Still At It!

Since last Thursday was Book Day, I found a perfect book to give to one of my students, whose whole family love to read.  It's called 'Ten Centuries / Ten Cities'.  It starts with Jerusalem in the 11th C and finishes with New York in the 20th. The reader is given a bird's-eye view of each city and important events surrounding each century are given. For example, there's an excellent picture story of the dreadful Bubonic Plague, along with a written explanation of each picture.  The best thing of all is that I'm seriously getting rid of more clutter. Have I mentioned that this particular book is very big?  Among the pages, I found a drawing of my dog Honey, who had gigantic ears and was appropriately named because she was a honey. The artist is one of my nephews who got his artistic abilities from his mother.

This weekend has definitely been t-shirt weather. It's also the nicest weekend weather-wise that we've had so far this spring - not very conducive weather to staying inside to say the least.  However, I did clean out my freezer and decide on what I should be cooking this week.  For tomorrow I'm going to make pork knuckle, which if you've never had it or don't go to German restaurants, you might say 'yuck'.  I assure you pork knuckle is anything but yucky; it's tender, tasty and all-meat.  It's typical to have it with sauerkraut, but I'm having it with vegetables and maybe mashed potatoes.  I'm going to rub the knuckle with a bit of butter and pour some beer over it, which makes a delicious sauce.  Too bad this dish hasn't got a better-sounding name.  It's 'codillo' in Spanish by the way, and I think it tastes similar to corned beef.

That's all from me for now.  Hope everybody has a good week and I'll post some photos of my newest great-niece when I see some photos myself!