Sunday Was Great

Yesterday I sat in church, I heard everything our pastor said.  He talked about "Jesus Is Coming Soon"  I walked away from the service with the following in mind:  time is too short to keep doing the same things the same old way and seeing little to no results; if I am doing something that I know is not pleasing to God, then make a change before I die and leave this earth; and most of all - get it right with other people before it's too late.  Forgiveness is never for the other person - it's for you.  My pastors messages have a way of staying with you for the entire week.  I go back online and watch them all over again.

When we got home from church I decided that I would roast a chicken, pan sear some red potatoes and fry/steam some fresh string bean and add some bacon.  The chicken was unreal - tomato, basil, garlic, granulated onion, herbs and 4S Salt(found at Penzeys, my favorite spice store).  You just make a pasty rub out of it and put it under the skin and on top of the chicken - amazing.  Bake covered in foil on 375 for an hour and then remove foil to brown.  Put dripping in a bowl (separate the fat and set aside) and add 2 tps of flour to make a rue.  Add more flour if you wish to make a thicker gravy, add salt to taste. I am so glad my wife made the suggestion to use the drippings. For the potatoes, use the fat that you set aside - brown the potatoes and deglaze the pan with a cup of pinot grigio white wine(the alcohol cooks out, the flavor remains) or a cup of vegetable stock - I prefer Wolfgang Puck.  It has a richer, deeper flavor.  The string beans are easy - cook the bacon first and throw the string beans in the fat for about a minute and then drain on paper towel and place in a pot of veg. stock and at serving time, crumble bacon at service times.

For dessert, I made a white silk bundt cake with vanilla bean glaze. This cake is so good, my kids call it the swan lake cake - they do ballet while eating it.  My god-daughter gave it that name.

Dinner was so good - my 19 year old came home on her break from work to eat dinner with us.

Well, today it is finally raining - THANK GOD!!!!!  We have not had rain in over a month, and my grass feels like straw underfoot.  Down here, you can still be cutting grass in November.

It's one of those days when I don't think I am going to do much.  I have to make dinner - so I need to get the wheels turning.  Nothing special today - something easy.  Who knows, it might just be a frozen pizza - YUCK!!!!!!!

I think I will work on finishing the writing of For This Child I Stand - A Guide the God-Parenting.  Yes folks, I am working on a book.  It's not going to be the great American novel, simply a guide to help people realize that being a god-parent is more than giving money - it's about your time as well.