Have you ever watched late night TV when you get a case of insomnia? I would get insomnia quite a bit and be up to 3 or 4 in the morning. TV at that time usually consists of commercial programs.. you know… the kind of programs that try to sell half-asleep people all kinds of things. They sell household cleaners, exercise equipment, colon cleanse products, beauty products and much more.

If you’re a shop-a-holic.. don’t stay up late at night and watch TV.. you’ll go broke. Those people selling that stuff are good at what they do and they can really rope you in if you aren’t careful. It’s best to find a movie or some DIY show to watch.. it’s cheaper.

* 1/2 pint of oil
* 1 chicken, cut to 8 pieces
* 2 bowls of rice (1lb. 5 oz. approximately)
* 5 bowls of meat broth
* 1 green pepper
* 1 red pepper
* 1 small can of peas
* 1 small onion
* 2 tomatoes
* Saffron
* 1 clove of garlic (optional)
* Parsley
* Salt

Start by heating half of the oil and once warm add the cut chicken and let it cook for 15 min. Once it’s brown, set it aside in a dish. Add the chopped onion. After 5 minutes, add diced tomatoes, without seeds and peeled.

Let it cook about 5 minutes more, mashing the tomatoes. Strain it and put it in the paella pan.

Add the rest of the oil to the paella pan. Add the green pepper, cut into half inch pieces. Add the fried chicken. Keep stirring without letting it get brown. Add salt, and the hot meat broth.

Meanwhile, chop up the garlic (optional), the parsley and the saffron, with a little bit of salt, and add a couple of soup spoonfuls of warm water. Put this mixture on the rice and stir.

When the broth has reduced to add red pepper cut to ribbons, and the peas.

Cook about 20 minutes.

Once the rice is cooked and the broth has reduced, remove the paella pan from the heat, and put it on a wet cloth for about 5 minutes.

Serve it with some lemon wedges for decoration.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words… that is if you have your camera with you.. and your batteries are charged or fresh… and your compact flash card is empty. If your batteries are dead then that picture is worth nothing.

I always download photos from my camera as soon as possible after taking pictures. When we went to Texas I downloaded every night when we stopped for the night. After we got home I transferred the pictures from the laptop to my desktop and then saved them to disk so I’ll always have them. It’s about time to do a photo backup again as I’ve added a lot more pictures to my desktop. It would be so sad if something happened to the desktop and those memories were lost.