Jeff and Lauren
Ok 3, doesnt she look comfy?
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
This Week
What I did this week.....
Fiber
Spinning
Lot's of handspun
Dont forget these...Carne asada tacos. Better than Papis. Thanks Mark for the recipe.
And this is the weird thing Lauren does when shes comfy ( No she is not one of the girls next door, even if she is blond) Nice Pose, weirdo!
Fiber
Spinning
Lot's of handspun
Dont forget these...Carne asada tacos. Better than Papis. Thanks Mark for the recipe.
And this is the weird thing Lauren does when shes comfy ( No she is not one of the girls next door, even if she is blond) Nice Pose, weirdo!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
OK! The Meat Sucked, Get Over It
Hi Friends!( hope you all leave comments on this one!)
Kathy, Lenny, Donnetta, and Larry
Carley's Xmas gift, better send before she sees this!
Of Course The Lazy Girl
We had the BCS Holiday party this Saturday at The Tachi Palace in Lemoore. It was a doozy! Well Jeff and I were running behind because he was helping teach at the academy, but we did make it. Apparently a few people had a head start on us (drink wise, if you know what I mean)
We scheduled the dinner to be held at the new hotel in Lemoore, and everyone was given a room, if they wished to stay after the party. There was to be entertainment (a live band and dancing) upstairs, and of course everyone was free to go their separate ways and gamble if they wanted.
First I want to say, as I prodded Jeff to drive faster, that the one thing I wanted to get to was the hour where they served the hors d'oervres because I was very excited about them. Bacon wrapped scallops, prociutto wrapped crab stuffed shrimp, stuffed mushrooms and mini beef wellingtons. YUM I knew they would be better than the main course, WOW was I right. Well the chicken cordon bleu was good according to some, and so was the Halibut according to others. The Prime Rib much to our dissappointment was a great dissappointment. Very overdone, but OH Well we got free rooms right? (Lets just say one person was very vocal in thier distaste for the prime rib, I will not name names).
First I want to say, as I prodded Jeff to drive faster, that the one thing I wanted to get to was the hour where they served the hors d'oervres because I was very excited about them. Bacon wrapped scallops, prociutto wrapped crab stuffed shrimp, stuffed mushrooms and mini beef wellingtons. YUM I knew they would be better than the main course, WOW was I right. Well the chicken cordon bleu was good according to some, and so was the Halibut according to others. The Prime Rib much to our dissappointment was a great dissappointment. Very overdone, but OH Well we got free rooms right? (Lets just say one person was very vocal in thier distaste for the prime rib, I will not name names).
Here are some of the happy people. (For the record everyone said they had a great time, except for the prime rib, everything was fun)
Kathy, Lenny, Donnetta, and Larry
Bryan, Tammi and Ester
Chupacabra, Gary and Chris
Adam and Corinne
Tom and Lora
Dave (Laughing at something) and Michelle
Bob, Tammi, Trina, Glen, John and Mariann
Rex, Chris, Ester, Paul and his Hot Sauce
Kirk and Mike
Dave and Michelle
Olga, Brad, Sam and Greg
After all of those niceties, we headed to go get down and dance.
Michelle and Dave.
Jeff and I
HA! Jeff got invited to dinner at the Palace (same place) for a dinner to honor the firefighters who went down south for the fires, when I told him he said "I hope its not Prime Rib" :)
Carley's Xmas gift, better send before she sees this!
Xmas gift for Emy
Of Course The Lazy Girl
(P.S. Once again having formatting problems, will try to fix later if it will let me!)
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Holiday Happenings
What has been going on? Well sorry for the hiatus but here we go,
1st The Christmas tree auction:
Hubba hubba. ( He never dresses up for me, so this is all I get) FYI beverage in coffee cup, red wine, yea hes no "snobby drink out of a wine glass kinda guy", actually I thought that he wouldnt spill on himself if it was in a coffee cup. Worked well. Its kinda like giving your kids only clear foods if they are dressed up before church or something like that. (or only serving clear sangria because you have a 80% chance that Tara will spill on the carpet). Always thinking ahead. Don't look at me like that, Tara, remember the guacamole? :) Or the ice cubes?
Jeff, Petra and I. Jeff became clever later in the evening, (did I mention the all you can eat food and wine?) and decided that Petra and I were his "shrimps", go figure.
Petra, Pat, and I, (hey, look at our faces) Sorry Pat!
Of course the infamous Chupacabra, and his date Julie.
Gary and Barbara
Oh, and Santa and Mrs. Claus were there.
We had a Chili cook-off at work
I won! (no matter what my boss says) It was fun, I am glad everyone participated. Yes I won by one point. Still a win.
It was also Kirk's birthday, and Petra and I managed to convince him to buy us dinner. That is tempura coated ice cream.
