Not impressed!

Mad Greek's Diner in Baker, CA. 109 outside

HP Tech Fourm - Keynote Address

We had quite a day yesterday

After church we went over to Tonys house for lunch. Doug Martin my long time friend was also in CA and I had invited him over. As it turns out Doug had taught Tony's father him English in the 70's in Indonisa as a student missionary.

After lunch and visiting we left about 4PM for Santa Monica Beach. It was about an hours drive away. We walked the beach and peir. About sundow we headed to Hollywood Boulvard. We arrived and found a parking spot on the 6th floor underground parking lot. We walked around the walk of stars it looked like to me they gave everbody one. 10pm and everybody wanted pizza. I had a fish taco from Baja Fresh it was quite good with lots of fresh avacado and l\pepers. Everyone else had pizza at CA Pizza Kitchen.

We started the 65 mile journey home abound 11:30. As soon as we got on the first freeway we came to a stop slow for about 20 minutes. Turns out that was no bad. Later the 5 lane freeway we were on went from 6 lanes to 1 becasuebof construction. Wewent 3.6 miles in 50 minutes. We arrived at the hotel at 1:50AM.

Doug's sweet rolls for breakfast

Shadows at Santa Monica Beach

Santa Monica Pier

La Sierra University Church

Sabbath morning service at La Sierra

Breakfast in sunny CA

Sleeping in MCO. We got up at 5:00.

Sam has Graduated from High School

Sam graduated last weekend from Forest Lake Academy. His plans for next year are to go to Andrews University and study to be an Architect. Here are a few of his Senior pictures.

Marie Callendar's-dj

Marie Callendar's-dj
1600 N. 1000 West
Layton, UT 84041
801.825.3668
Www.mcpies.com

After leaving Antelope Island State Park we were starved. We were
tring to decide if Marie Callrndar's would be like going to Denny's.
We stopped in anyway. The restaurant was clean and nicely decorated.

I ordered the turkey pot pie. It came out looking very good. It was
pipping hot, infact it never cooled off enough to eat. I was
disappointed with the small amount vegetables that were included in
the pie. The creamy sauce was very good, it tasted like celery soup. I
though 11.79 was a bit high for what I got.

Later in the day I got a really bad case of indegestion not sure what
was in there but I was feeling it all night long.

Rating: @@
Service: @@@
Price: $12.00

Blue Iguana - dj

165 South West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
801.553.8900
www.blueiguanarestaurant.net

King Cake

Grits and Shrimp

This morning inspired by the latest issue of Gourmet January 2008, all about southern cooking. I fixed Creamy Stone-Ground Grits and Low Country Breakfast Shrimp (page 77). I, of course, replaced the Shrimp with tomatoes.

The grits are made with half water, half milk, and some butter. Instead of stone ground grits I use “Bob’s Red Mill Corn Grits” they are located in the organic section of your grocery store. For the Low Country Breakfast Shrimp I substituted 3 Roma tomatoes for the shrimp.

The dish turned out spectacularly. I have always wanted to go to the Hominy Grill in Charleston SC, but I don’t eat shrimp which would be a problem. This was a perfect substitute.

Thanks Gourmet for the inspiration!

New Orleans Beans and Rice

Beans and rice at home on a Thursday night in January.

2007 MWC Church Retreat.

We survived again! I think everything went well. The menu was as follows:

Friday night: (240/175)
Kim’s Greek potato salad
Or
Costco red potato salad
Grill cheese sandwiches
Soups – FH tomato bisque, Navy Bean, Minestrone, and Morris’s Curry Pumpkin soup.
Dessert – Ice Cream –Vanilla, Butter Pecan, Chocolate


Saturday Breakfast: (140)
Biscuits and Gravy
Stripples
Grits / Oatmeal
Cereal

Saturday Lunch: (437/400)
Salad
Fresh Broccoli and Carrots
Homemade Scalloped Potatoes
Fried Sam’s Chicken
Dessert -Chocolate Pudding

Saturday Supper: (200)
Haystacks
Dessert – Peach Cobbler. The topping made with leftover biscuits mixed with butter and sugar.

Sunday Breakfast: (50)
Pancakes
Links
Scrambles eggs

That is a total of about 1000 meals for the week end. I was planning on taking a picture of each meal but I was just too busy, and only go the first meal.

Kitchen crew:
Morris
Micky
Susan
Stan
David
Carlene
Mark
Rhonda
Me

STS-120

Today for lunch we went out and watched the shuttle from the helicopter pad. It was beautiful.

Bobby Flay @ Borders Winter Park

Rhonda was in Borders a few weeks ago and saw a sign that said that Bobby Flay was going to be there on Sunday October 21 at 2PM. This was 3 days after the release of his new cook book Mesa Grill. Since I had eaten at the Mesa Grill on Las Vegas I wanted the cook book.

We arrived at Borders at 1:30 the line was already quite long. We bought the book and got in the line. It took till almost 3PM to get to the head of the line. Bobby was having a good time laughter erupted several times as people went through line. He thanked everyone personally and shook their hand for being there. It was an enjoyable time.

Honda's on my Wish List

I found these 2 cars for sale on Lee Road over the weekend:







This is what it could look like:




2 Cylinder Motor with Manual-4 Speed Transmission


Here is someone experiences I found on the net:

The 600 was two car models before the Civic, and featured a 600cc engine with front-wheel chain drive. Basically, a motorcycle powertrain made into a car. But it was great during the oil embargoes of the 70's, because it go 40 mpg in the city. That is, if we ever took it to the City of San Francisco, which we never did, because it didn't quite have the ooomph to make it up those hills, unless one of the passengers got out and pushed



www.honda600source.com/coupespec.htm