Allie has a "my flist knows everything" tag. This is one of those kinds of entries.

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We're having houseguests for the weekend and I'm working on menu planning. I'm also trying to clean out the freezer, as Marc bought into a cow with some people at work and about 50 pounds of various cuts of beef will be coming our way early next week. I can figure out ways to use some of the shrimp in there, but I'm trying to figure out desserty type options. There's a few bags of strawberry ice cream base in there, so I thought about making up a batch of strawberry ice cream, but there's also a few containers of apple pie filling from last fall's apples and it's Memorial Day so, you know, apple pie! American! The original plan, then, was to bake a pound cake to eat with homemade strawberry ice cream; the other option is to bake an apple pie and make some vanilla ice cream to go with. The pound cake has the benefit of being easier to grab a bit of at random times and is, I think, a better "hang around the house all weekend" option; the apple pie is more "woo-hoo! American summer has arrived!". I think doing both is a bit of overkill, although we still might end up going that way. Anyway. I need opinions. Give me some!

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Also, the kids and I want to try our hand at podcasting this summer. I don't know if we'll actually "cast" it, but at least do some audio recording before we think about distribution, yaddayadda. I'm working on sorting out the technical stuff (although advice on that is most appreciated) but I'm really stumped on content. We thought maybe kid book reviews, some interviews with them and their friends and people they think are interesting. I thought maybe a recipe of the month kind of thing? O wants to provide piano music for transitions. Any other brilliant ideas?

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Yeah, I thought about that - it's just strawberries, sugar and lemon juice, so it'd be ridiculously easy to tip it over into a coulis.

At this point, I'm leaning toward the pound cake option, b/c I'm still a bit iffy on pastry, but nothing could be easier than a good pound cake. Dunno, though.