The Week in Review

So, the airline understood our frustration with their service, and decided to give us vouchers for our next air travel.   They were generous, and we appreciated it.

Ian did some amazing cooking this week, as always, and helped me with the red wine demi glace I made for our bison/mozarella burgers this week.   The chicken and wild mushroom pie was the best, and even better the second day.

My parents have sold their house, and they’re off to Italy on April 15th (tax day), which may be better than April 1.   🙂  (“We decided to fly you to Brazil instead, ok?”)

I only had to work 3 days this week.  I have to say I prefer the abbreviated weeks, but Friday I went “over the edge” just enough to make up for 2 lost days.      Sometimes I think I just need another line of work.   I wonder if I can make a lot of money making cupcakes or muffins.   🙂

This weekend:   Big fund-raising thing for my company.  I have a minor role:  setting up the computer equipment.     It will all be fine.    Right?   We’re eating breakfast with the DBA and one of the company secretaries at the hotel restaurant.   I’ve been inducted.    It was nice to be invited.

We bought a tv from a pawn shop yesterday.   I think it’s brilliant buying a tv from a pawn shop.   You get something reasonably nice for cheap.   It was $55 with a new remote tossed in.    They had loads of flat screens there, as well.   It’s not too late if you want to snap one up.

It’s fun to see what’s in the pawn shop.  There were loads of drums (like bongos), stereos, jewelry, etc.    I think Ian is most amazed by the guns and rifles, since they don’t sell these things (legally) in the UK.

TLK’s off with her dad this weekend, so Ian and I have some time to do what we want, even if it means sitting around watching our new TV all weekend.  🙂   Actually, though, we’ll probably be out at least collecting items for whatever Julia Child recipe we pick from one of her cookbooks.

We thought it would be an interesting challenge.   The recipe on my list (for someday) is Pâté de Canard en Croûte.   It just looks so pretty when it’s done and looks like an amazing challege.

What I like about the Julia Child cookbooks is the personalization she puts into the instructions, like a certain recipe (crab, I believe, of some sort) where she said (paraphrasing), “It’s done when you snap off a small leg and it tastes done.  If it does, then declare all the small legs for the cook.”

We were smitten with “Julie and Julia“… what can I say?   🙂