Crawfish Surprise Recipe

Before I get into the good stuff I want to apologize to those who have commented on my recent posts and I have not replied. For whatever reason, I am no longer getting an email saying I have a comment.  I'm trying to figure it out. 

Now on to the good stuff.

Years ago, one of my daughter's friend made this recipe and it was so delicious but I never got around to cooking it until last week. OMG! 

Warning: If you are on a diet or have high cholesterol I would eat this in moderation!

As promised to some of you here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 stick of butter.    

2 packs of crawfish

1/2 onion, diced

1/2 bell pepper, diced

Garlic powder (The friend didn't write how much). I just did two shakes.

1 Can of mushroom soup.

Package of broad egg noodles.

A cooking spoon of sour cream. (You can leave out if you don't like it)

Creole seasoning to taste. (I use Tony's Chachere's but I'm sure salt and pepper will suffice)

Block of Velveeta cheese. I used 16 oz.

Directions:

1)  Melt the stick of butter in pan.

2). Add diced onions and bell peppers. Cook until translucent

3)  Add crawfish. Stir and wait until it heats up.

4) Meanwhile, start the water for noodles. Add butter or oil to prevent sticking. Cook noodles according to the package.

5)  When crawfish is warm, add mushroom soup, seasonings, sour cream and garlic powder.

6) Add one cup of cheese and let melt before you add another piece of cheese. Continue to add as much as desired.

7) When noodles are done, drain. Mix with crawfish mixture in pot. Stir and serve. Enjoy.

Until next time...pray for all those people who are experiencing all the disasters with floods and fires.





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What Is Clonus? PT Graduation!!!

All of my life, I have been able to put my foot a certain way on the floor and my leg will shake up and down continously. When I put my foot flat or stand up it stops. I have control of it starting and stopping at will. ] It's not because of nervousness. It actually feels good.

However, I can see how it is involuntary because when I start it just goes until I stop it. I cannot just shake my leg that fast without putting my foot in that position. So I guess in that case I guess the action could be involuntary.

For six weeks during PT (Physical therapy) clonus would begin when I was struggling and straining to do an exercise.

The first time my PT, Monica  saw me do it voluntarly she told me not to do that and she put a name to it, Ankle Clonus. I informed her I do it all of the time. She told me to stop it and that it tightens my tendons. I told her I've been doing this for over 40+ years and I've seen no adverse effects.

I became curious and googled clonus. There are several different definitions but this video pretty much explains it. It is short and sweet.

They didn't mention it occurs with people with spastic cerebral palsy. I disagree that I cannot control it, because for the most part I do most of the time.

On Health line.com the site states there is a problem with the electrical pathway involved in muscle movement.

Conditions that can lead to clonus is cerebral palsy, stroke, muscular dystrophy etc.

Spasticity often occurs with clonus. I have spastic and ataxic cerebral palsy. It involves long-term muscular tightness. That describes me.

I found my last orthopedist report from 1983 down below.  It shows as you can read that I had unsustained clonus in the ankles and it has been present for a long period of time. In my mind, the report proves my point that the ankle clonus is not doing me any harm.

I remember as a little girl when I went to church and sat between my parents, I would rock side to side and/or start the clonus. One of them would always put their hand on my leg for me to stop it because it was making the pew shake or the rat-a-tat-tat noise would echo.

My Hubby sometimes does the same especially in church, if someone is in the same pew as us. My point of view is if the people don't like it they can go sit elsewhere. I do stop if it makes noise.

i am ecstatic to inform you that I have graduated from PT. YEA!

PT Certiticate 

Until next time...remind someone you love that you love them.






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