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Helloooooooo!!!! MISS ME???!!! I MISSED YOU!!!!!! Let's Eat Some Street Food...Sweet Corn with Cheese, Shall We?????

8/15/2016

Hidey Ho, Friends!!!!!!!

It's been SIX months since I last posted!

SIX

whole

MONTHS!!!

Sadly, that picture is not too far off from reality. (Have you even seen my forehead???)

But I made a street food recipe,
Roasted Sweet Corn
with Cheese
and just knew I needed to share with y'all!

First, I had to tackle the messy kitchen. Shocking. Not.

As you can see, nothing has changed.
I continue to still dislike doing dishes more than anything...
I mean DISLIKE!!
These dishes will sit here for days, just like this. Only more.

And I continue to leave trash out on the counters because the trash can is consistently full...

Uh. Yeah.
Bahahahahahahaha!!!

Yeah. I can't.

What?
Doesn't EVERYBODY have a leg brace and cat treats on their kitchen
prep island?

Wait!!
Did you notice??

So anyway, let's talk about this
Roasted Sweet Corn with Cheese recipe!

Grilled Iowa sweet corn

slathered in a spiced mayonnaise

with Cotija cheese
and a twist of lime.

This is actaully called Elote which means corn cob in Spanish.

This recipe is straight outta the website www.thekitchn.com

Elote (Grilled Mexican Sweet Corn)
by Joanna Miller with www.thekitchn.com
makes 4 servings
4 ears corn
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup Cotija cheese (Parmesan will work if you can't find it)
2 limes, cut into wedges
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon cumin
salt
Prepare a grill or grill pan with high heat. Keep corn in husks, or remove one strip of husks. Place directly on grill. Cook for 10-15 minutes, turning occasionally, until husks are well blackened and the kernels are bright yellow.
If serving on the cob, remove husks and slather each ear with a generous spoonful of mayonnaise. Add the juice of one lime wedge per ear, followed by a pinch of salt, a healthy sprinkle of cheese and a light dusting of cumin and chili powder.
If serving off the cob, cut the kernels off of each ear. Place into a jar or small cup and top with remaining ingredients.
If you prefer, serve the corn with the toppings on the side and let everyone dress their own.

Here's the fixins...not too many ingredients!

This is the the Cotija cheese I buy.

Now Cotija cheese has a strong taste to it, kind of like a mild stinky cheese. Substitute Parmesan or Romano if you don't care for it. I used Cotija because I wanted to make and taste more of an authentic version of Elote.

This recipe is so easy,
the prep is super easy!

Just mix the mayo, juice of one fresh lime, salt, chili powder and cumin together. Keep the Cojito cheese separate.

Now throw that beautiful Iowa sweet corn on the grill,
husks and all!

Turn them over several times.

I think mine were on the grill for 15 minutes.

I wondered if the corn was actually getting soft in there.

Bingo! It does.

Get that spiced mayo and cheese topping on there!

Ate this whole thing in 45 seconds, that is how oddly DELICIOUS, tangy, sweet, creamy this is.

45 seconds!!! No lie.

The other five ears, I cut the kernals off and mixed the spiced mayo and cheese with it for a side dish
with our meal the next day.

I woke up the next morning thinking of how yummy this sweet corn dish is and proceeded to eat a bowl for breakfast.
Sweet, tangy, creamy, just a hint of spice.
(Use the absolute best mayo you can buy, that is key here!)

I know these food pictures aren't the best but don't let that dissuade you!
A better picture is over at The Kitchn website where you can go over and print off the recipe!

Okay, so in closing, I will give a quick update of the last week....
Now who else saw this beautiful rainbow the other day??

Cat or rabbit?
Tim says chupacabra.

Detailing vehicles, taking pictures, listing them for sale...

2008 Chevy Equinox LS SUV ~ All wheel drive ~ 112k miles

2002 Pontiac Grand Prix GT ~ 132k Miles

2006 Chevy Silverado C1500 LS 2WD ~ 99k Miles

One evening I detailed out cars late into the evening while listening to the 70s station.

Tim mowed the national forest that is our lawn,
late into the evening as well.

We later walked the property, inspecting the work on the vehicles and lawn.

After going inside,
I couldn't figure out WHERE I had put my wine glass!

The next morning
I went to water the flowers...

Right then I knew.

So finally,
all my flowers have done amazingly well this year!!

That is a total total lie.

Other than that succulent, they all look like this.

Whyyyyy can't I keep nice things around here?!?!

Okay, that's all I gots for today, friends!
(Gots is too a word! Look it up! In the pretend word dictionary, duh.)
I do have very good intentions not to go another 6 months without posting thrilling, mind-blowing recipes and pictures!
There are a ton of great dishes and several flop-a-roos to showcase in the coming weeks, so be sure to check back!!
(But don't hold your breath cause....see above reference to 6 months. My intentions are good though, man, they're good.)

Thanks for reading!!!!
Have a great week, y'all!
Talk at ya soon!!!

Ain't It Weird How Places From Your Childhood Are So Much Larger In your Memories Than The Actual Reality?

10/28/2014

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Saw this sign while driving by my old childhood stomping grounds the other day and just knew I had to check it out .....after 45 years.....(shut up, I know I'm old!)

The church was down a long lane.....

When I drove up, it looked much smaller than what I remembered....

I had forgotten it was tucked in a grove...

I remember lots of nice people pouring in on
Sunday mornings....

But I don't remember the entrance being so small...

I remembered the windows....and the steeple....

So I peered in.

The church pews look the same.
It all just looked...smaller than I remembered, is all.

I wonder if everything from childhood is larger in our memories?

Okay, that's enough introspection!
Let's move on to some other pics I took back at
me old stomping grounds from days gone by!
I remember these long gravel roads....

And the Angus Farm signs....

This was an interesting piece of art in someone's
front lawn.
I used the zoom on my camera to get this picture
and then quickly got back into the car...one never knows when a dog is around to take a bite out of a neck!

This bridge has always intrigued me
to no end, when I drive by.
I love the metalwork and rust
and contrast with the puffy clouds, floaty sky.

And I've always wondered where this
roads ends.
I know some wisecracker is gonna say "probably in Mediapolis."
SHUT UP!
I prefer to think it never ends, thankyouverymuch.
:)

And the old metal bridge actually crosses a babbling creek....

Now we move onto this super cool garage I have passed for years and drooled over!! I wanted to take a picture of the front of this awesome 70s style house but was afraid...you know...that a dog would come out and greet me by my
Adam's apple!

Who loves this artistic mailbox???? Who?????
ME!!!!!

Okay, I likey little cottage style houses,
but I gotta tell ya...something about this house spoke to me! I love everything about it!!
Including the punch of color on the front porch!

As I was traveling through ye olde stomping grounds,
I decided to take a quick ride through Grandview.
Downtown Grandview seems to have changed a bit
since 1970.
*sigh*

I really loved the naturalness of this old house though....

And Grandview Elementary School...
my two older siblings went here.
I think my Letts grade school bus stopped here sometimes.

Of course the school's been closed for some time now....

But oh my, look at this, the flagpole had it's own special walkway....

