So have you ever wondered why I’m not a fashion blogger?
Exhibit A:
Lately this has been my go-to outfit. Jeans (in this case some Old Navy pair I found in the closet), a Tshirt I bought in Hawaii (they were like 10 for $20 or something), My bling belt I bought in Branson down on the landing, my belt buckle I won showing horses and my boots that I bought the first year we were married.
Who would want to dress like me?
And then the posing. Oh the posing. Someone, please come give me a fashion make-over (but don’t do anything with my belt/buckle!! or boots) and someone please teach me how to pose!
So this weekends plans are to bale hay. Fun, right? We’re doing square bales which means I have to get my muscles on! I went and ran on the treadmill Wednesday at the Y in town and actually enjoyed it. Holy cow, someone slap me because I really think I’m dreaming. Must be that runners high or something you hear so much about.
So anyway I’m out! Have a wonderful weekend! What are your plans??
One of my favorite magazines I get in the mail is Food Network. What can I say, I love to cook. So the night that the May 2013 magazine showed up at my door, I dove right into it to see what new and interesting things I could find. Flipping through every page, reading it’s contents, I made it to page 32 and this is what I saw… (dun dun dun)
Wow, this hit a spot with me. Now… I am absolutely no pro (although I’d love to be) but one of my favorite things to do is to photograph my food at restaurants number 1 and secondly a lot of times I will write a review on my thoughts about that particular restaurant if I haven’t written one previously.
Honestly, that’s great publicity for your restaurant in my opinion. Free advertising, because you’re not paying me anything (yet, call me… lol). The first review I wrote was last June for a Cajun style restaurant in my area. I wrote the review, posted it on their facebook site and they loved it. In fact, the next time I went in and from there on out the owner has remembered me.
So, I pondered what I read in the magazine for a while and then kind of let it be. Since then, I’ve still photographed my food, still written my reviews, but been a little leery at the same time. Now I live in, as I always joke, podunk Missouri, so obviously not NYC or LA, but I still wonder if at some point someone is going to get on to me. I absolutely hate getting in trouble.
This week’s Sunday Night Dinner theme was Grillin’ Night. Bring a side dish. I looked at hubby and said I’d get on TB’s good side and Pokey too. Hubby said he’d make smoked beans. After mulling over that for a while with Earl hubby said he’d make smoked cabbage instead if we’d prefer. We both said yup!
Hubby decided to make both. On the way over to Earl’s house the disposable pans started collapsing and hubby had beans all over his lap. He wound up having to go back home and change.
Zman walked into the kitchen saying he had a loose front tooth. Earl said she could get it out for him. We tried to get before pictures but he wasn’t totally cooperating. I promise we weren’t hurting him.
Earl bribed him by giving him a $5 bill to hold. Said if he’d allow her to pull the tooth, he could keep the money. So they were talking about TB and his head and then I heard the tooth hit. Zman looked at Earl and said do you have it out yet? She’s like yup, it’s out.
And then he was all for getting his picture taken. Awe, he and Moo match now.
Meanwhile outside Mr. T was grilling up the burgers for dinner.
While Mr. T was busy grilling, Uncle B was busy entertaining the kiddo’s with Pokey’s Mule Baby Doll.
Mac was busy entertaining the kiddo’s here who were waiting for their turn with Baby Doll and Uncle B.
Then Monkey had to give up her seat to Miss Tude and she wasn’t real happy about that, especially since her daddy was walking them around.
So Monkey convinced her Uncle Pokey to lead her around by herself after everyone else was off.
TB walked into the kitchen and saw the TB Dip as it is affectionately called round these parts (Mozzarella Cheese Dip). He looked at me and asked if it was TB dip. I grinned and he planted it infront of the dip.
Zebra girl jumped in to help finish off the Mac & Cheese while Earl was helping Zman.
Once Mr. T got the burgers done, it was time to get all the food set out and ready.
Cheese for the plain burgers.
Onions, Lettuce, Tomatoes, & Avocado for burger toppings as well as Mayo, Mustard and Ketchup.
While we were eating dinner, Yogi Bear the movie was on. I’ve never seen this and soooo need to actually sit down and watch it from front to end. I so loved the cartoon.
For dessert we had the choice of Cake (which I got no pictures of), cookies, or Earl’s homemade fudge sauce on top of ice cream. I only ate the fudge and ice cream because wow was it good. Definitely what I needed.
After dinner Hubby and Pokey went out to start a fire. (side note, we actually hit and broke a record low Sunday night that was set back in the 1940’s)
The we all migrated outside. I came out a bit after everyone else and came in to the middle of Scooter getting in trouble with Faye & Louise because he was poking fun at them running a 5K. So now it’s on… they’re running a 5K together just to prove to Scooter and now Mr. T that it’ll be done.
Baby Doll was out in the pasture looking at all of us wishing that the kiddos would come ride her again.
The puppies pooped out. Usually when one naps, they all nap.
But then Pokey got their attention by announcing dinner time to them. The cat even joined in to help them clean up their food.
Ok, so one of my favorite side dishes that hubby does in the smoker is his smoked cabbage. It’s super simple, super affordable, and super yummy.
1 head of cabbage. Rough chop it up and get it off of the root. (Is that what it’s called, you know the core, the center, that hard thing you don’t eat)
Liberal with the pepper. Probably 1/8-1/4 of a cup. (more…)
If there’s one thing my husband likes to do, it’s using his smoker. When we first started dating I heard all about it, and I still do. Not complaining because he’s good at it! Just saying, that’s one of his specialties. Sadly, one of his favorite things to make is smoked beans. I don’t like beans and yes I’ve tried his. They taste like beans to me, although they do have a good smoked flavor, I’m just not quite to the point of saying I like smoked beans. The good news is though, everyone else loves his smoked beans! Does that mean I just have no taste? I dunno, you decide :).
So here’s how he does his magic.
He generally starts with 4 cans of Pork and Beans
Next, he covers it in bar-b-q sauce. He just eyeballs it… (more…)
