What wonderful new friends came to visit yesterday!! Bill & Jane are the nicest folks we've met in a long time - felt like we'd known them forever! Jane is one of these tall, willowy good-lookin' gals that you'd never think had ever seen a sick day in her entire life! What a delight she is.
And, Old Bay is good old Texan straight out of the handbook on how to know a Texan!! Funny, great stories and just at home with us from the moment we all met up.
We ended up having dinner at the neighbor's who also have an outside pizza oven and Roy & I were able to pick both their brains to see the best points to keep in mind for ours. And the food was wonderful. I took a couple of recipes from the book, Celebrate the Rain - both winners! (Turns out B & J have the book also) This would be a good book to start your Christmas lists with.....
Made the Roast Beef & Couscous Wraps and the Crabmeat, Apple, & Mango Salad on Cumin Apple Crisps - they are both winners!! I'll post the recipes later if anyone wants them.
We made all kinds of pizza and completely overate, talked until we were almost hoarse. Jane and I gave in exhausted and the guys stayed up and solved all the problems of the world. We're having such a great time and Billy will be back to have breakfast with us - naturally champagne plays a part in it...
And, Old Bay is good old Texan straight out of the handbook on how to know a Texan!! Funny, great stories and just at home with us from the moment we all met up.
We ended up having dinner at the neighbor's who also have an outside pizza oven and Roy & I were able to pick both their brains to see the best points to keep in mind for ours. And the food was wonderful. I took a couple of recipes from the book, Celebrate the Rain - both winners! (Turns out B & J have the book also) This would be a good book to start your Christmas lists with.....
Made the Roast Beef & Couscous Wraps and the Crabmeat, Apple, & Mango Salad on Cumin Apple Crisps - they are both winners!! I'll post the recipes later if anyone wants them.
We made all kinds of pizza and completely overate, talked until we were almost hoarse. Jane and I gave in exhausted and the guys stayed up and solved all the problems of the world. We're having such a great time and Billy will be back to have breakfast with us - naturally champagne plays a part in it...
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