ad. (There's a limit of 10 ....)

Here at the casa de chaos, I took advantage of our summer-like weather to plant a 2nd pot of salad greens.

Haven't seen much from the first pot, but I'm hoping!

Menu Monday: Carrot-Rutabaga mash

I'm told this is an Irish classic. There are several ways to make it, but this is easy, and produces a very festive-looking dish.

1/2 lb carrots, peeled and chopped
1/2 lb rutabaga, peeled and chopped
2-4 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup milk
Salt and pepper

Boil carrots and rutabaga until soft, drain.
Return to pot, add butter and milk. Mash with potato masher, or use a food processor.
Season with a little salt, and lots of pepper.

Notes:
You can make this in any quantity you like: just use equivalent amounts of the veggies, then add enough butter and milk so it will mash easily.

This still has a bit of texture to it ... if you want a softer puree, use the food processor.

Rutabaga takes forever to cook, so dice it a bit smaller, and allow more time than you would for say, potatoes. Last time, we nuked both veggies in the microwave for about 10 minutes, which softened them up nicely.

Spring forward

Just a reminder that tomorrow (Sunday) is the start of Daylight Saving Time. So push those clocks up ahead an hour.

(And we'll all need a couple of weeks to get used to it.)

And BTW: We'll drop back an hour on Nov. 4th this year.

Garden report: A few notes

I'm usually a cautious gardener, but the weather's been so darn nice the past few weeks, I've decided to do a bit of planting.

Not a lot: Tucked a couple of sprouting garlic bulbs into the front garden, and started a pot of lettuce. I may just plant a second pot of salad greens, too. If the weather gets too cold, I can always bring them inside.

Oh, and for those who shop at WallyWorld: the 20 cent-packages of veggies and flower seeds are in. I also see 50-cent packs this year, too.

I got a few packages of bush beans, so I'm set for seeds.

February freebies

Some interesting stuff this past month:

Caltrate
1 beer
1 honey bun
1 tin Nivea cream
Scope
Crest 3D White toothpaste
Crest 3D Whitestrips
Crest Complete toothpaste
Dawn
Downy Unstoppables
1 pizza
1 small insulated cooler

Thinking out of the ... stall

Fair warning: We're talking kitty litter again ... though nothing too graphic this time.

Anyway, back in August, I was talking about switching to the pine pellets for my furbabies. The stuff works pretty well, but price wise, I have to hold my nose when I buy it.

As it happens, we were at one of those farm supply stores. (Hey, I'm a city kid, these places fascinate me. Who knew you could buy giant blocks of salt and post-hole diggers at the same store?) Ahem .... anyway, while wandering through the aisles of giant sacks of chicken feed and goat food, I came upon 40lb bags of pine pellet horse bedding.

This stuff looked just like the pellets I'm buying at the pet store. The bag indicates that it does the same thing as the cat litter. And best of all -- it was a third of the price!

Oh, yeah. Gotta try this.

So I bought a bag. So far, so good. Nobody's complaining. Course, when I check on the Internets, I find people have been using this stuff for years. Ah well, at least I now have an excuse to poke around the farm store again, LOL!