Weekend Wrapup

Prairie Home Companion was in Iowa, and he did a bit about how crappy corn is -- about high fructose corn syrup, and also about how cows can't digest it properly. I thought it was pretty brave of him, considering the location. Info was true, of course. TAL was decent, I really liked the first story, about a guy who tried to find out who the owner was of the abandoned car parked in front of his house.

In other news, we had waves all weekend, which was much appreciated.

Sunday night we did a pizza thing. A little before people showed up I got a call, a child's voice asking about pizza. I assumed Keely or Eliza were messing with me, but it turned out to be Sweet Lou. His timing was impeccable. Alas, I lied to him, I told him I was making 'normal' pizza. Mostly because I'm not good at talking with kids. I'd made a pimiento chile sauce with a ton of cilantro that we mixed with red sauce. So not entirely normal. But quite tasty. The sorbet and the sherbet were both good, though I felt bad about sending people off with cold bellies as it was cold out. But K/T/T were biking home, so they probably warmed up a little.

There was a little bit of dough left over, so monday I made a cross between an italian and a lebanese pizza. Lebanese pizza, at least according to Claudia Roden's Book of Middle Eastern Food, is pizza where you put raw meat on the pizza, and it cooks in the oven. I've done it quite often, it's great. So last night I did red sauce and pimiento sauce, with cheese slices interspersed with pieces of ground buffalo. Really tasty.