Category: Food

Zumi Tye, the Other Love of My Life

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Zumi Tye Walking Towards Its Food. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

I cannot quite put into words just how much I love my tortoise. ZuZu does not require much. It eats, sleeps, hides in its hidey-hole, and tolerates my daily antics. Jernee gives it a bit of attention occasionally, but overall, she could not be bothered with it. It is amazing watching it grow and enjoy the simple life it has. I am in awe of its presence and am glad to be its mom.

Below is a short video of my second love as it was walking to its feeding post . . .

Zumi Tye, my Red-Footed Tortoise Walking Over to Its Feeding Post.

As I stated above, it doesn’t take much to satisfy ZuZu. It is happy as long as it has enough leafy greens, fresh fruits (in moderation), cucumbers, freeze-dried shrimp, and fresh water. I cannot wait until it gets big and old enough! I will take Zumi back to the Reptile Zoo to have it sexed. I am eager to find out if Zumi Tye is a boy or a girl.

I believe I will be able to do this in the next few months; probably before the year is out. I will be happy either way, but in my heart of hearts, I’d love for it to be a girl. I have a feeling it is not, though. LOL! And that’ll be just my luck. I always hoped this home would be all women/female, but I will allow one male (if it occurs this way).

I am also certain Zumi will require a bigger hidey-hole by the end of this year. Not too much bigger, but just a hair. It spends so much of its time in that thing that I’d like for it to have more than enough room for comfort. I will keep you all updated.

I hope you enjoyed the video! Happy Sunday!

Thursday Night’s Dinner

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Thursday Night’s Dinner, ©2024  Tremaine L. Loadholt

For dinner, I made fried colossal shrimp and a side salad on Thursday night. For the shrimp, I used the same wet batter as I did for my fried chicken: dairy-free milk, one egg, and various seasonings. Cornmeal (yellow) is what I used to coat/dredge them in instead of flour.

The salad is spinach, cucumbers, strawberries, blueberries, cherry tomatoes, onions, and Feta cheese. The dressing, applied later, was Ranch.

I had an extra tartar sauce from my seafood dinner from last weekend and I most certainly used it, along with some ketchup as dipping sauces for the shrimp.

It was truly a tasty delight!

For Friday night, I had the remaining shrimp, roasted red potatoes, and cucumbers with onions, strawberries, Feta cheese, and Ranch dressing.

Here’s hoping all of you will have an incredible weekend. Happy Saturday!

Two Things Thursday #17

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1. Tuesday Night Dinner. Fried chicken drumsticks, Jasmine rice, & sweet corn. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
2. Oscar De La Hoya Quote.

1. Tuesday Night Dinner was a delectable treat. I hadn’t cooked fried chicken in an extremely long time.

I made a decent wet batter (two eggs, lactose-free milk, olive oil, and various spices). I used yellow cornmeal instead of flour and fried them in vegetable oil.

My Jasmine rice was simple: water, olive oil, and salt. The sweet corn was as well: white & yellow corn, salt, pepper, lactose-free milk, water, and light brown sugar.

I had leftovers for Wednesday, and it was even more delicious at that time!

2. Oscar De La Hoya Quote: I used to be a huge fan of this incomparable former boxer. His personality was always top-notch during interviews and he let his fists do the talking in the boxing ring all the time.

I don’t recall him ever being a massive trash-talker. He held his own. He may not have blown through all of his matches, but the guy was a LEGIT warrior in the ring.

And he was/is handsome, too.

The quote above struck me as instantly motivational. Judging from those few words, he didn’t allow anyone to limit what he could do. And well . . . isn’t that how we all should be?

Here’s a short YouTube video of a compilation of The Golden Boy’s “Greatest Hits”:

Oscar De La Hoya: Top Combos

NaPoWriMo #29

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break loose

Weekend Getaway to Charlotte Photo Collage created by Tremaine L. Loadholt

slid away from
the comfort of
home to breathe in
different air

the dog in tow
we spend our
weekend with love
and good food

Queen City breakaway
to break away from
the monotony but
run right back to it
because . . . life must
go on