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Blackberry Crisp...YUM!

7/26/2014

Hello,
Double Crust Marion Blackberry Crisp!
You is pretty!

I'm no baker,
(actually I abhor baking, mainly because I'm really, really TERRIBLE at it)
but this recipe looked easy enough.
And it was!
I didn't even have to use any colorful language whatsoever.

This dessert is really more like a bar than an actual crisp by the way.

I had to look up what a Marion berry really was...

Well, it's a BLACKBERRY!

A blackberry that is a cross between a Chehalem blackberry and an Ollalie blackberry. It was bred and discovered, so to speak, in Oregon around 1945 by the USDA. Weird, huh!

I was actually shocked at how juicy these berries are!

Okay, so this recipe is from an awesome website called Reluctant Entertainer.
Her recipes are always so spot on, typically easy and always fresh and tasty.

This is the brand of preserves
I used...

it's local and I found it right on the shelf in my grocery store.

And the ingredients don't creep me out!

I'm trying to be better at using organic or healthier options of food items, where the ingredient list
is short.

Anhoo, these are the fixins for this fine Marion Blackberry Crisp/Bar.
Very few ingredients, and it's mainly things you already have in your pantry.

First of all,
melt the three sticks of butter.

Yes, that is correct.
Three sticks.

Then mix the dry ingredients together, easy! Oats, flour, sugar, salt and baking soda!
Add the melted butter!
Stir!

Now press all that goodness into the bottom of a greased pan.

DON'T STOP THERE!!!
Pour on those Marion Blackberry preserves!!

Now
let's take a closer look at this
blackberry lusciousness!

Crumble the remaining oat mixture on top and bake for 25-30 mins.

Don't
over bake.

I think I did and that's why it was a little dry...

Fresh out of the oven....

Oh
these Marion berries are so delicious.

But!!!!!
You will need some ice cream with this crisp/bars.
They may come out just a tad dry and the ice cream just sort of tied up all the flavors in a nice little sweet berry package.

Okay, click here to go to the
Reluctant Entertainer website
where you can then print off this tasty recipe....

The ingredients are so simple:
Flour
Oatmeal
Sugar
Salt
Baking soda
Butter
Marionberry preserves

OHOHOH! I froze these...
they freeze very well by the way.

Okay, that's all the food goodness I have
for today!

We did have a rainbow the other evening,
after only a few drops of rain.

Notice the tree in the picture below....
The reason the tree looks so weird is because the metal roof to the business pole building sheered off the left half of that tree.
The roof went sailing through the air during a freak 2012 tornado/straight line wind event, and flew right between those trees.

Yup, imagine a huge metal roof swirling up in the air to it's final destination.
Which in our case, just happened to be Marvin Miller's bean field.

That metal roof looked like a freaky alien spaceship hovering above that bean field for two months!
We had to wait until the beans where harvested to have the roof pulled out.

Okay,
I leave you with this gorgeous picture of open shelving in someone's kitchen.
I salivate over this picture.

Crap, I forgot the source for this photo, sorry.

Believe it or not,
I used to HAVE enough sets of dishes
and serveware, I could have EASILY filled that cupboard up, plus more!!!
Oh how I loved me the dishes. Loved!

And now this is the extent of my dishes......

Uh, yeah.

Rivals that cupboard from up above,
dontcha think??

HA!

But it's easy to clean and that's what I like...
doing the absolute minimum of cleaning as humanely possible without triggering trichinosis or cholera or starting a new potato famine or something.

Makes ya wanna eat at my house, huh!! :):):)

Okey dokey!!
That's all I have for today!!!
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Hope you have a relaxing weekend
and
we'll talk at ya soon!

Angie Went Jogging But Became Shockingly Distracted By Cute Old Houses, An Alley, and a Fairy Garden...Duh, Who Wouldn't!

7/19/2014

Tim and I spent a super fun weekend up in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

At a festival full of live music, artists, vendors, food,
and a ton of cute little shops.

