Lorain surprise

The famous Lorain Surprise. Enjoy, that was fun!

Easter Sunday on Saturday

We went to church on Saturday.  Pictures aren't that great but here they are.

Not too clear and too much light

 

Still too much light

My parking spot at the air port to remember for when I get back.  Seems this is where I park often when I have to go to the airport

Now Romaine!

I'm trying the stub thing with Romaine Lettuce now!

The bottom of Romaine

From the side

The small celery (named Jojo) and the Romaine sharing a container

The big celery (named Luke), and his brothers

Surprise!

Saturday At Aldi And Other Things

We went to the clean store today- Amy, Luke and I and I'm going to include a celery update and a picture of Justin as well as a surprise.

Make sure you keep looking down, the next set of pictures are new pictures of outside, not the old ones.

Our beautiful and clean Aldi

Just arriving-- Luke being silly

The haul

Amy and I loading the car

Thumbs up, Luke

Goofy Justin got mud all over- he didn't want to vaccuume it up.

Luke with our celery experiment-- we named the celery Luke, too!

Growing

And here's your surprise!!!!

Dinner Tuesday

This is what I was making when I was talking to you.

It's browned pork chops in a cheesy gravy sauce -- lots of flavor DEVELOPMENT--here's how I did it and what it looks like

Here are the seasoned pork chops.  Garlic powder, season salt, pepper (freshly ground).  We've been going to Shop-n-Save which makes Aldi look like a gormet store- these chops were very inexpensive (Amy said "cheaper than chicken.").

Slowly sauteing the onions, then celery tops--FLAVOR DEVELOPMENT- It takes time, baby.  Note the cast iron pan.

Now browning the chops-- more DEVELOPMENT.  Getting a good brown on.

Browned Chops

d chops

The cheese soup.  Before the soup, I added garlic and used white wine to get the bits off the bottom of the cast iron pan.

Everything in the pan-- onion, celery, garlic, white wine, cheese soup, pepper, dried parsely and dried basil.

Now the chops back in the gravy and in the oven  to bake at around 350

The plate!  The chops were unbelievably tender and juicy, the gravy was unreal, the mashed potatoes perfectly seasoned and fluffy perfect.

This was our guest for dinner on Tuesday- he's a nice guy.