I was also busy with this as a surprise for Jeff.
should keep him warm at the station, He carried it around like Linus all Christmas day
Christmas came and Lauren was very interested. It happened to sing spontaneously, (OK only when I happened to squeeze it)
Jeff's parents came for Christmas and we had a great time, Rodney tried his hand at Guitar Hero.
I was also up to this. My first try, turned out well. Yummy! I might be a tamale genius (maybe in my own mind)
Just wanted to share this pic with you, how cute is that? Since I pilfered from my friend I will keep the names anonymous. But isn't that adorable? Gimme that cheek!
And finally a dose of Lauren all cute and wrapped up like a burrito.
Disclaimer: I tried for 2 hours to format the latter part of this post and it was very stubborn and wanted nothing to do with me or my formatting. Any suggestions would be welcome. Please leave me a comment about that or anything else, Im about to chew off my arm and throw it at the computer!)
1st The Christmas tree auction:
Hubba hubba. ( He never dresses up for me, so this is all I get) FYI beverage in coffee cup, red wine, yea hes no "snobby drink out of a wine glass kinda guy", actually I thought that he wouldnt spill on himself if it was in a coffee cup. Worked well. Its kinda like giving your kids only clear foods if they are dressed up before church or something like that. (or only serving clear sangria because you have a 80% chance that Tara will spill on the carpet). Always thinking ahead. Don't look at me like that, Tara, remember the guacamole? :) Or the ice cubes?
Jeff, Petra and I. Jeff became clever later in the evening, (did I mention the all you can eat food and wine?) and decided that Petra and I were his "shrimps", go figure.
Petra, Pat, and I, (hey, look at our faces) Sorry Pat!
Of course the infamous Chupacabra, and his date Julie.
Gary and Barbara
Oh, and Santa and Mrs. Claus were there.
We had a Chili cook-off at work
I won! (no matter what my boss says) It was fun, I am glad everyone participated. Yes I won by one point. Still a win.
It was also Kirk's birthday, and Petra and I managed to convince him to buy us dinner. That is tempura coated ice cream.
I was also busy with this as a surprise for Jeff.
should keep him warm at the station, He carried it around like Linus all Christmas day
I was also busy making these for Robin, couldn't post till after Xmas. Hand dyed wool. (by yours truly)
Christmas came and Lauren was very interested. It happened to sing spontaneously, (OK only when I happened to squeeze it)
Jeff's parents came for Christmas and we had a great time, Rodney tried his hand at Guitar Hero.
I was also up to this. My first try, turned out well. Yummy! I might be a tamale genius (maybe in my own mind)
Just wanted to share this pic with you, how cute is that? Since I pilfered from my friend I will keep the names anonymous. But isn't that adorable? Gimme that cheek!
And finally a dose of Lauren all cute and wrapped up like a burrito.
Disclaimer: I tried for 2 hours to format the latter part of this post and it was very stubborn and wanted nothing to do with me or my formatting. Any suggestions would be welcome. Please leave me a comment about that or anything else, Im about to chew off my arm and throw it at the computer!)
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. (and no Woman I did not watch the Macy's parade) Jeff had to work that day, so Woman came to visit me and help me prepare dinner for Friday.
Since we were not going to have Thanksgiving dinner until the next day, we went to The Depot and had their delicious ribeye with blue cheese sauce. You should really try it if you ever go there its not always on the menu but they will make if for you anyways.
The next day everyone came over to eat, it was yummy too, we had prime rib, turkey, mashed potatoes (with bacon), sweet potato casserole, creamed onion, green beans and bacon, stuffing, banana pudding, cranberries, bacon wrapped shrimp and jalapeno, bacon wrapped dates and Cindy sauce: (see a trend? Yep the theme for the evening was bacon!)
Cindy Sauce:
1 part soy sauce
1 white onion chopped fine
2 tablespoons dried ginger
4 tablespoons garlic
I usually make about 4-6 cups of this at a time. This recipe is from Cindy K. Bessey, and since soooooooo many people ask about it here it is. Also the long awaited "How do I BBQ the prime rib?"
BBQ Prime Rib:
Pour a little Cindy sauce over the top about a day in advance. Prepare the BBQ with coals on either side leaving a space in the middle (indirect heating) place a piece of aluminium in the middle the width of the prime rib (this will protect your ribs for eating later). Take the meat out of the fridge about 2 hrs prior to cooking. Sometimes if it is large 7-8 bones I will cut it in half, this speeds up cooking time by double. Place the meat on the aluminium and close the lid. Get the temp up to around 300 and cook for about 15 min/lb basting approx every 30 min with the Cindy sauce being careful not to touch the meat with your spoon and contaminating the sauce, because its great dipping sauce. use a quick read thermometer and take the meat off when it hits 125 degrees. Immediately take it off and wrap tight with aluminum and let it rest. It will come up to temp (about 135). This gives you nice well ends and a perfect pink middle. Serve with Cindy sauce and horseradish, Enjoy!
Everyone ate well and had a good time. Jeff's friend Danny and his wife Jackie came over as well as Ron and his wife Joyce. Chris, Elizabeth, Eva, Rob, Toni and Petra also made it.
