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Happy Holidays

Rock Star — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:25:19 +0000

If you have a big family, I suspect you know all too well the stress of hosting a big family gathering. Whether it is a sit down dinner for everyone or a buffet or a pot luck, getting ready to feed a large crowd takes a lot of planning and energy.Time to roll up our sleeves and get cooking.

We hope to have a few of the closer family members stop by this afternoon and then we’ll host another get-together on New Year’s Day for the other family members who can’t make it here on Christmas Day.

Here’s hoping our holidays are warm and bright. Merry Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving

Rock Star — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:21:40 +0000

Best wishes to you and your family for a wonderful day of feasting and thankfulness. Maybe a parade inthe morning and some football in the afternoon would be nice, too. Or get up extremely early and go deer hunting. Whichever way you choose to take advantage of the holiday, I hope it works out well for you and that you enjoy your day.

Montréal Restaurant guide

Rock Star — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:59:19 +0000

My cousin sent me an email today telling me that he is going to be going to Montreal Canada later this month. He is planning on spending two weeks there on business, and he was very excited about the prospect. He loves to travel, and loves checking out new restaurants. I told him to check out the new Restaurant Montréal website to find the restaurants he might be interested in going to while he is in the Montreal area. I was just looking at their website myself and was quite impressed with how many restaurants are listed. I was especially impressed that you could use a search wizard to help you sort through the types of cuisine, and the price level you would be willing to pay.

Tainted milk in China

Rock Star — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:39:15 +0000

I was so surprised to read in the Time.com website that China’s milk problem has expanded to beyond baby formula to the general milk supply! The chemical melamine, which causes kidney stones and kidney failure has been found in the milk of the three largest milk companies in China! I sure hope that the investigations are successful and the guilty parties spend the rest of their lives in jail!

What is WRONG with those people?

Rock Star — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:47:38 +0000

I was reading an article on the BBC.co.uk website that there is a big scandal regarding a company called the Sanlu Group selling tainted milk powder. The milk powder was tainted with a chemical called melamine, and has made many Chinese babies ill. This melamine is the same chemical that was found in pet food last year that killed thousands of pets! Melamine is linked to kidney failure, which is generally fatal. Nineteen people have been arrested in this new scandal; I hope that they are thrown into jail for the rest of their lives! This is a horrible thing to do – putting this kind of toxic chemical into the food supply!

Month of birthdays

Rock Star — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:27:24 +0000

This is a month full of birthdays for our family. It seems that every time I turn around someone else’s birthday is coming up! My mother, my father, my brother all have birthdays! And several cousins and a couple of aunts too! So we are going to be planning a big family birthday celebration dinner later in the month to celebrate all of our birthdays! It will be a big event where everyone brings food to contribute to the meal, and presents will be exchanged. It almost feels like Christmas, with warm weather instead of cold weather!

Cool appliance

Rock Star — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:15:52 +0000

I was watching a television show about cool kitchen appliances that will be coming out in the near future. One appliance that I saw that I really liked a lot (and would love to have) is a refrigerator that has a built in microwave oven into it. You can put your dinner in the microwave part of it in the morning before you go to work and set the timer. The refrigerator keeps the food cold and when the timer goes off the microwave starts, cooking the dinner! This is way cool! I can’t wait for this product to come out mainstream!

Chicken cordon bleu

Rock Star — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:53:53 +0000

Tonight I decided to cook something special for dinner I’d never tried before. I cooked chicken cordon bleu, rice, peas, gravy, and dinner rolls. We had company for dinner, so it was really nice to have something special like that turn out so good! I’m getting to be a pretty good cook, if I say so myself! I think cooking is actually quite a bit of fun, if you can get people to eat what you cook without acting like you’re trying to kill them!

Uncle to open new burger joint

Rock Star — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:29:32 +0000

My uncle stopped by the other night to tell us about is newest venture, he is buying a franchise called Five Guys and is going to sell hamburgers and fries. I love their food and told him I would Probably be one of his best customers. He told me to tell all my friends and come on down when he is open, He even offered me a job, but I said no I was to busy.

