Because I apparently have the immune system of a preemie, I’m sick…again. If you’re counting this is about the 5th cold I’ve had since late November. My question is, where is the damn cold vaccine!? Because I need it pronto. I’m thinking my poor health this year is NOT due to the insane number of kids I work with every day (because I worked with an insane number of kids every day in Texas) but rather to the Ohio allergens and Cincinnati-area strains of viruses my body has not accustomed or built up an immunity to yet and the rapid climate changes we’ve been experiencing all season. Either way, I’m over it. When you work four jobs – most of which are hourly and therefore you are paid for being present – and when you work in professional theatre and teach children and don’t have the option to bring in a substitute when you’re feeling under the weather, you don’t quite have time…at all…to be sick. I’ve spent the past three days in bed and I still feel awful. I have stocked up on multi-vitamins and Emergen-C packets to hopefully tide me through the rest of the school year until I can figure out a permanent fix to boost my shoddy immune system.
In other news, I made Hungarian chicken paprikash with spaetzel tonight for dinner. Several years ago my parents hosted some Hungarian friends at our house for a while. Georgie (not her Hungarian name, but her chosen American name) made the world’s most delicious homemade spaetzel (kind of like dumpling noodles, but she made them from scratch) with chicken paprika. I remember it being out of this world amazing. Later we took a two-week trip to visit them in Hungary and to visit my brother and his family in Germany. In Hungary Georgie cooked more delicious meals and they took us out to eat at a lakeside restaurant that served the most phenomenal Hungarian fish stew in individual cast iron kettles. It was divine. Lately I’ve been thinking about all of Georgie’s delicious cooking and really had a craving to savor some of those flavors again and introduce them to Ted. Because I’m sick and not skilled enough to make spaetzel from scratch, I bought the store bought stuff – which was a very poor substitute for Georgie’s authentic spaetzel, but it worked nonetheless. And though the chicken paprikash wasn’t exactly like Georgie’s, it will still pretty good and did it’s job to help ease my craving. My next cooking projects will be Rouladen and Hungarian Fish Stew.
In the meanwhile, I continue to recover as best I can…
What have you been up to lately?
I’m sorry you’re sick!! aaron said you weren’t feeling too well when he saw you yesterday. boo!
you are a cooking mastermind! i wish you were my wife.
same ol’ same ol, over here. :) audition at playhouse next monday and new job as a waitress at taste of belgium.