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19793. iiibbb - 7/20/2006 4:18:47 PM It was strange learning the devil sticks. I went from being an utter klutz to pretty good with them pretty quickly. I imagine you'll be bonking yourself with them one day to being pretty proficient with them. I think it just takes a while for the muscle memory to kick in. 19794. Ms. No - 7/20/2006 4:50:09 PM That sauce sounds delicious! 19795. iiibbb - 7/20/2006 5:01:01 PM There are many aspects of it that were an accident.
The resturant pretty much was just olives, onions, peppers, and tomato. I think their sauce wasn't much different than a vinaigrette added at the end and topped with feta.
My first itteration pretty much just involved using cubed lamb. I literally bought Greek salad dressing to cook the vegetables. It was good.
Then I couldn't get the salad dressing so I started to play around with the lemon juice and balsamic.
The real breakthrough was when I started using tomato paste. It adds a whole new dimension to it. My sauce came out really thin one time for reasons I forget... I think I didn't drain the meat and it released a lot of liquid (lamb has a lot of water and fat in it relative to beef) so I added the paste to thicken it.
This has been one of the best things I've ever thought up from scratch. 19796. judithathome - 7/22/2006 2:56:44 AM They are coming Monday to start removing my beautiful tree...I saw it exposed from the road leading to my street today (different angle than I've ever seen it) and I started to cry...it's so beautiful! 19797. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/22/2006 3:03:14 AM Maybe you guys might like it.
Indeed–I'll try it.
. . . and I started to cry...it's so beautiful!
Everything of beauty is transient. Plant another, Judith and thrill someone in the future the way someone in the past thrilled you. 19798. judithathome - 7/22/2006 3:33:47 AM Well, I plan to do that. And in the meantime, I am going to plant things I've never been able to put back there before.
Also, they are leaving the trunk about 3 feet tall so I can use it as a plant stand. 19799. Magoseph - 7/24/2006 1:16:36 PM Hello, everyone!,
In American Politics, I made a blank post—I cannot for the life of me figure out how I did that, but I won’t obsess about it this time. I just talked to my brother and down in Haute-Provence, they are expecting a temperature of around 38 degrees this week, just like where we live, but we don’t complain about it. 19800. judithathome - 7/24/2006 3:38:05 PM I'm listening to my tree being devoured by this monster-sized wood chipper. Thinking of the movie Fargo. 19801. arkymalarky - 7/24/2006 4:03:53 PM Maybe you can save part of it and burn it and scatter the ashes around your yard. Nothing to do with Fargo, just a thought. I still haven't seen all that movie. I've started it or caught it in the middle several times, but something always seems to interrupt me. 19802. arkymalarky - 7/24/2006 4:05:21 PM Which parts of Europe were having a heatwave? I just saw a headline. Now California is having one too? Things finally moderated here, thank goodness. I can handle the lower 90s. 19803. judithathome - 7/24/2006 4:19:05 PM Yes, I'm hoping for this type weather for the weekend...remember last year when it got chilly out after dark? That was great! 19804. judithathome - 7/24/2006 4:22:06 PM WC seems to be down...again. 19805. arkymalarky - 7/24/2006 4:40:19 PM Hey, that's right! I'd forgotten about that. 19806. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/25/2006 4:25:49 AM For the Cap'n . . .
 19807. Ms. No - 7/25/2006 4:38:13 AM It's been cooler here in Flower Mound than in Burbank. It was 103 in Burbank yesterday but only 96 in Flower Mound. You know you're in trouble when California is hotter than Texas. Sheesh.
We've been running around like crazy here but we closed the show today --- I'm really proud of it. This is the children's play that my mother and I wrote. Robin Hackett and Tom Cole did the songs for it and now that I've seen it up on its feet I'm thrilled with what we accomplished. I've also got a bunch of notes about how to refine it before we submit it for publication.
Hopefully we'll be able to do one of these every summer -- an original show --- but maybe next time we won't be so under the gun. I think we wrote it in under ten days and then there were two weeks of rehearsal to put up two shows a day Friday, Saturday, Sunday and today and we struck this afternoon. The kids did a great job, but I'm glad my mother was the one to direct. I wouldn't have had the patience for it. ;->
I'm helping build and paint sets tomorrow for their next production which opens this coming weekend, but mostly I'm just gearing up for the par-tay.
Judith, I haven't forgotten that I promised you and Keoni sausage bread Thursday morning! 19808. wonkers2 - 7/25/2006 1:03:24 PM The Cap'n sez, "Great shot!" 19809. Macnas - 7/25/2006 1:53:46 PM Last week came and went pretty quickly, managed to meet up with the Conner band of gypsies, pounding headache from drinking too much of the home-made calvados he kindly brought me, hope they come back again sometime. 19810. arkymalarky - 7/25/2006 2:56:49 PM MsNo, that sounds so great! Congrats to you and your mother! 19811. arkymalarky - 7/25/2006 2:57:46 PM How cool that you got to meet the Connor Clan, Mac! 19812. arkymalarky - 7/25/2006 3:02:39 PM I'm trying--and not succeeding very well--not to be mad at Bob.
We're in a drought here. It hasn't rained at all on our place since early June. Surrounding areas have had rain, but we haven't.
We're on well water. I do not want to go to city water because 1) it's outrageously expensive and 2) it smells and feels like a public swimming pool.
Bob's friend Jim kept up our place while we were gone and fed our dogs. He also left the water on and ran our well down. He got it going right before we got home.
Last night Bob watered his banana trees and elephant ears, and this morning I had no water. He forgot to turn it off.
He's working on getting the well going as I type. I'm resisting the urge to push him into it as I watch him bending over into the well from my window.
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