Starość, nie radość

Starość, nie radość.  This is a phrase uttered many times by my elderly friends and relatives. I never paid much attention to it until I finally decided to find out what it meant.  Translation: There's nothing pleasant about old age.  The old guy in the cartoon also learned it when his erotic dream turned into a nightmare. 

Old age creates a whole new lifestyle. The only exercise I get now is created by my prostate forcing me to make a trip to the bathroom every two hours.  And a painful one at that.  Getting out of bed the damn lower back hurts so much I'm never confident I'm going to make the trip.  Same pain appears again later in the day when getting up from sitting too long watching that damn boob tube.....Starość, nie radość. 

Ok, I'll stop complaining. Especially since I've been very fortunate to continue getting favorable reports after doctor visits.

  I feel I must, however, tell you that yesterday was one of those"days". You know the kind of day when everything you do seems to turn into manure.  I spent a very long time creating a blog entry that morning and had it completely finished all the way including the recipe portion. I have absolutely no idea what I did or what I pressed but I ended up completely deleting it.  I think you can guess what my attitude was then and for the rest of the day.  Nothing went right the rest of the day.  I decided to make a nice Fritata for dinner. When I went to flip it over to finish up the other side, it slid off the plate and landed flat on the granite counter top.  Had to scoop it up with a spatula to pop it back into the pan.  Real pretty looking....not!

Since at eighty five years of age and truly in a Starość stage of life I can't remember all the gems I had in my deleted entry. I think I should stop now and proceed with the recipe section.  My cousin will think I'm a little strange when she sees that I remembered and saved these recipes.  Many. many, many years ago we were invited to her home and were served the following appetizers.  Simple but very tasty. 

 

Meatball Appetizer – Roberta Flannery

 

Meatballs, medium size, cooked, made without eggs

1 jar grape jelly                    1 jar chili sauce

 

Mix meatballs, jelly and chili sauce, heat and serve.  Crock pot is ideal for this.

 

Hot Dog Appetizer – Roberta Flannery

 

Hot dogs (cocktail or regular size cut in pieces), cooked

1 jar currant jelly                   1 jar Dijon mustard

 

Mix hot dogs, jelly and mustard together, heat and serve.  Crock pot is ideal for this.