“Well some guy told you that you couldn’t dance
And you been carrying that forever
I’m the kinda fella needs a, a second chance
C’mon baby let’s boo-ga-loo together…”

- John Hiatt in Stolen Moments

With Pluto in Capricorn the entire collective is having something akin to a Pluto Moon transit.  I wrote about my Pluto Moon transit over these last years and people really liked those posts, they were moved by them so this motivates me to continue to share.

Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: A Collective Pluto Moon Transit… A Personal Story Of Poisoning

Speaking of me (earthy) vs the intellectuals (Airy), one year, we had an all-girl Thanksgiving. My double Aquarius friend Kay hosted the event. Her double Gemini friend and my daughter (a baby at the time) attended and we had a blast.

We cooked all day… sort of. The Gemini showed up with freeze-dried potato mix which she prepared with a cigarette hanging from her mouth while telling jokes and talking about men. She looked right out of a movie so you know I loved that.
Continue reading Astrology, Thanksgiving And Appetite: Where Is Your Moon?

“Yeah, there are places you can go and eat your food off a naked woman’s body,” I told the soldier. “She just lies there and you eat off her stomach.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me?”

“No, they’ve got that. I think they have that here, actually. Denver’s got some place you can go do that.”

“Oh my word. I’d like to see someone eat off a rhino’s body.”

“Do you think someone would want to?”

“Probably. People mess with rhinos all the time. Do that to me they’re going to have a hard time though.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, I could sell tickets to see what I’d do to someone trying to eat their lunch off me.”

“Hmm. Yeah, I pay to see that.”

The soldier is eating low carb these days and has lost 12 pounds. He looks HOT but claims he has lost a third of a pound. I have been in charge of finding cooking and finding recipes over the last month but now he is getting involved. (swearing below the break)
Continue reading Dining With Taurus… The Soldier’s Lament

One time I was dating a Taurus Moon, which is worse than a Taurus Sun when it comes to food. I baked him some chocolate chip cookies. Actually, I baked him cookies every few days because he was eating them four in the morning, four at work and four in the evening. He was limiting himself to 12 cookies a day. And the point is, there was not a cookie shortage. He was 40 years old, though it does not sound like it, does it?

Anyway he was taking his cookies to work, and several weeks went by. Taurus has habits and this had become a routine. So he came home one day and told me people at work were talking about his cookies.

“Like what?” I asked. “What did they say?”
Continue reading Dining With Taurus and their Greed – Redux

You hear sometimes that Taurus is embarrassed of their greed. This is true, especially when it comes to food. If you eat out with a Taurus, it’s important their food is better than yours, or they’ll get pissed off.

They won’t say anything of course. Taurus appreciates grace and tries to be pleasant at all times, but you can just tell.
Continue reading Dining With Taurus… And Their Greed

The soldier last night at dinner:

“Dear Lord, please help us not eat so much, amen.”

(He’s got Jupiter in Sagittarius)

Per Jilly’s request, this is the recipe I got from the soldier’s mother yesterday. itdates to the 1800′s. It’s very good and very filling.

Arroz A La Valenciana

Chicken

6 boneless chicken breasts (halves)
1 ½ C water
1 T salt
1 bay leaf

Sauce

1 ½ sticks butter
2 1# cans tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
½ C salad olives with pimentos (coarse chop)
½ C pitted black olives (coarse chop)
1/2 C capers
½ C hot mix (hot Italian giardiniera, coarse chop)
½ c vinegar (from the hot mix)
½ C small white pickled onions
2 C garbanzo beans (squeeze off the skins)
juice of 1 lime
1 ½ c chopped onion

Rice

3 T olive oil
½ c very fine egg noodles (crushed lightly – one time)
2 C long grain rice
1 clove crushed garlic

Chicken broth from chicken

Stew chicken with ½ qt water, ½ c onion, the bay leaf and salt. (15 min pressure cooker)
Blend tomatoes and paste in blender
Melt butter in large pan, sauté onion
Add the rest of the sauce ingredients and heat
Slice chicken breast into chunks (it will shred) – add to sauce, heat thoroughly and set aside.
Saute garlic in olive oil, cast iron pan. Add rice and egg noodles and sauté until browned and infused.
Add rice mixture to pressure cooker with 1 qt chicken broth add to pressure cooker – cook for 2 min, remove from heat.

Arrange rice on a platter when pan has cooled, place chicken in the center and sprinkle with English green peas, or whatever else you have that’s green (parsley, green onions, et) Make it pretty.

Have a family recipe? Share it!

If you are following my saga, you know last week I bought a pressure cooker, necessary to cook the soldier’s home food. This weekend I am going to cook a chicken dish he is craving – he called him mother who relayed the complex process over the phone.

The dish takes 2 hours to prepare according to one of his sisters… she methodically gave him the instructions while he relayed them to me with a pen in my hand. Why he acted as translator, I don’t know but I do know it doesn’t matter because the soldier’s mother can do no wrong as far as I am concerned.
Continue reading Pluto Transit To The Moon – Mine: The Weekend Update