It was actually nice enough to grill last week, instead of this week when you barely walk outside without freezing right where you are. So, we had grilled pork chops, shells and cheese (from a box-it’s delicious!), and peas.
04.06.11 Dinner
This was awhile ago, but it was yummy!! Breakfast bake with potatoes, sausage, peppers, scrambled eggs, cheese, and guacamole. And, of course, strawberry-orange smoothies. Meg LOVES smoothies. She’ll down a 10 ounce sippy cup full before I even get our glasses filled!
04.04.11 Dinner
Bean soup (with my apologies to Andy’s Grandma Plochberger for adjustments to her recipe) and cheddar biscuits!
04.03.11 “Dinner”
After a weekend of lots of food and activity around our house (check the link for the Picasa pictures at the bottom of the page for what we did!), we were ready for something lighter last night. No work for me today, so we had a liter of Millstream Brewery’s Amber Ale with our snack supper while we watched the John Wayne version of True Grit.
03.25.11 Food
Last Saturday we enjoyed our last weekend of nothing to do for awhile by staying home and relaxing. It was wonderful!! Meg and I made banana bread in the morning with orange smoothies made with some creamsicle jelly that never jelled before Andy even got out of bed.
Then, we had meatloaf, egg noodles, and the last of the Grandma corn from last summer (I think I said we had the last of it already, but I found a rogue bag in the bottom of the freezer).
I’m going today to get seeds to start for our garden. We’re looking forward to summer’s bounty already!!
03.24.11 Dinner
More freezer/pantry clean out happening around here: Stuffed clams, the last of the carrots from last year’s garden, and noodles from a packet. We’re working hard to be fancy around here…
03.21.11 Dinner
Southwest casserole, a la Brooke T. and avocado. For once, Meg actually downed her share of the avocado. Guess this means we’ll have to get it more often if she likes it!
03.20.11 Dinner
We’re playing “clean out the pantry” at the Linsenbardt house these days in preparation for new spring and summer goodies that will hopefully soon be coming. So, we had pasta, that honestly wasn’t very good, with tomato cream sauce and bacon. Also, some fruit salad with weekend leftovers.
03.20.11 Breakfast
We didn’t have to play at church this week, so we had time for a leisurely breakfast. Pancakes with granola, and strawberries that weren’t quite ripe, so I softened them up with a tablespoon of sugar and a drizzle of orange juice.
Asplode!
Brooke and I were watching “House, M.D.” on Friday night in the office after Meg went to bed when we heard a loud “pop.” Not so much a “pop” as much as a “who’s shooting at us?!”
Well, turns out one of Brooke’s Hard Apple Cider bottles continued fermenting to the point where it generated enough CO2 to explode all over our dining room. It sent glass flying across the room, including 8 ft in the air where it caught a nice, large shard in the curtains (pictured above). We found small bits of glass spread throughout the room.
The Cider is now sitting outside in our metal trash can (sans trash, of course), where it will be a bit…safer…for everyone involved. 🙂
We had opened up some of the stuff last Wednesday night and I noted that it had lost some of the sweetness it had a few weeks ago, and the carbonation had increased. The champagne yeast, apparently, is more hearty than we’d initially thought. That, or the brown sugar Brooke added to “prime” the cider for bottling ended up being more than was necessary.
Either way, if you have a bottle of our cider sitting in your fridge, I’d recommend you open it and drink it immediately. And do it over a sink. It can get messy. 🙂