769th Friday Blog Roundup
Tonight’s dinner could be 10 kinds of amazing, or it could be 10 kinds of terrible. But we’re not going to know until it’s on the table and everyone is strapped in, fork in hand. Well, not strapped in because we don’t have seat belts at our kitchen table. But you know the saying.
I’m making a Guinness-glazed salmon. (1) I have never had salmon. (2) I will never have salmon. (3) I am not trying this dish, but I AM serving it to others. (4) That seems like a bad idea. (5) I am going to do it anyway. (6) I made up the recipe.
Like I’ve had a Guinness sauce before, and I’ve never had salmon before, and I asked Josh what would happen if I put these two things together. And he said, “Go for it.” So it’s also kind of his fault.
I’m serving it with mashed potatoes and buttered peas and soda bread, all of which I will eat. But not the salmon. Wish everyone at the dinner table (except me) good luck. There are either going to be happy smiles or tentative cringes. Which will it be? Stay tuned…
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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.
Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.
As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.
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And now the blogs…
But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- None… sniff.
Okay, now my choices this week.
No Kidding in NZ made a new version of her “Who Am I?” list. I probably featured it seven years ago, too, because it’s such a good idea. We are so much more than the few characteristics we grab to describe ourselves. And I’m amazed that she came up with 100 — we should all strive to know ourselves as completely as possible. I’m seeing a few people jumping on-board with their own lists this week, and I hope more do so between now and New Years.
The Road Less Travelled introduced us to her grand-nephew. We already know that she’s an amazing aunt, and she has jumped into grand-aunting (it’s a verb) with a splash. It’s a sweet post (with a picture!), so go over and wish her congratulations.
Lastly, Inconceivable! has a post about finding herself done with family building before her heart was ready. She was willing to try without intervention, but her husband was not. Because you can’t really compromise on that, they’ve come to the agreement that this stage of their lives is over. But this — THIS — spoke so deeply to me: “It’s the d*mn shadow that I’ve battled throughout the whole process – the one that urges scorched earth tactics, that says that until everything is completely destroyed, it’s not enough. It’s a liar.” Read this post for the important lesson taught by Bill Bryson toward the end. As well as her words: “We were enough all along, both seven years ago and now, no matter how this thing ended.”
The roundup to the Roundup: Will dinner sink or swim? (Well, let’s hope that it doesn’t actually swim because then the salmon would still be alive.) Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between November 15th and 22nd) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.
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I think that sounds delicious! I’d love to know how you make the Guinness sauce.
This one by Jess: http://mypathtomommyhood.blogspot.com/2019/11/microblog-monday-very-good-day.html
Good luck with that. I tried cooking salmon once – it did not turn out well. 🙁 Now we stick with cold smoked salmon.
If it doesn’t come out, you can just blame Josh. If it does, then you take the credit. I’m pretty sure that’s how that works.
Good luck with your dinner! You are more ambitious than I: I would never prepare a dish I’d never made or eaten before for others’ consumption.
Interesting. I cook a great (if I do say so myself, but others say so also. Though unfortunately not my hubby, who doesn’t like salmon) recipe that is about the easiest thing on the planet to make and also, I learned recently, can be used for tuna. I’ll be interested to know how yours turns out and the recipe, if it’s a success. If not, as @Charlotte says, just blame Josh!
I have two really great recent posts to share from Sarah at Infertility Honesty!
The first is about the new person she sees rising from the ashes of infertility:
https://infertilityhonesty.com/2019/11/13/from-the-fire/
Sarah also recently lent her childless-not-by-choice-after-infertility perspective to a PBS Independent Lens video series about deciding to have children (or not). She writes about her experience & shares the finished product here — it’s a great video (and not very long either), so go have a look!
https://infertilityhonesty.com/2019/11/22/out-in-the-world/
P.S. Thank you for the shoutout! It’s been a busy week, during which we’ve seen our new great-nephew several times — but we are so enjoying this little guy — far more than I ever would have thought possible when I started my blog 12 years ago!
will we get an update on how dinner turned out?
Oh yes! I’ve been emailing people but didn’t think to put it here. So… the sauce reaction was a little mixed. Josh liked it. The twins felt meh about it — they could take it or leave it. I tried it over potatoes and didn’t love it. I think I’m really on the fence with this one, and I don’t see myself making it again any time soon. But dinner was edible.
Thanks for the inclusion!
Fascinated by the update to the dinner – glad it was edible! I was wondering how stout would do with salmon – it’s such a distinct flavor of its own.