this is a really good sauce with steak: MUSTARD PEPPERCORN SAUCE 1 TBL sugar 2 TBL tarragon vinegar or white wine vinegar 1/4 cup Dijon mustard 1/2 tsp salt 2 egg yolks 2 TBL green peppercorns, rinsed & drained 1 TBL unsalted butter 1/2 cup heavy cream In the top of a double boiler, combine the sugar, vinegar, mustard, salt, yolks & peppercorns. Whisk over hot water until thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat 7 stir in the butter. Allow to cool. Whip the cream until stiff & gently fold into the mustard sauce. Cover & refrigerate until serving time. You can make this up to a week ahead of time.~~ What's also good & is easier is a flavored butter like this one from Craig Claiborne: MAITRE D'HOTEL BUTTER 1/4 lb butter at room temperature 1 TBL lemon juice 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce 3 TBL finely chopped parsley Cream the butter & beat in the lemon juice & Worcestershire a little at a time. Beat in the parsley & season w/salt & pepper. Chill (or make into a roll with Saran wrap & freeze until ready to use.) Slice off & place on top of the steak.~~ If you want to pan cook your steaks, heat a heavy skillet & pour a thin layer of salt on the bottom over fairly high heat. When the salt starts to brown a little, add the steaks & cook until well browned on one side. Only turn the meat one time (I lower the heat after I turn the meat.) The length of time it will take to make it medium well depends on how thick the meat is.

I made these, they're great. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Dumplings Ingredients: 2 C Flour 2 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Salt 1 C whole Milk 4 Tbsp Vegetable Oil Preparation: Mix above ingredients, blend them well and turn out on to a floured surface. Knead 4 or five times and divide dough into two parts. Roll out one piece of dough to 1/8" thick and cut into 1"x1 1/2" strips. Place into a large sauce pan that you have place 8 cups of water and 3 chicken bouillon cubes that has been brought to boil and the bouillon cubes have been dissolved. Cook 1 half of dumplings until just about done and strain and set aside. Next finish the other half of the dumplings in the same way. While cooking the dumplings you can prepare the sauce. Dumpling Sauce 3 Tbsp Butter 4 Tbsp Flour 1/4 tsp Salt 1 C Whole Milk 2 Chicken Bouillon Cubes (crumbled) 1/2 tsp sugar 1/2 -3/4 C Dumpling Cooking Liquid (after dumplings have been cooked) Place butter in medium sauce pan and melt, add salt and flour, stir until thick. Mix sugar with milk, and add to flour mixture a little at a time and stir constantly with a whisk until thick and smooth. Remove from heat. Place cooked dumplings in dumpling sauce and add 1/2 cups of cooking liquid in which the crumbled chicken bouillon cubes have been added and stir gently, Simmer dumplings until blended on low heat. More cooking liquid may be added if needed.

I had a chuckle over that one, because I WISH the city maintained the sidewalks in front of the houses I own in town. They are for public access, but I bear the expense of their upkeep and repair and if the property owners fail to do this, it's done by the city and then put on the house's taxes. This I think is the killer clause in the article garysgirl linked to: "Lake Forest originally approved the subdivision plans with the stipulation that the sidewalk to the park be built over the public utility easement beneath it, Rummel said." If this is true, then whomever owned and developed the ground in the first place accepted this as a condition of approval to even go forth with their building. If it doesn't show on a deed, but if Lake Forest can cough up that contingency clause in writing.........it ought to be an interesting court case to follow as they duke it out. It would certainly not be like the authorities just took it upon themselves to interlope on a utility easement. It looks like they crossed their T's and dotted their I's before the fact if what they say is true and they can prove it. If it's not on the property deed, then somebody failed to provide a good property description when the ground was modified, and that's not up to the authorities to implement that, but the developer who is selling the plots, no?

The quote from the glass company for a mirror in my dimensions, similar in style to the one mom2sulu posted was almost $500. In the meantime, I ran into another Home Goods and found a mirror just like the one I called a close second earlier in this thread. The only hesitation I have, even tho I did bring it home, is the dimensions. It's 26" X 32". I wish it was a little taller, I have yet to try it in the bathroom.