When it rains here, it hails. It’s mid-June and hailing. You’re in the car five miles from home and it starts hailing. At Home Depot today, where Jim ran in for a quick item, I pulled under the contractor’s shelter. And we only have a one-car garage and there’s no-where to park the older car until they open up the mall right up the street. It hasn’t yet been golf-ball-sized hail, thank goodness. Strange weather in the mountains!
Over the weekend I read the regular Chowhound.com column that’s emailed to me and found what might be my mother’s favorite oatmeal-raisin cookie recipe. Straight from the back from a box of Quaker Oats. I tried years ago to find it. These are tall, tiny cookies with a lot of chewiness to them. Yum. I was set to try it out today but ran out of time. So I’m no baker but I’ll give it a shot, if only to share with you and my siblings.
It’s hailing again. Now the sun is trying to come out. Strangeness.
I found some reasonably priced baby back ribs for tonight, used a dry rub and baked them for over an hour. Hopefully when the rain/hail stops we’ll be able to finish them on the grill. They’ll go with fries as I don’t think I’ve enough sliced, parboiled baby red potatoes for dinner. Snap peas for the veg, probably cold.
Hope you had a great weekend! Enjoy what little is left. Cheers! Dee
