So...whats for dinner?

Chabba, I have a piece of marble that I use to make pie and pastry crusts and I love it. 

SK, thanks,  that's what  I'm trying to do, find a remnant from a fabricator. 

Saturday night is pizza night (homemade) - Canadian bacon and green pepper for dh, sausage and mushroom for me. I'll add a salad for a healthier component. 

Is anyone else having difficulty posting? I don't know if it's my phone or the site itself, but I frequently lose my post or my keyboard just freezes and I can't  type any more words. It only happens here. If I try on the computer, it works fine. Maybe it's just me.

I think I have a pretty wonderful husband, but Eric you are a  peach!

I've had slow draggy internet all day long. Don't know why traffic would be high on such a lovely day as today.

Nancy - gonna be a pest. I don't have a porcelain cast iron or even plain cast iron. I guess I might make 1/2 recipe (have to find recipe again in my "stack") and see it it will rise in say maybe a round Corning Ware casserole. Depends on temp but I can't believe you'd bake it over 375 anyway for bread. Prob. not next week though. I thought I had a stretch at home but DH's truck has major work needed at Ford dealer which means 2 trips into FW next week that I hadn't planned on.

Never got beyond simmering the chicken breasts for the chicken cobbler. Will instead finish the shells with some sauteed peas I got at Cent. Mkt and some Italian rolls.

Eric - you should be right at home in Dallas next week temp. wise.

As you will see, no problems posting on Ipad here.....

Seconding the "peach" opinion for Eric....:) 

...And maybe you could give DH those kinds of indoor cleaning lessons. Tho I so appreciate how he leaves his pollen laden outdoor work clothes in the garage after a hard day of Spring cleanup (and there have been many of those this "spring"). I was happy he decided to do it himself this year, since it costs a lot to have a service do it, with corners cut that DH is more careful not to do. And since he is in great physical shape this year, he is not even complaining about the hard yard work. Yay gym!

I went on a long road rally today to my friend's mom's memorial service. Drove down with another friend, and am glad I had company since we took forever to get there. This particular South Shore area seems to be a challenge for google maps or mapquest (which everyone told us AFTER we arrived....having stopped four times for redirections...good thing we are xx and not xy folk:)and we drove around in circles a lot to find the obscure neighborhood the church was in. Then similar problem on way home, so I abandoned the tech map and thought that if I just kept the water on my right we'd make it home....not so fast!! LOL We ended up on a few fingers in Hull... Could have used a skiff!  So many laughs we had as we finally made it back to the highway and home again, home again jiggidy jig! Phew! 

I was pretty starved upon return home since there were lots of cheese laden dishes in the buffet luncheon. So, DH and I ordered take out dinner from our favorite local Greek restaurant....lemon scallops over rice and veggies, and lamb shank with sides, which transformed somehow to a chicken and beef kabob. DH really hoped for that lamb shank and called to "complain" ( he is so NOT a complainer) and they right away offered to credit his card, and give us the mistake meal, which he settled for, and we enjoyed both entree dishes plus their delish butternut squash, lemon potatoes, grilled veggies, and Greek salad (minus the feta for me....whine!)  Oh, almost forgot...we went all out and got baklava for dessert. Yum!

Ongoing church dynamic...DH attended a memorial service held at our church today and said that after it, the local Methodist minister gave a solid endorsement from the pulpit to our candidate for her initiation and coordination of the service with him...a collaborative first in our town! Wish I had been there....tomorrow is the vote. Fingers crossed that this young dynamic woman can be endorsed to come and impact our church and town in positive ways! There are still a few older folks who just cannot appreciate the gifts of a young candidate....:(... Hopefully not too many who decide to vote! 

I'm roasting a pork butt in the oven.  It's 9 pounds, so I cut it in half so it will cook faster. 

The lamb talk makes me want to get some lamb to make a middle eastern lamb dish tomorrow. 

Apple's posts inspired me to try that type of food and we like the flavor.  

Sharon has been grading papers for about 4 hours and is only half done.

 It seems like her allergies aren't bugging her as much...maybe the air filters are helping.  I see they have quite a layer of "crud" on the filter elements, so they are doing their job. I should look into an electrostatic filter for the house air conditioning system...

Eric

They are made by Honeywell...Enviracaire model 12520.

It has a blower that pulls air through a replaceable HEPA filter that is wrapped with a thick activated charcoal sheet.  The thing is about a foot tall and about 18 inches in diameter.  