Nothing stays the same though,

it seems....

YES I'M OLD!!!

NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!

So as I was driving Hwy 92 between Grandview and Letts, I'm looking...
...and looking
...and looking
for this...
the Graffiti Barn!!!!
The barn has been like this since the late 60s/early 70s at least,
just down the road from my childhood farmhouse.

After further investigation, I discovered this quirky, iconic building was burnt down by crappy little half brained nitwit arsonists in 2011.

Nothing stays the same.
*sigh*

So naturally after driving through Grandview, I wanted to see my old elementary school in Letts.
I could NOT find my old school!!
Was it tore down??
I went exploring for answers but didn't get too far because there's not much left in the town that I remembered...

This kind of, sort of, reminded me of my elementary school.
Do you think it was?

This was part of someone's farmstead.
I put the zoom on in my camera....

Now if this wasn't the elementary school, then what was it originally??!!

And where did that old huge brick elementary school from
1970 1st and 2nd grade go to???
Why can't I find anything online about it??

***********************************************************************************************
As I was taking these pictures that day,
an old farmer in a pickup truck stopped and asked did I want to take his picture too.
I responded,"Of course, you're a
nice looking gentleman!"
He just laughed and drove away.
I should have asked him if he knew where my old school went.
Crap!

*****************************************************************************************************

Okay guys, after days of googling,
I finally found out what happened to my
elementary school in Letts...

Little half brained, crappy, dim witted arsonists burned it down in 2005.

*Siiiiiiiiigh*

Nothing ever stays the same.

On my way back to interstate, I saw this cool barn style house. This was the closest I could get to it though, CAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN SOME DOG WILL BE DOTTING HIS MOUTH WITH A NAPKIN AFTER HAVING JUST ATE YOU FOR LUNCH WITH A SIDE OF KETCHUP!!!

No, I don't need therapy.

Why do you ask?

Lastly, I saw a fun Halloween display outside this mobile home off the highway. I inched my car up as close as I could and put the zoom on in my camera.

You really can't see the
cool Halloween display,
but if you think I was gonna step out of that car and get Cujo'd all over my fat .....
well, you get the drift.

I told you earlier I don't need therapy.

Why do you keep asking?

Okay, that's all I got for today, kiddos!!
I've been cook cook cookin' away in the kitchen and will be sharing some yummy dishes yet this week!
I'm hungry now in fact :)

Hey, have a great Fall day and we'll talk at ya soon!!!

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Why Won't My Kitchen Clean Itself? A Saloon Show At Old Threshers, Vintage Cars and Other Super Exciting Pictures That Involve Bathrooms. Sigh.

9/17/2014

Hey, hey!
Could someone come over and do my dishes for me?

I know you think I'm kidding but I'm serious.
This next picture was taken just three days AFTER I had cleaned up the crap up from the top picture...yeesh...

What?

I have an inability to do dishes
and
put crap away.

Always.
Like really really always.

It just all seems so....
so unnecessary to do all that cleanup just to get it all dirty again.

And frankly, quite boring, if you will.

If I were to actually do
things like

"wash the dishes"
and
"clean the kitchen"
(yaaaaawwwwnnnnn) ,
then how will I ever find time to:

Go to the Old Threshers Reunion...

where there were plenty of cool, old tractors....

...and where an almost 3-year-old Little Boy Blue was so happy to sit on a nice person's tractor...with the assistance of his daddy of course.

Now how awesome is this cute little
oldie John Deere??!!

We rode the trolley....

And of course we had to see the
Saloon Girls Show!!!
Little Boy Blue's momma, "Kindness", (our 30 year old daughter), has such fond childhood memories of seeing the Saloon Girls Show every year when she visited the
Old Thresher's Reunion with her Grandpa Madsen.
Well...of course Kindness insisted we NOT MISS the show!!

...and the looks on Little Boy Blue and his dad's face during the show....priceless!!

It really was an awesome show!
There was a dancing cowboy on a piano who sang to
Ghost Riders In The Sky. Oh it was fun!!

See the cowboy over there, on top the piano?

During Ghost Riders, he stood on the piano and rode an old vintage kid's stick horse. So funny!!

You know that song...Ghost Riders In The Sky...
sung by a ton of different people, from Burl Ives to Johnny Cash.
Yippe Yi Yayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
The song was written by Stan Jones in 1949.
It is considered to be one of the top western songs of all time.
Here's Marty Robbin's version....

Okay, so on the way out of the
Old Threshers Reunion,
we passed the vintage car barn....

An old Texaco truck!

Hey! This next picture is not of a vintage vehicle...It is however, of a bottle of new wine I tried out and an avocado dip after returning home.

Okay, now we move to some pictures from our quick trip to
Cedarburg, Wisconsin
that same week....
So this is an Olds Cutlass 442, early 70s
that was parked on a street in downtown Cedarburg.
Tim drooled over this car....

Okay, now this is a former gas station,
converted into a cool lady's shoppe within the last year or two
in downtown Cedarburg.
I noticed there's always men in this shop
browsing though,

you can tell they're checking out how the old service station has changed up. The owners kept the original floor, ceiling, a lot of the industrial/mechanical elements.

Bands were playing on every block
that weekend......

This is a little peek-a-boo down onto the wine floor of the Old Mill we visited as well....

Tim and I browsed and ate,
and browsed and ate during our quick time there.

While browsing, we noticed a door was open from the sidewalk to a building. We peered up there, duh.

These steps were just too intriguing not to take all the way to the top...

So we trailed up the flight of stairs.....
The whole floor up there was massive windows, huge warehouse rooms, and small artist's studios.
We purchased this watercolor/acrylic.
The artist had JUST popped in and we caught her at the right time in her studio.

And this shapely piece of Christmas art just screamed at me through another artist's studio window. It yelled, "BUY ME!!!! YOU WILL REGRET NOT BUYING MEEEEE!!! YOU KNOW YOU WANT MEEEE!!! JUST BUY MEEEEE ALREADY!!!!"

So I did.

And it is displayed on the shelf housing my
very-contemporary,
not-at-all-old-skool
CD/cassette collection.

Shut up!
People still listen to CDs and cassettes!

Right?

Right???? *scratching head*

Anyhoo, here's my cool vintage 7-up clock......
keeps perfect time, too.

Oh! See the tiny sliver of the bathroom to the right, over there....

Well, this bathroom has a vintage license plate dealer frame just sitting on the vanity there....it says Iowa City.

Tim's grandparent's license plate from their last car in Albuquerque is on the bathroom wall too...
as is another collected vintage dealer plate frame,
Bliss Motors Inc, Detroit.

In case you were thinking that license plate frames are tacky things to display on a bathroom wall,
I will have you know,
I hung an elegant towel holder up next to them.

What?

Here's a closer look....

Doesn't this towel holder just ratchet up the elegantness of this room a notch or two? BTW, elegantness is a word, look it up. In the Pretend Word Dictionary.

I paid all of $5 for this "towel holder" in the farm hardware section at Menards!!

I KNOW!!
Cool, huh!!!!! Heeeeeeeeee.....

