Picture/Video – Page 27 – Jacob and Marcia

We Went to Indianapolis …

We went to see the DCI contest over the weekend. We have been planning this for all of our married life. It was a lot of fun (I am sure Jacob will post more about the show). We also went to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Here we are out front.

We wandered around shopping (we didn’t buy very much stuff-yay for us). Then on the way home we played the game that starts with “I/We went to [place] and brought back: [stuff starting with each letter of the alphabet, taking turns in order].” I bet you can’t guess who had which letters… Here is our list.

“We went to Indianapolis and brought back:
Apple
Books
Catalog
Ding-dongs
Experience
Folder
Gucci shoes
Ho-hos
Ice cream
Juju beans
Kite
Llama
Marcia
Nissan
Order form
Practice pad (which is true)
Quick steal
Row boat (to carry it all)
Sausage links
Tinkerbelle
Underwear
Virgin
Windshield washer fluid
Xylophone
Yo-yo
Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz”

Quiz 23

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

Red Means Stop – Green Means Go

Kentucky Hot Browns

Time for another culinary post… A few days ago we were watching the food network. Specifically, we watched Throwdown with Bobby Flay. This particular episode was all about a dish I’d never heard of – the “Kentucky Hot Brown.”

As we washed the episode and learned about the dish, we both started saying “that sounds really good.” By the end of the show, we had determined to make hot browns.

We went to the store the next day and bought the necessary items, remembering as best we could what was involved on the show (how do you make a Molnay sauce again? Oh yeah, Bechamel + Cheese). We then got fresh tomatoes from the garden, and I set to work:

I put a couple of very thick slices of roasted turkey breast on a thick slice of white bread (crust removed). On top of that went a couple of a tomato slices, sauteed just to the point of charring. Then a very healthy portion of molnay sauce (easy to do: Flour, butter, milk, cheese) slathered all over it. I put it under the broiler for a few minutes, just until the sauce was bubbly and the top golden brown, then put it on plates, topped it off with more of the tomatoes and a couple strips of bacon.

Can you feel your arteries clogging?

The result:

Jacob's Kentucky Hot Browns

This is what each of us ate: a DOUBLE portion of hot browns (really, each of those should be a whole serving), plus some fresh fried zucchini just because it was ripe. It was so tasty that we both ate just about all of it, and with all that turkey and cheese and bacon, sleepiness soon set in and we retired relatively early that night.

The verdict: This one is a keeper. EXCELLENT comfort food that isn’t very hard to do, and tastes GREAT.

Quiz 22

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

I am a Big Slacker – I Mean Packer

We have been in the middle of a move across town. So while I have been packing I have been slacking on this blog site (if only that were the only area in my life). Now that the packing is done perhaps I can keep myself on track with this. We’ll just have to see about that, considering we still have to UNpack.

I have some slide shows I need to show-off, however my computer seems to shut off when I try to render video to a different format now.
More videos to come as soon as possible, but here are some pictures.

Mallory’s Birthday Party:

Every time I turned around this is what I found:

The first slide show is from May, my niece’s (Lydia) birthday at the zoo. For some reason my video editing software hates me and all I could accomplish to add at this time is this video and one of Gavyn playing in the water at the zoo, and an orange baby.

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The next day we went to Lockridge, Iowa to see my Uncle Shannon and his wife Vy:

Noah and his parents Martin and Ashley

Kite Flying Fun with Dan (and Jacob too):

This is really turkey for brains – ground turkey that is. Jacob said it came out of the package that way.

Dave Wetmore was the Grand Marshall for the Macomb Heritage Days Parade! There were two bagpipe bands.

This is “not someone playing with” my camera on 4 July 2007:

cousins

Both of RondaJo’s girls seem to love doing this:

Water time:

The girls made it look so fun, Matt had to give it a try:

Fireworks:

Imagine going on a Youth Conference to serve food, ten years after you graduate high school. Upon arriving and seeing the youth get on the buses, you discover that one of the bus drivers is none other than your high school principal. That is right folks, Bob Bowen is a bus driver for Burlington Trailways:

The first day of this conference was my birthday (12 July – in case you were wondering) and this was the beautiful evening sky we saw:

With all the crazy gas price fluctuations, we all “know” that gas is “cheaper” in Missouri, however while in Kansas City, MO I was surprised to see these prices:

$31-32 for a gallon of gas???