Enjoying Some Spaghetti

Since I have been staying at home I have gotten back into cooking. Something I love to do, but really didn't have the time to do it before. One of the first things I made was spaghetti, and from the looks of these pictures I think Boll Weevil approves. I hope to try more new recipes in the future. Who knows what kind of cooking adventures I have up my sleeve.

Crock pot whole fryer

A Year of Slow Cooking has a lot of wonderful recipes and I tried one the other night. I have to tell you that this smelled wonderful, but the taste was little to lemony for Bo and I.

It was the most moist chicken you could have ever eaten. It was fell apart when I removed it from the crock pot.

This is one of the only creative things I have done this week.

Fresh Peaches

On Saturday Bo and I went to one of the local farmers markets. They had great looking produce. We ended up buying tomatoes and peaches.

Tonight I made peach crisp. It was great especially warm out of the oven with ice cream on top. Bo wants to eat some tomorrow for breakfast.
These are some of the peaches I used. Don't they look great?

Roasted Peanuts

Okay, I know that you are probably tired of hearing about peanuts. So I promise that this is my last post about them for a while.

This year at the parade we picked up a ton of green peanuts. I mean more than we could really carry, and we really didn't know what to do with them. We all ate a few at the parade, but I mean I had 2 and half quart size bags of peanuts that I didn't want to be put in the trash.

So, Bo roasted them for me. We were really not sure if it was going to work, but it did. He put them in the oven at 350 for 40 min., turning them often. They came out great! After he shelled and pealed them we had 3/4 of a pound of FREE roasted peanuts. You just can't beat that. Especially since I have several recipes to use them in this holiday season.

Firecracker Shrimp

Okay, so I don't usually tell you about a meal that we made from a box of frozen food, but this firecracker shrimp was so good I just had had to tell you about. It is made by Seapak, but is very comparable to Bang Bang shrimp by Bone Fish. I will definitely buy these firecracker shrimp they are a lot cheaper than going to Bone fish, but give me the flavor I'm looking for. Next time I have them I will put them on top of lettuce just like pictured on the box. In no way was I compensated for this post.

Friday Night Baking

Blueberry Maple Breakfast Bake

Tomato Bacon Pie

Blueberry Buckle

Homemade Salsa

My attempt at making salsa. It doesn't taste exactly like I wanted it to, but what should I expect I combined several recipes into one. I think I'm missing something. The tomatoes and peppers came from our garden. If you have any salsa recipe ideas I would love to hear them. I was really happy with the texture the taste is just off a bit.

One Delicious Meal!

Saturday Bo and I went to visit my parents house to visit and to help them clean out a storage building. As a reward for helping my mom made me Chicken Corn Soup. It was wonderful. My brother, sister-in-law, and Bo can eat it, but don't really like it. I love it and was really really hungry for it. My mom told my brother that the next time I come to visit he gets to pick the meal. Brother was quick to say he wanted Italian Meatloaf.

My mom also made Strawberry Pie. We all loved this. I think everyone had at least two helpings. My mom is an excellent cook. I'm so glad growing up my parents made us eat dinner at the table almost every night as a family.

The pie waiting to be eaten. Mom actually made three of these pies on Friday night. She stayed up until Midnight to finish them. THANKS! Mom I loved them.

Microwave Meatloaf

I'm a good cook, my mother-in-law is a good cook, but when I try to make her recipes I'm not a good cook.

Shortly after Bo and I got married my mother-in-law gave me a binder full of family recipes. Sometimes Bo will look threw it and picks out different items he would like me to make. This week he pick microwave meatloaf. Apparently, I did several things wrong because not only was it burnt it was also extremely salty. I plan to try this again soon. I'll post another picture when it turns out right.

Feeling Better

I am feeling much better. I appreciate all of you asking. I still don't have all of my energy back, but I'm getting there.

During one of my burst of energy I started to refold my fabric. This is all the farther I've gotten, but I hope to work on my stash over the weekend.

My nephew had his 2nd birthday party this past weekend. It was a farm theme. I just loved his cake. It was as good as it looks. My brother's assistant made it. She actually has a cake business on the side.

Nephew was one lucky kid to actually have ponies at his party. He loved riding them and petting them. We had so much fun.

Holiday Bakeoff

Bo and I spent the day baking. We filled up our dining room table with cookies and we weren't even done. We made Tole house Chocolate Chip, Sugar, Peanut butter with a Kiss, Snickerdoodles, and Butterscotch and Oatmeal. We hope to pass most of them out tomorrow and Tuesday.

Bo was a huge help. I mixed the batter and he would take them in and out of the oven. I couldn't have do without him.

Stopage of Time

Apparently, I thought that I could stop time. Bo and I are leaving for Disney World on Friday and I haven't even started to pack. Some how I got distracted from my plan to start packing and doing laundry to get ready. I went shopping for three hours tonight after work instead. You know those last minute stuff for a trip. Then I had to make sticky buns for my boss' b-day party tomorrow.

I really wanted to make a mickey mouse scarf, hat, and gloves to take with me on my trip. I can't stop time and I can't make this before I go. I'm sure I'll have fun anyway.

Cooking for Thanksgiving

Bo and I both have great parents and we love to spend time with them. Our families Thanksgiving day festivities are at different times so we are able to spend time with both sets. We will head to Bo's family farm to fish, ride 4wheelers, hit golf balls, shoot skeet, and EAT. There is all kinds of good food. Then we will head to my families house which is much more low key event and eat some more. Man, my mom makes the best baked corn, and she only makes three times a year Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. I look forward to it each time she makes it.

I plan to make for Thanksgiving sticky buns, pumpkin cake, and pumpkin trail mix.

I put the loafs of bread for the sticky buns in the oven to thaw and rise. When I started to make my cake I preheated the oven and forgot the loafs were in the oven rising. This is what I found when I went to put my cake in the oven.
Needless to say I had to go buy some more frozen bread loafs and I will have to make these in the morning. I did finish my cake and I also made some pumpkin butter. Bo questioned me to see if I was going to try and use every dish in the house. Because he nicely did the dishes while I cooked.

This is a picture of my Thanksgiving mix. I found this recipe several years ago in a Pillsbury cookbook. It is peanuts, candy corn and apple cinnamon cheerios. It is so tasty.

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Opening Night at the Fair

Last night, Bo and I went to the Alabama National Fair and started our yearly participation in the Creative Living Center events. Which we won't be able to participate in as many events as in years past.

Bo made his Sweet BBQ Frog Legs for the President's Choice Cooking Contest. This year the president choice was "How do you like your Wild game?" Most of the other contestants cooked venison, but not Bo he had to think outside the box. He ended up not winning, but he did get interviewed by the paper and everyone wanted to try his frog legs so in the end if there would have been a popularity contest I think he would have won. There is always next year.

This quilt was one of my favorites.