Let me share what else you're going to be jealous of....

A light!
In my new cheap-o-rama dryer that just
got delivered today!!!!

A LIGHT!!!!
That works!!
In! A! Dryer!
YAY!!!
This will surely help me in locating the laundered dollar bills and quarters
much, much easier!
Is it obvious that I've never had a light in a dryer?

Okay, back to the streets of Cedarburg was this Ranchero.
I wanted to take a picture of the interior but some people were looking at me suspiciously while I was peering in the windows, so I didn't.

That Ranchero was parked outside this cutie old building on main street.
Those colors!

Gosh, I was going to do a post about Southwest Stuffed Peppers
but because I am boring you out of your wits, I will just show you a picture of the meal Tim's sister served us the night before we left back to Iowa....

Beyond deliciousness!!! And those fresh green beans, steamed and topped with a dollop of butter and crispy turkey bacon, so summertime awesome!!
I want that exact same meal every single week, that's how awesome it was!
Definitely one of the top five meals I've ever had!

Okay, in closing, just a quick picture of the kitchen counters I JUST NOW took
at noontime today Wednesday.
Although the counters do NOT have five days of dishes on them
(YAY!!! MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!!!), they do have the following which apparently I am adverse to dealing with:

1. Last night's crapola pizza boxes
2. $5.99 empty wine bottle
3. Coffee can that apparently is permanently parked in that spot.
4. Dirty napkins
5. Bag of cat treats
6. Old lemon
7. Flyswatter
8. Dirty plates and glasses
9. Empty pitcher

Do not think for a minute that Tim and I do not know how to whoop it up in this casa!!! No sireeee!!!!!!
It is one party after another all up in here, every night!!!
We just try to hide it real good, don't want other people to feel bad, ya know.

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Okay, gotta go. Got a dirty cat pan I gotta clean out.
I mean, gotta tidy up the house for the next big blow-out tonight!

:)
Hey, have a good Wednesday y'all and talk at ya soon!!!

Angie's Share Day - And no, you won't be bored. Yes you will.

6/15/2014

Angie's Sharing Day
This post is about reeeeeeeally boring stuff.
But it's the best I can do.

It's not like I'm an exciting Charlie's Angel.

But if I was,

I'd be Kelly!

Strike the pose!

What???

I knowwwwwwwww.

Dis gonna be a long, boring, stupid post. I kind of warned ya ahead of time though.

Know what else is boring?

This pot roast that I put in the oven.

The recipe is called
Awesome Red Wine Pot Roast.

The name of the recipe should have been called Completely Normal, Nothing Unusual Pot Roast.

That there's a $15 cut of meat.
$15!!! I'm still in therapy for that.

Speaking of boring......

...I still have an inability to do dishes, even in the new house.

Boring.
Boring.
Boring.

And they just keep piling up and up and up.

Sinks shouldn't be for worky type of stuff anyway, they should be used for fun stuff....

...Like letting yittle toddler boys named
Little Boy Blue play water games in them.

Speaking of water and boredom.....

...My dang plants are soooooo needy.

They demand water every single day.
I'm really bad at regular watering.

Oh, I interrupt this riveting blog post to share a request being made by Giblet Pearl aka Gibby...

"meow meow. meow meow meow meow. meow meow. meow."

Translation in Human language: "Uh yeah, could you possibly not run that ding dang vacuum cleaner when I'm napping? I would appreciate it. Thank you. You can leave."

I love Before and After Projects!
Mainly seeing other people's.
This was mine though. We've had this wash commode for over 30 years. Tim's mom had it for years before that. It worked for us when I was decorating with a ton of cool old stuff and antiques in the house.

Before...

We are old as dirt (well Tim is...heeeee :) and are decorating with less now. Less stuff means less cleaning. (Angie likey that part, do I hear a holla?!!) So.....

After...

Before.

After.

I did switch out the hardware too, which updated it a bit
but still kept a vintage vibe.

Remember when I said we were living with less decor now?

Well, it had to go somewhere.

This was one of 350,000 loads.
That's a lie.
It was more like 879,468 loads.

Baby the kitty says, "Gee crazy sweaty lady, you not gonna pack me up and throw me in the back of that van too, are you? Are you?? I scared."

Of course not, Baby.
And Santa is staying too.

Hey, do you know who DID exaggerate?

The person who posted this crock pot Sweet Potato recipe online and said the sweet potatoes came out "buttery" and "sweet tasting".

The sweet potatoes came out tasting like plain old sweet potatoes. (This pic was taken before they cooked.)

Man, that's like 10 minutes of prep work I'll never get back. Oh well. Win some, lose some.

I am OBSESSED with
french fries.
OBSESSED.

First, I soak the raw cut russet potatoes for about 30 minutes in warm water with some Sugar In The Raw
in it.

I guess Sugar In The Raw is also know as turbinado sugar.

Oh I'm fairly certain it's not healthy like kale or quinoa.

Don't care. Remember, I am OBSESSED with french fries right now.

Anyway,

I fry them twice and use a
candy thermometer.

I let the oil heat up to 350 degrees and fry until they are barely light brown, barely.

Takes about 4-5 minutes.

I then let the fries set aside on a drying rack while I fry the other batches.

Ahhhh, now Round 2 frying is the best part.
Heat the oil up again to 375 degrees and throw a batch of those already fried, lightly browned fries in.
Fry just a couple more minutes at the most until the brown color you like appears....

Throw the fries on a rack...

Season them up with whatever you crave...

We likey
salt and pepper and cayenne.

Yum!

Crap, now all I want is fries. Again.
Argh.

Must think about something else now.
Must think about something else now.
Must think about something else now.
Must think about something else now.

I KNOW!!!

Glen Campbell!!!!

Wichita Lineman...one of the best
songs ever!!!! c1968

So, quick question:
Am I the only one who marks her light switch plates?
No really. Just wondering.
Why play a flick-of-the-switch guessing game at 5:30am every.single.morning?
I have more important things to do like check Facebook while waiting for the freaking coffee to get done in the coffeemaker. Duh.

Lastly, I just wanted to show a picture of Little Boy Blue
on Easter morning.
LBB never, ever gets candy, especially at 8am in the morning.
He kept looking at us adults very distrusting, like we were going to be taking away his goodie basket any minute.

It was super warm Easter morning, so LBB's dad took him out to the new deck and played songs for him on the guitar. Boy Blue played with his stash of matchbox cars while his daddy strummed along.

Okay, so that's all I got for today other than, oh my goodness gracious, this 2006 Chevy Impala LT with 132k miles that I just listed yesterday is in ridiculously immaculate condition.

Check this car out on the Inventory page!

OH, one more thing!!!

Does this booth make your heart sing?

Everything you would ever ever need
to set up an authentic vintage kitchen
IS - IN - THIS - BOOTH!

It's all so neatly organized, all in excellent condition, some sets of stuff I've never seen before,
and it's all pretty pricey too.

This space is in an antique mall in Oronoco, Mn
just north of Rochester.

I thought the antique mall staff were going to come over and tell me to move-it-along, I was spending so much time in that space. Just lookin' and touchin' and daydreamin' and frankly, gaspin' over the prices. Oh well, it's fun to look.