Early Saturday morning,
I put on my running shoes
and left Tim's sister's house for a quick, little jog/walk.

Tim's sister Kim and her husband Steve always host us
when we visit for festivals.

This is Kim and Steve's house.
Their house is in THE quaintest historic neighborhood
in Cedarburg.

I started on my walk/jog
but I didn't get
too far...
just to the next house over....

...that's when I realized,

oh my gosh,

there's a ton of cute houses with cute gardens and cute fences in this neighborhood, oh my!

So I jaunted back to Kim's house real quick, grabbed my camera,
and started snapping pictures of houses in the early morning light on my walk.
All these old houses are literally within a
three block radius of Tim's sister's house.

Let's start with a cutie little naturalist house.....

OH,
HOW I
DIG ON THOSE
RED
HOUSE NUMBERS!!!
Quirky,
yet not
over-the-top
for this historic neighborhood.

So many of these houses in this neighborhood have front porches and/or side porches.

Look at this cutie-patootie house!
And the little red bike in the grass.

I am not a mint green girl, but this was just way too sweet....you rarely see mint green anymore...

Also, it seems like everyone had their flag displayed.
We were visiting the last week of June.

I really love the neatly trimmed bushes out front.

And how sidewalks
wind
around houses to the back.

Within a minute or two of my walking adventure,

I came across this colorful fence line.

Now how cute and colorful is this???

The next house
was a classic white,

with contrasting black shutters and yet again...
a great front porch.

This is the front of that house.
I think it may have been converted into apartments.

I briskly walked up to the next house,
and noticed an easy, organic landscaping style....

And this was the home above the landscaped stonework!!
Of course I about plunked over, cause I loved this gray house with
crisp white trim and purple steps sooooo much!

The porch!
The front door!
The urns!

Those whimsical blue petunias.

The symmetry of it all!!

I saw this barn converted to garage,
and this flat roofed garage.

All I wanted to do was peek in those garage windows and then walk up that long driveway to that barn.

But I didn't.

The fretwork and detail are gorgeous
on these houses.

This next house might be a rental, there's several porches and the lawn wasn't as tidy as some. I loved it though!!!

This is the side of the same house.

Bet at one time,
this house was meticulous and a real stunner.

There were cute meandering sidewalks all around the yard.

In back of the property
was the back yard to a cute little brick house with a sweet patio, flag and a star.

Oh, be still my heart,
the next house was a gorgeous
cornflower blue.

The mass of lilies out front by the sidewalk will be super stunning when blooming.

This was just some pretty, simple ground cover I noticed while walking....

Yet another cutie-patootie house in the neighborhood...

I really liked the easy nature of this little flower garden...

...and the unassuming, relaxing porch.

This house and carriage barn has been sandblasted and looks close to getting a complete makeup and lipstick overhaul.

I like how they have a couple hanging plants on the porch, just to let folks know the house is not in ill repair, it's just getting primed for a paint job.

This is the side porch...this house is going to be a stunner when finished.

Now this next house, I totally dug on the symmetry of
the walkway. How cute are those shrubs!

This grand painted lady
stands proud...

The next house over from the painted lady had these pots just casually placed by a driveway.

And we have yet another cool gray and purple house....

Look at the glass work above the door!
I also love those planters and that pinwheel just casually stuck in the pot.

Can you see the basket with purple petunias hanging from the tree branch?

Even the smallest, most quaintest of houses in this neighborhood
have interesting features, like the exterior native stone and brick.

I like the contrast
bricks here.

The neatness and tidiness of the little charmer below is quaint too.

Just out of nowhere was a beautiful meadow-garden with Chantilly lace.

Okay, I just googled it, it's actually called QUEEN ANNE'S LACE!

Who's a dork?

*Angie raises hand*

Don't even get me started on how much I L-O-V-E-D this house!!!! LOVED!!!
What color doors do you think those are?

They're pink!!!!
How cute is that!!!!
Did you guess pink? Did you? Don't lie.

