Jalapeno Poppers

Last Saturday, we bought about 10 fresh jalapenos at the farmers market down the street from our house.
Today, we still had nine left. We have only fixed Mexican food once this week. Let's face it, jalapenos are just not that common an ingredient if you aren't cooking Mexican.
We decided to use the rest of the jalapenos (that were starting to wither) to make jalapeno poppers. Deseed them, stuff them with monterey jack cheese, dip in batter, then fry. Fry them in the fry daddy that you got as a wedding present. That makes them really great.

an upclose look at a perfect specimen. this jalapeno was red.



John shows a plate of our entire meal: the jalapeno poppers, refried beans, and spanish rice. It was quite a delicious meal. Tomorrow we have to go to school for orientation. For some reason, at William Jewell, the incoming Freshmen have their first class meeting for their GEN ED 100 on the saturday before classes actually start. I just have orientation for the continuing education class that I am taking. booooorr-r-r-rring. even if it's boring, it's only for an hour. it will just be a tour of the campus, with a stop by the book store to buy books for the semester. it'll be a lot like a tour of a city in Europe: the tour guide will show us the city, then take us by the fanciest gift shop in hopes that we'll buy something.




And, what would a post from Laura and John be without a very cute photo of one or both of the kittens?
It just wouldn't be right, and it just wouldn't make much sense!

Here they both are, taking a nap together on the couch. sooooo cute!

a daytime view from the window

Here is our view during the day.







and a picture of cute little black cat.

naps

Black Cat is John's favorite cat.
Black Cat likes to take naps with John.

trip to memphis and corinth

Mom is looking at John's syllabus. She cannot believe that he would actually make his students read Reinhold Niebuhr.
Joe helped move furniture. Then I held his mountain dew for him while he rode his motorcycle home.



Motorcycles get good gas mileage.
This cloud was enormous.
The Arkansas sky
and the Mississippi sky
are only slightly
different.

sara and erin came to visit

sara and erin, two friends from ohio, came to visit us on their way from colorado back to ohio.
while they were here, we went to eat indian food, ate some thai food, made soul food & sweet tea, and went to see Talladega Nights.



In the Plaza, this upscale shopping center in KC, there is a park bench with a statue of Benjamin Franklin sitting on it. I'm sure that ol' Ben would've spent his money on fashions from Eddie Bauer and Urban Outfitters if he were still alive.




John insists that he is "only friends" with Mr. Franklin.