Sunday and the living is easy...

Alarm went off at 5:00 AM as planned. I made up a batch of buttermilk biscuits while Luanne brewed some tea and ate her flax seed mixture (I don't know, so please don't ask). I warmed up the sausage gravy and Joe and I ate them with the gravy on top. Lu had two biscuits with blackberry jam. Then Lu and Joe took showers, got dressed and carried their stuff out to the porch (it was raining, then). They loaded up and pulled out for Virginia about 6:30 AM.

I shaved, showered and got dressed myself and headed out to Meijer's around 7:30 AM to pick up some staples (eggs, bread, milk, etc.) as well as the fixing for tonight's dinner (Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches). All I needed was the hoagie buns and some provolone cheese because we have all that leftover steak.

Got back home and straightened the house a bit. No cleaning necessary, as I did all that Saturday morning. I gathered towels, and other stuff to make a load of laundry and threw that in the washer. Then I finally got around to writing the blog post for Friday and Saturday.

Next I cleaned out the fridge and made a dozen hard boiled eggs. Jake and Carla arrived home about that time and we shared stories of our respective Saturday's and some hunter sausage they picked up at the Smoke House (back in our old stomping grounds).

I cut up two big white onions and put the best rings in a bowl, covered with buttermilk. The remaining onions I chopped and saut�ed along with two green peppers. I had previously put the leftover steak in the freezer to harden a bit so I could more easily cut it paper thin (good trick, by the way). I added the steak to the mix and went to take a nap.

After a nice rest, I woke up and made some bacon and cheddar cheese deviled eggs (Carla made the bacon for me). Luanne called around 7:00 to say they had made it home safe and sound. I went outside in the light rain to check on those wood chips and, no, he didn't cover up my garden (whew!)

I came back in and started making onion rings. And, the damn fryer wouldn't work! What a waste of money THAT was! So, I got out a pan, transferred the oil, got out my electronic thermometer and THAT didn't work!!! So, I got out the regular meat thermometer and used that.

I started making onion rings, taking them from the buttermilk, dredging them in flour, dipping them in a beer batter and dropping them in 325 degree oil. Carla took over after a while. (Note to self: Two big onions is too many onion rings for just three people!) I had a lot of beer batter left, so I sliced up an eggplant into big French-fry like pieces and deep fried it as well. Jake warmed up the sandwich mixture; put some provolone cheese on the hoagie rolls and broiled that and then topped it off with steak, onions and peppers. Yummo!

We went off to watch our Sunday night shows and then went to bed.