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*Sugar-Highs…and Holiday Baking*

*Sugar-Highs…and Holiday Baking*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Woo!  Hoo!….. It’s still Holiday baking time!….. I love baking…I love eating batter & dough…I was supposed to out-grow this….. !News Flash!….. …..I never did….. …..I know…I know….. …..raw eggs…too much sugar…Yadda…Yadda….. …..raw dough is still the Best….. I feel that baking some (most) recipes…ruins a good cookie….. Plus we know the chickens our eggs come from…we know they aren’t old/stale store-bought eggs….. But salmonella…is still salmonella….. …..so there’s that….. Cake batter is…

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Showdown at the Meat Counter

Showdown at the Meat Counter

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s that time of year….. Our local grocery store is having it’s annual Holiday Sales….. It starts with Thanksgiving…and runs through December…to the New Year….. First turkeys are on sale…then beef…as well as scallops…along with shrimp of various sizes…peeled or unpeeled…pre-cooked or raw….. It’s weeks and weeks of a veritable Protein-Extravaganza….. Protein-ous foods and I are the best-est of friends….. …..don’t get me wrong…I love a well-placed carb….. …..But Protein Rules Supreme…. …..and…

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~~Cow Heel Soup~~

~~Cow Heel Soup~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* As we already know…I was raised on a small homestead-type Ohio farm….. I live on a small similar-type farm in Florida now….. I guess I’ve always been a functional homesteader and didn’t know it….. But that was what everyone did back in the 1950’s and ’60’s….. …..you planted things…you ate the things you planted…and you canned the rest….. …..it’s been engrained in me from the socks up….. ***(On An Aside:  My daughter recently…

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***Cassava Pone Cake***

***Cassava Pone Cake***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* My older daughter likes to bake….. She has a friend of Trinidadian decent…and he’s been showing her some of his family’s island recipes….. *****(Wikipedia on Trinidad & Tobago)***** The first one she tried was Cassava Pone Cake….. *****(What Makes a Pone a Pone?)***** What’s neat about Florida…is the cross-section of people….. …..I love the cross-section of foods offered in the local grocery stores….. …..they cater to a lot of varied ethnicities…so the cooking…

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*Friends*giving*

*Friends*giving*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* *****(Friendsgiving—It’s A Thing)***** Over this last weekend…we went to a Friends-giving….. It was hosted by my older daughter’s cool friend—Moxy….. Everyone has traditional plans for their traditional Thanksgiving…but Friendsgiving…is a large get together…for friends….. *****(Emily Post on Friendsgiving)***** I really like this concept…plus it’s a lot of fun….. It was a covered-dish affair…it was so easy….. We have a lot of experience with pulling off Hunt Club Teas…we already have all the bells…

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~~~The Kumquat Festival~~~

~~~The Kumquat Festival~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I missed it…(sigh)….. Suffice to say…it’s a celebration of Kumquats….. It’s a fun/local Agro-Festival celebrating the fruit…(it’s quite the local industry)….. I like the name………….Kumquat…………. Say that five times fast….. I might add it to my list of fun words I like saying…(I like umlaut too)….. …..(Iditarod…Saponification…Onomatopoeia…and Nixtamalization)….. I think I’ll add Kumquat on a trial basis….. A fellow dinosaur…and Athletic Trainer friend of mine dropped by for some eggs over the weekend……..

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***Baking With The B-List***

***Baking With The B-List***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We all have our favorite recipes which are our “Go-To’s”….. …..my “Go-To” Christmas cookie recipe is (of course) my Grandmother’s “Rum Balls”….. *****Scan To The Rum Ball Recipe***** I know I’ve mentioned them before…I wish they weren’t only for yuletide….. They really should be available year-round….. …..maybe even a required breakfast staple(?)…a good eye-popper to start the day….. We are currently in a flurried-frenzy of baking….. Everything is hazy and seen through a…

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The Fifth Day Of Turkey

The Fifth Day Of Turkey

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We’re on the Fifth Day of Turkey………….(left-overs)….. I can’t complain….. It’s still nummy yummy good….. All it takes is nuking a plateful…and you’ve got a complete/balanced/nutritious dinner….. …..(I don’t recommend microwaving the canned cranberry sauce though…it doesn’t come out looking the same…more like pock-marked grout)….. But we are currently on the fifth day of turkey consumption…(with more on the horizon)….. It’s what’s for dinner…(again)….. …..there’s gotta be a song for that….. …..oh, wait………

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*Soporifical*

*Soporifical*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I’m exhausted….. …..tryptophan…it can really put a kink in post-feast clean-up….. *****(Thanksgiving Dinner Makes You Sleepy)***** All I wanted to do after eating…was curl-up with the dirty dishes  &  left-overs and….. ………….snoooooooze…………. Just wrap me in some aluminum foil and plastic wrap alongside the green bean casserole and the turkey carcass and let me nap….. …..stick a holiday-themed/paper napkin underneath my drools  &  snores…ignore the sweet potato skin that’s stuck to my forehead……..

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Thanksgiving…..(huh?)…..

Thanksgiving…..(huh?)…..

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Geez!…Louise!….. What happened to November…..?….. November flew past at warp speed….. My wake-up call was the Winn-Dixie grocery store’s weekly-flier that came through in the mail….. I immediately zeroed in on the 49 cent per pound Frozen Turkey Sale….. …………………(maybe you remember how I get about meat that’s on sale)………………… ……………..(I get giddy…I arrange & re-arrange my freezer (to make more room)…………….. ………….like an addict…I hide the excess meat that I sneak into…

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