Low-Key Sunday

We had a pretty relaxed Sunday. I skipped my exercises this morning, in favor of lazing around reading the Sunday paper, setting the DVR to record shows for the week, and touring the yard to get photos of the toadstools featured in the previous blog.



Today, we listened to the music of Harry Connick, Jr., Josh Groban, and Il Divo on CDs, as we enjoyed a really good lunch using a new recipe for pork chops, served with rice, black eyed peas, and whole kernel corn. A friend from our scrapbook club passed the pork chop recipe to us, which we tried for the first time today (note: we halved the recipe, since there are only three of us):



Pork Chops and Apples



8 to 10 baking apples, peeled, cored and sliced

2 onions

6 to 8 pork chops

2 T. oil (we used non-stick spray)

2 T. mustard

1/2 c. honey



Layer apples in 13"x9" pan (or smaller, if you half the recipe) coated with non-stick spray; top with onions. Brown pork chops in non-stick spray and place over onions. Blend together mustard and honey, brush over pork chops. Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 325 degrees for one hour.



Besides the fact that this is a yummy dish, it also has no salt or fat, which makes it heart-healthy.



This evening, we went over to the college to attend an outdoor movie, sponsored by our local arts council. Tonight's fare was the 1989 movie, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and the late George Carlin. The plot of this comedy/sci-fi film centers on two teens who are failing in school, but are given a chance to redeem themselves by passing an oral history exam. The sci-fi part of the movie comes into play when a time traveler provides them with a telephone booth from which they can travel to the past, retrieve historical characters, and bring them back to their school.



The arts council chose this mainly-for-kids movie because it seems to fit in with returning to school after the Labor Day holiday. About 15 of us attended...the three of us were there primarily in support of the arts council. It helped that we hadn't seen the movie before, and it does have it's humorous moments, but it's not one that we'll go out of our way to see again. I'm not sure what the rating on it is, but it must be at least PG, maybe PG13, for some sexual references, and mild language.