Cooking Blog Sites

Happy Monday morning!  This weekend my husband and I went to the Wisconsin State Fair.  My favorite parts of the fair are the animals and the local food products.  After going through the Wisconsin products pavilion I always have a million different recipes ideas in my head.  But like normal, it almost all seeps out of my head before I can write them down.  of course after all of this thinking about food I go and check on my favorite cooking blogs for ideas.  So here are some of the sites that I visit:

Pioneer Woman

Georgia Pellegrini

Annie’s Eats

Big Girls Small Kitchen

Cookin Canuck

Oh She Glows

The Kitchn

The faux Martha

A Cozy Kitchen

Two Peas & Their Pod

Oh My Veggies

I’m excited to try a number of new recipes this year as I am finally getting a deep freezer!!! Yes, its the little things that make me happy 🙂

Have a great Monday and SMILE!

David McDonough, The passing of a great soul

There are many sides to a person, just as there is with my Uncle David.  Some knew him as buddy, friend, skydiver, crawfishlover, beerdrinker, California wine connoisseur, parrothead, troublemaker, Uncle, Brother, Son, Husband, and Father.  I knew him as my Uncle, the one ‘older’ person that I knew that didn’t make me feel like a child.  He didn’t talk down to me, he always treated me as an equal, even when I was 8 and he was teaching me how to cook chicken on the grill.  The steps were simple:

1. Place the chicken on the grill, open a Corona and drink

2. Once you’ve finished the beer, flip the chicken and open another beer

3. Complete the second Corona and the chicken will be done.

I haven’t been able to replicate this way of cooking chicken, I think it has to do with the fact I can’t drink that fast :).

He was the cool Uncle that lived in California, traveled to Fiji to scuba diver, and jumped out of plane (skydive) because it was fun.  He was an amazing person who did so many things in his life.  And he will be missed by his wife, daughter, family, and friends.

From my mother, Sarah David’s sister:

Blue Skies

Black Death

Fly with the Angels

No more suffering

No more pain

R.I.P. my Dear Brother David

So at the end of today, a day of tears sad for your passing but relived you are no longer in pain, I lift this Corona and drink to you Uncle Dave.  May you find Blue Skies.

Music Video of the Week – Rising Appalchia

Rising Appalachia,  I came across the music of these sisters only about 3 weeks ago.  And I have to say, I’ve been listening to their music since.  It’s beautiful, full of heart, soul, and passion that is not hear in ‘mainstream’ music anymore.  Please watch their video below and take a look at their site.

Have a great day!

When you realize that some people change and in your eyes the change for the worse, it hurts

This is something that I am having to deal with right now.  There has been a great deal of stress in the family for the past year due to different family members being very very ill and stressful circumstances.  One person can not be expected to take care of all the sick people in one family, and up until now, everyone lived in their dream worlds thinking that.  Now that others who have kept there heads burned in the sand for the last year have surfaced for air, they are seeing that we can not keep going on like this, with all the pressure on just us.  But instead of fully helping out, without complains, they are complaining and blaming.  Granted, they are helping were they can, the complaining and over all bitching is completely un-needed and is putting more stress on us.

I have a feeling that those with evil hearts are trying to pull us apart by planting seeds of lies in those with weak minds.

I just hope in the end, we are still a family.

Have you dealt with a family situation like this?  How did it work out in the end?

Summer Break?

Well, it seems I’ve taken a summer break from the blog.  With all of the holidays and family events seeming to happen at the same time I sadly forgot to blog!  Summer is really an active time around here.  There are festivals, farmer’s markets, and music just about every day.  We seem to attempt to fit 365 days of fun outside in just 3 or 4 months.

So if it is nice outside or even raining, go and enjoy it!