Neither rain nor snow keeps US from our appointed rounds.  On Monday schools were cancelled.  The City was a ghost town.  Offices were buttoned up and the only activity came from intrepid skiers and, well, US!

 

We had a big, big lunch that, being at the hospital, did not get cancelled.  Our gang all made it in, got the food into the vehicles, delivered and served it to 350 people.

 

The next cooking with Laurey class will be here this coming Wednesday, January 19th starting at 6 pm.  The class will be how to Cook with Seafood.  We'll be making some of my mother's recipes.  Here's a look at the kitchen I grew up in at Blueberry Hill.  My oh my.

 

Blueberry Hill Baked Fish

Broiled Shrimp with Garlic

Elsie's simple Steamed Shrimp

Fish in Parchment Paper

 

 

I AM going to be interviewed this coming Monday, January 17, at 2pm on the Sirius Radio network's Martha Stewart program.  Mario Bosquez will chat with me about cooking with honey and keeping bees.  Should be fun.

 

Here are our dinners for this coming week.

 

Monday, January 17

Chicken Piccata with Wild Rice 7.95

 

Tuesday, January 18

Ratatouille with Wide Noodles 7.95

 

Wednesday, January 19

Sliced Pork Tenderloin Apple Sauce and Corn Fritters 8.95

 

Thursday, January 20

Swedish Meatballs with Buttered Noodles 8.25

 

Friday, January 21

Fried Shrimp with Cole Slaw and Hush Puppies 8.95

 

 

Order by noon and we'll have your dinner ready to pick up by 3. Our new winter hours are in effect so we're now closing at 7.

 

Salad and bread are now a la carte (not included.) Let us know if you'd like to add them.

 

We make a special casserole and a special lasagna each week.

 

Order by noon or so. Order a half if you have around 4 folks. If you have a bigger group, or you just like leftovers, order a full-sized one.

 

Then come pick up between 3:00 and 7:00.

 

The casserole this week is:

 

Wednesday, January 19

Chicken Pot Pie

Half: 17.50 Full: 35

 

The lasagna is:

 

Friday, January 21

Seafood and Spinach Lasagna

Half: 17.50 Full 35

 

 

You'd think a simple little window decal would be an easy thing.  Not so.  Fortunately I am getting some help from the city, but it has already taken a couple of weeks to just find out how much square footage I am allowed.  Soon, I hope, we'll unveil the new decals.

 

 

Saturday, January 15, 2011

 

G’morning! Hope you’re all well today. We’re getting going here. The aromas of comfort drift back to me here in the office. I’ve met with one bride and am awaiting a second one in a little bit. It is time for brides to get themselves going for the spring and fall weddings. Gives me a chance to escape from the frigid temps into thoughts of warm spring days. Mmmmm.

 

I had a nice jaunt to Charleston earlier this week. I was a guest speaker at the Professional Innkeeper’s Annual conference. Emily went with me, which made it a much more pleasurable trip than it would have been if I’d been alone. Company is a nice thing on an out of town trip.

 

I had planned to show some photographs of my early days at Blueberry Hill at the first presentation. I have a new iPad and had planned to make a “Keynote” presentation, basically a high-tech slide show. But as I tried to put the presentation together, a fairly simple thing, I was just not able to make it work. I’d done one before and it had seemed a very simple thing, but this time I just could not do it. Emily tried. I tried. I tried again. And again. And then, seeing that I’d inadvertently made about 8 false starts that had all been “saved”, I decided to clean up my iPad and started tossing those false starts into the iPad trash. And yes, it asked me, each time, if I meant to toss things out and yes, I kept saying yes.

 

At the end of my clean-up frenzy, I realized I had not only thrown out the false starts, but I’d also thrown out the GOOD presentation I had made for the 2nd seminar I was doing the next day. And though I was prepared to deliver the first presentation without a “power point” presentation, I was relying on it for the 2nd. AND, to make matters worse, I realized that I had accidentally removed all the photographs from my iPad that I needed in order to reconstruct that presentation. I was, simply, in trouble.

 

By the time all this happened it was completely too late to do anything about it. I considered showing some photographs as an old-fashioned slide show but, when I got to the room the next day, the technicians could not figure out how to even make my iPad work, which made me happy that I had NOT been completely reliant on showing those pictures. But still! What a disconcerting mess!

 

I have a few more presentations coming up in the next few months and am going to try again. I need to redo the tossed out presentation. I need to construct the one that I couldn’t get to work – but now, at least, I am near the Mac store so I hope they can help me figure it out. And I am going to see if I can figure out how to get the projectors working so I am not so dependent on the technical assistants at these various venues.

 

This coming Monday I get to talk on the radio with the Martha Stewart Show interviewer. All I need to do is be here and answer the phone and answer his questions. I’m hopeful that there will be no technical difficulties.

 

Yumsville!