Besides,
I had bought my own self a set of vintage glasses earlier that week right here in Kalona.

Now how awesome are these!!!
Just say they're awesome, that's all ya gotta say to make my life complete. They really are awesome, though :)

Okay, that's really all there is left to this totally riveting post!
Now try to pry yourselves away from these most excellent captivating pictures and witty commentary (cough, cough) and
have a great rest of the weekend!!
Talk at ya soon!

I'm BAAAAAAACKKKK!!!!!! I brought some Eddie Rabbitt and Ronnie Milsap and Crystal Gale with me. OH! Also a Tasty Monterrey Chicken Recipe!

5/28/2014

Hi! Hi Hi!!!!!!!!

I Love Lucy. Who doesn't?

Did you miss me???

Say "Why Of Course I Did (crazy lady)"....

....even if you didn't :):)

Wonder where I've been the last
8 1/2 months???!!

Well,
II've been real busy....

with important things....

Like letting cats hang out on my head...

Noodle, Rescue Kitty Extraordinaire.

What?
YOU don't let cats hang out on your head?
Whatev!

Wait.
Is that weird?

Well, I let cats sleep in
my hoodie too...
Giblet Pearl, our 2012 Thanksgiving Day kitty...she is our, uh...plus size kitty...

What???

Having a kitty sleep in your hoodie is NOT weird. Trust me.

I googled it.

All the cat websites say it's NOT weird. So there.

Other than that though.....the last eight months....well......

it was
a looooong, gray, winter, eh?

It was the kind of winter that would test sweet Laura Ingalls Wilder's patience even.
That one stick of sugar poor Laura got for Christmas would not be near enough to sustain high spirits this past Iowa winter.

Tain't Matter!!!!!!

IT'S SPRING AND SUMMERTIME NOW!!!!

GO SUMMERTIME, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!! GONNA PAR-TAY LIKE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!

I know you want this glider, I know you're just SALIVATING to get this glider. You can't have it. It's mine.

And I have a deck now to put my vintage glider on!

Of course I've been working all along, too.
Duh, of course!
SOMEBODY HAS TO MAKE A LIVING 'ROUND HERE.
Heeeeeeeee.
Does perusing decorating websites while snacking on
chips and salsa count as "w - o - r - k"???

For Pete's sake, shhhhhhh, that's our little secret, k??

Anyway, I've been hard at work detailing on cars
like these...

Top Left: 2004 Chevy Impala SS Sedan Black 125k Miles $7750
Top Right: 2008 Chevy Uplander LS 4 Dr Tan 117k Miles $7585
Middle Left: 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP Comp G Pkg Sedan Maroon 102k $7685
Middle Right: 2006 Chevy Impala LS Gray 119k Miles $7385
Bottom Left: 2000 Chevy Impala Sedan Green Metallic 110k Miles $4985
Bottom right: 2003 Pontiac Grand am SE Sedan Gold 93k Miles $5685

But I've also been
doing a crapload of laundry too...

with Baby
who loves to hang out and look for
loose change and bills in the washing machine.
Well maybe that's ME who loves to look for loose change and bills...whatev.

No. My washing machine is not dirty. Your computer screen justs needs cleaning.

LOOK!
BABY THE KITTY CAT TOTALLY SCORED THE BIG BUCKS THIS LOAD!!!!!
THAT looks
like LOTSA CASH amongst those jammies and socks!!!!

Eh....

ended up to be 6 bucks...

I've seen better.

Let's see what the next load in the washing machine brings.....

JACKPOT!!!!!!!!
ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching

YEAH!!!
Now this is what what I'm talkin' 'bout!!!!!

Fifteen
Smackeroos!!!

I can buy like 4 lbs of hamburger with this!!! Or 260 lbs.
chicken legs.

I tasked my best security officer on guarding this
Operation:
washer windfall MoneyKeep Yer hands Off, It's Mine, All Mine.

Officer Baby
got bored though....

and took to guarding

the more lucrative dishware on the dining room shelves, instead.

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong....

OKAY!! OKAY!!!
I'll stop fooling around and get to posting about food now, especially this super easy, yummy dish....
Monterey Chicken

Chicken breasts
piled high with barbeque sauce, tomatoes, green onions, green chilies and BACON!

Not many fixins for all the deliciousness!

And it all starts

with these fixins!!

Now, in my 8 month absence,
my website provider thingie TOOK AWAY THE PRINT OPTION for my recipes!!
Can you believe it?
Yahoos.
Anhoo, I guess if you want to print off the recipe you will have to click on the document and follow instructions accordingly.
Uh, good luck with that one :) If neither one works, let me know by emailing me at salesturnkeyauto@aol.com or comment after this post and I'll see what I can do.....
Thank you!!!!!

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Okay, first off, you need to even out those chicken breasts, so I put them between plastic wrap and pound them out.
Some people get enjoyment out of this, I just get grossed out quite frankly.

Next,
throw some aluminum foil on a baking tray.

I really wish someone would submit this picture into a contest for most boring, dumbest picture ever. It'd be the only contest I would ever win.

Okay, I'm gonna amp up the excitement a bit with the next photo.....

What?
It's more exciting than aluminum foil, yes?
Anyway, drain the tomatoes. OH!!! I've made this twice and the second time I used FIRE ROASTED diced tomatoes and those provided a bigger punch of flavor by the way!

So cook and chop up your bacon
and chop up the green onions....

Now write a love note to your BFF Bacon.....

Or you can sing the song
Love In The First Degree
to make your point about your undying love for BACON.

By the way....did you think Crystal Gayle sang that song,
"Love In The First Degree?"

That was my first guess.

Also. What was up with Crystal's hair?? I mean, it was pretty and all, but wow, there had to have been some 5 year old spaghetti sauce somewhere in there. Or Twinkie crumbs or something.

Did you know Edie died in 1998 at the age of 56 from lung cancer? Doesn't seem possible, does it?

My second guess on the artist who sang
Love In The First Degree
was Eddie Rabbitt.

Eddie Rabbitt wrote a duet for Crystal Gale actually.

He actually got his start in the business by writing for Elvis Presley and went on to write hits for Ronnie Milsap and of course for himself as a crossover artist.

Remember Ronnie Milsap, though?

Did you know Ronnie was blind????

WHAT THE WHAT??!!

I had NO IDEA!!!!

I love Smoky Mountain Rain!!
I dare you to listen to this and not hum it for the
rest of the day....HeeHee......you're welcome :)

This is Crystal and Eddie singing
Just You and I,
the song Eddie wrote for their duet.

And of course Eddie's biggest hit was the song
Every Which Way But Loose.
Watch this video, you will see a younger Clint Eastwood....
he was so handsome and likeable, eh?

Anyhoo, getting back to the yummy Monterey Chicken.....

Grab that non-stick skillet pan....

Salt and pepper up those chicken breasts....

Grill those suckers up until they are no longer pink....

Place the cooked chicken breasts on a baking sheet lined with foil.

Combine the can of diced chiles and tomatoes in a bowl...yum!! Smells awesome!

