"Her" is a He

I had no idea what the bunny was, just assumed a "she" because of no smell (I thought males would have a urine odor). But I guess I was wrong. I had no idea how to tell what a rabbit is until I looked on the internet. So, he is a male. So far no problems. One person who keeps rabbits told me there is no need to get a rabbit fixed if you have only one.

Shopping for a new desktop. I have a good monitor, need a new tower. The one I have belonged to first hubby, who told me "I'll only use it for email, buy me the cheapest one." A few months later the computer I was using died, so I ended up inheriting a really slow single core AMD. It's been solid and stable, it's just slow, and some bigger programs are making it lag. We were looking at Windows 8 with the touch screens. I like the touch screen feature, but it's not going to work for me when I'm sitting down. I mean, I can hardly reach my monitor from a sitting position, and if I scoot my chair closer, I'll just end up with a tired arm. I have some time to think about it. There's been no work. The big jobs that were talked about back in November that were supposed to come after New Year's haven't materialized yet.

Hubby said his mom always made a yummy dessert, but I had my doubts when hubby described it to me. It's called Hallva, and it's made by heating oil and adding flour until it's kind of thickish. It is stirred without stopping until it gets brown. At this point it smells like burnt flour. In another pot, water and sugar is heated. When the oil and flour is cooked, the sweetened water is stirred in. Then the mix is transferred to a heavy bowl and cooled. It tastes like...burnt flour. Hubby loves it. I told him it must be something you need to grow up with. Odd thing is, hubby doesn't like the smell of Parmesan cheese. He doesn't like the taste of turkey (but he loves duck). He bought a duck and I cooked it. I thought it stank. He said it was so yummy and couldn't understand why I didn't like it. Thankfully we both love chicken. Life is an adventure.

Like everyone else, we are waiting for spring.

P.S. I looked up Hallva. Here is a different recipe. It uses butter (or margarine), which would taste better (to me---hubby doesn't like butter either) but would wreck equal havoc with my digestive system.

1 glass butter or margarine (or oil)
1 glass flour
1-1/4 glasses granulated sugar
5 glasses water

Heat the margarine in a saucepan very gently, and saute the flour until golden brown in the margarine for 40 minutes over low to moderate heat. When the flour turns light golden, put the sugar and water in a separate saucepan and make syrup by boiling gently. Add the syrup to the saucepan with flour and simmer for 20 minutes, and then take out small pieces of the Hallva with a wooden spool, form into balls and place on a serving plate. Serve warm.

Since hubby likes it so much (and asked me to cook it for him once in awhile) I will try following this recipe and maybe not make it so brown, thus eliminating the burnt flour taste.