Monday, October 25, 2010
new good things
Short post here, just to keep this thing alive.
We had a nice weekend traveling to VA to visit with friends and family, this was Jackie's first big trip, and she behaved quite well for a little baby. We were able to eat out in a few restaurants, she slept most of the way in the car, and aside from some uncharacteristic late night demonic possession, she was the perfect happy baby.
Today, she weighted in at 11 lbs, 7 oz, which I'm told is quite healthy, she had her first two immunizations and did OK with the shot.
Some other new good things are happening too, which hopefully I will be at liberty to speak of in the distant (but not too distant future)
We had a nice weekend traveling to VA to visit with friends and family, this was Jackie's first big trip, and she behaved quite well for a little baby. We were able to eat out in a few restaurants, she slept most of the way in the car, and aside from some uncharacteristic late night demonic possession, she was the perfect happy baby.
Today, she weighted in at 11 lbs, 7 oz, which I'm told is quite healthy, she had her first two immunizations and did OK with the shot.
Some other new good things are happening too, which hopefully I will be at liberty to speak of in the distant (but not too distant future)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Hyperawake
I learned a new term during my lunch break...
Hyperawake
Jackie seems to go into overdrive fussing mode lately between 8:30 PM and 1 or 1:30 AM where she is constantly craving attention, and comfort. The past few days, it seems like she nurses almost that entire time, every time we put her down for a second she starts spooling up for a good cry.
We're happy to give her the attention, but it's good to know this is a common thing, I guess. I think we may have thrown her out of routine with our busy weekend, hopefully just a phase.
Hyperawake
Jackie seems to go into overdrive fussing mode lately between 8:30 PM and 1 or 1:30 AM where she is constantly craving attention, and comfort. The past few days, it seems like she nurses almost that entire time, every time we put her down for a second she starts spooling up for a good cry.
We're happy to give her the attention, but it's good to know this is a common thing, I guess. I think we may have thrown her out of routine with our busy weekend, hopefully just a phase.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Still here
We’ve been distracted by Jackie’s cuteness the last couple of weeks, so I’ve been unable to post anything recently. I promise some more substantive posts pretty soon for anyone who is interested. Started now perhaps…as my brain gets moving in the morning at the office (don’t tell my boss)
It’s certainly been a busy few weeks, Jacqueline had another pediatrician visit last week, and she’s starting to gain some more weight. She was just over 9.5 lbs last Tuesday, and the other day we started using the “1” sized diapers, which I guess can be viewed as some sort of milestone. #1 for #2’s!
We had a nice visit over to the parish office to meet with the Pastor and set up the Christening date. We set the date for the 17th of October, at our Church Christ the King Parish in Manville, NJ. It will occur right after the 10:30 mass, so probably around 11:45 or so, and we’re scrambling for a place to host a reception afterwards, because out little house isn’t big enough to accommodate all the relatives and friends that we hope will join us.
Jacqueline got to visit over the weekend with all the ladies over the weekend at the Gillespie’s baby shower, and spent the whole day snoozing in her stroller in the great outdoors, the weather was perfect so we glad to get her out of the house for a nice good amount of time. Meanwhile Dad and all the other men that were choking on the estrogen, were able to escape back to the Trynosky house for a little BBQ and some ice cold Marzen style beer in honor of Oktoberfest. She also got a quick visit from Aunt Elizabeth, who was in town for a friend’s wedding; Elizabeth is making a habit of spoiling her with nice gifts every time she comes.
This past Sunday, she got to spend the whole day with Grandma Walsh and her Aunt Lauren, who is turning out to be an expert baby handler and taught me how to set up the pack and play. She got her first visit with Alison’s Aunt Doreen, and got to see Great-Grandma Atlak again.
Jackie got a little time with my parents, and then we headed home.
6 weeks ago Alison was headed into the OR for the delivery, can’t believe how fast these past few weeks have gone!
Alison and I are looking forward to our one year anniversary on Saturday, It’s been an eventful year for sure, a very very good year.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Hot Stuff
This weekend has been pretty pleasant, as I make the unfortunate transition back to work mode this week. We were fortunate to have a few nice visits with my mother, sister, brother and pretty much the entire Walsh family.
I spent a good part of my weekend trying my hand at hot sauce making, and also a first attempt at canning food. If Bridgewater Bill leaves us any tomatoes this year, I'll be using these skills to bottle up some homemade tomato sauce later in the fall.
Saturday was my first attempt, I made a reddish/orange sauce which I have affectionately labeled The "Citrus Witch" except the second word should start with a b.
About 40% of the peppers came from our garden, I was glad to finally put them to use. The freezer destroyed the cell structure, so they weren't really good for much else. I'll try and capture the recipe now...I kind of winged it.
1/4 LB Cayenne Pepper
1/2 LB Jalapeno Pepper (green and red)
1/2 LB Serrano Pepper
2 large Red Bell Peppers
3 Habanero Peppers
1 small yellow bell pepper
3/4 a large sweet onion
1 full bulb of garlic rough chopped
4 cups of white vinegar
1 oz apple cider vinegar
1 oz red wine vinegar
1 oz cheap Kentucky bourbon
1 oz Dominican Dark Rum
4 tsp kosher salt
juice from 2 limes
juice from 2 lemons
juice from 1 navel orange
salt and pepper to taste
Rough cut garlic and onion, apply a liberal amount of salt and pepper, saute with some olive oil. Strain out excess oil and process for 5 minutes in a food processor with the citrus juice.
