On the left side of the sanity bell curve
I made some amazing Greek-style yogurt. You should too. Here’s how. Stuff you need: Milk – I used a half gallon of 2%. 1 cup plain store bought yogurt with live and active cultures [most yogurt is going to fit the bill]. A slow cooker aka a Crockpot. A beach towel. A thermometer. Cheese cloth/paper… Continue reading Homemade Greek-Style Crockpot Yogurt
Summer might be on its way out but there’s still plenty of time for summer parties and spending time with friends. Gin may not be for everyone but it’s a personal favorite of mine and an underutilized spirit at casual get-togethers. Your friends are sure to be impressed by these three pretty cocktails and you… Continue reading 3 Unique Summer Gin Cocktails
I am so tired of coming up with what to make for dinner every night so we’ve gone back to–yet again–Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking: A Full Year of Simple, Menus and Easy Recipes and let me tell you, that’s not a bad thing. For an entire year, you have a day-by-day recipe book complete with… Continue reading Tarrogon and Washing My Mouth Out With Soap
Stirrings Liqueurs sent me these five cocktails for you to try this Memorial Day weekend. Thought you might like something different than what you usually drink so here’s some new stuff to keep you from being bored and the folks at your party will be impressed with your ingenuity. Or you could just drink them… Continue reading Memorial Day Cocktails Perfect for All of Your Parties
I would love to be able to show you a picture of the bread I baked yesterday but for one thing, the bread is all gone. For another, the bread ended up looking rather homely due to the fact I didn’t take into account the amount of time required to do the recipe properly. Oops.… Continue reading Dan Lepard’s Starter and a No-Knead Sourdough Bread
We’re starting back eating from the diabetic cookbook I got a coon’s age ago and last night’s meal was Smokin’ Turkey Sandwiches. What made the sandwich a better than normal sandwich was the bread was a french-style bread that was toasted and a spicy mayo–hence the name of the sandwich. Since I’ve never been known… Continue reading Best Spicy Mayo EVER
The first time I saw a jar of oil covered sun dried tomatoes, I knew something was very, very wrong. Those weren’t tomatoes! Those things looked like a tomato and a raisin had produced some sort of unnatural baby. And then I tried one. I quickly converted to the side of tomato raisin babies. Unfortunately,… Continue reading Step By Step Easy Sun Dried Tomatoes Recipe
Yesterday was one of those days that starts out great and goes downhill from there. Cara started gymnastics last week–refer to the video below. Since she missed her first class because of the tornadoes, she had a make-up day yesterday. Cara was super excited and was all jumping around and stuff. Quite honestly, 1300 couldn’t come… Continue reading A Foul Fowl: Roasted Chicken with Lemon Fingerling Potatoes
I said yesterday I’d give you the recipe for the Easter Egg Bread I made so here ya go. I’ve had this recipe kicking around for a while but I already had a braided bread that I make a lot so I figured I didn’t need another one. I was so wrong. Trust me. Yum.… Continue reading Braided Easter Egg Bread Recipe
The Easter Bunny grabbed me up and spirited me away to his burrow in Candy Land and he kept calling me Alice which freaked me out a bit but anyway, THAT’S where I’ve been. And now I have very odd mental images floating around in my head. Wonderful. And by “wonderful,” clearing I mean “damn.”… Continue reading Kidnapped By the Easter Bunny and Easter Egg Bread
OK. Maybe YOU’RE not dirty but your house is. Your clothes are getting ratty. You don’t know the meaning of pinch or poach. And you didn’t realize any of these horrors until you read Heather Solos’s book, Home-Ec 101: Skills for Everyday Living–titled after her wildly popular website. Well now you think you shouldn’t read… Continue reading Buy Heather Solos’s Home-Ec 101 Because You’re Dirty
Right at this moment, I’m watching Season 4, Ep. 3 of Wire in the Blood. If you haven’t watched it, I highly suggest it. Netflix has it streaming. I’m also taking a break from some geek work I’m doing so I’m in a bit of a rush to remind you of some stuff I think… Continue reading Important Stuff, Yo