Ahhh, now moving along I came upon someone's
quirky stonework.
This seemed like an example of the homeowner telling the historic district people
to shove it, know what I mean?
It was kind of weird but actually very, very cool.

The urn on the stone wall below is sooooo quirky! It made me laugh.

Moving along.....

Because I am drawn to the imperfect gnarliness
of things,
I about CRAPPED MY PANTS WHEN I SAW THIS FENCE!!!
This be my kind of people.

You can tell the fence isn't priority for whoever lives here....

And you KNOW someone lives here, cause you can spy a big ol' house back there...very ethereal.

The flowers are well taken care of, no weeds. You almost begin to think the unpainted gnarliness of the fence is intentional.

RED ALERT! RED ALERT! Plunk!
Angie passes out when she sees this!!!! The owner of this fence line and house is trying to kill me from undying, never ending,
cuteness overload.
Look at this garden gate!!!!
It's like I found my own personal secret garden, ya know?

I peek in the gate and see a curved sidewalk.

I want to go in.

But I don't :(:(

*heavy sigh*

Instead,

I walk up to the corner and see this sweet little setting, still the same property.

And I turn the corner and see
*blink blink*......
ANOTHER OPEN GATE!!!! WITH A CUTE MEANDERING SIDEWALK UP TO ANOTHER PORCH
OF THE SAME HOUSE!!!!!!!

Okay. I know for sure that today is the day I will get arrested for creepy loitering or stalking or something if I don't get the heck out of here.
All I want to do is walk up that sidewalk.
That's all I want to do.
What is so wrong with that?? What????

But I don't.

Instead, I just run up real close to the porch,
as close as I can get while maintaining enough distance to run away fast,
and I quickly snap this back porch picture.
Look at that screen door!!!

And then I casually walk away across the street and take this picture of some steps.
Just in case police come, I would explain I'm just a tourist enjoying the bountifulness of this historic neighborhood.

Dear Little Children of America,

This is called an alley.

Kids used to play in alleys. They played fun games for hours and hours like kick-the-can. They rode their bikes and they played basketball and they threw rocks with their friends in this space.

They don't make alleys anymore, Children.

They make cul de sacs instead.

Yeah. I know.

Love, Angie.

Next up was this more stately home.
So simple. So commanding of your attention. So beautiful.

The more minimalist approach here definitely works for this home.

I about squealed when I saw this simple
stone duck.

Look at that door, too!

This must be a little breezeway or studio to the left.
And the stones were so organically set into the gentle slope out front.

After feeling like I overstayed my welcome at stately duckie home, I briskly walked over to the next property...

LOVE this American Gothic style window on this next house. L-O-V-E!!!
Notice how the blue inside trim color really showcases
the shape of the windows.

Once again, a double porch on this house, like so many other houses in this neighborhood.

Oh hello cute doggie,
who was on a walk as well!

Okay, now this house was for sale but I had to snap a shot of the alliteration of the enclosed porch with the upper deck.
Really nice.

These natural looking flowers were on the side of that house.

See the flag in the brick flower bed?

Flags and flowers make for festive weekends :)

I ran across the street and waited for a couple minutes by this sign.
But
no such luck....
no tractor and flatbed trailer with hay ever stopped by.

On my walk back to Kim and Steve's,
I noticed this on someone's property.....

I started to get excited...
oh my gosh...it's a fairy garden!!
Is it? Is it a fairy garden????

So I trespassed on private property to investigate
and get closer.....

.....and sure enough...

IT WAS A FAIRY GARDEN!!!

Can you see the little fairy bridge?
It sits over the blue stream, made from fish aquarium rocks.

Can you tell by this time, I was peeing my pants like no other??!!
Now where would you just casually run into a fairy garden,
just hanging out under some trees in somebody's yard?

Okay, I finally left my playmates,
the fairies (duh), and proceeded on.

This house has overgrown shrubbery

but,

wouldn't you just love to scale
those steps,

and peek inside that front door?

Just a little?

Little, little?