Rob, Toni & Elizabeth
Jeff, Ron and Danny
Chris, Joyce and Petra
And as always we celebrated the end of the meal with the Smith family tradition that started when Lauren was a puppy. (Don't get weirded out Tara, we sanitize it with bleach later!)
He use to hold her up, I guess he is getting lazy in his old age! After our first Thanksgiving with Lauren, Jeff thought she should get to lick up the juice and scraps, don't worry, Riley gets some too, we just hand it to him instead. It is Thanksgiving after all, they gotta get a treat too. This cracks me up though every time!
On Saturday we were lazy after cleaning up, as you can see the festivities took a toll on Lauren and Woman. We lazed around and went to have sushi for dinner.
On Sunday Woman and I went to The Gateway restaurant which is past Three Rivers by the entrance to the Sequoia National park about 25 minutes from here. They have great atmosphere right over the running river
and this....
Yummy.
Well you know I wasn't going to waste my manual labor while it was here so I enlisted Woman to help me put up the Christmas tree decorations:
And for some reason for the first time since we have been married (and have been asking every year for him to do it)
Jeff did this! Pretty.
Well anyways on another note, I guess you can see these since Woman snatched them up, even though they are suppose to be her Christmas gift, hand spun (by me), silk/merino:
Farewell to you all for now and I hope you all had a great Holiday! Next week is the Christmas tree action, will fill you in when that comes....
and just for good measure.... a Lauren fix!
Since we were not going to have Thanksgiving dinner until the next day, we went to The Depot and had their delicious ribeye with blue cheese sauce. You should really try it if you ever go there its not always on the menu but they will make if for you anyways.The next day everyone came over to eat, it was yummy too, we had prime rib, turkey, mashed potatoes (with bacon), sweet potato casserole, creamed onion, green beans and bacon, stuffing, banana pudding, cranberries, bacon wrapped shrimp and jalapeno, bacon wrapped dates and Cindy sauce: (see a trend? Yep the theme for the evening was bacon!)
Cindy Sauce:
1 part soy sauce
1 white onion chopped fine
2 tablespoons dried ginger
4 tablespoons garlic
I usually make about 4-6 cups of this at a time. This recipe is from Cindy K. Bessey, and since soooooooo many people ask about it here it is. Also the long awaited "How do I BBQ the prime rib?"
BBQ Prime Rib:
Pour a little Cindy sauce over the top about a day in advance. Prepare the BBQ with coals on either side leaving a space in the middle (indirect heating) place a piece of aluminium in the middle the width of the prime rib (this will protect your ribs for eating later). Take the meat out of the fridge about 2 hrs prior to cooking. Sometimes if it is large 7-8 bones I will cut it in half, this speeds up cooking time by double. Place the meat on the aluminium and close the lid. Get the temp up to around 300 and cook for about 15 min/lb basting approx every 30 min with the Cindy sauce being careful not to touch the meat with your spoon and contaminating the sauce, because its great dipping sauce. use a quick read thermometer and take the meat off when it hits 125 degrees. Immediately take it off and wrap tight with aluminum and let it rest. It will come up to temp (about 135). This gives you nice well ends and a perfect pink middle. Serve with Cindy sauce and horseradish, Enjoy!
Everyone ate well and had a good time. Jeff's friend Danny and his wife Jackie came over as well as Ron and his wife Joyce. Chris, Elizabeth, Eva, Rob, Toni and Petra also made it.
Rob, Toni & Elizabeth
Jeff, Ron and Danny
Chris, Joyce and Petra
And as always we celebrated the end of the meal with the Smith family tradition that started when Lauren was a puppy. (Don't get weirded out Tara, we sanitize it with bleach later!)
He use to hold her up, I guess he is getting lazy in his old age! After our first Thanksgiving with Lauren, Jeff thought she should get to lick up the juice and scraps, don't worry, Riley gets some too, we just hand it to him instead. It is Thanksgiving after all, they gotta get a treat too. This cracks me up though every time!
On Saturday we were lazy after cleaning up, as you can see the festivities took a toll on Lauren and Woman. We lazed around and went to have sushi for dinner.
On Sunday Woman and I went to The Gateway restaurant which is past Three Rivers by the entrance to the Sequoia National park about 25 minutes from here. They have great atmosphere right over the running river
and this....
Yummy.
Well you know I wasn't going to waste my manual labor while it was here so I enlisted Woman to help me put up the Christmas tree decorations:
And for some reason for the first time since we have been married (and have been asking every year for him to do it)
Jeff did this! Pretty.
Well anyways on another note, I guess you can see these since Woman snatched them up, even though they are suppose to be her Christmas gift, hand spun (by me), silk/merino:
Farewell to you all for now and I hope you all had a great Holiday! Next week is the Christmas tree action, will fill you in when that comes....
and just for good measure.... a Lauren fix!
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