Rough cut all peppers and combine with vinegars, salt, bourbon, rum, and the citrus/onion/garlic concoction. Bring to a boil for 10 minutes.
Liquefy all ingredients in a blender for 5 minutes. Strain, and bring to a boil.
I got about seven 8" glass jars worth that I canned. I plan to let it age for 3 - 6 months. It had a good amount of heat, and a nice tang from the citrus. I am looking forward to seeing how it ages. If I make it again, I'm going to add some liquid smoke.
Today, I made a simple green Jalapeno hot sauce.
For this I followed a similar routine, I used about 2-1/4 lbs of store bought jalapenos, 4 tsbs kosher salt, 1/2 an onion, an entire bulb of garlic, 4 cups of white vinegar and the juice of 2 limes.
I cooked the garlic and onions the same way and processed with the juice. I rough cut the peppers, combined everything, and boiled for 15 minutes. Liquefied in the blender for 5 minutes, strained, returned to boil, and canned. The yield on this was eight 8 oz jars of sauce. I don't think this one needs to age for quite as long. To me it tasted a lot stronger, and not to brag, but much better than the Tabasco Jalapeno sauce I use frequently. I think I have a nice replacement for the next year or so, once that bottle runs out. I'll probably make this again, I call it the "Green Witch".
Right now Alison is preparing a nice stir fry dinner, using the single remaining Cayenne pepper that was ripe. I just cut it off the plant, we'll have a new batch in like 2 weeks or so though.
Other than that we had a nice lazy Sunday. While we may have to wait a while before we find out what baseball team our dear daughter will pledge her allegiance too, (for her own mental health, I hope she is a Yankees fan, for my mental health I hope she's a Mets fan), we introduced her to the NY Football Giants today, and Eli Manning is her favorite player.
I spent a good part of my weekend trying my hand at hot sauce making, and also a first attempt at canning food. If Bridgewater Bill leaves us any tomatoes this year, I'll be using these skills to bottle up some homemade tomato sauce later in the fall.
Saturday was my first attempt, I made a reddish/orange sauce which I have affectionately labeled The "Citrus Witch" except the second word should start with a b.
About 40% of the peppers came from our garden, I was glad to finally put them to use. The freezer destroyed the cell structure, so they weren't really good for much else. I'll try and capture the recipe now...I kind of winged it.
1/4 LB Cayenne Pepper
1/2 LB Jalapeno Pepper (green and red)
1/2 LB Serrano Pepper
2 large Red Bell Peppers
3 Habanero Peppers
1 small yellow bell pepper
3/4 a large sweet onion
1 full bulb of garlic rough chopped
4 cups of white vinegar
1 oz apple cider vinegar
1 oz red wine vinegar
1 oz cheap Kentucky bourbon
1 oz Dominican Dark Rum
4 tsp kosher salt
juice from 2 limes
juice from 2 lemons
juice from 1 navel orange
salt and pepper to taste
Rough cut garlic and onion, apply a liberal amount of salt and pepper, saute with some olive oil. Strain out excess oil and process for 5 minutes in a food processor with the citrus juice.
Rough cut all peppers and combine with vinegars, salt, bourbon, rum, and the citrus/onion/garlic concoction. Bring to a boil for 10 minutes.
Liquefy all ingredients in a blender for 5 minutes. Strain, and bring to a boil.
I got about seven 8" glass jars worth that I canned. I plan to let it age for 3 - 6 months. It had a good amount of heat, and a nice tang from the citrus. I am looking forward to seeing how it ages. If I make it again, I'm going to add some liquid smoke.
Today, I made a simple green Jalapeno hot sauce.
For this I followed a similar routine, I used about 2-1/4 lbs of store bought jalapenos, 4 tsbs kosher salt, 1/2 an onion, an entire bulb of garlic, 4 cups of white vinegar and the juice of 2 limes.
I cooked the garlic and onions the same way and processed with the juice. I rough cut the peppers, combined everything, and boiled for 15 minutes. Liquefied in the blender for 5 minutes, strained, returned to boil, and canned. The yield on this was eight 8 oz jars of sauce. I don't think this one needs to age for quite as long. To me it tasted a lot stronger, and not to brag, but much better than the Tabasco Jalapeno sauce I use frequently. I think I have a nice replacement for the next year or so, once that bottle runs out. I'll probably make this again, I call it the "Green Witch".
Right now Alison is preparing a nice stir fry dinner, using the single remaining Cayenne pepper that was ripe. I just cut it off the plant, we'll have a new batch in like 2 weeks or so though.
Other than that we had a nice lazy Sunday. While we may have to wait a while before we find out what baseball team our dear daughter will pledge her allegiance too, (for her own mental health, I hope she is a Yankees fan, for my mental health I hope she's a Mets fan), we introduced her to the NY Football Giants today, and Eli Manning is her favorite player.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Alison's arch nemesis
Since this is a blog about all things Bridgewater Trynosky related, and not just the new baby acquisition, I thought I ought memorialize a post with Alison's new enemy.
Meet Bridgewater Bill the Groundhog.
This lecherous tomato thief will get his comeuppance one of these days...
Meet Bridgewater Bill the Groundhog.
This lecherous tomato thief will get his comeuppance one of these days...
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