today: drinking tea and cognac in birmingham. both are pleasant and unexpected discoveries. also, basmati rice with homemade humus. my stomach is content.
yesterday: fast-food on the road to birmingham and appetizers at olive garden with mike. we had fried calamari, pepperoni pizza, and bruschetta. yum yum.
yesterday: a walk around the apartments trailing 10 kids.
today: a walk thru the botanical garden's hydrangea sale and around the lake.
today: mariokart on the wii and too many sudoku puzzles on the ds.
yesterday: napping and singing in the car.
tomorrow: church and Iron Man perhaps.
it's good to visit friends.
I found this idea from an eatingwell.com newsletter i get emailed to me. and even tho' the picture next to the recipe looked... less than tasty... to me i still had to try it. they're Amazing! here's what you've got to try: graham cracker spread with ricotta cheese and jelly (mine was marion berry). it's your own super quick cheese cake. i had 5 or 6. so addictive. so wonderful!
The real culinary props, however, go to Walter. He strained and strained raspberry seeds out of the puree in order to make this ridiculously tasty sorbet (so sorry the pic turned itself sideways... too late to figure out why just now). It's the first recipe we've tried in my new Baking with Agave Nectar cookbook. So far 100% success. I think next we're trying watermelon sorbet bc it takes less agave nectar than the raspberry one.
