Up To No Good

Ingredients:

10 oz firm goat's cheese (you can use fresh mozarella if you have an allergy like Ron does. Well Ron, it's true, what do you mean I can't tell them? Oh bother. Go on now)
2 tbsp flour
1 egg (make certain the garden gnomes haven't been at the chickens!)
2 oz fresh bread crumbs
1 tsp olive oil
4 tomatoes
1 onion
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
6 tbsp fresh mint

Cut the goat's cheese into thick slices. I make two for Mr. Weasley, and of course Ron eats as much as he does, and if Harry is visiting, of course we'll need more. Oh, and now Fleur. Yes, well...

Beat the egg and pour it into a shallow bowl.

Mix the bread crumbs and thyme together (and remember fondly when the time turners were around before that dreadful incident at the Ministry... of course we don't blame you Ron dear, why would you think that? Oh, no Harry, of course not you either, yes be a dear and sit there...)

Wave your wand over the mixture three times and say the following charm:

Umbra es caseus!

Dip each slice of cheese into the egg (Fred and George, what did I tell you about those skewers! OUT NOW!) and then into the bread crumbs, coating them well.

Place the coated cheese slices on a plate and chill. Wave your wand and say: optime quaeso!

Make the salad by chopping the tomatoes, peel and finely chop onion and garlic, put the tomatoes, olive oil and garlic in a bowl. Tear the mint leaves and add them to the bowl. Toss the salad well and put it onto plates. Put 4 tsp oil in the pan and heat over medium heat for 1 minute. Fry the chilled goat's cheese slices for 2 minutes on each side, until they are golden.

Put 2 -4 slices on top of each plate of salad. Serve immediately, then make Fred and George do the dishes.

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Ginny's Chicken Kebabs
lotsa chicken
2 large lemons
3 small or 1 large onion
2 cloves garlic
1 cup olive oil
paprika
kebab skewers
mint sprig for decoration

Cut chicken into pieces about 1.5" square
cut onion into large chunks
cut lemon into large chunks

Assemble kebabs using the following spell, wands at the ready:

Venite ad kebabum!
citreum marinie!

At this point, you will need to wave your wand at Fred and George, who will be fencing with the kebab spears. I suggest you use a bat bogey hex, because anything harsher will leave them angry at you and you won't want that to happen!

Use your wand to sprinkle paprika over the kebabs. Mix the garlic with the olive oil and any extra lemon juice, and brush over the kebabs.

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She came inside in tears today because a butterfly got caught in a spider's web on our porch. I told her there was no guarantee that it would live, but I freed it and got most of the web off of it.

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Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?

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I'm
a Gryffindor!

N got Gryff, his second was Slyth. S and I both are Ravenclaw.

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Admittedly the whole of religion seems a bit touched to me, but seriously?

First, there was this story: Bible Museum Does Dinos

And now my own state's annual homeschooling convention is offering this dandy workshop:

Jurassic Park, Noah's Ark and the Genesis Flood Dr. Tom Hoyle will present this colorful slide program involving a Biblical explanation of dinosaurs, the pre-flood world, the ark, and the Genesis flood. The presentation is scriptural, understandable, accurate [sic], politely entertaining, and ....... [sic again, really, homeschooling speaker, is it necessary to abuse the ellipsis when your job is trying to tell people that they too can successfully teach children? Seriously?] is Dr. Hoyle's most popular [sic, do you think I'd italicise that nonsense?] slide message. Dr. Tom Hoyle has a PhD [sic again, I may be ABD but I know how to punctuate Ph.D, they did 'learn me' that much} in Christian Apologetics [aw c'mon, you are making this too easy--no, I won't, you guys can fill in the joke yourself, I like to work a bit harder than that] from California Graduate School of Theology, is a full colonel in the United States Air Force Reserves, and founder of the Bible and Science [blasphemy! Get that S word out of your silliness!] Ministries of over 20 years.

So hear that folks? A waco will be employing his duodecadenal idiocy and mocking true science in the "I'll make you feel better about indoctrinating your child with nonscientific nonsense" workshop for the perpetually ignorant. Skeptics need not apply (but we do support his first amendment right to make a fool of himself in public)

And they wonder why the largest group of homeschoolers this side of the Cascades feels a bit singed by the religious fervor... castigated again. Way to go, descendants of the religiously persecuted.

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10 yo ds is typing his own... yay! I don't have to write about morse code Donkey from Shrek simulated farts on the nearest couch! (don't ask...)

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