A Rose By Any Other Name

This has been a rare day.  Neither one of us even left the apartment.

SK took a nap for several hours this afternoon.  He was up and about and tried to help on Wednesday for the missionary lunch but was so pale that I worried.  I finally convinced him to just go and sit down while we got the meal on.

Thursday he was doing a little better, and took me shopping, but that wore him out too, and by the time we got to the center, he was content to just sit.  We even drove...and parked the car....which costs $20, but we figured it was worth every cent/krone.

I have asked him to see a doctor....perhaps he has an ear infection....but he refuses.  He is getting better though.  And now in the fourth week for me, I still have the remnants of the bad cold.  And maybe the bottom line is that we are getting old!....and just take a little longer to recover from something like that.  It was a bad bad cold....but I'm nearly back to normal, and another week will get SK back I am sure.

We missed the eclipse!  85%  But I am grateful to say that we would have missed it anyway....there was quite a cloud cover.  It did get darker, but it has been rather gray all day.

I too have rested.... and read and relaxed.....ah the divine r's.  I am working on the D&C lesson for next Thursday...section 121.  I love that section.

For lunch and dinner we had salads....Cafe Rio rice, beans, pico de gallo, lettuce and the cilantro lime ranch dressing.  We both agreed that it still tasted great - even without the tortillas and sweet pork. That signaled the absolute end of the Cafe Rio Salad meals.  

When Erin and Ethan were here last summer, we went to a grocery store where they - with a mixture of shock and delight - both pointed out "cilantro."

 It was something I had looked for our first Fall and Winter here - to no avail.  I had finally quit looking....assured that it didn't exist here.  Since that time, we have found several good outlets for it.  And for Mexican cooking....it is positively vital.  Part of the problem is its name:  Koriander.  I was always looking for cilantro (how foolish is that?) .....and to tell you the truth....nothing here, including salt is the same in Danish.  Why it didn't occur to me see if there was a Danish name for it is just one of those mysteries.

But the good news is that we now have that wonderful green herb that lends itself so beautifully to our favorite dishes.