Now get everything ready to go and it goes quick from here...

See those chicken breasts?
1. Spoon some of the BBQ sauce on them.
2. Sprinkle the cheese...yum...
3. Now spoon the chile tomato mixture on.
4. And top with green onions.

Place in oven and bake until cheese melts (5-10 minutes)...
well, okay, if you INSIST!

Hello Lovely
Monterey Chicken!
Where have you been all my life?

C'mere!

I want to EAT YOU!!!!

Okay,
so this is a
super simple,
easy,
weeknight meal.

It's not gonna knock the socks off famous chefs from famous restaurants...

But this dish will satisfy hungry husbands, wives, kiddos, kiddos' friends, relatives, friends, and anyone else who may show up for dinner.....

Okay, so that's all I got for now.....first post in eight months and the best I can do is Crystal Gale and Monterey Chicken.
Yee Haw!

Hey wait.....
Tim's coming down the road.....

And he wants to say Hellloooooooooooooooo!!!!
Helllloooooooooo, Tim!!

Okay, now that all that excitement is out of the way,

I will bid you adieu for a bit until I can get my brain focused on the next blog post (which may be vegan....)....I KNOW!! VEGAN!

So until next time my good friends, eat well and well....SAVE SOME FOR ME!!!! :):)

Have a great week!!!

Talk at ya soon!!

So They Make These Receptacle Things To Help With Crappy, Messy Laundry Rooms Called BASKETS! Also Baaaad Food Pictures, Cute Babies And The Big Finish Of Hot Dogs!

9/9/2013

Floppy Magoo Recipe #1:
Does this look yummy to you?

It doesn't, does it??!!

This was supposed to be Apple Crisp.

It was more like
Apple Flop.

Apparently the "topping" was supposed to be a "crumble" not a smear of goopiness.

And apparently this was supposed to have "flavor" too.

Floppy Magoo Recipe #2: This Squash Bread Stuffing was more like Let's-Dry-Out-Your-Mouth-And-Dehydrate-Your-Whole-Body-By-Sticking-A-Bunch-Of-Bread-In-There-With-A-Tiny-Bit-of-Vegetable-And-Bacon-And-Call-It-A-Stuffing Dish.
I felt like I was in the Sahara Desert.
Waaaaterrrrr, I neeed waaattteeeerrr.

Floppy Magoo Recipe #3:
Chicken on Nachos.
So I was TRYING to make something
original.
Something that no one has ever made BEFORE - ever in all the culinary history of the world.

Shut up!!!!

I SWEAR on a stack of Grandma's Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks that the crap laying on those chips is real food!!!
F.
O.
O.
D.
Food!!!

Not poo!!
Food!!!!
It was supposed to be Chicken Nachos.

Tim wouldn't eat it.

He's a snob.

Floppy Magoo #4: Could someone come over and clean my kitchen?

What about my kitchen from a week ago?

WHY CAN'T I KEEP A CLEAN KITCHEN??!!?
And why does my mother-in-law leave her empty wine bottles on my counter all the time??!!??!!

Heeeeeeeee. I'm just teasing.

Those aren't my mother-in-law's.

Those are my mom's!!

Dear Ma,

Please Do Not take me out of the will. I was kidding for Pete's sake!! It's pretend, it's a blog, I LIE sometimes!

Love,
your favorite daughter Angie

Hey LOOK!!! My laundry room is a little clean though!!!!

GO ANGIE, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY, GONNA PARTY. LIKE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY. Re-looking at this picture again, I know it looks messy but BELIEVE ME, this is CLEAN! For me.

I discovered "receptacles" y'all!!

The fancy word for them is "BASKETS!!!"
They are helpful in corralling laundry!!

Still partying, like it's my birthday, keep partying, even though it's not my birthday!

And one month after discovering receptacles, how is the laundry room looking,
you ask??!!

GO ANGIE, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY, GONNA PARTY, oh I'll shut up now.

YAY!!!!
Still clean!!!!

Kind of.

Cloooose enough!!!

Completely random photo of
birds on a wire in the yard a month ago!

Floppy Magoo #5:

*shaking head*

I have no explanation.
Move along now.

*shaking head*

Floppy Magoo #6: These combo potatoes didn't look too bad before going in the hot oven, did they?

Well, we didn't eat them. They came out limpy-magoo and flavorless. Even the cats wouldn't try one. They sniffed and walked away.

Completely.

Utterly.

Serious.

Human mom crayzee. She can kiss our smelly feeeet.

Okay, let's move on to more
deeelish things....

Our beautiful, soulful niece Annabelle and her family came over for dinner one night this summer!

Annabelle &
Little Boy Blue played
and played
and played!

And Annabelle's parents brought a bee-utiful baby boy with them...our new baby nephew Graham!!

This yittle chunky baby was not even two months old!

That is one well fed yittle tiny baby boy!!!
Look at those chunkmeister legs!

However...
Little Boy Blue
was intrigued by this new baby boy his Grandpa was holding and talking to...

yet confused why HE wasn't the recipient of the holding and cooing.

So everybody
practiced the art of compromise.

Oh my gosh, don't even get me started on our two new baby nieces who are one month apart!!!
They look like yittle tiny burritos I love them so!

Baby Niece Kathlynn is six weeks old here....and Baby Niece Matti is two weeks old!!! Oh my gosh, Ima eat those two babies up they're so darn yummy!!!
And the kicker is Tim and I got to snuggle all three brand new nieces and nephew within a few months of each other! Blessed is what we feel!

So I'm going through my roll of pictures and I
spy this picture....
Now why would I take a picture of my dirty work shoes and dirty work shorts at the end of the day with that super lovely birthmark on my leg?

Well, the next picture told the story.

No it didn't! It didn't tell the story!!
These pictures were taken FIVE WEEKS AGO! Heck, I can't remember what I ate for breakfast much less why on earth would I photograph dirty clothes?

The only thing I can think of is to prove that I work hard.
Really? Why would I think dirty clothes prove that?
My cats go outside CLEAN every morning and roll in the gravel and dirt for hours. Does THAT prove that they are hard workers? On the contrary. They're lazy, spoiled felines who do things like roll in the dirt and gravel for hours. For fun. Just Because.

Clearly there's no closure to THAT conundrum so let's keep moving on...

It's very important
what I want to show you next....

Orange
and
yellow handled silverware!!!
Picked these up at auction. They forced me to bid on them. Cause they're awesome.

Also I wanted to show you the
summer kitchen.
We use it as an outdoor sitting room/office.

See that Radio Flyer wagon by the door,
in the left hand corner up there....

...It cost like
30 million dollars!!!

Seriously, have you priced wagons lately??

When did little red wagons get so expensive?

Back in my day, you could buy them for a nickel and stick of sugar I'm pretty sure.

So this is the ceiling of the summer kitchen.

I have a few vintage frames just hanging around up there.

And on the floor is this handmade,
all weather, turtle rug...it came from a Florida flea market.

Washes and wears great! Perfect for a summer kitchen.

I'll tell ya what I like A LOT is this set of rattan nesting tables.

