1/4 burgers here too.

I went to the store and have none of the food you are talking about

this is from The Clay-Pot Cookbook by Georgia MacLeod Sales & Grover Sales.

Chicken with Broccoli (serves 4)

2 T flour

1 1/2 t salt

Dash of pepper {I use several grinds from the pepper mill}

1/2 t tarragon

1 3# frying chicken, cut into serving pieces {I usually use chicken breasts instead of bone-in pieces- the flavor isn't quite as good but it's a lot easier to eat}

2 T olive oil

juice of 1/2 lemon

1/2 pint sour cream

2 oz. sharp cheddar

1# broccoli, washed separated and stalks removed {I leave the majority of the stalks on and cut it into chunks}

1) presoak pot, top & bottom for 15 minutes

2) Combine flour, pepper, salt & tarragon in a paper bag, add chicken parts and shake, put aside any remaining flour mixture

3) In large frying pan, quickly brown chicken in olive oil until golden

4) place browned chicken in presoaked pot

5) squeeze lemon over chicken. Add drippings in frying pan; add sour cream and rest of flour mix. Stir and pour over chicken. (This should be thick. ) {I was confused by this instruction. What I do is scrape the pan, add the sour cream to the pan, stir the flour in (usually I don't have a lot of the shaken stuff left so I add a little Wondra to make it thick) and then pour that over the chicken in the clay pot.} Grate cheddar cheese over top.

6) Place covered pot in cold oven. Set temperture to 450 degrees. Cook for 25 minutes.

7) Remove pot from oven and add the broccoli. Replace covered pot in oven and cook for an additional 10 minutes.

8) Siphon off excess fat and serve {I forget the siphon and serve it with a slotted spoon}

I tried to link to the cookbook by going through the Buffista affiliate sales link first and then searching for the book and posting the resulting URL. Will that work?

If anybody has any clarifying questions about the recipe- I'm taking the dog for a walk- I'll be back in an hour or so.

Laga, that looks YUM!

My brother is in the hospital just having spinal surgery. The bad news: 4 hours after surgery he still has not talked to a doctor to get a report back on success. His surgery took four hours: the normal range for this surgery is 90 minutes to 4 hours. Even with fairly strong pain meds he is still in pain. Given these two things, he would really like one of the fuckin doctors to discuss how sucessful or not the surgery was. yeah, he knows that you won't know for sure until there are results, but he'd like to know stuff like was there stuff they could not get? Did they have to do anything that might cause damage? I mean there are things the doctors do know immediately , and he'd really like to know them too.

Um, that seems REALLY insane, TypoBoy! I hope he gets to talk to a doctor SOON!

He also mentions that the hospital food is good and wants to know if that is one of the signs of the apocalypse.

He also mentions that the hospital food is good

Well, at least they're giving him the good drugs.

And bug, it is insane. He and his fiancée hope for a doctor to come on rounds soon.

~ma for your brother, Typo Boy!

You have earned your whine, Kristin. I didn't realize you started work so soon. Much -ma that you get home soon.

exactly, this.

So it was a long day. This morning while slaving over a hot copy machine, DD walked in and told me that I looked "appropriate" (comments from others were elegant, feminine and refined). several appreciated the move toward Neo-Victorian and said they can't wait to see what I pull out next.

During the day DD appeared and wanted to do a 'lesson plan' check. He then went over my plans as if he was looking for a mistake. And he wonders why I act like I don't want to see him or talk to him!

The English classes have between 11 and 25 students while the Drama class has 36. The school still insists the Drama class "can't" be split into 2 classes. Then we had a faculty meeting at the end of the day because DD wanted us to have ice cream. And he sends students around every period to the teachers without planning periods to offer room temperature water or granola bars. (but, according to him, there isn't enough money in the budget for 'extras'?)

So my feet hurt. I have to type up vocabulary for tomorrow and figure out some notes. I still don't understand what all they want done with the classes.

As of now we are having school tomorrow. If the storm looks too bad they may dismiss early. I know there is a 100% chance of rain tomorrow; however, we are hopeful the storm won't be too bad.

Hope the other Florida ~istas are going to be OK, too!

ETA~one of my female students outed herself to me today. I'm the first adult she has told, as well as one of the few people she has told. She says she realized it this summer and then things started to make sense. She's so upset because she thinks her parents will hate her and cut her off from the family. (in this area, it's a possibility) She's also worried about how people will react around her, now. Poor kid...