Cooking, Cooking, Cooking

I'm in the process of making Dreena's No-fu Love Loaf into no-meatballs. This was SUCH a good loaf that I've actually been craving it and I think it will make really nice balls. I'll make a red sauce with mushrooms, onions, peppers, and garlic, and put the No-fu meatballs into it after I've baked them (I'm going to try 375 for twenty minutes; I'll see how they look at that point).

I'm also making some Cherry Chocolate Chunk Muffins (I don't have a mini-loaf pan, so I'm doing it as muffins). I need these like I need a hole in the head, but I'm making them anyway.

I finished Sense and Sensibility this morning. SO good -- better than I remembered. I thought I would spend the afternoon watching the movie (with Emma Thompson) on tv, but I'd have to buy it for ten bucks and it's not worth it. I own it, but I think I just have a VHS copy, not a dvd. And I don't care that much. The movie (necessarily) cuts out so much of the book that it is decidedly inferior. It was just going to be a diversion, that's all.

I'm in one of my anti-Facebook moods. I don't have it open, so that's a start anyway.

I posted this picture on Facebook last night, but it's so cute that I'm posting it here, too. Alex took it with his cell phone and texted it to me, so the quality is kind of low, but came out so nice! He told me that according to Kael, every wave is "the biggest wave EVER!" He is also loving the pool at the hotel. It's a resort hotel, so the pool is big, has a cave and a waterfall, etc. I asked Alex if Kael had gotten his hair wet and he said, "No." The boy needs to have swimming lessons, for sure. They come back home tomorrow. Alisha wrote that they want to get back home, but they want to stay. I guess that's the mark of a good vacation.

Okay, I'm going to go finish adding ingredients to my no-meatballs and pop them into the oven. 

More later...