Every year I make this fruit cake and I think every year, I say "next year, I'm doubling the recipe". I was telling Vince that I'm going to double it next year, cut it into small cubes and freeze dry it. What do you think about little crunchy fruit cake bites during the holidays? I think it would be great. I was too lazy to dig out matching pans so I grabbed the first ones I ...
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Gumbo For Dinner
The gumbo turned out delicious! It has shrimp, crab and crawfish. Vince is kinda picky about crawfish and sometimes he thinks they taste fishy. Crawfish! To be sure they weren't going to be too fishy, I seasoned them and kinda fried them in butter and let Vince taste them. He approved so I was able to add them to the gumbo. I've used all my home grown, home canned okra so I ...
Almost Ready to Knit
This morning I asked Vince if he would mind if we have cereal for breakfast. I told him I have to bake the fruit cakes, get the pork butt in the smoker and make gumbo and if I could leave off cooking breakfast, that would be really nice. He said "I'll cook!" I don't think he's ever fixed breakfast (or lunch or dinner). He just isn't a cook and for the most part, he'd rather have a store bought ...
Chicken & Waffles
Yesterday I finally got around to making the chicken & waffles for lunch. Yes, I cooked two big meals in one day. That's totally out of character for me these days. It was really good and the best part . . leftover fried chicken! Just enough for another meal if I get a bit creative What I'm going to do is cut these up into cubes, heat them up in the air fryer. I'll bake two ...
Louisiana Baked Beans
Every time I make this recipe for Louisiana Baked Beans, Vince goes on and on about how good they are and how I should make them more often. I've added a Texas flair because I now add jalapeno peppers. I mix in part of a jalapeno pepper and then I sprinkle the other part of it on top. I've become such a lazy cook. I brown the sausage in the skillet, then toss in the onions, bell pepper ...
Freeze Dried Ice Cream
I wasn't going to do it. Everyone else who has a freeze dryer seems to be addicted to freeze dried ice cream but I'm better than that. I'm using my freeze dryer for more important things, definitely not . . ice cream. But then one day, we could no longer find Blue Bell's Christmas Cookie ice cream. We were so sad . . heartbroken really! What' Christmas without Blue Bell's Christmas Cookie ice ...