As I came back closer to our host's house, you see this interesting house that sits on a triangle corner lot.
The taupe fence is really different but it seems to really work with this maroon house.

And now I will show my all time favorite house on my morning walk.
Be still my heart and every other cliche you can think of!!!!
This is a side view to my all time favorite house...

Look how meticulous this property is!!!!!

And this is the front of the house....
NOW HOW CUTE IS THIS????
And that front porch!!!!!

Oh my gosh, can you even believe how simple,
yet gorgeous this porch is??!!
And once gain, the flags! So festive.

Okay, let's bring Angie's excitement level down a notch and show you the last house on my walk....
this grande old dame right up the street.

This old girl sits on a corner lot.

The carriage house/garage sits back on the lot.

And this is the driveway back to the carriage house.
This brick driveway makes me drool.
Immensely.
Like blubbering, blubbering, spit bubbles type of drool.

So from this gorgeous property, I walked right down the block and picked one of these up to-go...

Hellooooooooo normal black coffee with nothing crazy in it, or some crazy flavoring, or weird cream crap.

Nope. Hellloooooooo plain black coffee.

So that was my early
Saturday morning,
in a cute historic neighborhood,
in a cute historic town,
during a super fun Strawberry Festival,
that brings in 10,000 festive people.

Hope you enjoyed looking at these cutie house and flower pictures as much as I enjoyed
taking them!!!

Have a great weekend y'all!!!
And we'll talk at ya soon!!!

Yummy Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs and a Movie Called Omaha. I Mean Nebraska.

7/16/2014

This is a boneless, skinless chicken thigh...simple...easy...tasty weeknight meal.

We watched this movie while I prepared and cooked up this tasty chicken thigh dish...

Nebraska (2013) is about Woody, (played by the exceptional Bruce Dern)
who lives in Billings Montana.
Woody thinks he's won a big sweepstakes prize.
He wants his son David, (played by Will Forte) to take him to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim his million dollar prize.

Woody's wife Kate, is played by the uber amazing, super talented,
coolest woman ever, June Squibb.
Goodness gracious, June was 83 when they filmed this.....83!!!!! I love you June Squibb!!!! Could you be any cooler??!! Will you be my new auntie?

Angela McEwan,
as Peg Nagy,
(Woody's early
childhood girlfriend),

was exceptional as well.

Nebraska
was directed by
Alexander Payne
of
Sideways
directorial fame.

Loved Sideways!!

I loved everything about Nebraska....every.thing!!!

Nebraska was nominated for six (6!!!)
Academy Awards....including

Best Director (Alexander Payne)
Best Actor (Bruce Dern)
Best Supporting Actress (June Squibb, my new auntie)
Original Screenplay

This is the trailer for the movie.
 Red Alert: This trailer has swears in it! Several of them. Like eight swears. You will not care for this movie if you don't like movies with swears in them.
Although I will tell you, my mother-in-law is a refined lady and she loved this movie too.

Anyhoo, let's get back to this
tasty chicken thigh recipe.....

Here's the real deal though....

DUDE!

Boneless, skinless chicken thighs
don't exactly have a ton of meat on them.

You is gonna have to eat possibly three of these to fill up.
Just so you know....

So here's the fixins for these tasty morsels...

Oh, oh, I paid $2.38lb for these thighs....pretty reasonable!

Okay, for the baking sauce,

mix up the chopped garlic, olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Add in the brown sugar, dijon mustard and
red pepper flakes....
...this sauce smells ah-mazing by the way!!

Salt and pepper these thighs up....

Now drizzle that deee-licious baking sauce over these thighs....

And throw them in a baking dish and into the oven!

Bake for 20 minutes or
until the
meat thermometer reads
165 degrees.

DO NOT OVERCOOK THESE....YOU WANT THESE TO
BE JUICY, DONE BUT MOIST!

Hello fully cooked boneless,
skinless thighs!!

Wait!!!

Tent these up with aluminum foil to keep the heat in and the chicken tender!

Now
take the aluminum foil off after a few minutes
and begin drooling.

