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A Parody of Swiss History

found this video, and love the humor. It’s put together by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation advertising their ipad app.

hope you enjoy!

I have learned much about cooking in the past month. I have read more and more cookbooks that deal with how to cook not just books of recipes. One of my culinary desires was to to create my own barbecue sauce. So after doing some reading I set out to make some sauce last Saturday.

It started with getting some bottles to hold my sauce, so I went and picked up three squeeze bottles. Then I came home and started mixing. My first sauce had I was looking for a good rich flavor, not too, not too sweet. It ended with a slightly overpowering cumin flavor, and a little more spicy than I wanted but had some good flavor. I had copied down the ingredients so I can replicate the sauce but without the cumin.

Then came sauce two, this one was my sweet sauce. Sweetened with molasses, brown sugar, honey, and maple syrup. I will probably make a few tweaks on it during the next try, but it was really good.

The third and final sauce was my spicy sauce, this was a vinegar and molasses based sauce with a decent kick, I wanted it a tad spicier but I tasted it when I was reducing it a little, and the heat (temperature) made the flavor hotter (flavor) than it was after it was chilled, so again I have some tweaks to make.

Then I had two friends over to try my sauces that evening, it was a byom BBQ so we had steaks and some burgers. Both of them like the flavors of them but I’m not quite sold on them yet, so I will continue to tweak, but I’m glad they enjoyed it. Let me know if you want to try my sauces, let me know, I’ll see what I can do.

A Return of the Blog (Sort of)

One of my reasons that I stopped blogging is that I wanted to start designing website. Well the site I had been working on for the last 8 months is almost done which is giving me some time to start working in my own site. So this has been 2 hours of design sorry you can’t comment quite yet. still working on all that stuff.

Summer school

So 4 days into summer school. It’s pretty fun I have 9 second and third grade students that i’m instructing in math and reading and some language as well. I only work from eight to non so it’s a really quick and enjoyable day. The kids are fun and I’m learning how to balance struggling students with more brilliant ones. Especially becuase I have two classes together.
Renae And I are settling into our new place Tuesday we got our bookshelves set up and yesterday and today we are working on finishing cleaning our old place so I’m in for a busy afternoon. We I got to get back to the playground. I’m loving my iPhone.

-hold nothing back

Famous Dave’s Field Trip… and more

I know the what more important is the “and more” so I’ll start there. About 8:45 this morning I was told I needed to call my father at home. In my mind I immediately knew what I was going to be told. My Grandmother was just recently diagnosed with Lung Cancer and had been under some chemo which helped. About a month ago her doctors told that there wasn’t much more they could do, and gave her about a year. My parent had seen them on Saturday; they enjoyed the time. So I called my father and my dad told me that she had passed away last night in her sleep. They think the cause of death was a heart attack, however since she was a sleep the hospice nurse said she probably didn’t feel a thing. I went and found Renae and relay the news, and then talked with Pastor Davidson who was very comforting.

This afternoon, I had planned to take my yearbook class to Famous Dave’s in celebration of finishing the yearbook. None of my five students had ever been so we were in for a treat. The food was GREAT! the student’s loved it. I had the 2 meat combo with the beef brisket and a hot sausage link, with the sides of potato wedges and mashed potatoes, along with the cornbread and corn that always come with it. Here is some pics. Not going to do a restaurant review here, sorry.