July 2010

Chocolate Cake

July 31, 2010

I do not like chocolate and I do not like coffee.  This cake has both and I love it.  It’s the most requested cake around here and I love it when someone requests it because if I just make it out of the clear blue, then I’ll have to listen to Vince say “You always [...]

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Basil Mountain

July 31, 2010

Friday morning I got up all primed to spend the day sewing. Vince was out of town.  Chad was working.  About 7:30 I had finished my morning chores.  The oil change guy was going to be here at 8 to get my car so I figured . . no need to go downstairs and start [...]

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Out of the Dehydrator

July 31, 2010

This time of year, the dehydrator is rarely empty.  In a couple of months, it will sit idle til Chad wants a batch of jerky.  This morning I emptied out chili peppers, basil and cherry tomatoes. The basil went into the blender. Where it was ground down to almost nothing. That was put through a [...]

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How To Impress Your Wife

July 31, 2010

Wives, you might want to call your husbands and let them read this.  Then you can all sit down together and feel sorry for me. Our anniversary is tomorrow.  I mentioned earlier that we usually don’t get each other gifts for birthdays, anniversary, Christmas . . we pretty much get what we need when we [...]

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Chad Cooked Dinner

July 30, 2010

Chad loves Thai and Indian food but he likes it way hotter than I can eat it.  He’s had a recipe he’s been wanting to try so he tried it and I think we’ll be requesting it again. I think he called it Thai Shrimp Curry served over Forbidden Black Rice.  Don’t ask me why [...]

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So Grape!

July 30, 2010

At the Amish store last weekend, they had grapes. They weren’t so pretty so I wasn’t going to get any but the store guy told me to taste them so I tasted one and Vince tasted one and we were both standing there wiping drool from our chins.  They were so good!  The seem to [...]

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