I must be feeling re-invigorated. I've had an overwhelming urge to cook this weekend. That's always a good sign that I'm feeling happy and energetic.

I am attempting to make yogurt in my crock pot. It's remarkably easy--time consuming, but you don't have to do anything other than warm it up and let it sit. I hope it comes out good!

I have also decided to start experimenting with homemade barbecue sauces. I had some really tasty barbecue in Texas, which reminded me that real barbecue is a whole different beast from that bottled crap we usually buy. I have one recipe I use on pulled chicken in the crock pot, and it's good, but I want to come up with something GREAT. Tonight's experiment is a recipe I found online that uses root beer.

Finally, I boiled a bunch of eggs to make egg salad to bring to work. I bought the meat-grinder attachment for my mixer, largely because I like my egg salad ground up that way (with green olives--yum!) It's about time for me to actually use it.

Nick has been pestering me to make ice cream, so I bought cream and I will make French vanilla this week. I have some vanilla beans up in the cabinet so it should be tasty. It will go perfectly with the pie I'll be making with the pecans I bought in Texas.

Okay, now I'm really hungry. Rob needs to finish mowing the lawn so he can fire up the grill!!!