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A good day

Posted in daily blah, food, hobbies on Dec 23rd, 2011

All these things added together equal a good day. a nice big soon to be pot of chicken & dumplings steaming on the stove a nice cold glass of beer a new knitting pattern

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WOW!!!

Posted in daily blah, family & friends, food, hobbies, pets, photos on Oct 15th, 2011

It’s been forever since I’ve posted here! Nothing has changed much… I’m mostly working (all the time), and in between I’m trying to knit. I’ll try to give you a quick run down of what’s been going on.. here go’s. So I finished my first sweater, made a cardigan, currently working on my second sweater [...]

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Seriously?

Posted in daily blah, food on Jul 9th, 2011

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Sun Tea

Posted in daily blah, family & friends, food on Jul 4th, 2011

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“A Taste of the Mediterranean”

Posted in daily blah, food on May 27th, 2011

Darryl and I hit this cute little place in downtown St. Joe today. This is one we’ve never seen before. It’s called Beachside Deli and has a basic Greek menu. We had warm grape leafs and I had my first Gyro (lamb & beef), which was very very good. Over all we were very please [...]

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Piggin N Grinnin

Posted in daily blah, food on May 26th, 2011

There’s a place in Benton Harbor called Piggin N Grinnin. It’s supposedly the barbecue place around here. Well today my boss bought us lunch and I got to try it out. I ordered a pretty safe meal : brisket sammich, potato salad, and barbecue baked beans. The barbecue sauce gets a 5 out of 10. [...]

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Thick Tomato Sauce

Posted in daily blah, food on Apr 24th, 2011

So whatcha think? Thick enough?

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A new wine!

Posted in food on Apr 22nd, 2011

One of my friends @ work told me about this wonderful wine. It was an exclusive wine that wasn’t sold @ stores …. until now. It’s so very good!!!

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Yummy!

Posted in food on Apr 16th, 2011

a new breakfast!

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Brand new root beer

Posted in daily blah, food on Apr 15th, 2011

We found a new root beer!!! Darryl was so happy with it he called the company to let them know. The best thing is it’s made with pure cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. It doesn’t get any better than that! Boylan Bottling Co.

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I Made a Southern Meal

Posted in daily blah, food on Feb 27th, 2011

So what if it took me lawd knows how many years, but today was the day. The Menu was: Buttermilk biscuits Collard greens Fried chicken Drink: beer I made the biscuits this morning since Margaret was studying for her test (which she’ll be taking in 20 minutes). I used her big stand mixer for the [...]

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3 New Brews

Posted in daily blah, food on Feb 5th, 2011

Margaret picked out all 3 for me. She said she’d be happy if I liked at least one and fortunately I really like all 3. The Rasputin beer was very tasty. The Korbinian was almost the same as the Rasputin, but it was less hoppy. The Belhaven had an odd taste that I couldn’t my [...]

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Pure goodness

Posted in food on Jan 18th, 2011

This is what good bread should look like And this is what good bread should taste like

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Making dough $$

Posted in daily blah, food, photos on Jan 15th, 2011

Today I really wanted some fresh homemade bread, so I went to my old standby recipe Tassajara yeast bread. I got out all my ingredients, cookbook, mixed, kneaded, shaped, let rise, baked….. I love bread! The mixing, the kneading, the rising, the baking, the eating. Yep, I love everything about bread. Everything except what happens [...]

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