Wisdom Teeth, Falling and Mashed Potatoes!

Aaron and Nathan both had their wisdom teeth removed 2 days ago.  I am so glad that we did both at the same time.  It was fun listening to them tell and compare wisdom teeth stories.  Both are doing really well.  Aaron hopes to be able to work tomorrow.  Neither swelled up much (so I don't have good chipmunk cheek pictures); Aaron swelled up more than Nathan, but Nathan only had 3 wisdom teeth out.  Lucky!!  They've enjoyed eating Eegees (a type of a fruit slushy), smoothies, milk shakes, real macaroni and cheese, jello, "real" mashed potatoes, and ice cream (I actually bought 2 containers of ice cream...I haven't bought ice cream in over a year...except for Nathan's 16th birthday party.  I do stop at Dairy Queen occasionally!)

Yesterday morning while running, I tripped on a rock and fell hard on my left knee.  It looks pretty nasty and feels even worse.  I'm surprised at how much this has really wiped me out!!  I haven't done a whole lot in the last couple days.  I'm not thrilled about not running for another week or so while my knee heals.  It seems that if I miss a few days of running, that I'm almost back to where I was 6 months ago when I started to run (not quite that bad, but tell my legs that).  :-/

I promised Aaron and Nathan that I would make them "real" mashed potatoes after they had their wisdom teeth out; I decided to make those today.  Then, I wondered if I could cook the potatoes in my Sun Oven and figured that I would try it out.  I peeled the potatoes, cut them into thirds, and put them in the pan with less than 1/2" of water.  I checked them about every 20-30 minutes and after about 1 hour and 10 minutes, they were done!!  Then I mashed them like I usually make mashed potatoes.  They turned out great!!  One hour and 10 minutes sounds like quite a bit of time (next time I'm going to cut the potatoes into smaller pieces), but I didn't heat up the kitchen by cooking the potatoes on the stove!  The Sun Oven is pretty cool!!

Yay!!  Cooked potatoes!  You can't read the temperature, but the inside temperature was about 340 degrees.

Final Result!  They were really yummy!

These are muffins that I cooked in the Sun Oven this morning. 


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