d's delights- cooking and crafts

Memorial Day Grilling! We got a new grill!   Our old one had paid its dues and had worked quite hard for me since 2003…   This one has a side burner and a rack, which is cool. Aside from the frozen hamburgers we can throw on the grill at a whim, (we found our favorite at GFS) we can also grill veggies and toast the buns AND cook up the rice on the burner! One of my favorite things to do on the grill is to make kabobs!   So, here is my recipe for a marinade.   You can use pork medallions or chicken.   I use red, yellow, orange, green peppers, onions, tomatoes on the skewer as well.   Whatever you’ve got or whatever you like.   ¼ C Honey ¼ C Brown Sugar ¼ C Soy Sauce ½ tsp garlic powder ½ tsp ground ginger ½ tsp ground mustard Marinate meat in the mixture, then put on skewers, alternating the meat and veggies as you please.   (You may want to brush the veggies with some oil.) Grill, serve with rice!

I haven’t written a lot in a few months… I guess I have been “busy,” and by “busy” I probably just mean “distracted”   I just have not found a lot of inspiration or time to fulfill any inspiration that I do have. Will is a bonafide toddler now, so putting him in one place hoping he’ll stay there while I do something is just not an option anymore.   The only way to keep him occupied sitting down quietly is with the Iphone, which he has figured out how to play Angry Birds and PBS kids on. I’ve also been spending any spare time I do have on two projects for church: Cumberland Arts Goes to Market and our monthly Taiz é services. Yesterday, I made some Mothers’ Day/Grandpa’s birthday presents with Will.   They were, somewhat, Pinterest inspired.   They both involved finger/hand prints.   The one for Grandma is his handprint in green for stems, with little finger prints for the flowers.   I freehand cut a flower pot and added a bow.   Grandpa’s was bowlin