7 Quick Takes Friday - part deux

Link party at Conversion Diary, host of 7 Quick Takes Friday.

1. Have cooked like crazy this week, and portioned out the leftovers to freeze, so that the hubby will have stuff to eat while the kids and I...

2. ...go back to see my folks. They got an incredible deal on air fare. It'll be nice to see them again, though the hubby's gonna have one heckuva quiet house here while we're gone.

3. Trying to find some sources from either Jewish tradition or early church writings/tradition on Melchizedek. There is so little said about him (yes, references to how Christ is like him, but not much *about Melchizedek himself*). He kinda appears out of nowhere in Genesis, then disappears. There IS an interesting passage in Hebrews that mentions him as having no genealogy, no death, no birth, etc. - but it's hard to say whether the writer means exactly what I said above - that he is just mentioned with no reference other than being King and high priest of Salem, Abraham gives him an offering, and then that's *it* - or whether the writer is implying something about Melchizedek's actual origin and such. Thus the search.

4. Biscotti in the oven for Sunday's potluck. I don't think I have a choice anymore as to what to bring; there would be a lot of disappointed people if I didn't make my biscotti. At least it's easy, cheap, and I always have the stuff on hand to do it!

5. I had lunch today with one of the women I used to work with. We'd like to start a book club of some kind. We're not planning on anything huge, probably just start with the two of us and see who else expresses interest.

6. Hoping to have dinner out with the hubby tomorrow night, for some us time before we leave on Monday. It'll be nice. Looking forward to it, but we still need to figure out where we want to go!

7. And the timer going off means that it's time to pull the biscotti out of the oven. The kiddos think they're having cookies for dinner. Hope they won't be too disappointed...

7a. Am I the only one who can NEVER get the correct yield for cookies? I exaggerate a little, as there are a few times I've been very careful to try to do exactly the 1 inch balls or whatever, but typically, I never get what they say I should. Heck, the biscotti recipe is supposed to yield 3 1/2 dozen. I get almost 2 dozen instead, and that's even with measuring the rectangular loaves. I suppose I just can't do true 1/2 inch slices. Or I get pretty close, but just a little over with each cut adds up to nowhere near the predicted yield. Oh well. I just end up doing a double batch to get a respectable potluck amount.