…but methinks that if this forecast comes true, it must break a record or two!
My benchmark for "nice" April weather in Wisconsin has always been 1987, the year that Ali was born. We'd had a very mild winter and then, suddenly, it was spring — 70F when I went to the hospital, pretty much remaining there during my stay. I watched the leaves pop out while I was in the hospital! On my release, which was Easter Sunday that year, we had Easter dinner at my mom's… outside!
Obviously, we had Easter dinner outside (more or less) again this year, but WOW, would you look at those temperatures? A full week earlier and 6-11 degrees warmer than my benchmark of 1987.
As I recall, it continued mild in '87 right up until Memorial Day Weekend when it suddenly got HOTTER THAN HELL! And it stayed HOT all summer long. 2yo Katie's hair was so curly that summer, and Ali & I just sat in front of whatever air conditioner or fan we could find so we wouldn't melt into a puddle.
ANYWAY, enough again about the weather!
I found the curried shrimp recipe that I mentioned the other day and remembered why I really wanted to share it — it wasn't just rice, it was cauliflower fried rice. It was so good! The recipe is called Cauliflower Fried Rice with Curried Shrimp, it's from Food Network. I cut it in half when I made it because I had a half-pound of shrimp in the freezer. As mentioned earlier, I had WAY too much rice. Part of that was by design — I didn't want to have any leftover riced cauliflower, so I upped the proportion of rice to match — but my BIGGEST mistake was MAKING that much rice instead of USING that much rice. I put 2 cups of dry rice in my Instant Pot (my favorite way to cook rice these days), which of course yielded A LOT! I just wasn't thinking, and USED IT ALL. Rusty quizzed me a couple of times about the quantity of rice & how it was listed in the recipe, and my blunder still didn't register… for quite a while.
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We’ve got the same strangely warm temperatures here. It was 78 yesterday, and today and the rest of the week are supposed to be in the 80s. It’s certainly been good for weeding, watering, and drying clothes on the line, but it is still too hot too early for me!
You actually have a warmer forecast than we do!!! But still . . . we’re in the 70s all week long. (But there is a looming snowflake for early next week.) (Of course.) The sunshine sure feels good, doesn’t it???
It’s supposed to be in the 80s here tomorrow and Friday! I wish I could save those temps until next week when I’m going to be camping!
We have much of the same temps here (maybe a bit warmer…gah!) but next week it is supposed to be more “seasonal” as in spring season… not summer season!
My brother was born in the summer of ’87, and I remember how miserable my mother was in that heat! It’s been unusually warm here, too, and this week we’re under some sort of notice about the risk of brush fires, which I don’t ever remember hearing about here, let alone in the middle of April. I suppose, though, that if the weather is going to break records, I’d rather have unusually warm weather than large quantities of snow!
well dang – it’s warmer in Wisconsin than Atlanta!! and what fun you’ve been up to – I always love seeing the kids and the printing/coloring pages are so fun. (what is little Davey up to?)