Cooking and sneezing (ow)

[crowdog66]

I'm just about to put some pork chops in the oven. I don't usually cook from frozen -- I'm much more of a bring-it-right-home-and-roast-it kind of person -- so I hope I've done things right. I took the pork chops out of the freezer into the fridge to thaw yesterday afternoon, hoping (unrealistically) that they'd be thawed tomorrow night. No dice. So finally, about fifteen minutes ago, I pulled them out of the fridge and found them at least thawed enough to be separated with difficulty, but pretty much still frozen internally. (Also quite dried out on top, since I'd opened up the package to check them yesterday. D'oh. Told you I'm no good on this.) So into the microwave they went for a couple of minutes, and now they're in a baking pan with a bit of water in the bottom of the dish, some canola oil brushed on top, and some rosemary sprinkled over them. Hopefully they'll turn out (a) palatable, and (b) not poisonous.

I'll bake them for an hour, then pour some mixed cream of broccoli and cream of celery soup, thinned with milk, over them. Back in the oven for another thirty minutes and they should be done. *crosses fingers* If anyone with more cooking experience has any advice, I'm all ears.

As for the "ow"... half an hour ago I was working away on the computer when a tremendous sneeze caught me by surprise. It hurt my nose, and a moment later I realized that it had also hurt my back -- there's a painful spot under the bottom of my right shoulder blade. *sigh* I'd just gotten over the sore back from the kidney infection...

Back to work until it's time to mix up the sauce.

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[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I threw out my shoulder *hiccuping* once. I'll never figure that out...