That was me this morning -- take-out Chinese food, mango juice, and Harry Potter. ;-)

I picked up the "family" copy Saturday morning. At lunchtime, it was leftover pizza (my own, but i make the dough in the food processor or kitchen-aid, grilled it on the weber and topped it with sausage and eggplant) and HP. My drink of choice this summer is Blue Moon ale so I can say I'm grateful for both yeast and wheat.

Love the still life with book you've posted. Just wondering about your bookmark...

I like your book rest. I need one of those. I'll be waiting for HP to appear at the library. My kids are still on Order of the Phoenix, so no need to rush.

" Just wondering about your bookmark."

It's a replica of a $5000 bill, bookmom.

The bread recipe looks delicious. I'll have to try that. Love the book rest. But does it have some device to keep the book open to the right page if you need both hands with your meal? I've always wished books came in loose-leaf notebooks so they'd stay open where they should.

Thanks for the recipe and for the lovely pic! Brought a smile to my face and that is a hard thing to do these days. I think I will make that bread this evening!

My husband and I make pizza all the time. He loves to make pizza dough and we seem to always have some in the refrigerator. Especially now that the tomatoes are ripening - tomatoes and basil from our own garden, with a bit of fresh mozzarella and olive oil on a thin crust - mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

How long does it keep in the fridge? Looks fabulous!

That bookmark would appeal to my ten yr old son.

Not to turn this into a cooking forum topic (i love to read and to eat, often at the same time) but I just started grilling pizza this summer. It is easy--about two minutes on each side, right on the grates-- and the crust is more like a brick oven pizza crust. I think I'll try a focaccia style bread on the grill and see what happens.

"But does it have some device to keep the book open to the right page if you need both hands with your meal?"

Yes, there're holes drilled in the ledge for those L-shaped shelf supports which work pretty well. They're sometimes defeated by stubborn books though.

"How long does it keep in the fridge?"

I've had uncooked dough in the fridge for a week without any ill effects. I wouldn't trust it beyond that.

"That bookmark would appeal to my ten yr old son."

I bought a bunch of different denominations at B. Dalton over ten years ago. If you have a printer, you could make one for him from the pictures here: Large Denominations of US Currency. I did one of the $100,000 bill.

I like everybody's ideas. I'm going to save them for later.

Thanks for the link. Definitely going for the $100,000 bill.

More dinner (27 July): Red Beans and Rice. From the food board on IMDb. Nothing to do with HP though.

Dinner tonight was Pad Ki Maw and Gra-prow Tar-lay with rice. I just discovered a Thai place that does take out just around the corner from me! Man, I'm happy! ;-) (And next to it is an Indian restaurant)

joseph, just been looking at your red beans and rice thing and don't know what 'liquid smoke' is. Also surprised to see creosote listed. In the UK we are no longer even allowed to paint it on our fences in case it gives a passing butterfly a headache . . . so I hate to think what it does to one's digestive tract.

BTW here in the UK it used to be a treasonable offence to 'copy' money. It is still against the law of counterfeit (however badly done) and would probably lead to slow-hanging/beheaded with a rusty axe in the Tower of London.

Hi Vee. Those images are reduced enough from the real thing to make them legal although, if someone tried to pass one off as real, he could get into trouble. Read about the $200 bill here.

Liquid smoke is common in the US. I call it creosote because it comes from the same source and probably has the same chemicals in it. It'd be too expensive to paint on your fence though.