Cooking for Hail and Farewell Dinner. 19 March 2017

I spent a lot of time today cooking!  Tomorrow is the Hail and Farewell Potluck, and the organizer made a plea last week for main dishes.  I had two whole rotisserie chickens in the freezer, and still a lot of basmati rice, so I decided to make chicken and rice, in addition to the hard-cooked eggs [which did turn out beautifully].

I did not cook before attending the Tabernacle Choir broadcast.  After a nice conversation with my granddaughter I did a bit of indexing and then went over to the Tabernacle.  I actually got there a little before they opened the doors, so when I got in I headed up to the exact center spot on the back row of the balconey. I did enjoy the rehearsal from there, but I started coughing periodically, so I decided that for the broadcast I should sit somewhere else.

I ended up on the third row of the section to the south side which is as close as the audience gets at this point.  I enjoyed this position because I could make out the closed captioning on the monitor.  Sometimes the words just are not really clear to me, so I may end up with that strategy from now on.  The Choir was joined by the BYU Singers who did several numbers accapella, in addition to singing with the Choir.

When I returned to the apartment I got to work hard-cooking more eggs. I ended up with 3 dozen nicely done eggs. Then I also got the chicken sliced up to put in the rice dish before I headed off to church.

After meetings I cooked the rice with onion soup mix added to the water, and cut up celery, water chestnuts, and salted almonds.  I think that mixed with the sliced chicken the dish will be quite nice.

My Sweetheart's son posted a picture on Facebook of his Dad holding one of his sons. I sure enjoyed seeing that.  Next time he visits I should be with him--happy thought!  We will talk or Skype tonight, and tomorrow he will have the long drive back to Missouri.  At least the weather is supposed to be a whole lot better than it was when he drove out last week.

While I am waiting, I think I will attach some sources in my Family Tree. During Capstone training I was reminded that this is an important work to do for my generation.  Most of the finding of new information will be the job of the younger people.