Wraps And Hoarding....

I enjoy watching a channel called TLC in the mornings when I´ve got time and this morning there was this show called Hoarding Buried Alive. You can see the episode I saw HERE. The link is only to the first part, you´ll be able to find part 2 and 3 on the side panel if you look. If you actually use the time to watch this you´ll be horrified....shocked....you simply will not have words for what you see. Another thing I felt was ANGER. I understand that people who have a hoarding problem have a psychological problem which usually is the basis for why they hoard, never the less, the husband in this episode had the possibility to get help for his wife and his children, however, he decided to move out- ALONE and not even take his children with him! He left his children in this nightmare. The mother is a classic victim. She is too "sick and weak" to do anything and constantly refers to how her children don´t do anything so why should she? She is too sick...I just....I have no words, you have to watch this if I´ve peaked your interest, it will totally shock you and leave you wondering how all those people who walked in and out of that house continued to allow those children to live there in those conditions? How those parents could allow their children to live in those conditions? You hear the father say the mother won´t allow the kids to move out and in with him because she would lose her benefits- well TO FREAKING BAD! Had I been that Dad I would have gotten those kids out of there!!! As disturbing as this is to watch, it´s a fact and an illness that effects hundreds and thousands of people. 


When I look at these kinds of shows I think, how in the world can they live like that? Don´t they notice the mess? However, when I looked up Hoarding on Google, I read under Wikpedia about the different types of hoarding and one thing caught my eye- book and newspaper hoarding. People who keep old magazines and newspapers and books and never get rid of them. *gulp*....I have tons of magazines around my house....I hate to throw them away because MAYBE I´d like to read them again someday???? *gulp*.....does this make me a hoarder too?*gulp*....ugh.....When I married the Captain I noticed a lot of trash around the house we lived at when we lived on Averøy. Apparently it wasn´t trash but things the Captain´s dad had found along the coastline or in junkyards and might possibly have a usage for later on....When I think about it, we have a lot of things around our place we really don´t need or use, but we don´t get rid of it....does that make us hoarders? I´m starting to get nervous when I think about it. Of course you can walk across my floors and the only thing you´ll stand on is the occasional fur ball but if you open the drawers of my cabinets or look in our storage rooms, we have tons of junk...which should probably be tossed but it´s not. Maybe we´re mild hoarders??? Oh my goodness...I´m feeling like a serious clean up is due when the Captain returns...*gulp*....


In the meantime while I ponder a future cleanup I´ll share tonight´s dinner with you. Salmon wraps. Have made this before and it´s basically the same...you add whatever veggies you´d like and I love to make my own tortillas, you can find the recipe in this post HERE. Tonight I cut the tortilla recipe in half since we are only three, so we each got 2 tortillas a piece which was plenty!  I bought a lovely filet of salmon which we had plenty of leftovers from, so I see a pasta dish with some salmon in our future ;-) My kids told me this is their favorite meal and Thomas announced tonight that whenever he gets his first date, this is the meal he will make the lucky lady who is with him! Now you KNOW this is good when he says something like that!!! To top off our dinner, some fresh watermelon....could it get better??? I think not!

Here is what I did. I bought a lovely salmon filet which was about 998 grams. Placed it skin side down in a baking dish and put some oil and margarine over the fish. Some roasted garlic pepper and a dash of sea salt. Stick this in the oven, which is pre-warmed to 200C (about 400F), do not cover it. Let it bake for about 15-20 minutes- follow along. I don´t really time it, but test the fish, salmon should be light pink, not dark pink- if she is dark pink, she is still raw. Let her cook a little longer, when she is light pink throughout she is done..and you take her out immediately. Then you have a juicy piece of fish which isn´t dry! I cheated the system and bought already pre-cut salad and pre-cut carrots and cabbage. So the only thing I had to cut up was red onion then opened a can of corn and got out some garlic dressing (in America, Ranch would work lovely with this). You put together your tortilla, veggies, fish and dressing and voila....dinner! 


Until next time my friends.....