Ok, I know I don’t post anymore, Twitter you know…

Anyway, I ran the half this year and Laura trained for the long leg of the relay but she did not run because Elli needed her more. I enjoyed it and felt good. My knees were a little sore in the down hills, but all is good. I was not able to make my goal pace, but I kept the pace I set this week. Now I have to figure out when to do a Marathon next year and how to train.

Me at N Firestone and Brown

Spring Break Dinner 2009,

Ok this is late, but a few weeks ago I had spring break and thus had the time to make a big dinner. This picture shows some of what we had. These were the salads and appetizers I made. The top is prosciutto rolled up asparagus and arugula. The bottom left is a fennel and celery salad. The bottom left is a citrus and olive puree salad. The background is the purple potatoes we had with glassed carrots and braised short ribs. I braised the short ribs in a port and dried cherry base.

Laura and I went up to the West Side Market today to get some food for a dinner we are hosting Friday. (it will be really good, braised short ribs, prosciutto roll appetizers, a fennel and celery salad or citrus and olive puree salad and more…)

We met and talked to a few vendors. They were all very nice, especially one from a cheese stand. She is a chef and when she heard I was using fennel she was happy. She said it is under used along with tarragon. Then she gave us a few samples of some fabulous cheese, very good. I liked being there on a week day as it wasn’t crowed and we had time to talk to people.

Then we went to lunch. WOW! We went to Lola witch is one of Michael Symon’s two restaurants in Cleveland. It was great. I have to say it is my favorite restaurant downtown and I like it as much as Grovewood Tavern. The food, atmosphere and service were outstanding. We split a Beef Cheek Pierogie to start. Wonderful with a mushroom based sauce and horseradish. Laura got the Chickpea Salad. This was great as well. It was so simple and clean. It came with a grilled hanger steak on the side (marinated and cooked wonderfully) and with a very light salsa verde mixed through the mostly dandelion greens and chickpeas. Accompanied by her  lemonade, squeezed at the bar, it was perfect for a special lunch. I had Scallops. Ummm, I am going to my happy place just thinking about them. It was four large scallops seared to perfection on top of a canellini bean, lamb sausage, braised endive and mint. Yes, you can drool. I had to accompany mine with a 20 year old Taylor Tawny Port. We rounded everything off with a equally wonderful desert. We had a great time. I highly recommend checking out Lola, and if you are going and want company let us know. 

Oh yea, and Iron Chef Michael Symon was in the house.

There's my girl

Sorry I haven’t been updating much. I do post to Twitter a lot though. 
Anyway we expecting little Baby K this July.  This was one of the 3D ultra sound pictures we got.

It was really cool to see her moving around and all of her details.
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My new masters course is having us use blogs a lot so I am getting to know WordPress better. Check out my masters page, oh and vote in the poll there about my header picture. Hope to update this page more often as well. Sorry I haven’t updated much, my Twitter page has been about all I have been doing lately.

Check out this cool Ted talk about how Grass took over the world, sort of. Neat stuff, new perspective and some great farming/earth healing insights.

Well we did it! Laura and I ran as part of a relay team in the Akron Marathon. Laura ran the first leg, a 10K (6 miles) and did really well. I ran the last leg, a 12.2K (7.6 miles) and made my goal of running under an average of 9 minute miles. I ran a 8 minute 25 second pace and felt good. The rest of our team did great as well. They were Matt, Erica and Jeff. Lindsey ran the half and also did great. Here is a picture form the finish.

Just watched a great talk on TED by one of my favorite podcasters, Mark Bittman.

Check it out by clicking here or here or anywhere.

Ok, I would normally severely disciple students for destroying property, but they replaced it and made sure nothing else was damaged.  Check out these photos.