Saturday/Sunday March 22/23, 2014 Weddings are a great occasion to hang with friends I don’t get to see as often as I’d like. One of the great things about Carla being in a bunco group for over 20 years is we get to go to a lot of weddings of kids we’ve known for years. …
Here are a couple of quick pictures of our wood duck box. We have to run out to do some stuff but I wanted to get these pictures out.
I love roasted chicken. It was warm and dry enough yesterday I could prepare it on the grill rotisserie – my favorite method. I salted a 4 pound bird with 2 teaspoons of kosher salt in the morning and let it dry brine in the refrigerator about six hours. Truss it and spit it and …
Our neighbor Jonathan Schlueter’s mission is to provide nesting space for our local wood ducks. He built 5 new duck boxes this week and offered to come over and install one on a tree in the wetlands. Of course I said “yes”. I’ve watched my neighbor’s (Jay) box with nesting pairs for a couple of …
Carla saw a recipe for a pernil al horno style pork roast in The Oregonian FoodDay. It was close to a favorite recipe of mine but substitutes orange for the rosemary and leaves out the vinegar. There were accompanying recipes for pickled red onions and ciltantro-rice so I thought I’d make up the complete dinner. …
I caught myself stewing around on my days off in my semi-retirement. I spend too much time doing chores and not enough time getting out. Maybe it’s partly the winter; regardless, I gave myself a good talking to over the past weekend and pushed myself out of doors Monday afternoon. I’d been to Fernhill Wetlands …
From Here to Eternity by James JonesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars A very interesting, insiders, take on the pre-World War II in Hawaii. The book takes place in the nine or so months leading up to and the days immediately after Pearl Harbor. The main character is Robert E Lee “Prew” Prewett an enlisted …
It’s been a cold drizzly February and we were thinking it would be great to have some soup. Perusing Cook’s Country I ran across this recipe for Chicken Mulligatawny soup. Now, based on the name, I always thought Mulligatawny (sounds like Mulligan?) was an Irish soup and I never went out of my way to …