We had a super fun, super busy weekend. I had a great time visiting my old friend, Ed Kachnic, in Atlanta on Friday. On Saturday, Lorena and I left the kids at home to work on their video blog, so we could run to Costco to buy stuff. Then, on Sunday, we had the Steppes and the Summeys over for dinner. It was a great time. We got some pork loin at Costco because Grandpa Milo said that was easy to cook and tasted good. That was true, but the true hit of the meal was some sauce Lorena got at a neighborhood cooking party. It was one of those parties where all the ladies in the neighborhood get together, someone does a demo of something, then everyone spends way too much money to buy it. I was pretty irritated when she came home with the stuff–I just hate those kinds of parties–but, in this case, I was just WRONG. Here special plum based meat sauce was some of the best I ever had. Lisa does some sauce like that for when the Summeys cook pork, so she is going to give us her recipe. Then, we are going to experiment a little to try to make it like the sauce Lorena bought. It should be fun.
The Steppes showed up in a beautiful little rag-top Toyota. We were all quite envious.
Eric
I see Lorena has figured out what most women NEVER figure out … if a wife wants to spend money she just needs to be sure she buys some food her husband likes when she does it.
Audrey, in fact, figured out not too aweful long ago that she can shop us into insolvency just as long as she cooks me ribeyes for supper.
Hi Eric,
I need to start cooking for him before I go shopping! 😉
Jeannie
We have loads of plums off our trees and wondering what to do with them besides lots of jam and syrup (72 half pints and counting…). A plum sauce sounds yummy! Thanks for the idea.
That is an impressive number of plums! We have a persimmon tree in our back yard that was just loaded with little, but very sweet persimmons last year. We are going to try to figure out what to do with them this year. Maybe some jelly?