Sunday, November 18, 2007
A Little Gravy!
A glance at the thermometer on the porch was enough to send Brandy and I scurrying down the driveway to get the Sunday paper this morning. A crisp 29 degrees on this sunny morning is enough to make my shoulders hunch a little and a puppy to hot foot it along to get back inside. I was thinking as we walked this will be the last time for a while that we will make this trip together. But then Jay and she can walk down so she will still get to nose under the pine trees and try to investigate the side of the ditch out front.
Yesterday Les, Anne, and Courtney were up for dinner and to give the computers a kind of mini maintenance look see. Jay made a pork loin with delicious gravy, Anne and I shared getting the mashed potatoes ready, I roasted carrots( excellent taste), and had a lettuce and tomato salad, It was the day before Jeanie’s ( my late brother’s fiance) birthday and so Jay made her a cake.
Now the cake is a whole story itself. A Double Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake, one of Paula Deen’s recipes. As Jay was mixing it up he saw it called for nuts in it. Now we had bought a package of chopped walnut the night before and I had put them on top the refrigerator so they wouldn’t get shoved in the cupboard. Well everything proceeded as planned and the cake was put in the oven to bake. I came along behind Jay to cleanup when I noticed this open package on the counter that needed sealing for storage. Upon closer examination I felt the need to ask Jay a question. “Honey do you always put Stove Top Stuffing in your cakes?” You should of seen the look on his face when I had him examine the unlabeled package. The new package of nuts still lay on top the fridge. I had crushed the stuffing mix up to use as coating for pork chops and resealed it in a bag for later use. Well we sampled the cake and it wasn’t half bad so we served it anyway. Everyone agreed that the dinner was great but Les said that the cake could have used a little gravy!
We sure know how to exercise the lungs with laughter around this house!
