At my job, we're taking things one week at a time. Actually, lately it's more like one day at a time. This is due to the fact that one of my coworkers is hugely pregnant and expected to be on maternity leave at any moment. We're working around this happy time bomb, all while we're getting ready for our summer reading program. The DOD's theme for kids this year is "Have Book, Will Travel." We've got some really fun activities planned for the children. This library seems to have really great programs, but I wish they were a little more diverse. Everything they have is good, but it's all geared to little children, with nothing for teens or adults. Maybe in the next year or so we can get something going for other age groups.
While we haven't gotten out much, one activity I have not been able to avoid is cooking. I have been taking pictures of some of our new favorites, in hopes that I would get an opportunity to write them up properly. Today a dairy-free corn chowder went up for your enjoyment. Corn chowder is one of my absolute favorite soups, but the stuff that comes in a can tastes so salty to me, and Clayton has been trying to cut back on dairy lately. I got the inspiration for this recipe from a book I found in my new library, which uses the creamy properties of other foods to avoid using dairy products as thickeners. That recipe is much more from scratch than mine, but since I didn't have half the ingredients, I had to come up with my own version using the same principle.
This weekend Clayton and I both got a long weekend. One of the benefits of our new jobs is that more often than not, we'll actually get these long weekends off. We had planned to go camping and hiking on this long weekend. We didn't book a site soon enough, though, so that got put on hold. That was fine with us, however, because we really did need this long weekend to relax. As usual, our nerdy friend came over for Saturday night. I'm glad our weekly evening of games and BBC television is becoming a regular thing.
That's all for now. Sorry our lives have been so uneventful lately. Maybe next week will be more interesting. Certainly I'll have more recipes to share soon.