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improvised wot
Wednesday, February 12 2025
location: rural Hurley Township, Ulster County, NY
Gretchen's illness didn't seem to be following the same template as mine had in that she'd yet to awaken with a day-ruining sore throat. With the help of a little pseudoephedrine (30 mg instead of my usual dose of 150), she headed off to the bookstore and successfully put in the a shift there. She didn't walk the dogs, so I took Charlotte (Neville didn't come) on a fairly short walk on the Gullies Trail and back home via the Stick Trail. Along the way, I noticed a new partial collapse of the Chamomile Wall, one that I won't be fixing until warmer weather arrives.
I took Charlotte (and apparently not Neville) on a second walk during the usual late afternoon timeslot, and this time we went through the abandoned go-cart track and then home on the plateau west of the Farm Road. There was about three inches of snow on the ground during both these walks, all of it snow that had fallen while I was down in Virginia, and the crunchier parts made for slightly suboptimal trudging. Charlotte had found a really great bone left on the trail by one of Crazy Dave's dogs on the first walk, brought it home, and Neville ended up chewing on it for most of the early afternoon. But as the second walk began, Charlotte got it back and ended up caching it along the side of the Farm Road about half-way to its southern end.
This morning Gretchen had started thawing out a bag of injera, so I thought it would be good to make another wot (Ethiopian stew) to eat with it using whatever we had available. What we had available included mushrooms, cauliflower, a can of chick peas, and a can of green beans. Using a recipe I found online as a rough guide (I couldn't find Gretchen's Ethiopian cookbook), I successfully made a frying pan full of wot that Gretchen thought to be very good.
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