Look at who I ran into at the neighborhood Super Bowl party, Zoe, and Mia (aka Zobo and Meester), my fave girls in town. I think they are future cheerleaders. Look at Zoe's upswept hair, and long sleeve half jacket, um fabulous!

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I got the Jay Lenos's Garage car care kit. I'm loving it, the car now has that wet look ( Read more... )

The other half of the Boston Butt we got 50% off at Ralph's weeks ago got thawed out, and I deboned it. Then I trussed it up, and slathered it with all the leftover mustard from my fridge, French's Yellow, Country Style, and regular Dijon. I then skewered it onto the spit rod, and placed it in our vintage Sears Kenmore rotisserie. 2 hours on medium ( Read more... )

My fave recipe for Beef Stroganoff is a microwave recipe my mom used all the time. It comes from a 1970's Sharp Carousel Microwave Cookbook. My Amana Radar Range is twice as powerful as the zappers sold in the 1970's, so I had to adjust the cooking time using a chart I found online ( Read more... )

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So how did I spend my day yesterday? May I do some name dropping ( Read more... )

I decided to turn on the old Silverstone record player we have. It doesn't really work, but thought if I left it on a while....well. It started playing my 45's I had stacked on it. Then I put on a long playing album by Annette, "Hawaiiannette". At first she sounded like Count Basie, and sang the song really slow. I left it alone. Before long she ( Read more... )

Part of my whacky life...so far ( Read more... )

Charger Plates ( Read more... )

I had 2 bunches of celery left over from goodness knows when...but still firm. Using the the reprinted version of the 1950 Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, I made Cream Of Celery in our Pyrex Flameware double boiler, circa 1953 ( Read more... )

The Dumpling across the street was our final destination after dinner here at our place ( Read more... )