heres some stuff

Wow, it took me 4 long tries to upload these pics. Crazy.

BEEF STEW

This is bacon grease, Thats what I brown the meat in and start the basis of the stew.

It looks funky but its just boullion cubes of beef stock that I was boiling water in the pan that I cooked the bacon in.....just to finish getting the rest of the bits out.

This is some of the family waiting for stew. As usual I have no after shot. Someone should tell me to put down the fork and pick up the camera.

EGGPLANT PARMESAN

No after shot but you get the idea of the layering of the breaded and fried eggplant with the marinara. You top it off with a bunch of grated parm and pop it into the oven.

MIGAS/BREAKY BURRITOS

she ate every bit as much as I did

Left over pork bone and hunk of fat. No before or after pics of this one but doesn't the bare bone say it all.

It was a 3 1/2 hr roast that I did a dry rub on.

MISC. PIZZA

I calle dup my dad becasue I was dying for pizza and this man has spent a number of yrs perfecting his crust recipe and I couldn't find my copy!!!! Needless to say this is not his crust and nothing to write home about but the rest wasn't bad.

Hot cocoa and the museum. YAY.

I'll write more later but I am exhausted right now. LOVE as usual!

Alright guys...

I know its been alittle while but to tell you the truth I am slumping and I am slumping hard. I don't know if it has to do with coming back into the reality of kids outta the house during the day, the $$ problems, the dark the whatever, maybe all of it, but I hit a wall. I don't want to cook, I'm tired and irritable and dang just somewhat depressed. Anyways, I have made a few things and when I get the motivation to load them I'll do it but for now I've got nothing. It'll pass soon I'm sure and I'll be bopping around again. We all have these times right. Big love as always

The last days of xmas break.

Okay, no this is not the last days of break. This is my breakfast this morning. Thanks to my cousin Asia I am all about learning how to poach an egg. I will perfect it sometime but for now...the experiments are still yummy.

PIONEER WOMAN DINNER ROLLS

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/11/pw_dinner_rolls_-_no_kneading_required/

I tried to get my man to take some pics of the part where you assemble the rolls but you put a camera in his hands and its all boob shots. Sorry but its true. I made the rolls a few weeks ago for a crab dinner we were having and they were so good I had to make them again. I do knead them alittle though. Maybe I just can't resist since kneading is one of my favorite parts of making any bready thingy. I also had extra dough left over so......

I made this bread. which made.....

This rasberry yogurt bread pudding with alittle of that strawberry glaze from that cake cooked in it.

and this was breakfast on Sunday.

STUFFED PEPPERS

easy peasy. brown some ground beef + onion, rice, diced tomatos. Cumin, salt, red chile (of course)

and....hello, garlic. I also put some monteray jack cheese in it and I used to use lentils as well which was actually pretty dang good, I should do that agian. So mix it and stuff some halved peppers. I used to cook the peppers in oil before I cut them up and maybe I'm wrong but I think this is not needed. Sure it leaves them bright green with pretty brown spots but you know...I'm not so much about presentation as I am taste.

Pre cook peppers and....

GREEN CHILES!!!!!! These are soooooo good. Throw some cheddar on the peppers and chiles and cook em up in the oven for awhile. To die for.

DRAWINGS

Boo's mermaid people.

Denali's SUPER Bear

Boo's picture of our wedding. She doesn't know that they weren't there. She also added in Cousins Juniper and Asia.

THE KIDS

This girl cracks me up

and obviously herself as well. Monkey

She must have been up to something. This area of the kitchen is where I keep my cinnamon sugar and I've found her all sugared up with cinnamon all over herself more than a few times.

This is from this very morning. Snowing, big fat flakes of beautiful snow

SEAN

This is purely for my entertainment. I do it because I can, and hey he let me take his picture, does he really think I'm not going to use it?

Well there you have it. In the 2 hrs it took me to load these $#@&... photos, I have had a lolli pop, popcorn and a emergen-c. I am also amazed with the air popper Asia left here. I am used to popping corn on the stove in a big stock pot with oil, shaking the hell out of it. I don't have to do that with the air popper and I know now that I will have to get one because we LOVE popcorn around here. Its a curse from my childhood. Massive metal mixing bowls of buttered popcorn and nothing else will do.

I guess thats my cue to get off my butt and go work off some of this food by shoveling the drive way. It seems the better I get at cooking the more I wanna work out so I can keep on eating the good food I cook.

So, big LOVE to you all.