My Weekend 6 (am I the only one doing this again?)

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dawnnys

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Started out Friday afternoon with a "taste sample" of foods Cook-off Kick-off Syracuse. Fun, nothing too original though.

Saturday a.m. we hit the Farmer's Market (love them this time of year) - bought Italian broccoli (I was intrigued by the purple buds), Silver Queen corn (yay, it's finally in!), heirloom tomatoes (2, but they were way over a pound!), and a bunch of other stuff. Crops all seemed so HUGE yesterday! Fun, even in the rain.

Made some tomato sauce with bounty of tomatoes from the garden... Ang's salsa will have to wait until tomorrow. Saving the heirlooms to eat as-is.

Drive-in Saturday eve. The Bourne Legacy was god. Hmm... just realized we saw the Bourne-"something else" at the same drive-in a couple of years ago.

Didn't get to pick apples; next weekend!

Dinner tonight is in the oven... a braised Cajun crayfish recipe; I can post a recipe if anyone is interested. Have a good rest of the weekend everyone!

 
My six - don't want you feeling lonely, Dawn!

Trying to make sense of supermarkets in the Charleston area (thanks for the tips, Curious -- I miss my HEB!!!)

Country Captain from the Tabasco Cookbook -- a family favorite

Thinking about Dawn's apple picking -- I may have to make a trip to Harpers Ferry....... smileys/smile.gif)

Roasting my Hatch peppers I brought back from Central Market. I was lucky to get any -- the season must have been early and more popular than ever in Austin. I only got about 3 pounds, but enough to make some scones and some chili, and something else. Why did I forget to re-buy the Hatch cookbook at CM? AARRGH

Made some really different cookies - Paul Grimes' Curry Coriander Shorties. Delicious with tea. I am looking forward to making them again when it cools off.

I think dinner will just be a BLT salad. Bushed. Tomorrow the shutter guy comes to install the plantation shutters. I hope they don't make the house all dark and, well, shuttered. Yikes.

 
I tried last weekend. smileys/wink.gif Here are mine...

1. Made this for today's breakfast: Sour Cream Coffee Cake (The Amateur Gourmet) I have many beloved sour-cream coffee cake recipes, but this is near the top. I halved the recipe, added dark-chocolate chips to the cinnamon-swirl part, and used more sour cream than called for, and it is very, very good.

2. Went to brunch yesterday with friends whose 16-month-old ran around the restaurant. I finally left because their laissez-faire approach was driving me nuts. I don't think we can go back to this restaurant, either, because if I know this crowd, they didn't tip to compensate for the rugrat factor, and the waitstaff had the patience of Job. (I swear our kid is not going to be like this!!) Anyway, a good omelet and Janssen potatoes (cheesy, delicious Scandinavian hash browns).

3. Trying to strategize making and freezing stuff for quick winter meals... Since it's only 75 here today, with little humidity, it's the first day that really feels like fall. Chili? Lasagne? Chicken soup? Maybe I'll start with chicken soup--that way, I don't have to turn on the oven. smileys/wink.gif

4. Sorta FRC: The deli man at our local supermarket told me I had a French accent (I think because I absent-mindedly mimic people's accents, and he's a native French speaker). He said, "Next time you come back, we will speak French!" So now we have run out of Swiss cheese and sliced turkey, and I still haven't brushed up on my French enough.... Hmmm.

5 and 6. I've run out of food-related stuff. Our weekend guest and Jakub went off to see the Intrepid, and I went back to the baby store and to the bagel place. Not very exciting.

 
My weekend six-ish and look what I got at the consignment store

Went to the FM today and got more strawberries for jam (no, I didn't use all those berries last time for jam because my body was fighting me - chiro tomorrow for sure)

Didn't get much else done food wise because of the whole need for Vicodin thing which makes for both loopy and queasy - not a good combo for working with or wanting food.

Best find of the week was this at the consignment store (sorry for the crummy pixs but it's big/hard to take a pix of). It would be even better if I was in the catering biz, but still fun. This sucker is in my eyes, huge! The top is 12" wide, the bottom 18" and it's 24" high. It screws apart, but sadly the male threads are on the bottom of the upper pieces. Still think there must be some type of base one could come up with to use these separately. This will be great for cupcakes/cake for the 1 yro birthday coming up and I have aluminum (?) platters that will go with/match.