Cute AND functional.

Picked up this set for $25 at a used store this summer, what a steal!

Now this is a 1940/50s metal outside set that I had purchased several years ago. There is a chair too.

I still have the original floral plastic cushions but traded those out for these more comfy ones.

This is a set of 4 cottage prints that look better in person than this picture shows.

Okay, since all these fantastic pictures and text were just sooooo exciting today,
I feel I must end this post with a bang!

Did you know you can put hot dogs in the crockpot!!!
True dat!

It's so much better and easier than cooking 56 hot dogs over a hot grill while everyone else is having fun!

Worked perfectly by the way!!
Throw them in on low for 4 hours or high for 2 hours.
They get all nice and warm and taste like the dogs you get at the ballpark! The outside ones even get some lines on them. Yum!
Crap. Now I'm hungry.

Thanks for humoring me guys!
Oh! I did make some beef fajitas that were absolutely fantastic so I'll be sharing that recipe next time.

Stay cool and we'll
talk at ya soon!!

Super Boring Randomness On A Cold Snowy Day

1/30/2013

Oh my goodness,
you know this post is going to be a snoozefest when the first picture is the inside of Angie's washing machine!

But look in there!

That's a $10 bill there
AND
another bill!!!

I got excited...it could be like two $10 bills, that's like TWENTY bucks total!!

Twenty bucks! Twenty free dollars!
The world is at your fingertip with 20
FREE
dollars!!
Happiness is just around the corner.
All wrongs suddenly become righted.
and YES MONEY DOES BUY HAPPINESS EVEN IF IT'S ONLY TWENTY DOLLARS!

WHAT THE WHAT????

$11???

What kind of crap is that?

Somehow
that $9 difference is a big deal.
It's the difference between me buying that really cute pillow I've been eyeballing and not buying that really cute pillow I've been eyeballing.

Eleven bucks.

Eleven bucks buys me a gallon of milk, two dozen eggs and a bag of cat litter.

Oh,

and dashed dreams.

Oh well,

at least I have cute blue~and~white napkins.

Seriously? You wake me up and no treats are involved? Gibby not happy.

And a cute
Thanksgiving Day kitty
named
Giblet Pearl
who is a little annoyed I woke her up with the
clicking camera.

Hey, I'm curious.
Do you ever get out the broom just so the kitty in the house can be temporarily entertained?

No?

Well, I don't either.

I just got those pictures up there off internet.

Do you think my fridge needs more stuff
on it?
Is it looking a little bare?

Gibby
is caught red-handed.....

...being naughty.

I love how Vinny in back there
is just sitting like,

"Dude. You are gonna be in so.
much.
trouble!"

I love chunky, colorful glass.

Like this Blenko glass vase.

See that nice sheen on it?

That's called kitchen grease.

I'd like to get serious here for a minute if you will allow me.

I was just kidding about the getting serious thing.
Isn't this 70's vintage Bob's Big Boy cute??

He's a bank!

Maybe that's where I'll hide that windfall from the washing machine this morning.

And how about this vintage 1970's
Curad boy??

Now, how cute is he???

The back of his head is a bank too.

This is in my kitchen.

Because baseball collectibles should naturally be in a kitchen, yes?

See how I keep that girly vase up there though? Hehehe

Now this thing is a vintage 60's popcorn megaphone.

Spectators purchased these at pro baseball games and they held popcorn.

After one was done snarfing the popcorn, you punched out the bottom and it became a megaphone so you could yell at the players.

Below the baseball shelf in the kitchen, sits the all mighty communication board.

I think we're a little late on that Chicken Dinner at St. Patrick's Church from 1960.

See the top right hand corner of this board?

Therein is a turn-of-the-century picture of a lady and her bicycle.
Love it!

Here's the picture,

out of Cedar Rapids.

Man, those ladies were heavily garmented back then,
weren't they?

For those of you new to this blog...garmented is a word...in the Pretend Word Dictionary. Look it up.

Next to the top secret communication board are two pictures of old houses.

The top house is a pencil drawing from the early 1900's,

the bottom is an old photograph maybe circa 1920's.

I love pictures of old houses
and old people
and old cars
and old Christmas stuff and...
well, you get the drift.

OH!
I know what I was going to show you!!

See this? Isn't it cool?
I bought it at an antique shop in Hermann, Mo.
It's a handmade boat dock on driftwood.

Look at the detail of the boat dock...

And the detail of the pelican...

Well,
see Vinny here?

Vinny ATE THE HEAD OFF THE PELICAN LAST NIGHT.
WHO EATS THE HEAD OFF A PELICAN FOR PETE'S SAKE??!

Well, I glued the pelican head back on and it's safe for now.

As another nod to my nautical collection,

here's an advertising thermometer in the shape of a captain's wheel.

OH!

Here's a vintage shell lamp in my kitchen I wanted to show you.

And look at these two adorable vintage birds.

Tweet.
Tweet.

Guess what I found in my barn?

This cool vintage
Iowa plate!

Interesting, hmmm.
1. A field of ripened corn.
2. Where the Indians roamed.
3. Corn fed pork.
4. Ready for market.
5. The capital.

As we all know, Iowa is so much more than, uh, "Ready for market."

Okay, now see this recipe box?
It's from Tim's family.

This recipe says
Rice Salad.

Soft Chocolate Frosting...yum!!

Coconut Cake...oh my!

Yummy
Hunk Pickles!

Hot Milk Cake...what??
I'll take TWO please!

I like chunky, texture-y things like this memory ware vase that I've had for years....

And this shell vase thing...with wings apparently.

This art piece and throw are texture-y and chunky...

And this artwork is full of texture...I love this picture.
I paid $7 for it at a consignment shop.

And who doesn't love chunky beef stew as in
Beef Stew with Paprika and Beer?

Except I won't be sharing this recipe cuz it was just meh. Okay. All right. Nothing to groove on. Typical. Not out of the ordinary.
Done or raw,
fills the craw.
Type of thing.

Should have tasted more interesting with all these ingredients though,
don't ya think?

Well, I better get back to work now.
The electricity has been going on and off all morning due to this heavy wet snow and ice storm.

This picture does not describe the miserableness of the snow out there...it is snowing and blowing terribly...I can't even see my neighbors' houses.
And apparently my spatial meter is off because I reported to Tim this morning that there were no drifts in the driveway.

Tim informed me that the snow there was 3 feet deep and I may want to reconsider my definition of snow drift.

Okay, this was taken out my front door right now at 1:10pm.

Yowza!

Okay guys, thanks for humoring me with this ridiculously boring post!
Have a good Wednesday....stay safe if you're in a
stormy area!!!
Talk at ya soon!!

OH HELLO!!!! A Guest Post From Kitty-Cat

11/27/2012

Hi There!!!!
My name is Kitty-Cat.

Peek a boo. I'm heeeeerrrre!

I'm new here in the family.....that's why I don't have a formal name yet...I just got here Thanksgiving day...

...but I've already noticed a few things.

#1....My Momma don't like to fold laundry.

Ever.

See that pile on the left hand side there on the floor? Clean.
And on the dryer? Clean.