Plate up these thighs with a nice,
big fresh salad!

Psssst.....c'mere.....even with that big salad, I still needed TWO chicken thighs to fill me up.
These thighs are so moist and tasty but they are small.
Tim says the flavor is not evident immediately,
he said the flavor comes in the back door on every bite.
I have to agree with him, the flavor is subtle yet layered.
Savory, tangy, tasty, with just a tad bit of sweetness going on.

I will definitely be making this Chicken Thigh recipe often...even for company.
It's from the website www.thekitchn.com

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Okay, so if you're from Iowa,
you know we've been having one rain day after another! Here's a few shots taken after yet another rain last week.....
Dark, stormy clouds still to the south....

After that particular shot of rain, the clouds weren't
moving away too fast ....

And yet the bikes against the barn look like they're ready to be ridden any time now....just bring your Mary Poppins umbrella :)

New sidewalk finally poured and getting wet, the rain just keeps-a-comin'...

And dusk-time settles
on the old 8 ft garden gate
hanging out at the side of the garage....

Okay folks, gots to go for now.
Am going to attempt a Double Crust Marion Blackberry Crisp today.

Um,
I think that's called "baking" and we all know how I feel about baking.

This recipe only has 7 ingredients so I can't possibly
screw it up, right?

Right?

7 ingredients. Pshhhhh. Simple.

Right??

Talk at ya soon :)

Shiny, Happy Vintage Slide and a Colorful, Super Easy Coleslaw with Yogurt Dressing

7/13/2014

Who about peed her pants when she saw this vintage slide
at Crapo Park in Burlington yesterday??

I'll give you two guesses,
but you'll only need one.

Oh my goodness gracious!! I still can't believe I climbed that sucker and actually went down it.

Mostly I can't believe little tots still go up that thing...
BY THEMSELVES!!!!

Here's Little Boy Blue and his dad scaling the mountain that are those steps....

And this is their pile of arms and legs emerging from the bottom!

So,
yeah.

I've decided I want to buy one of these for my back yard.

And play on it .

All day long.

Because this slide was so colorful,
I thought I would share a super duper easy, healthy, colorful, coleslaw with a yogurt dressing.

So easy....soooo healthy!!
And it uses a part yogurt dressing, not just mayo!

So these are the fixins for this super easy coleslaw!

Few ingredients!

As for the bag of slaw,

I used organic BROCCOLI SLAW!

Broccoli Slaw is so much tastier than a regular bag of cabbage.

So slice up the red pepper.
I slice the peppers and then cut the slices in half to equal roughly the size of the slaw.

Throw the red peppers in the big bowl of broccoli slaw.

Now whisk together the yogurt,
mayo,
and
apple cider vinegar.

Throw the dressing on the slaw...

...and mix this beautyness
all up!!
By the way,
beautyness is a word.
Look it up.

In the Pretend Word Dictionary.

Duh.

I threw the slaw in a plastic container and stuck it in the fridge for a few hours, before I served it.

This slaw is light and delicious.
You my want to add some salt and pepper, though.

This Coleslaw is so easy and the leftovers keep
for days in the fridge.
Bonus: Makes for a quick healthy mid-afternoon snack!

This takes like
5 minutes to put together.

The yogurt creates a tang that is just simply delicious.

Here's the recipe....

Easy Coleslaw with Yogurt Dressing
From www.joybauer.com Check out her website, has some cool info on it.
Courtesy turnkeyqualitycars.com

Ingredients:

6 ounces fat-free plain yogurt
1/4 cup reduced fat mayonnaise
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1 bag coleslaw mix, shredded
1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced

Preparation:
In a large bowl, whisk together the yogurt, mayonnaise, and apple cider vinegar.

Add the coleslaw mix and bell peppers to the bowl, and toss the ingredients in the dressing until evenly coated. Season with kosher salt and pepper to taste.

Aaaaand the recipe in document form....

To Print Recipe.....Click on that little itty bitty Download File thingie to print off the recipe....