Outdoor kitchen cabinets

Rock Star — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:17:09 +0000

We have been talking about installing an outdoor kitchen in the back yard, near the swimming pool. I think that would be a really cool thing to do! They have been looking at the Werever products on the Internet. They are made of a special marine grade polymer material that does not warp, rust, chip, crack, or peel. It has a lifetime warranty and looks gorgeous! These weatherproof cabinets are made to be kept outside all year round. They come in several different styles and colors, too, so you have a lot of flexibility in designing the outdoor kitchen of your dreams!

New microwave oven

Rock Star — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:34:54 +0000

I was cooking dinner the other night. The meal was half cooked and I went to check it. As I opened the microwave, which happens to be one of my favorite tools for cooking, I discovered that the dish was still cold! I checked all of my settings on the microwave because sometimes I have the microwave set on defrost and I don’t always remember to turn it to cook. This was not the case. The microwave setting was on “high” but the food was not getting hot. I reset the microwave again, just to make sure that I hadn’t made a mistake and left it for another fifteen minutes. I could hear the microwave humming, and I went back to doing something else. Well, the timer went off, I went to the microwave, opened it up, took out the meal, it was still cold! I was very upset! I was HUNGRY! I didn’t have time for this! I immediately pulled a pan out of the cupboard, put the meal on the stove and poured some water in it, dropped in a couple of hot dogs and made a mental note to go to Wal-Mart in the morning and buy a new microwave!

Saucy chicken

Rock Star — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:35:50 +0000

My mother asked me to cook supper tonight, she wasn’t feeling very well. I asked her what she wanted me to cook and she said “whatever.” So I know she REALLY wasn’t feeling well. So I scrounged around the kitchen to see what I could come up with. Something a little bit different than what we eat. I felt like experimenting. So I found some skinless chicken breasts in the refrigerator that had a “use by” date of tomorrow, so I decided to pull them out and use them.

Then I went to the pantry and was looking around. I found a can of Healthy Request Cream of Chicken soup, and a can of Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom soup. I pulled them out. I rinsed off the chicken and cut it into strips and put them in a covered casserole dish. Then I opened the cans of soup and poured them over the chicken, put the lid on and cooked it at 350 for a half hour. While that was cooking I cooked up some minute rice, some dinner rolls and some veggies and we had a great meal! I’ll have to cook that again sometime! Definitely put that in my recipe box!

The extreme stupidity of people just bothers me so much!

Rock Star — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:42:11 +0000

I was reading an article on msnbc.nbc.com about a woman who planted a dead laboratory rat in her meal at an upscale restaurant in Grand Chute MI last April and then claimed that it came in her meal. She demanded that the restaurant pay her $500,000 to “keep quiet.” She said if she wasn’t paid, she would alert the media.

Well, this woman was pretty stupid because the rat she planted in her food was a white rat. And it had been microwaved. A SMART person would know that if you were to “find” a rat in a restaurant meal it would be the “found in the wild” color of rats – a brownish gray/black. And the restaurant doesn’t cook with microwaves, so it was obviously dead when it was added to the plate.

So, the woman has been arrested and charged with extortion, disorderly conduct, and resisting an officer. What a LOSER!

Tomato warning lifted

Rock Star — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:36:08 +0000

I heard on the news that the salmonella warning on tomatoes has been lifted now, but that the warning is now applying to some hot peppers. I haven’t had to cut back on my tomatoes at all, we’ve been eating them out of our garden for the past couple of weeks – there is nothing as yummy as your very own home grown tomatoes! I’m glad that the warning has been lifted though, it is a shame that so many people have gotten sick from tainted food lately. I think that something needs to be done to crack down on these types of things, more than public warnings, something concrete. I’d like to hear more about what is happening to prevent this type of thing from happening again.

Microwave popcorn

Rock Star — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:16:06 +0000

It was over a year ago I think that the news stories were talking about how the butter flavored microwave popcorn can give you lung cancer. I was just remembering the story because I’m a little bit hungry and was thinking about popping a bag of microwave popcorn! I thought I’d research it a little bit first, and it seems that the whole scare is because the factory workers were having respiratory problems due to constant exposure to high levels of a chemical found in that type of popcorn. To the best of my knowledge there is no evidence of harm from popping a bag at home once a month or so, although I did find one article that said a man suffered lung damage from popping microwave popcorn several times a day for several years.