Grandpa’s Spanish Chicken

  • 3 lb chicken
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp celery seed
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 cup rice (uncooked, dad always used minute rice because that’s what mom bought)
  • 3/4 cup onion
  • 3/4 cup green pepper
  • 1 1/2 cup chicken broth
  • 1 cup tomatoes
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp chili powder

Preheat oven to 425.  Place chicken in greased 13 x 9″ baking pan.  Combine garlic powder, celery sees, and paprika, sprinkle over chicken.  Bake uncovered at 425 for 20 minutes.  Remove chicken from pan.  Combine rice, onion, green pepper, and parsley(yes I know he does not list this in the ingredients so wing it) spoon into pan.  In a sauce pan bring broth, tomatoes, salt & chili powder to a boil.  Pour over rice mixture and mix well.  Place chicken pieces on top, cover, and cook for 45 minutes or until chicken and rice are tender.

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Santa’s Workshop

Santa's Workshop

Santa’s Workshop

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Acrylics

Acrylics

Acrylics

It seems that every time we go into the Rockler store, Sam is drawn to the acrylic pen blanks.  So every  now and then, I let him get one, along with a pen kit to go with it.  I had never turned acrylic, but the pens made with them look absolutely beautiful.  Well, this went on for over a year before I finally worked up the courage to try turning one.  Continue reading

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Three Mini Stylus Pens

Three Stylus Pens

Three Stylus Pens

Sam and I turned three mini stylus pens as gifts for his guitar teacher, voice teacher, and band coach.  They all have iPads that they use for teaching, so it seemed like a good gift to give them.

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Cutting Bowl Blanks – Wood-Mizer Style

Log on the Wood-Mizer

Log on the Wood-Mizer

I recently watched a video of someone making bowl blanks from a log using a chainsaw.  Now, this is my normal method as well, but I thought I’d try something a little different.  I used my Wood-Mizer.

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Cherry Rolling Pin and Benjamin’s Best Roughing Gouge Review

Cherry Rolling Pin

Cherry Rolling Pin

A few years ago, I turned a 34″ long French rolling pin for my wife.  Every year at Christmas time, she makes a traditional Slovenian pastry called potica.  She got the recipe from my aunt.  Making potica involves stretching dough out paper thin over the entire 5′ by 3′ kitchen table.  She tried using her normal marble rolling pin, but this didn’t work very well.  She thought that a French tapered pin may work better, and a really long one may work even better.  So I got a 3′ long piece of 2″ x 2″ purpleheart, and turned it for her.

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Oak Candle Holder

Finished Candle Holder

Oak Candle Holder

We were decorating for a dinner at church, and my wife wanted some candle holders for some pillar candles.  We found this one at a local store.  After looking at it, I realized I could turn a pair of them pretty easily.

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The Shop Construction Picture Gallery

Picture gallery of the shop construction.

Shop Site

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Sam’s Watermelon

This spring, Sam planted a single watermelon seed in the flower garden by the front walk.  It grew.  We watched the little melon grow all summer, and grow it did!

The Melon

The Melon

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Shop Update

Here’s an update on the progress of the shop.  We got the floor going.  It took 5 tri-axle dump trucks of limestone, 100 tons in total, to fill the shop and bring it to level so the concrete could be poured.

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