Barbra, I never heard of light weight cement in a sack, but looked it up on line and sure enough there is! Sounds very convenient, although the price might be a little higher than DIY hypertufa. One source had it listed at $16.00 for a two cubic ft. sack. It's certainly worth looking into! Thanks for telling us about it. Shirley, I just came in from taking my pots out of the molds also. I did the first one and then Bob helped me a little with the other two. The hypertufa around the top rim had to be chipped away a bit from the inside and outside edge. I also put a screw driver very gently between the plastic pot mold and the tufa to loosen it. Then turned it over and bounced it gentle a few times, did a little more loosing, etc. and after doing that several times the pot came out. The ones in the middle came out with no problems. I then worked on smoothing the edges and the top with a very rough file and finished up with a steel brush. On the pot which I had incorporated broken pieces of clay pots I did a lot of steel brushing on the top to show the pottery chips, and on the sides to rough it up a bit so it really looks antique. Antique 'what' I don't know ... lol, but it looks very old :-) Since we don'e have a ceramic drill drill bit at the moment I went ahead and drilled a drain hole while the tufa was sill not completely hard. I put some wadded up plastic in the hole so the pot would hold vinagar water while it cures the rest of the way. Whew! All that sure worked off some Sunday dinner! I think they look really nice. I'll take and post some pictures when I get my breath. Eager to see pictures of yours Shirley and Patty.

Here's the Jerk Rub recipe. (Sorry, I was on my iPhone before.) You can make it hotter, mild, or no heat at all just by adjusting the Scotch Bonnet peppers: Boca Boys Jerk Rub Recipe - use this on anything you want to jerk, even fish! 4 tablespoons Ground allspice 4 tablespoons Dried thyme 4 tablespoons Ground Scotch Bonnet Pepper Click here to buy them... cheap! 2 tablespoons Freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons Ground sage 1 tablespoon Ground nutmeg 1 tablespoon Ground cinnamon 2 tablespoons Garlic powder 4 tablespoons Brown Sugar 1 cup dried Chives

I had no earthly idea what I wanted for dinner last night so I took a frozen chicken burger patty out of the freezer and made that on a bun. Sauteed mushrooms and peppers and fried potatoes to go with it. Saturday was the dance!!! I met my friend and her friends at the venue. The place was full so I just stood at the entrance until she saw me :-) I immediately was welcomed into the fray (9 of us at a round table. I don't drink and drive (I drink seldom anyway, except wine with my meals on weekends, that's my treat). So I drank ginger-ale. I was dancing with the 3 gentlemen thru the night. One asked me what I thought of so-and-so. I said he's very nice. This fellow said that the consensus by others at the table is that we'd be a good fit. I was flattered and laughed as I sure didn't want any of them to think I'd chase him. He is very nice, and has the look I like. He and I had a number of dances, and the final dance, It was encouraging when he just grabbed my hand and said let's go; and we went on to the dance floor. The next dance we're all going to is April 9, country music. ( I love country, he likes Led Zeppelin) lol. We were talking about wearing cowboy hats, and he said he has one and he has another that I can wear :-) So...we shall see.

I had everything....but the chicken? I had a package of arrives frozen organic chicken pieces in the freezer. Perfect for making the empanadas. Good thing my first step was to take it out to defrost. No chicken! I looked several times, looked in the meat drawer in the fridge, looked in the freezer door which is just things like spices and gel packs. After an exhausting few days I wasn't ready to start over. We ordered in. Really good, simple food from a neighborhood place. Today, I need chicken stock. I was just pulling out the little containers in the freezer to see how much I needed to bring upstairs. Exactly where I expected them, and none hiding behind the tamales, but front and center? The package of frozen chicken! Do the multi-dimensional aliens who study our socks now borrow the frozen chicken???