The other day I bought a smallish watermelon [I could not pass up 20 cents a pound!] to have for taking to our zone potluck today. I cut up half of the red inside portion, nibbled on the red-to-white portion, and took the rind off the rest of the white. Then I went looking on the net for a bread and butter pickle recipe. I would have used the one for the microwave, but I knew that I had way too much watermelon rind for that one to work, so I did a more traditional recipe, that called for salting cucumber and onion slices for 3 hours before putting them into boiling brine. Since I was gone for about 4 hours, the process worked well, but I think I used a little too much salt [I did not measure it]. Anyway, I think the results will work for me--I definitely won't have craving for salt when I eat a few of those.
The other issue was that I did use the white sugar the recipe calls for, so like with commercial bread and butter pickles, I will have to refrain from downing much of the liquid when I eat the pickles. But I got a nice size jar of pickles in the frig now--and I still have half a watermelon, along with its rind, so maybe I will make another batch next week. I don't know if I could maybe pickle some celery [I have lots of celery] or carrots [ditto] with the brine that will be left when the pickled rind is eaten up. I will have to see how ambitious I am when that time comes.
I opened up the zoning site to work on the last two pages of the batch--and learned that my touch pad really does not work for this program. I will have to do it at the Library, where the computers have mice with scroll bars. Last night part of the training indicated it would be hard to do with a touch pad--I just did not think it would be impossible! Oh, well, wrong again!
The potluck luncheon was well under-way by the time I arrived. This is my P day, but I had signed up to bring the watermelon, and I enjoyed having some time to chat with others there in the zone. I did indulge in one chocolate-covered cake bite, but was able to leave the bread alone. Someone brought chili, another brought an Oriental dish that I think was chicken nuggets with Hoison sauce--way too good!
Anyway, apparently my carb intake was high enough to trigger afternoon sleepiness as I went afterwards to the temple. Otherwise it is just the peacefulness there which lulls me into dozing. Either way, I was glad to be there, and to enjoy the Spirit.
Laundry, phone calls, a little shopping and cooking took up most of the rest of the day. It is rather amazing that another week is drawing to its end.
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