Baked some no-knead bread today: above is the better-looking of the 2 loaves (the white "beard" is flour). Ridiculously easy recipe is here. I use 2 cups whole-wheat flour and 1 cup naturally white flour in place of 3 cups white flour, and active dry yeast instead of instant yeast (just have to sprinkle the yeast over 1/4 cup of the water to activate it before mixing it into the flour) and the recipe turns out beautifully. Bake this bread with caution, as it is habit-forming: have baked 2 loaves per week for the last 3 weeks. The 2 loaves last us the whole week.
For the last few weeks, Saturday night has been Movie Night for us. We watched Star Wars Episode 1 the first week, then Episode 2, and last week Charlie was grounded from watching television because he came home from his friend's house 6 hours later than requested. (I know, I should have gone over to the house to get him after 30 minutes. I just wasn't thinking.) So Movie Night ended there.
Well, last night we were supposed to go to the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra Pops & Brave Combo concert. Even though he's a stand-out euphomonium player, Jason plays percussion in the MSO. One of the band members of Brave Combo told him after rehearsal last week that he really enjoyed Jason's percussion playing!!!!!! But our plans changed when Charlie developed a low-grade fever on Saturday afternoon. So Movie Night was reinstated. He and I stayed home and watched a movie rented from the Redbox. They didn't have any Spongebob or High School Musical, so I hurriedly chose a movie called Stardust that advertised itself as "A thrill ride for the whole family!" For once, advertising didn't lie! I really enjoyed it, and Charlie "sort of" liked it. Coming from a child who eats, drinks, sleeps, and breathes animated media, that is high praise for a (mostly) live-action movie. You may want to check it out.
Charlie is still under the weather today...fever of 102, headache, cough, runny nose (flu, maybe?)...so he won't be going to school tomorrow. Jason gets to stay home with him, since I stayed home on Friday. They have plans to see Dr. Frazier. If it is flu, maybe she can prescribe some Tamiflu or one of the other anti-flu meds to shorten the duration.
Brookshire's is a grocery store chain here in the northeast Texas area that reminds me of Handy Andy in San Antonio when I was growing up. The stores are not mega-sized, and their produce is always nice and fresh. They do bag up and reduce prices on produce as it gets toward the sell-by date. On Saturday I found a large bag of dried chilis de arbol and about 10 bags of bay leaves, all for $1 (not per piece, but total!). So I am going to make some homemade picante sauce using the chilis, some canned diced tomatoes, and cilantro on sale for 33 cents a bunch at WalMart. I may make more and freeze it, depending on how it turns out.
Finally, you've probably noticed that it's been about 6 months since I last blogged. I'm not going to make any promises about future blogging, but I will say that my goal is to blog more frequently in 2008 than I did in 2007. How's that for vague?
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