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I have made this slaw at least four or five times.
Each time it turns out the same creamy deliciousness.
Sometimes, I do whip up more dressing than called for,
just to get the creaminess in.
I'll also use 2-3 bags of that broccoli slaw at a time when making up for
several people at a cook-out.

Okay, in closing, I leave you a picture of Little Boy Blue
(our yittle, tiny baby grandson extraordinaire, who is not yittle or tiny anymore,
but is instead an almost 3-year-old toddler boy)
lining up his matchbox cars on the front porch.

Yittle toddler boy is just so cute I want to eat him all up, all the time.

Instead I just give him a million hugs and kisses.
Oh my gosh, I hope that's enough and that he knows I love him :)

Maybe I should give him TWO MILLION hugs and kisses.
Yeah, I think I'll do that next time.

Okay, that's all I have for today.

I really think you should try out that slaw recipe, though!

Have a great Monday
and we'll talk at ya soon!

Bacon Hasselback Potatoes But Without The Bacon - Crispy Outside, Creamy Inside - Delish!

7/10/2014

Why are these called
Hasselback potatoes?

What does Hasselback mean, anyway?

Welcome Back, Kotter.

Arnold Horshack knows....
OH OH OH Mr. Kotter!!

Remember Arnold Horshack always trying to get Mr. Kotter's attention??

Remember the 70s show
Welcome Back, Kotter?

Welcome Back, Kotter

Here's the
iconic theme song...

Man, I LOVED that show!!

Remember Hotsie Totsie?

Debralee Scott played her.

Remember Verna jean,

Freddie
"Boom Boom" Washington's girlfriend?

Remember CHiPs?

Nooooooo,

not
THESE
chips!

These CHiPs!
Jon & Ponch

Remember Eight Is Enough
with Dick Van Patten?

I always thought Kristy McNichol was on
Eight Is Enough.

But she wasn't.

That was
Willie Aames.

WHAT???
So I get confused.

Kristy was on that show
"Family."

B-O-R-I-N-G.

Seriously,
I'm a 70s kid.

Ain't no one I knew ever lived in a house or had a family like Buddy Lawrence. Puh-leeze. 

Anyway, let's get back to these roasted
Bacon Hasselback Potatoes.

These potatoes are a healthier alternative to your burning desire (okay, MY burning desire) for french fries.
Crispy on the outside...creamy on the inside! YUM!

So, WHY are these easy-to-make roasted potatoes
called Hasselback?

Now pay attention kids!

School is in
session!

1. Hasselback potatoes were introduced in the 1940s in Stockholm, Sweden at a restaurant called Hasselbacken. Hasselbacken opened in 1748. Yes, you read that correctly, 1748. That was like 5000 years ago, or 270 years.. that was like

2. Hasselback is not an actual potato, it is instead the way the potato is sliced and roasted.

3. The Hasselback potato is sliced like an accordion or fan and when roasted, becomes soft and creamy inside, while the outside says crispy and brown.

So here's all the fixins...
By the way, I cut the recipe in half for just the two of us.

Also I used red potatoes instead of Yukons.
AND, believe it or not....I did not use my boyfriend BACON.
AND I did not peel the potatoes, very unnecessary and besides, I'm lazy.

Case in point on the laziness. I hide dishes in the oven at night, hoping a little elf will miraculously wash them all up.
FYI: It never works.

Anyway,
make 1/8 inch slices in the potatoes
BUT DO NOT slice all the way through,
stop 1/4 in or so from the bottom of the potato.

Now add the potatoes to boiling water and boil for 4 minutes or so. I boiled these maybe 6 or 7 minutes.

Scoop the potatoes out with a slotted spoon and set on a baking sheet,

let cool for a bit.

Now this is where you were supposed to add the bacon pieces in between
each slice.
I did not do this, as I'm trying to maintain my girlish figure.
Bahahahahahahahahaha.
Actually we had so much bacon the week before I was actually burned out on it.
I KNOW! It can happen. Who'd a thunk?

