Sounds delish... when's dinner, Jill? ANd can I bring my threesome to
clean the plates? =o) Persia won't mind, I'm sure!

Actually, I have purchased a small boneless leg of lamb roast for
tomorrow's dinner and we'll have some roast taters with it, and some
asparagus, probably.  It will be a low key Easter this year.  But with
my mother's having endured two weeks of hospital food during her knee
surgery and recuperation  period, I figure she deserves a nice dinner.
=o) She got out of the hospital today, and her gentleman friend Mark
took her home.  

Melissa

Jill, you gotta stop this!!  My keyboard does not take well to drool on
it!!! <hungry grin>.....

--Kim and Crew

Sounds splendid!

My cooking effort this long weekend is focussed on bread.  
On Friday I made wholemeal hotcross buns with extra spice (cinnamon,
cloves and pimento/allspice) and extra dried fruit.  They were really
good and really filling (low GI, I tell myself - optimistically!).  

Today I'm making anadama bread, apparently a traditional Massachusetts
recipe - cornmeal (polenta), molasses (blackstrap) and the usual bread
ingredients.  I made it once before out of leftover corn tortilla
dough and my family deemed it to be "bloody good", so I'm making it
again.  It will be coming out of the oven in half an hour or so and,
after cooling, going into the freezer for later on (I'm making 5
loaves at a time).  I'm not a big fan of molasses, but quite like it
done like this.  DH is not a big fan of cornmeal / polenta, but
likewise appreciates it when made into bread or tortillas.

My other mission this weekend has been washing *all* the dog's
bedding.  It has been a while and the laundry, where they sleep every
night, was getting a bit fruity.  It was a big job, but I'm glad I did
it.  

OB cats. Persephone, Spock and Ted have really enjoyed having us at
home for a few days.  Persephone follows me around the house and just
kinda hangs out where ever I am.

OB almost-cats.  It's a bad idea to go shopping while in a frivolous
mood.  Yesterday Dave and I were in a definitely frivolous frame of
mind when we went into the DVD shop.  DH bought "Withnail and I" and I
bought volume 1 of "Kimba, the While Lion".  They were on sale and
much reduced, so we don't feel too guilty.

Tish

<snip>

It all sounds great, Jill. I've been cooking today; we get together
at my parents house. They just got back from Italy this morning (so
jealous) from a 10 day trip so I've had to coordinate most of the
meal. I'm just doing twice-baked potatoes, and broccoli with
cheese. And I did an apetizer (gawd I know that is spelled wrong)
of sausage, onions, cheese all on party rye bread. That recipe was
huge. I'll have bags of the stuff in the freezer for months.

Oh, and the travel club my parents belong to have a trip to Greece
in the late summer/fall and I've decided I'm going with. I have to
figure out how to get all the kitties cared for by then.

Jill wrote:

***Who's cuisine will reign supreme, Jill or the Iron Chef??***

Regards and Purrs,
O J

Quite oftem the most successful way! Sonds delicious, Jill. Tonight we
are having a typical roast chicken dinner for 5 - chicken roasted with a
mixed herb coating, roast potatoes, sage & onion stuffing, pigs in
blankets (streaky bacon wrapped round cocktail sausages, and roasted
till crispy!), green beans and carrots. Followed by a new flavour of
Viennetta ice cream pudding I found in the supermarket yesterday :-))

And BTW, best of luck for the job application, it sounds like it was
made for you!

Deb.