Car Seat ID Card

In the mail today was a Car Seat ID Card from My Precious Kid.

This is a very nice product. It comes with a self sealing Luggage Tag type clear plastic laminate cover. There is room for information on both sides to include a small photo of your child, address, emergency phone numbers, any medical conditions, doctor and dentist phone numbers, a thumb print, height, weight, and a medical release signature.

If you are ever in a car accident and can’t talk, this can talk for you and your child.

I’m using it with The Little Guy’s booster seat. Hopefully we’ll never have to use it, but it’s nice to have.

My Precious Kid has a ton of safety related products for your kids. Go take a look!

Check the comments on this post for a 10% off coupon code!

Monday Morning Musings

March came in like a lamb yesterday. Beautiful blue skies, lots of sun. Only 22°F out. We’re in for a stormy end of the month.

We go back to daylight saving time this month. In fact, it’s on Sunday, March 8th. Next Sunday already!

pidaypieNo school today here in Illinois. Today is Casimir Pulaski Day. General Casimir Pulaski was a Polish General who trained our troops in the Revolutionary War. Illinois celebrates this man because Chicago contains the largest population of Poles outside of Poland itself (although Ireland is gaining a sizable population of Poles too). We all have a lot to thank General Pulaski for. His training of our troops helped us win our independence from England.cathat

Pi day is coming up on March 14. 3.14……

Today is also Dr. Seuss’ birthday!

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Sea Kittens for IEATAPeTA Day Recipe Carnival

The Sea Kitten Recipe Carnival is here!

First up, from Tristan at tristansepinion.com is this recipe:

Steamed Fish with Coriander Sauce

4 fillets Monkfish or other firm white fish
2 tsp coriander seeds
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp water
1/4 cup roasted red pepper (can be from a jar or DIY)
1/3 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
salt and pepper to taste
fresh parsley for garnish

Clean the fish and season with salt and pepper to taste. Steam until opaque about 6-8 minutes.

Coriander sauce:

Combine coriander seeds, lemon juice, water, olive oil, red peppers, 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper in a blender. Blend until smooth and creamy.

To serve, spoon sauce over fillets and garnish with parsley.

Gorgeous and delicious.

Click here for a printable pdf of this recipe.

Kate provides a recipe for The Best Salmon You’ll Ever Eat.

Christi at A Southern Life introduces us to Cajun Crawfish Maque Choux. Sounds delish!

Michael at Bits of Dust brings us Kid’s Tilapia Nuggets. He says his kids eat these like there’s no tomorrow.

Kid’s Tilapia Nuggets

Ingredients:

2 pounds of fish nuggets (we use tilapia cut up, because, well, talapia is delicious.)

“Marinade” Ingredients

3 eggs
3-4 Tbsp milk
2 tsp minced garlic
2-3 Tbsp soy sauce
1/4-1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
salt and pepper to taste.

Mix all ingredients, and add the fish chucks (or nuggets). Stir until fish is covered and place the bowl in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Batter Ingredients

1 cup flour
1 cup water
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
2 tsp Lawry’s seasoning salt

Remove fish piece from “marinade”, coat with batter, and drop into 1-2 inches of hot oil in a cast iron pan. Fry for 3 minutes on each side.

One time we didn’t have enough Crisco, so I mixed it with some light olive oil which really added to the flavor.

Click here for a printable pdf of this recipe

My contribution is Dijon Pecan Crusted Salmon Fillets

4 portions or 1 slab salmon fillet, skin on.
6 tbsp dijon mustard
6 tbsp bread crumbs
6 tbsp finely chopped pecans
butter

Preheat oven to 400°F

Place filets skin side down in a foil lined pan.

Spread mustard evenly over salmon.

Combine bread crumbs and pecans, spread evenly over salmon.

Dot with butter.

Bake for 20 minutes or until salmon lifts off the skin.100_3024

This is lovely served with Brussels sprouts, asparagus, or just a salad with a citrus vinaigrette. Or with peas as pictured.

Click here for a printable pdf of this recipe

Sea Kitten Recipe Deadline Extended

I’ve decided to extend the deadline through Friday!

Please send either a link to a recipe or the recipe itself to seakittens@musing-minds.com.

At the moment we have recipes for whitefish sea kitten, salmon, and crawfish sea kitten pie. Please give us more!

The carnival will be posted Sunday morning.

Related: Sea Kittens for IEATAPETA Day, Reminder

Packzi Day!

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It’s Packzi Day. And the things I’ll do for Packzis. I woke up early after going to sleep very late. My dreams were all Twitter. Everything had to be 140 characters or less. And it was mixed up with Jewel Quest. So the Tweets were merging and disappearing and falling…

Then, when I got to the bakery at 6:30 am, as I was walking behind the car to get to the bakery entrance, I slipped on some ice and fell right on my knees and the heels of my hands. The left side got it worse than the right. And my left is the side that’s already injured.

I sat on the ground for about 5 minutes with my hands on my knees, trying to keep breathing through the pain. Two very nice ladies helped me get up.

Even though I had to hobble in, to the bakery I was going, pain or no. I was already there, and it’s Packzi Day! Luckily the line wasn’t too long that early. I pulled the tab for number 77 when they were calling 74. Yay!100_3028

I was extremely careful going back to the car with 3 boxes (1 King Cake, a dozen assorted Packzis, and one box of 2 prune Packzis for my mom) and I still slipped a little in a different spot, but I got my self home and in the house with my treasures.

Monday Morning Musings

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (R-IL) floated a trial balloon of changing the gas tax to  be predicated on mileage driven via the use of a GPS in every vehicle. This trial balloon has been floated before in Oregon and California, and is being floated again in Oregon now.

Apparently the Obama administration has popped that particular trial balloon before It had a chance to get too high

President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary’s suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.

“It is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, when asked for the president’s thoughts about Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s suggestion, raised in an interview with The Associated Press a daily earlier.

via Michelle Malkin

Mileage can be ascertained by looking at a clever little device that is standard in every vehicle. It’s called an odometer. This device actually tracks the number of miles driven by the vehicle.

Of course, the current motor fuel tax is also related to miles driven. The more miles one drives, the more fuel one needs for said vehicle to continue running.  All other things being equal, the owner of a vehicle that drives 20 miles a day pays a bit more in motor fuel tax than the owner of a vehicle that drives 20 miles a week.

And therein, it seems, lies the rub, but with a slight twist: All other things being equal, the owner of the Prius Hybrid pays less in motor fuel tax than the owner of the Hummer. The very efficiency sought by the government necessarily results in lower revenues from motor fuel taxes.

So, by taxing on miles driven rather than by gallons consumed, the government could force the owner of the Prius Hybrid to pay the same in motor fuel taxes as the owner of the Hummer.

Reminder

The deadline for submitting a link or a recipe for the Sea Kittens for IEATAPeTA Day Recipe Carnival  is on Ash Wednesday, February 25th, 2009.

The Carnival will be posted on March 1st.

IEATAPeTA Day is March 15th.

Ash Wednesday starts Lent so fish Sea Kitten recipes should come in quite handy! Perhaps it won’t be the same old same old on Fridays.

Send recipes to seakitten *at* this domain *dot* com. You can also send to seakittens *at* this domain *dot* com.