thai peanut burgers

dinner with friends is what i do these days, and i just found a recipe for thai peanut burgers. i'm gonna call kim and see if she's interested in grilling. here's the recipe:

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Jif® Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
1/2 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
1/2 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (more or less to taste)
1 pound lean ground beef or turkey
4 hamburger buns
Directions:1. In a large bowl, whisk together the Jif Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter, lime juice and soy sauce.2. Add the ginger, cilantro and cayenne pepper; blend well. Add the ground meat and mix well.3. Form into 4 patties. Grill, broil or pan-fry.4. Serve on buns with your favorite Thai hot sauce and your choice of condiments.

music scene

a friend is coming down from DC tomorrow for Athfest, Athens' music and art festival. we're planning to hit it friday and sunday and see reunions of pylon, love tractor, and more. saturday we're heading out the annual broad river party for a day of swimming, bocce ball, and bbq followed by sleeping on the sand bar. one of the guys who comes always brings this tantalizing bbq sauce thats part curry, part bbq, part mystery. i'm going to see if i cant get the recipe this year. www.athfest.com

cool redhead

this is my hot-tempered little 4-year old niece who comes by all the emotion naturally as she is a redhead. i finally found something that soothes her. she lazed about on the front of this ski boat on Father's Day and didnt seem to need anything once she had all her pink accessories about her. wind in her hair, cool blue waters, and daddy at the wheel. thank goodness for small victories. hope your summer starts off as cool as it has here in athens.

hey, watchu doin wit dat hammer?

so i'm trying a dating website again. last time was 4-5 years ago in bezerkeley and it was of no help but made for a good story. anyway, i've sent out my info and theres a few matches in my area so i wrote a few of them. only 1 has checked in recently and replied. he's cute, single, and i was intrigued so we talked about seeing music soon, water skiing, and used lots of sarcasm. then i learn he's a sober alcoholic, chain smoker, and all he says is 'i smoke, i dont have horns'. let me tell you, if you smoke and you think its a small thing, its not. you wreak of stale odor, your hair, your couch, your clothes, your house, and everything about you. you taste like an ashtray when we kiss and you poison the lungs of all those around you. why dont people get it? ugh. so anyway, mark him off the list. now its on to the restaurateur who travels the globe. nice smile. oh, and i made the mistake of putting the word 'older' in my ad and, taken out of context, it has generated matches for me of men that are 60+ years old. careful what you type. there was one dufus who just wrote, hey what you doing with that hammer? wish me luck, i'm gonna need it here in the south.

swimming hulk

Nick swims like a fish and at 8 years old, just discovered girls at the pool. not suprising with this look! he made friends with alexis, fallon, ramsey and other girls; oh and there was 1 boy, ross. figures, ross always tags along with the friends. too bad we had to come home and he'll never see them again. imagine his dreams this week...

humidity arrives

its early june in georgia and certainly time for the heat and humidity to be here but a lovely spring lasting from february til last week delayed it this year. i hate the heat so i loved the delay. last week, i ducked down to mobile, AL to visit family at the beach and had to adjust to the already moist air down there. i came home to learn that it had also finally arrived here and that my a/c unit in my new house, bought in march, wasnt working. so crippled by the heat, i dialed a serviceman who surprisingly came right away and $50 later, i am cool as a cucumber. now if only i didnt have to leave the house for 3 months...