Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

15 June 2012

TGIF!

I love the weekends!
don't you?

I didn't always...
once, many moons ago,
I had to work almost every weekend.

It was a good job, 
some even considered it a 
"dream job"...
but it took me away from
those that I loved the most...

So,
it had to go...
I grew up and no longer wanted 
the "good life" that took me to 
exotic places...

I wanted to enjoy 
the very special
"quiet moments"

a popsicle with my son...
my dog licking my feet...
the sun warming my face....
my father's stories...
my mother's meatloaf....
laughter with my girlfriends...
all of it could not wait 
not one more minute
without me.....

So,
enjoy where you are planted....












Take care of YOU this weekend!.....
smiles

19 March 2011

How many of you make coffee in your dishwasher?

I don't, personally...
but apparently there is precedent for this odd behavior.
Otherwise, why would the manufacturer of my 
coffeemaker place these instructions right inside the top,
for everyone to see as they fill the reservoir with water?


"Not intended for use in dishwasher"

Really?

I don't know about you but I have never even thought about 
putting this thing in the dishwasher to make coffee...
Perhaps 
they are saying that you shouldn't try to clean it in a dishwasher...
But that's not what it says...
right?

Do you suppose that the same guy who answers the phone when 
you call with a technical question regarding your PC.....
moonlights as a coffeemaker instruction writer?
and that he felt particularly inclined to let you know
that this particular coffeemaker can't do the 
hokey pokey in the dishwasher?

What was Cuisinart thinking?
Is this really the depth to which we have sunk?
Maybe they better let us know that this 
coffeemaker doesn't DO dishes either.....



Whew!
That soapbox calls to me, you know!

Well 
on to better things...


I had my posse over for Friday Food night yesterday!
We love mac and cheese,
especially with these fat little boogers...


And a béchamel sauce to get the cheese all smooth and gooey...


And tons of several types of cheeses...


and of course, salt and pepper,
but the Barefoot Contessa turned me onto 
adding bacon!
who  doesn't like bacon??


And, truth be known,
this was turkey bacon, just as a nod to our ever expanding
waistlines....


One dear friend came over early,
and brought the tulips!
They look pinkish here,
but they were actually lavender and luscious...



I had choices for entertainment...
but we opted for one that is hidden under the pile...
we watched
"UP!"


I hope you know how special this little film is...
most of us are mothers of "20-somethings"
and so we hadn't had the occasion to take out little ones to this movie!
We loved it.


I hope your day is splendid!
smiles...





03 March 2011

Busy as a Bee!....

Winter Slaw is the best!


and the easiest, when you have one of these..


YUM!


Then there is that expensive "chillin" box that we bought for 
the kitchen re-model


"cabinet depth, stainless steel, side by side"


PAIN IN THE NECK!


We have had it "fixed" twice...


and still, the little door that allows ice to be dispensed


doesn't close well enough to keep the ice from becoming a solid mass...


So....we struggle to get the ice handler out to defrost it...


chop the ice off the inside mechanism...


run cool water over the ice handler/boxie thingy


make sure that the button works again..


put a piece of plastic down to cover the floor...


and together we work on fixing the ice maker....
DO NOT BUY THIS KITCHENAID!


Ah....on to better things...


a gift of hen eggs from a farmer friend...


a completed apron for a friend of mine...


who has taken up cake decorating 
(maybe she will make me one!)


An opportunity to give a sweet young couple a family portrait...


My first Apple Tart...


Yes, it is not my recipe, but "her's"


A rose from my sweetie


A lovely couch that I found at a used stuff store...


clean it up...and I know right where to put it...


In my office!


hangin out with Not Yo Momma...


Just below the flower posters I bought years ago from 
Martha...


Inspired me to clean the ol' place up...


find a place for everything...


and everything in it's place...


dust it off..


organize...


under the watchful eye of my sweetie...






And Wha-Laa! 
I feel like a new person...
amazing how good being busy feels...
smiles