Friday, September 17, 2021

Friday, September 17, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2005. Mattie was three years old. As you can see he was rocking on a cute duck. This duck was purchased by Peter's parents when Peter was a baby. So in essence this duck is Peter's! Mattie got a kick out of having something that belonged to his dad. Believe it or not this duck now sits in my office at the house. 

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.

• Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 41,919,447
• Number of people who died from the virus: 671,911

It was a VERY long day today! Another 6am rising! We were balancing roof repair people and carpenters working on framing and dry walling our holes in the wall from electrical work. Literally it is 6:30pm, and the carpenters just left, but they aren't done. 

Meanwhile, I spent practically all day on brunch prep for tomorrow's gathering. Peter is having a colleague over, along with his family of 7 children! Given that I figure everyone likes eating different things (because of the age range), I made multiple things:

• Two frittatas (one: spinach, mushroom, onion, with parmesan cheese and two: tomato, onion, basil and goat cheese)
• Roasted breakfast potatoes
• Fruit platters of watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries and raspberries
• Blueberry muffins

I started with making roasted potatoes. I pre-baked them today because I don't TRUST the oven. Give me a basic Sears oven any day. I find these high end ovens are temperamental and never keep temperature. What should have taken 30 minutes, took me over two hours! 

I had the oven repair person here this week and even followed his advice today of pre-heating the oven for 40 minutes. Forget it, it didn't help. Thankfully I cooked them for over two hours today and tomorrow when I cook them with the frittatas, hopefully they will get to the consistency I am hoping!

Mattie was a watermelon fan and I am hoping so are the other children who visit tomorrow. The funny part is we got this ceramic fruit platter as a wedding gift. I forgot all about it, until we moved. 

More fruit! I am feeding some gluten free folks too. 

Blueberry muffins!