Hey jerk, give me three cat treats if you want to enter. The good treats, not the crappy cheap ones.

Also, I've noticed my brother Vinny is the laundry room landlord.
Or acts like it anyway.

He likes to sleep on the clean laundry too.

Makes ya wanna eat at my momma's house, doesn't it?

You mess with my routine, I give you death stare too.

I don't mess too much with Vinny though, cuz he can give you the
death stare.

Like this.

All I did was jump out of my new parent's arms into the living room for the first time and Vinny hissed and ran onto the stairs and stayed there all night.

Staring.

And staring more.

And then he just kept staring.

For the WHOLE night.

Momma should come into the laundry room more often though, you know, to fold clothes and such.

When she does come in,

it's because she's putting nice smelling candle stuff in her warmer she bought from her sister JoJo who sells Scentsy.

OH! I met my Aunt JoJo on Thanksgiving. She's nice.

What you mean I'm "full-figured?"

Aunt JoJo's doggie Bella is nice too.
Bella gives my momma many wet,
slobbery kisses.

Bella's sister, Princess Hemi, looks just like Bella.

Princess Hemi must have been eating when this picture was taken. Both doggies are super-spoiled, and very "well-fed" gals.

#2 Thing I've noticed....my Momma takes boring pictures and thinks EVERYONE should like them....

Case in point,

I saw her tear outside this morning in her pajamas to get this picture of the sunrise.

Kinda too bad about the Hawks this year, huh Dad?

I find those kinds of things terribly boring.

I'd rather be watching football with my new dad than looking at yet another scenic picture.

Maybe my momma ought to tear outside in the DAYLIGHT and do something about her "Fall" arrangement when it's almost December.

#3 Thing about my Momma I've noticed...she loves to cook and follows recipes exactly and sometimes a dish comes out okay like these savory carrots and chipotle sweet potato casserole....

Don't even get me started.

And sometimes her dishes come out so disgusting like this one two weeks ago, that she can't even swallow one bite of the crap and has to throw the whole thing out AND WORSE, wash the pot which definitely does not make her happy.

#4 Thing....my Momma LOVES, LOVES, LOVES cheesecake! Loves it!

I haven't seen her make cheesecake yet but she also loves a good sale, clearly, and stocked up on the Philly Cream Cheese.

I'm thinking a cheesecake is in her future.

Also my momma wants ya'll to know that that is NOT a can of dog food in the refrigerator. It's refried beans. She would never store dog food on top of people food....geez.

#5 Thing....my Momma lies sometimes on this blog.

#6 Thing I've noticed about my Momma is that she has been very busy lately with stuff like these boxes.

I wish she would keep the lids off these boxes more so I can sleep in them.

Cuz right now I sleep on places like the inside of momma's coat while she's at the computer.

Climbing on my momma's head is so exhausting.

Last Thing I've noticed about my Momma...she likes to put cars for sale online like these....

2002
Pontiac
Grand Prix GT...

2004
Pontiac
Grand Am GT...

She LOVES this 'like new'
2003 Buick
Century Custom
with 127k miles...

And then last night I tried to stop her from posting this
2000
Pontiac
Grand Prix GT
by repeatedly doing flying leaps onto her sweater with my claws out, but it didn't work. She posted it instead of playing with me.

So I waited patiently for my momma to get done with her work so she could give her undivided attention to me.

And she did.
Eventually.

Swear to God my mom has all her teeth, she is not missing one like how it looks.

Yeah,

I like my new home pretty good. I'll keep my new mom and dad happy and be their loveable kitty cat for the next 20 years I guess.

I suspect you'll be seeing a lot more of me :)

Let's see how many times I can put my bottom in mom's face before she gives me to dad.

In fact I gotta get back to crawling on my momma,
she looks like she's missing me.

So, we'll see ya next time!!

Momma says she'll talk at ya soon too!

Have a good Tuesday night!!!

Mad Master Gardener Skillz

5/29/2012

Hidey Ho everybody!!
Hope ya'll had a fun, relaxing Memorial Day weekend!

So it's like, what, Monday May 28th?

Almost the first of June, right?
Well, I was looking around my property and thought I would share some of my master gardening skillz with you so far this year.

I just ask that you not get too envious and never visit my blog again.

Let's start with an 8 foot long gate hanging out by my garage, framed at the bottom with fern thing plants.

Kind of cute if you like rustic

garden art, yes?

Look real closely and you'll see a crock by that fence....

...just barely peeking out of the fern things.

This is my personal relaxation space.
I hide out here and think and dream and write sonnets and solve world peace issues.
Of course that's not true. You know that, because there is no place to put cheesecake. If Ima solve world peace issues, Ima need cheesecake!

Oh hey!!!
Keep following me...I want to show you some pretty green foliage I planted in my blue planter out by the barn.

Isn't it pretty???!!!

This foliage is soooo cheap!!!

The technical name for this greenery is "weeds" I've been told.

And what do you think of the pretty plant by the white wooden chairs down below??

Again, this plant was soooo cheap. It was cheap because it's invisible.
These kind of invisible plants are hard to find at the garden centers cuz they're hard to spot.
Cuz they're invisible. Duh.

Hey, I do love these barbed wire boots hanging on my barn pole though!!
Can you see them?
They're barbed wire, shaped like boots.

One time when I was twelve, I was chasing a cow in a field at dusk and there was a barbed wire fence about waist height.

Guess how I found out the fence was there?

Yep,you guessed it.

By hanging upside down on it.
*sigh*

Moving on, I'd like to show you the flowers I have displayed with this vintage vignette in front of the barn.

Except I don't have any flowers yet.

I do however, need to repair that window. Note to Tim, repair window. Hehehe.

And just to prove that I'm not a total slob...the one side of my barn is not junked up at all.
It's rather organized I would say.

It needs painted, yes.

But it's not junked up. Course I am aware everyone's definition of "junked up" is different :)

And that green foliage called "weeds" in the blue planter by the barn,
oddly spread to this sandbox.

I think birds or butterflies drop those foliage seeds when they're flying.

How else can one explain this crappiness?

This
wagon wheel possibly could use a little attention,

whatch ya think?

Where's those darn kids when you need them to paint?

College, schmollege.

Married,
schmarried.

There's no loyalty with those kids.

I have no reasonable explanation why there is a coffee pot in this vintage bike basket.

Who rides a bike with a coffee pot?

Why does everything need constantly painted on this property?

Why are there birdhouses attached to this bench?

FINALLY!
Something pretty to show you!!!
Pretty yellow planters and a vintage wire flower cart.

Do you see those beautiful yellow, orange and pink gerber daisies?

Aren't they gorg??!!

Don't see them?

Well look closer then.

Photocredit: quadcitymomsblog.com

Well, NOW do you see

them??!!

They just happen to look real tiny in those yellow planters up there, that's all.
You just have to look hard.

The pink horse trough does need some attention though,

I must admit.

But don'tcha love these textured orange and lime green planters?

And this oldie crock by the summer kitchen is just sca-reaming to be filled with a pretty floral arrangement.

Or sauerkraut.

