Tuesday, Sept 28th

'Tis a cool, rainy day and we have guests for lunch. What better than some homemade chicken soup! Perhaps with some herbed butter toast!!

YUMMMMMM!!!!!

Sunday, Sept 26th - CHILI!!!!!

FIRST OF ALL, everyone must understand that I can't tolerate very spicy foods - I like the taste and the tingle but an old ulcer makes such things inedible without an entire jar of TUMS 1000's! But Kathy had a recipe for a mild chili that we made yesterday..... it was originally designed for ground turkey but I had hamburger and used that instead. Chopped green pepper and chopped onion, a bunch of spices and chili sauce and just a touch of hot sauce - all simmered for about 45 minutes (oh yeah.... red and dark red kidney beans too)! IT WAS DELICIOUS!!!!!

I made cornbread (with a substitution of creamed corn for the milk) and used bacon fat in a cast iron skillet like I had seen done on several cooking shows. Even THAT was AWESOME! Crispy on the bottom and crumbly on the inside........ what a wonderful Fall meal!!!!!

Thank goodness we have leftovers of both!!!!!

Friday, September 10

OMG....... a new recipe for ribs tonight! Instead of smoking with hickory, I smoked 'em with apple wood and spritzed 'em with apple juice every half hour....... the results were just SPECTACULAR!

Thursday, September 9th

Back from a fantastic long weekend at my son's wedding in Ann Arbor. All of the food I made for the rehearsal dinner went over VERY well! There was some chicken/rice left over that I had put into 'to go' boxes and a few of the guys brought them to a local bar and got free drinks for 'em!

Started coming down with a cold yesterday so I made a hearty chicken soup - it was welcome on a cool (66) day yesterday.