I am almost afraid to really say it. We are coming home. In two and a half weeks we pack up all of our crap to drive home. It could fall apart at any moment and we will have to unpack.
We have to believe that we are going home soon, so yesterday we finally celebrated the offer we received on the house. Our favorite restaurant went out of business, which is par for Albuquerque, and we had no where to celebrate. I made an amazing brunch where we celebrated not just the offer but the future where I will not have to cook for special occasions unless I want to.
I did make an amazing omelette for the celebration.
Salmon and cream cheese omelette may have become my favorite breakfast food ever.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Monday, December 31, 2007
Its really going to happen
The stupid house is actually going to be finished soon!! We have banished resident evil and it is going to go on the market as soon as the bathroom is finished. The pictures of the process are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhodesihouse/.
Since moving back to PA is actually becoming a reality, I thought it was only appropriate to rediscover my PA roots. Nothing says home to me more than scrapple, so we are kicking off the New Year with some homemade scrapple. I have to make changes to the Mennonite Community Cookbook recipe cause I just dont think I eat liver pudding anymore. So with the substitution of chicken sausage for the liver pudding and chicken broth for the liver broth, I am going to give it a try.
I am going to start making all kinds of homey foods in variations for the non pork, non beef diet that we eat.
Chicken Scrapple
1 1/2 c. chicken sausage
3 qts. chicken broth
1 c corm meal
3 c wheat flour
salt and pepper
Boil broth in a double boiler, add flour and corn meal, bring down temperature and add sausage. Cook slowly for 30 min on double boiler, stirring occasionally. Pour into cake pan and cool. After it is cooled it is ready to be fried up.
This is a variation of Mrs. Frank Gehman of Adamstown, PA and Mrs. Henry Bechtel of Spring City, PA. published in Mennonite Community Cookbook by Mary Emma Showalter.
Since moving back to PA is actually becoming a reality, I thought it was only appropriate to rediscover my PA roots. Nothing says home to me more than scrapple, so we are kicking off the New Year with some homemade scrapple. I have to make changes to the Mennonite Community Cookbook recipe cause I just dont think I eat liver pudding anymore. So with the substitution of chicken sausage for the liver pudding and chicken broth for the liver broth, I am going to give it a try.
I am going to start making all kinds of homey foods in variations for the non pork, non beef diet that we eat.
Chicken Scrapple
1 1/2 c. chicken sausage
3 qts. chicken broth
1 c corm meal
3 c wheat flour
salt and pepper
Boil broth in a double boiler, add flour and corn meal, bring down temperature and add sausage. Cook slowly for 30 min on double boiler, stirring occasionally. Pour into cake pan and cool. After it is cooled it is ready to be fried up.
This is a variation of Mrs. Frank Gehman of Adamstown, PA and Mrs. Henry Bechtel of Spring City, PA. published in Mennonite Community Cookbook by Mary Emma Showalter.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
A few random things
First, Love to my girl who either has the best luck ever or the worst luck ever.
Second, Boo and hiss to that magazine that claims to make life simple but then runs a great article about the very simple process of throwing out your expensive disposable electronics. I hate all this disposable crap!
Second, Boo and hiss to that magazine that claims to make life simple but then runs a great article about the very simple process of throwing out your expensive disposable electronics. I hate all this disposable crap!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
MARC records
I am looking for cataloging suggestions! When we are cataloging we run into a lot of things that we don't have an importable record for. So we do original cataloging. Today one of our volunteers asked, why would you do that when you can just export from the LOC and import it into our catalog. However, it not working so great for me. I get timed out of the LOC catalog before I ever get a change to do anything with it. Please tell me what I am doing wrong!
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
I can't believe it's over
Wow! that was a whirlwind of a summer. I learned all kinds of things, but most of all I know what I want to do with my life. . .
We run to things or away from things for all kinds of reasons. Up to this point I have done a lot of running away. Tied up by things I think I ought to be, I ran with little direction towards someone else's definition of success. I good friend of mine recently showed me just how silly my view really was by making some really bad decisions in his own life. But I also learned about personal success rather than competitive success and that I will only succeed if I am doing what I care about.
We run to things or away from things for all kinds of reasons. Up to this point I have done a lot of running away. Tied up by things I think I ought to be, I ran with little direction towards someone else's definition of success. I good friend of mine recently showed me just how silly my view really was by making some really bad decisions in his own life. But I also learned about personal success rather than competitive success and that I will only succeed if I am doing what I care about.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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