Mad croissant-making skillz
Thursday, November 1, 2007
pounding the butter
Nick has taken up croissant-making in his spare time. It’s a two-day process. On the first day, he makes the dough and rolls it out with the butter. Roll, fold, chill, roll, fold, chill, roll, fold, chill...After the fifth chill, he forms the crescents and lets them rise overnight. The next morning he pops them in the oven for a tasty breakfast treat. Yum!
Why Matt never gets the girl
Sunday, October 21, 2007
A very large group of us celebrated Matt’s birthday last Monday at Hales Brewery. The restaurant had the Indians baseball game on the TV. Apparently, it was important - too important perhaps.
The “Usual Suspects” celebrate another kind of half-century
Saturday, October 13, 2007
The usual suspects (minus Michelle, Chris and Mary) gathered at Perche’No this evening to celebrate Dave’s 50th birthday. Good food, good wine, great friends - what more could anyone ask for?
Birthday boy and his lovely wife Karen
Laura, Paul & Charlie
Bruce, Sylvia, Shelly, & Julianne
me, Nick, Scott, & Diane
(Apologies for the poor picture quality. I forgot my camera, but the restaurant’s co-owner thankfully took some pictures for us. They are just a little low res.)
Plum Harvest
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Keith reaches for another cluster of fruit;
click to see how high he is off the ground.
The official plum harvest occurred today. For the record, we picked a little more than 65 pounds. We lost about 20 pounds to the slugs on the ground, which in the grand scheme of things is probably okay. Enough is enough!
After taking inventory of the canned plum stock in the basement, we will be focusing our preserving efforts on plum jelly (with plenty of pectin this time), plum rapture (a spiced plum flavored rum), dried plums and maybe one or two plum kuchens. We’re also working on a few never-before-tried ways of eating fresh plums, including plum sorbet, plum custard tart, and pork scallopini in plum sauce.
Cuttin’ a rug at the Tractor
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
There’s a reason musicians are on stage, and Nick has proved no exception. Swing, salsa, waltz…we’ve tried it all! Movement to music is just not one of his finer talents. (And he has many fine talents, no question.)
It’s a good thing we’re persistent, though, because last night we found the perfect dance – square dancing!
Colt invited a bunch of us to the Tractor to listen to the Tall Boys and dance the night away to a live caller. Yee-haw! And let me tell you we took the Tractor by storm, inventing cutting-edge new moves like the “Right Hand Fake to Allemande Left” (a.k.a. the Allemande Fakie) and the “Do-Si-Do Butt-Pinch.”
When you see these moves sweep the nation, just remember you heard it here first.