Happy Saturday.....

Good Morning everybody!! Sleep well?? I slept like a veritable rock! I woke up at ten of five, this morning and decided that it was too early to get up and being that I have tinnitus, silence is almost painfully loud for me, so I put on a movie and went back to sleep. Peanut started squeaking around six, so Mark got up and took him out, I rolled over and went back to sleep. Mark came back to bed and that's where he is now....He'll sleep til I force him get up! I woke up about an hour later, around seven and turned on the Food Network. They have some great shows on, on Saturday Morning. One of my absolute favorite chefs is Chef Anne Burrell...Her show is Secrets of a Restaurant Chef....Well today, she was making Coq Au Vin.....and dang, it looked so good, I could almost smell it. I haven't had Coq Au Vin in a long time....I don't necessarily care for French food, they use waaaaay too much offal and I'd rather chew razor blades than eat offal. Coq Au Vin, though is a very simple, elegant meal, that is comforting and delicious. I think I'll make some for Sunday supper. Now, I just have to find a place that sells capons. Somebody? Anybody? Bueller? I'll need to go to the grocery for some cremini mushrooms, so I'll ask my favorite butcher, Denise, where she would recommend looking for a capon. I might have to drive all the way to Jackson and try the butcher shop, there....or I might just have to settle for a really large chicken.

I'm feeling good today!! Well so far, that is....The day is only just started!! I'm going to make some french toast and sausage for breakfast. I'll use regular bread for Mark and for myself, I'll make a couple of one minute muffins and then use that, for my bread. I can eat sausage. Our favorite links come from Food 4 Less and are made by the New York Sausage Co. They are the best non gourmet sausage on the market. My favorite gourmet sausage is an apple wood smoked chicken sausage that they serve at the Disneyland Hotel. I think it's made by Saag, but don't quote me on that. I really need to buy the meat grinder for my Kitchen Aide, so that I can make my own sausage. Oh and it might help if I purchase the part for my pasta machine, that broke last year, so I can use my sausage horns. I like to experiment with different things....I wouldn't necessarily call it Haute Cuisine, just experimentation.....I would love to make Cecci....a smaller more dense salami type sausage.....and of course kielbasa. Then we'll need to buy a smoker, too....Darn the bad luck!! I've always wanted a smoker. Then, when my impolite neighbors pollute my house with the smell of their cigarette smoke, I can go out on the patio and light up the smoker and combat the smell with hickory or apple wood smoke.

Today is going to be a "just hang around the house and get things done" day...Mark has several Honey Dos to get done (if he ever gets out of bed) and I always have housework to do. I'm going to allow myself an hour and a half to read and then I'll get busy on my busy!! I am feeling the softness of being held in the hand of God, today.....I feel safe and enclosed. Maybe it's the weather or maybe I'm actually just allowing myself, finally to rest in His hands. It's not often that I get to feel this wonderful feeling of spiritual rest, so today, I'm going to cherish it, languish in it, steep in it.....Tomorrow will take care of itself....Have a wonderful Saturday, my friends....Love each other as He loves and take care of each other...
In Him
Lisa