When we were engaged The Husbands family had a shower for us – One of our gifts was a little recipe book that they made for us with family recipes – everyone contributed their favorites! (what a great idea!) His cousin contributed a cookie recipe – and this cookie is perfect. The butter mixed with toasted pecans and toffee! And do NOT substitute choco chips for choco chunks. Just dont. The chunks are IT.
Stop drooling on your keyboard. Would you like the recipe?
Sometimes the simplest things can feel you with warmth and contentment. Today it was….CHEESE. A grilled cheese sandwich to be exact. I had one for lunch. I haven’t eaten one in quite a while and probably could have scarfed down three, but alas my calorie counting brain only allowed me the one. So here it is – a visual ode to grilled cheese.
I’m sure a good time was had by all. We hosted Thanksgiving this year (for the first time) – had the sis in law, mom, stepdad, and grandparents (along with their dog) over. It was the first time my family has seen our house! There was a lot of cooking, a lot of eating, a lot of black friday shopping, and a lot of football. There was a Skype visit from my Uncle, Aunt, and cousins also. Everyone except the sis in law packed up and headed home this morning. Here are just a few shots.
I took some pictures a few nights ago as I was cooking dinner. This is a pretty common dinner for us – brussels sprouts and rosemary pork chops with fig preserves…..nom nom nom.
Last week during our weekly trip to the grocery store I picked a box of good ol fashioned CapN Crunch cereal. I haven’t eaten this cereal in sooooo long! I’m loving it. I know it isn’t the best thing in the world to be eating – but hey, its good. Ever since we bought it I have been wanting to make something some may call….disgusting? Do you guys remember the movie House Arrest with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Lee Curtis? Well, there is this one scene where they make little patties out of Capn Crunch, peanut butter, marshmallows, and chocolate syrup – and toss em on the griddle. I WANT TO EAT THEM. Even I am like what is wrong with me but it looks scrumptious to me. The scene is at 4:15 – to a JLOHewitt tune – you forgot she sang huh
I stumbled across this invite somewhere sometime ago and saved it to my documents where i recently stumbled upon it again.
How could you not go to this party? Anyway, this invite immediately makes me think of my grandmothers old Jubilee cookbooks. Even when I was a little girl I liked to look through them and look at the illustrations. They looked much like this invite. I can’t find any Jubilee images on the googles! And my Grannys cookbooks are in her pantry five and a half hours away. Maybe next time I go down to visit I can do some scanning for you guys.
Early in the morn, before the sun rises, I’ll be up and getting ready for work. Ye olde day job. But there is a bright spot in my day. Bright and gooey and yummy and fattening. Dale is making me some homemade peach cobbler! YEAH! I LOVE cobbler. She even said she was going to wake up extra early in the morning and make the friggin thing fresh. Guess I know what I’ll be eating for breakfast.
Every few months I just want to go camping. I haven’t been in YEARS! And The Husband has never been. He’s a self proclaimed inside boy. I think if I could only get him to go camping during the fall, he’d like it. It’s not hot, there aren’t bugs everywhere, the air smells nice. I like the idea. So. If we can find some time this fall, we should go. Ya hear that babe?
If you ask my family what kind of eater I am, they may say I’m kind of picky…which I am. But I have been eating new things over the past couple of years and eating things I wouldn’t used to. I also have this weird I only eat this with that quirk. Or if I eat this I have to have that or that and this. The pairings are important to me. Also the things I “didn’t like” (usually I had never tasted these things) weren’t usually about not liking the taste. I don’t like certain textures. I don’t like gooey…like fat on meat, I don’t like rubbery…like scallops, not into gummy….as in gummy bears and orange slices, and I have never liked peppers. Well, Except for these peppers.
We have all kinds of peppers growing in our little garden, and usually when The Husband wants some with dinner he has to cook them and eat them by himself. He always begs me to try some. No. Thank. You. Tonight I walked in and he had some peppers in the wok getting ready to cook em up, I exclaimed my disgust with a crinkly nose face, and went to get out of the work clothes. When I came back he was cooking them in soy sauce…and they smelled heavenly! All of a sudden, I got excited about them! I wanted some too! I don’t know what it was..it smelled like chinese food? I threw some peanuts in with them. Mmmmm…they looked even better.
I put a scoop on my plate, right next to the pork chop…and ate every last one of them. They were goooood! Mark the date people. Today was the great pepper turnaround.
Klaus loves many things…looking out of windows at squirrels, lounging with his pop pop, and eating ice cubes just to name a few.
If you go out in the yard with him to throw a toy – he will likely ignore you and go for the stick. Maybe he’s a hippie okay? He likes things natural. Another natural treat he enjoys is…
Broccoli stalks? Thats right he’s stinkin obsessed with them. And I’m cool with that because they’re free! We cooked broccoli tonight. I threw all of the stalks in the back yard…ahhh that will bring the pup many moments of pure joy. He’ll drag that stalk over to a tall patch of grass and gnaw on it all the livelong day.