Finally,

I'm on the fence with this one...if those weeds get tall enough in this flower box, I can just hang Christmas bulbs off them and not have to worry about decorating come Christmastime.

Whatch ya think?
Who's with me now?

Well, hopefully the next pictures of all these planters will look much better.
You know,
with plants in them and such :):):)

Thanks for checking in gals and guys!!!

Hope everyone has a

good Tuesday!!!

See ya next time!!!

I Got Distracted with Patrick Swayze and His Dancing Partner Jennifer So there Is No Chicken in Red Wine and Butter Bean Puree Yet

5/10/2012

I was driving in the car last week and this came on.

Remember this song?

DO YOU LOVE ME?!!! Do you love me?

It's from 1962!!!

Can you believe it?

The group's name is The Contours and
Berry Gordy with Motown signed them.

This was The Contours only hit song.

I kept trying to figure out how I know this song so well.

Then it occured to me.

Do You Love Me is from the Dirty Dancing movie and soundtrack!!!

Remember
Dirty Dancing with
Patrick Swayze and
Jennifer Grey?

Jennifer looked all cutie-cute-cute and Patrick Swayze looked awesome like he always did.

Well, I wanted to show the video of the

"Do You Love Me" song

from the movie Dirty Dancing.

But this is a G-rated blog and that video is,

uh,

not G rated.

It's kind of PG+, not R or anything, just not necessarily "G" :).

But the lyrics are completely fine!

Plus they talk about mashed potatoes and you know how I am a starch gal!!
Hehehehe.

Do You Love Me

You broke my heart, cause I couldn't dance
You didn't even want me around.
And now I'm back, to let you know, I can really shake 'em down.

Do you love me? (I can really move)
Do you love me? (I'm in the groove)
Do you love me? (Do you love me)
Now that I can dance
Watch me now HEY!

Work, work Aw- work it out baby
Work, work Well you're drivin me crazy
Work, work Just a little bit of soul now - Work!

I can mash potato (I can mash potato)
I can do the twist (I can do the twist)
Well now tell me baby (Well now tell me baby)
Do you like it like this? (Do you like it like this?)

Tell me! (Tell me!) Tell me!

Do you love me? (I can really move)
Do you love me? (I'm in the groove)
Do you love me? (Do you love me)
Now that I can dance...
Watch me now! HEY!

Work, work Aw- Shake it up baby
Work, work Aw- Shake it down baby
Work, work Just a little bit of soul - Work!

I can mash potato (I can mash potato)
I can do the twist (I can do the twist)
Well now tell me baby (Well now tell me baby)
Do you like it like this? (Do you like it like this?)
Tell me! (Tell me!)

So instead, I'm playing my favorite scene in

the Dirty Dancing movie...

Where Patrick Swayze jumps off the stage at the end and turns his head around.

I love it.

Here it is!

CRAPOLA...Update...Okay, guess not!!! I believe You Tube disabled my video of the final scene of Dirty Dancing with Patrick and Jennifer Grey...oh well, copyright, shopyright :):):)

Hey, do ya think I should start talking about

the Chicken in Red Wine and

Bean Puree now??

Nahhhh!!!

Ima show you my living room closet that is

still full of crap.

I have no

reasonable

explanation

for this

closet.

Or for showing you a picture of my messy closet.

Except for it's my

blind beagle

Mindy Peaches's

fault this time.

Min loves to throw blankets and crap in that closet without folding them or hanging them up; with no regard for orderliness or cleanliness. Duh.

Lazy dog.

Uh-huh.

Oh my, there's already too many pictures and videos in this post to make room for 30 more picutes of the Red Wine Chicken, so I'll close out this post for now and blog next time on the actual recipe, probably later today, okay?

But before I do that,

I must share with you my

#1 movie

of all time which I've seen probably 40 times and I'm probably gonna make
Stud Muffin watch it with me again tonight....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

"I ain't drawin' against ya Harry."

"Get off the nuclear warhead."

Okay see ya probably later today with exciting (be still my heart!!!) pictures of this Red Wine Chicken that you're already tired of hearing about :):)

Have a great Thursday ya'll!!

Talk at ya soon!!

Hey! Just went outside to take the trash out and saw my peonies are starting to bloom.....lucky you!

Cuz you know there wil be another picture or two to bore you to tears in the coming week :)

And remember some of my siblings and I are doing a Biggest Loser contest???

Well, it's 6am and I really need to get outside and run the open field...7 times around is a mile in case you were wondering.

It might help

if I tie my

shoes.

AND get out of my pajamas.

*sigh*

See ya later today probably.

If I'm still alive after running 1/7 of a mile.

Don't worry. I'll tie my shoes but I'm not changing out of my pajamas!

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Hidey Ho, Friends!!!!!!!

It's been SIX months since I last posted!

SIX

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MONTHS!!!

Ain't It Weird How Places From Your Childhood Are So Much Larger In your Memories Than The Actual Reality?

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Angie's Share Day - And no, you won't be bored. Yes you will.

Before.

After.

I'm BAAAAAAACKKKK!!!!!! I brought some Eddie Rabbitt and Ronnie Milsap and Crystal Gale with me. OH! Also a Tasty Monterrey Chicken Recipe!

Tain't Matter!!!!!!

IT'S SPRING AND SUMMERTIME NOW!!!!

GO SUMMERTIME, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!! GONNA PAR-TAY LIKE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!

Place in oven and bake until cheese melts (5-10 minutes)...
well, okay, if you INSIST!

Hello Lovely
Monterey Chicken!
Where have you been all my life?

So They Make These Receptacle Things To Help With Crappy, Messy Laundry Rooms Called BASKETS! Also Baaaad Food Pictures, Cute Babies And The Big Finish Of Hot Dogs!

Super Boring Randomness On A Cold Snowy Day

OH HELLO!!!! A Guest Post From Kitty-Cat

Mad Master Gardener Skillz

I Got Distracted with Patrick Swayze and His Dancing Partner Jennifer So there Is No Chicken in Red Wine and Butter Bean Puree Yet

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Hidey Ho, Friends!!!!!!!It's been SIX months since I last posted!SIXwhole​MONTHS!!!

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Before.

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Tain't Matter!!!!!!IT'S ﻿﻿SPRING﻿ ﻿AND ﻿SUMMERTIME﻿ NOW!!!!

﻿﻿GO SUMMERTIME, ﻿IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!! GONNA PAR-TAY LIKE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!﻿

﻿﻿﻿Place in oven and bake until cheese melts (5-10 minutes)...well, okay, if you INSIST!﻿﻿﻿Hello Lovely Monterey Chicken! ﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Where have you been all my life?﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿

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Hidey Ho, Friends!!!!!!!

It's been SIX months since I last posted!

SIX

whole

MONTHS!!!

Tain't Matter!!!!!!

IT'S SPRING AND SUMMERTIME NOW!!!!

GO SUMMERTIME, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!! GONNA PAR-TAY LIKE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!

Place in oven and bake until cheese melts (5-10 minutes)...
well, okay, if you INSIST!

Hello Lovely
Monterey Chicken!
Where have you been all my life?