Weekend Fun

Just thought I'd share a little about our weekend. Started out Friday night with making a delicious meal from a recipe that my mom sent me. Here's the recipe...I would highly recommend it.

TOFU PARMIGIANA

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
• 5 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano, divided
• salt to taste
• ground black pepper to taste
• 1 (12 ounce) package firm tofu
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 4 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese

DIRECTIONS

• In a small bowl, combine bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoon oregano, salt, and black pepper.
• Slice tofu into 1/4 inch thick slices, and place in bowl of cold water. One at a time, press tofu slices into crumb mixture, turning to coat all sides.
• Heat oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Cook tofu slices until crisp on one side. Drizzle with a bit more olive oil, turn, and brown on the other side.
• Combine tomato sauce, basil, garlic, and remaining oregano. Place a thin layer of sauce in an 8 inch square baking pan. Arrange tofu slices in the pan. Spoon remaining sauce over tofu. Top with shredded mozzarella and remaining 3 tablespoons Parmesan.
• Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 20 minutes.

Saturday we both woke up super early for some reason and so decided to go to the 8:30am early service at Loma Linda University Church. Karl Haffner spoke (used to be the pastor up at Walla Walla, but now out at Kettering in Ohio) and concluded the North American division's Week of Prayer here at Loma Linda. Every day this week we had chapel and a different pastor or president of an Adventist College spoke each day. After church we made tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, and invited Trevor and Leah over. Then the four of us went rock climbing on Mt. Rubidoux. I really need to get some rock climbing shoes! So much fun, but every other turn I had to borrow Leah's shoes. It was a beautiful day and not even very windy. Lots of people hiking and climbing and bouldering on Mt. Rubidoux. For those of you who aren't familiar with the area...Mt. Rubidoux is in Riverside, kind of behind the Mission Inn. They are planning some very nice upgrades to the facilities in the near future. That evening the four of us decided to see CLOVERFIELD!!! Yikes....so fun, so exciting...I screamed twice....had to close my eyes to stop the dizziness....but I would definitely recommend it if you like those kinds of disaster type movies like I do! At the theater we ran into Jen & Mike, Mike's bro Jared, and their friends Melissa, Glen, and Jon.

Finally, today we went to Jenece & Brenden Hanks' wedding at the Azure Hills SDA Church. Very nice and simple wedding with tasty Thai food catered. There were only two people in their bridal party (her sister and his brother) and the reception was in the fellowship hall. They did something really nice that I've never seen before...they took communion together in front of the congregation and then had both of their immediate families come onto the platform and offered prayer together in a big circle. After the wedding we headed over to Byron and Tracey's house to watch the NFC Championship game (so sad that the Packers lost) and ate some pizza and popcorn and root beer. Now we're just chilling at home once again and Nathan is breaking in his new demo download on the Xbox while I delay studying. (I have all day tomorrow :) MLK day)

Hope the weekend was as good for you as it was for us.
-J