PS I hate that photobucket won't rotate pasted pixs anymore, even though I've put the setting not to auto rotate them. It still does.

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I thought it HUGE too, like all Martha Stewart eat.your.heart.out huge...

like all Tower of Cupcakes Babel huge, but while I was in the store debating about buying it, this other guy who overheard me with the sales clerk said, that isn't big, MY cake stand is 54" high. Annnd, BAM! Outta nowhere it's now a cake stand throwdown!

So I said, well...that's a lotta cake. He says no, I just used it at a party in my backyard. A casual get together for 85 or 150, I wasn't really paying attention (but said it like it was an average day for people that have REAL parties and have actual FRIENDS). Named dropped some French place he bought it that I'd never heard of. Because I'm so not IN THE KNOW and forgot to care. Oh snap! -the shame, the humiliation! So I said, you must have a bigger backyard than me then (was I suppose to have backyard envy at this point?)...and walked away because why is this person trying to one up me with cake?

Later when he heard me trying to wheel/deal the price (hey, it's a consignment store), he shows up again with "I paid $5600 for my cake stand." WTH? So I turn and share I'm not going to pay that kinda money for a cake stand (though I'd really like to SEE what a $5600 cake stand looks like). And he proceeds to tell me that he enjoys baking cakes and the cake stand I'm buying will hold full size cakes on each tier, and I say, well it's big, but that's not going to work. He was really becoming annoying. Then he says, no, you cut the cakes in half, cut a center out, stick each half around the center section and ice it all like one cake -- and everyone he knows is AHmazed and asks how he does it (seriously, they can't figure that out? Rocket scientist friends are they?). I just kinda stared at him at that point because...I didn't know what to say, and that seemed like a weird messy why would I want to do that idea, which left me sorta speechless.

So I picked up my new cake stand toy(s) and went home.

People are weird.

 
my weekend 6

Friday night Mardi Gras fundraiser street party for the Red Cross. lots of good Cajun food(mmmm bread pudding was my fave) and music.

Saturday breakfast at a local dive---cajun omelettes and french fries(I overdid watching the food shows with real french fries, just had to have some)

Dinner was Ina Garten's Mustard Roasted potatoes and a mustard/maple glazed plank grilled salmon, served on garlic sauteed spinach. a peach/raspberry(our bushes)/plum upside down cake using the Busy Day cake recipe in the old BHG cookbook. my favorite quick/small cake recipe. major yum all around.

Farmer Market shopping. green beans still 9.99/lb and heirloom tomatoes 7.99/lb. no kidding. did buy fresh onions and broccoli and spinach without breaking the bank.

Finished the audio reading of this Friday's bookclub book "The Snow Child". Hauntingly good. we're having a combined night with another bookclub of younger women(DIL of one of our members and her club). they picked the book and we're having a potluck. I think I'll bring some homemade jam and fresh rolls.

received some pecan variety paks from Priestly Pecans in AL as a thankyou for helping some friend's relatives catch salmon at our cabin property. what a nice surprise that was! the pecan praline was really good, and oh boy sweet.

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Gotta Love consignment shops!! I think he was genuinely excited for you

and realized you got a good deal! I hate that when you are trying to negotiate and someone says wow that is soo cheap! You lose the power. BUT, sounds like he knows you got a good deal... Congrats on your find! I am sure you were the envy of everyone in the shop! You can use it for appetizers also. What fun!!

 
I felt your pain re: the 16 mo old child. Kids are bound to go through challenging times

but it is how the parents respond that is most important, especially at that age.

I am sure "baby barb_b" will be well behaved! : ) Or did you choose a different name? : )

best,
Barb

 
Erin, read "Bringing up Bebe". Larry just read it (really!) and liked it.

(from Amazon. I'm not this erudite.)

The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children.

When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special.

Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends take a year or more. French kids eat well-rounded meals that are more likely to include braised leeks than chicken nuggets. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play.

Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. There's no role model, as there is in America, for the harried new mom with no life of her own. French mothers assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. They have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy.

Of course, French parenting wouldn't be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They're just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are- by design-toddling around and discovering the world at their own pace.

With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman-a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal-sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

While finding her own firm non, Druckerman discovers that children-including her own-are capable of feats she'd never imagined.

http://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Up-Bebe-Discovers-Parenting/dp/1594203334

 
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