The party was BYOC--bring your own camel.  So, I brought my own camel, parked him where I could find him when I needed him, and made the rounds before returning to collect him.  Someone else was bar-b-que-ing my camel!  When it was noticed that said person was receiving the hairy eyeball for man-handling my camel the response was, "Oh, there's my ( Read more... )

Wow.  It was hard to miss Oldenfeld's Harvest this weekend, but I know I made the right decision in the long run.  This is one situation where it would have nice to be able to be in two places at one time (but then I would have risked being nowhere at all ( Read more... )

We have no more monthly automobile payments.  Slowly but surely progress is being made.  Is that the faint glimmer of a light I see far down at the end of the tunnel?  Hope it isn't a train.....

So, how many blogs can one busy person juggle?????  I already have a (mostly) healthy cooking blog in progress.  If you haven't seen it, you can find it here:  http://mothermairiskitchen.wordpress.com/

I will shortly be starting another that will cover mostly pre-1600 Italian cooking.  I've got a few recipes that I have already worked on, just need ( Read more... )

Sometimes it is hard to believe that we have been playing this game for eleven years. I know that there are so many of you out there who have been at this much longer than we have, but I'm still amazed sometimes at where we started, and where we are now. It is very humbling most day ( Read more... )

Candied Bacon Martini

Total time: 35 minutes

Servings: 4

Note: The candied bacon recipe is adapted from "The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations From Two Great American Cooks" by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock.

Candied bacon

8 slices smoked bacon

1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar

Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed ( Read more... )

I have regained the sanctity of my domain.....

We headed south bright and early Friday morning to visit Phillipe and Julianna for the 4th of July weekend. We knew it was going to be a wild ride, but.....WOW ( Read more... )

Just another place I'm posting healthy eating stuff. I need to start re-posting some of it to my LJ food blog (mother_mairi): http://mothermairiskitchen.wordpress.com/

Come on over and see what's cooking.

I am wiped. Totally. Mentally and physically burned to a crisp ( Read more... )