Home Pub

Once in a while, we take it into our heads to go out to a pub for a beer and a burger and hopefully really danceable live Irish music. If our wallets are empty, a battle between reason and frivolity commences. In most cases, frivolity beats reason to a pulp. But this time, they compromised, and instead of an evening out at the pub, we created our own...right here at home. It turned out that it was actually better food than anything you would get in a pub. This is thanks to Baucom's Best beef, delicious locally-raised grassfed beef that we buy on Saturday mornings at our local market.

Required ingredients: grassfed beef and all the trimmings, beer.














John snapped this of me frying away.



The little onion bits browned (maybe too much but they were tasty).


Beer competition.


Reconciliation


The final table!

Posted by Sara

Homemade Pizza using Lebanese Flatbread

First - the flatbread, which was probably not hard to make - but as the cook has not taken up "keyboard" to detail the process, a picture will have to do . . . . It was marvelous, in case you wonder. Then the cheese, was a homemade mozzarella (we didn't make it; it was made by the Finley's son, Will - he is a  real "chef").  But JGW did pick the tomatoes from our meager garden - AND the fresh basil, which has done pretty well in spite of the drought . . . 

So here is Pop, slicing the tomatoes and preparing for a short baking time, and then getting ready to show off the yummy creation of the evening..And here is the final product:  spectacular (and gone too soon). 

Posted by LAW

Breakfast/Lunch on Retreat

This is lame, but desperate to post SOMETHING about cooking since daughter totally dominating the What's Cooking Blog, here we detail that certain staff persons of Sojourn Community church successfully prepared LOTS of bacon and eggs for hungry throng this past weekend . . . There WERE additional breakfasts prepared, but alas - the photographer was herself the "short-order" egg chef and unable to take any pictures :(

We did sort of a self-serve lunch line - which I'm sure makes John really glad he didn't have to be there, appreciate it, and then do dishes (which were all paper anyway).

Next post, will try to involve REAL culinary adventure and spices . . . .

I hear a signature is required, so here goes: law

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