I don't know if they still make this particular filter as it is 17 years old.  When Sharon was pregnant and couldn't take anti-histamines, I bought the filters to keep her from going crazy.

I have seen similar filters in the home improvement stores.

I used to have an air conditioner filter that created static electricity from the air moving through the filter.  It would loudly snap and pop when it was time to wash it out.  That thing worked pretty well, but it didn't fit the filter spot at the new house...so we left it behind when we moved.   Since we moved we've never seen them from sale....

Lacey, how wonderful that the young minister impressed the entire congregation.  I love outdoor sculpture.  You have an interesting life with some varied activities.

Nancy, looking forward to reports on your use of the new baking center.  A great idea! 

The church my mother attends paid respect to the over 50 crowd today.  After the service we oldies were served lunch in one of the church buildings. 

Tomorrow back to my ww meeting in the morning and back to exercise and healthy food.  There is much to get done in the yard and house before we head north on June 18th. 

Tonight was an ATK recipe for prime rib for two, which was basically a 1 1/2" thick ribeye browned then cooked low and slow.  The sauce was a very simple reduction of beef  broth, red wine, shallots,  thyme and a teaspoon of ketchup.  The whole thing was really superb. I also made a salad with lettuce from the garden with a raspberry vinaigrette,  strawberries and toasted walnuts. I had a couple of ears of corn that we had too. I don't know where it came from but it was really good. 

My garden beds are ready for planting, amendments were added today.  So tomorrow will be getting the rest of the garden off the front porch. 

Dh put the base cabinets in today. Tomorrow he'll install the light over them and the drawer inserts.  Now all I need is a hunk of marble!

Today I went to the "pull it myself" junkyard to get some parts for DD's car.  Mission accomplished.  I got there at 7:30am--when the place opened.  Working in a car in the sun when it's 100F (like today) or hotter is no fun....

Tonight, it's chicken with couscous.

I'm also interested in how the marble slab works out.

It sounds like everyone recognized how well the pastor was received.  When the pastor and congregation fit well together, wonderful things happen.  

100F and working for about an hour in a junked car in the sun. :-) The part is $380.00 new and I needed 2 of them.  At the junkyard it was $5 for both.

I'm sitting at the airport after successfully passing the "colonoscopy" at the security checkpoint.

Lol Eric!

I do like ATK recipes! A few are a bit more convoluted than normal but they tell you the reason they do it that way. And the recipes usually work. Another one I like is the Barefoot Contessa- Ina Gartner. Her recipes usually work as well. 

Oh and Nancy thanks for the bread hints. I think I will get some rapid rise yeast. One forecast calls for 71 degrees next week - think they're crazy. But might be a good bread day. I have bread flour, whole wheat flour, just about anything else.

The ATK home page has me salivating. Must means I need some lunch.

I used to get the Cook's illustrated mags, but stopped a few years ago when I ran out of places to pile them up. I do enjoy their PBS shows. My sister now lives not far from Chris K in VT and fashions her cooking very much from their style. Her barn adventure has worked out so well for her. She is in total heaven with all the cows, goats, etc. etc. as her neighbors. 

LMG, I do find that getting to a recipe from a Pinterest pic is a circuitous route, but eventually...... I do find them. Not sure why it has to be so challenging.

Re: the ministerial candidate and the funeral. A man who had belonged to our church for many years, suddenly learned of the death of a son he had been estranged from. So, on her second day of candidating week (during which time she had about a zillion meetings and social events with most everyone and every committee in our church....including children) she was asked by this man to do a memorial service for the deceased son. It was a complicated family situation, which she managed beautifully. And he wanted her to do it in our church but in concert with the Methodist minister in our town, who, of course, she did not know! So, she contacted the other minister and planned and performed the service with him....in her "spare time" during the week. Several of our parishioners said that on the day of the funeral, before the other minister left, he spoke with some of them and said, "I have no idea how your ministerial selection process works, but I would suggest that you don't want to miss out on this woman". I learned today that it is extremely rare for ministerial "call" votes to be 100% ....but she is that impressive, and the really unsure oldest folks really showed their flexibility. Suffice it to say this woman is NOT your typical twenty nine year old. Oh, and for her "training" last year, she was the intern at the parish that was most effected by the Marathon bombing in Boston. Obviously a person who can manage crises.

Carole, that sounds like a wonderful fish medley for dinner! Anyone who overcooks salmon can always send it this way!

Hahahah, Nance, I am picturing the kindle exploding!!