Pig kidneys

We have pig organs in the freezer in the basement. I thought to cook one of the kidneys today. It smelled like pee, just smelled. Even after soaking in salt water as directed by The Joy of Cooking.  Even when I cut off the white inner membrane, it still just smelled, so I ditched it. Not interested in eating pee meat. And now, off and on all evening, I am getting imagined whiffs of the pee meat smell, even though I think I can't really smell it. The livers in the freezer should be good. I'll eat them.  Not today though. 

We went out to dinner tonight as a family. Got all dressed up and everything. This was the outing the kids chose to trade over half their Halloween candy for. We went to Milestone's and the Santa Claus parade went by outside as we sat in the restaurant but we could only see various flashing lights from it. We went through The Empress on the way from the car and had a look at the festival of Christmas trees. 

And because the restaurant trip was also to celebrate both T and Jeff's birthdays we got birthday desserts with sparklers. 

Then we came home and by 8:30 all but one of us were voluntarily tucked up in bed with books or iPods. That was our Saturday.

Cheers,

L