Anyway, melt the butter and brush over and into
all the cuts of the potato.
I used olive oil too, by the way. Definitely use olive oil too.

Now season up these suckers with
salt and pepper and POP THEM IN THE OVEN!

While the potatoes are cooking...
(cause they're gonna cook for a total of 1.5 - 2 hours )
...mix up the seasonings...the scallions, garlic, parsley and salt and pepper.

Halfway through the cooking time,
season up the potatoes.....
OH! Add melted butter or olive oil to these seasonings so it will spread and drip around those slices nicely.

Now throw these back in the oven for the remaining cooking time.

45 minutes to an hour later, oh-my-goodness,
look how awesome this is!!

Look at that tasty crispiness on the
outside edges!!!
And the insides were yummy creamy!

These are such a bit healthier option to french fries.

These Hasselback potatoes make a great side for, yup, grilled hamburgers!

I am going to make these again and again.

Next time, I'll try yukon potatoes but Ima tell you, these red potatoes were dee-licious!

Man, those are making me hungry right now!

Hey, hey, here's the recipe.

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OR, I just figured this out,
click on the icon in the lower right corner down below,
next to the magnifying glasses.
This will bring the recipe up to full-size and you can print from there.

OR
You can just take a gander at the recipe right here and see if it's something you want to try.

Bacon Hasselback Potatoes

From: Food Network Kitchens/Food Network Magazine
www.foodnetwork.com

Ingredients
4 slices thick-cut bacon, each cut crosswise into 9 pieces
Kosher salt
12 medium Yukon gold potatoes, peeled
1 stick unsalted butter
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
2 scallions, finely chopped
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
1 clove garlic, finely chopped

Directions
Lay the bacon pieces on a baking sheet and freeze until hard, about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.

Using a sharp knife, make crosswise cuts in each potato, about 1/8 inch apart, stopping about 1/4 inch from the bottom.

Add the potatoes to the boiling water and cook 4 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and carefully transfer to a baking sheet; let cool slightly. Pat the potatoes dry, then insert 3 pieces of the frozen bacon into the cuts of each potato, spacing the bacon evenly and letting it poke out of the top. Melt 5 tablespoons butter and brush generously over the potatoes and in the cuts. Reserve any excess butter for basting. Season the potatoes with salt and pepper.

Transfer the potatoes to the oven and bake until the outsides are browned and crisp, about 2 hours, basting halfway through with the reserved melted butter.

When the potatoes are almost done, melt the remaining 3 tablespoons butter and mix with the scallions, parsley and garlic. Spoon over the potatoes and roast 5 more minutes. Transfer to a platter and season with salt and pepper.

Okay, so that's all I got for today.

Except for this.....
remember these guys??!!

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We've been waiting for youuuuuuu
Where the kisses are hers and hers and his
Three's Company, too!

Jack, Janet, and Chrissy hope you have a good rest of the week!

So do I!

We'll talk at ya soon!

Blackberry Crisp...YUM!

Angie Went Jogging But Became Shockingly Distracted By Cute Old Houses, An Alley, and a Fairy Garden...Duh, Who Wouldn't!

Yummy Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs and a Movie Called Omaha. I Mean Nebraska.

Shiny, Happy Vintage Slide and a Colorful, Super Easy Coleslaw with Yogurt Dressing

Bacon Hasselback Potatoes But Without The Bacon - Crispy Outside, Creamy Inside - Delish!

Now pay attention kids!

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Blackberry Crisp...YUM!

Angie Went Jogging But Became Shockingly Distracted By Cute Old Houses, An Alley, and a Fairy Garden...Duh, Who Wouldn't!

Yummy Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs and a Movie Called Omaha. I Mean Nebraska.

Shiny, Happy Vintage Slide and a Colorful, Super Easy Coleslaw with Yogurt Dressing

Bacon Hasselback Potatoes But Without The Bacon - Crispy Outside, Creamy Inside - Delish!

﻿Now pay attention kids! ﻿

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Now pay attention kids!