It’s Salmon for tonights dinner

Boiled Salmon

Ingredients:

1 salmon, cut as desired

1tsp salt

1/2 cup salt pork scraps

Directions:

Boil salmon in salted water with salt pork for 20 minutes or until cooked through.  Salmon may also be boiled with potatoes.  If so, leave out pork and add salt to taste.  This is always good with potatoes.

Now for desert, I better check my freezer and see if I have any blueberries….and i do whoo hoo

Blueberry Cream Puff ( i love this)

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cut flour

2 eggs

1 pkg vanilla instant pudding mix

1 1/2 cups cold milk

1 container sour cream

3 cups blueberries

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup cornstarch

1 pkg dream whip

Directions:

Bring 1/2 water and butter to a boil.  Add flour, keep stirring until ball forms.  Remove from heat and add eggs, one at a time.  Take 1/2 the mixture and spread very thinly on lightly greased pizza pan.  You can almost see the pan in places: reach as near to the edge of the pan as possible.  Take other halk and drop puffs all around edge.  Bake 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour and 350 F.  Move rack up so as not to burn.  Do not open door while baking.  Mix vanilla pudding powder with cold milk, as directed, until thick.  Add sour cream.  Bring berries and sugar slowly to a boil.  Mixcornstarch with 1/2 cup water: add to berry mixture.  When thickened, let cool and spread over pudding mixture.  Top with Dream Whip.  You are sure to enjoy this.  My husband Lee loves it and sometimes he will get me to use something different than blueberries….but mostly it is blueberries because they are my favourite……Enjoy!

Foiled-Up Fowl for dinner tonight

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken, cut up

3 tbsp mustard

2 tbsp vinegar

1/4 cup water

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cut ketchup

1 env onion soup mix

1 tsp salt

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F. Place chicken in baking dish.  Combine remaining ingredients and pour over chicken.  Cover tightly with foil.  Bake for 1 1/4 hours. Uncover and bake for additional 115 minutes. Serve with rice, noodles or french fries……I prefer serving it on a bed of rice.

I didn’t have much time to make a desert so I opted for the Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup peanuit butter

1/4 cup butter or margarine

16 large marshmallows

1/2 cup coconut

1 cup oatmeal

Directions:

Melt peanut butter, marshmallows and butter or margarine over low heat.  Stir until smooth, remove and stir in oatmeal and coconut.  Drop from spoon on waxed paper and chill.

You will love these, I know I sure do and it takes no time at all to make.

Well tonights dinner will be Fish Chowder

Fish Chowder

Ingredients:

2 tbsp butter

1 medium onion chopped

2 cups boiling water water

3 medium potatoes, sliced

2 medium carrots, sliced

2 lbs cod

2 cups milk

salta dn pepper to taste

Directions:

Melt butter and cook onion until transparent.  Add boiling water, potatoes and carrots.  Let cook 15 minutes or until tender. Add fish cut into pieces and cook for 15 minutes more.  Add milk and simmer. DO NOT BOIL. Salt and pepper to taste….and Enjoy, i just loved this.

and now for desert…….

Lemon Squares……

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cup flour

3/4 cup butter

1/4 cup powdered sugar

2 eggs

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp baking powder

4-6 tbsp fresh or bottled lemon juice

Directions:

Sift flour and powdered sugar into a bowl.  Blend in butter with clean fingertips until well mixed.  Pat evenly into the bottom of an 8×8 inch baking pan.  Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.

Meanwhile, beat together eggs, granulated sugar, baking powder and lemon juice.  Pour over baked crust and return to oven for 20 – 25 minutes at same temperature.  Cool on rack.  Cut n squares.  Sprinkle with sifted powdered sugar….and enjoy!

all you need now is a nice cup of tea…….

Rabbit Pie

1-2 rabbits

Salt pork

Salt and pepper to taste

1 large onion,sliced

2 carrots, sliced

1 small turnip, sliced

3-4 small potatoes, halved

pastry or biscuit dough

Skin and clean the rabbits, then cut into pieces.  Fry several slices of fat pork in a large frying pan.  Remove pork pieces and add rabbit. Brown on all sides. Season with salt and pepper. Add onion and cook for 1-2 minutes.  Remove pan from heat.  Add water to cover halfway.  Cover pan and bake in a 350 degree oven for 2-2.5 hours or until very tender.

One and one half hours before cooking is finished add vegetables.  Before serving, cover with a not too rich pastry or biscuit dough.  Six – eight servings.

I hope you like this recipe as much as I do. Of course we have to have desert and tonight I will be having a Rhubarb Custard Pie…….

 

Rhubarb Custard Pie:

1 tbsp bbutter

1 tbsp flour

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cup Rhubarb(cut fine)

Cream butter, sugar and flour.  Add eggs, then the rhubarb.  Pour into unbaked pie shell and bake until set.  Bake at 375 degrees for approximately 1 hour.  Sprinkle with sugar….

Great meal and I am sure you will enjoy it.

Bologna…yummy! Clik Here

Good day to all my Newfie & Newfie wanna be friends (just kidding).  It is a beautiful day here in Ottawa today.  The sun is shinning and I just finished cleaning our car.  I did wear mitts though…..Even though it is sunny, it is still chilly.

Tonight for supper I am cooking Bologna Stew, If you have never tried it then you must.  This recipe I got out of the Downhome Cookbook.

Bologna Stew

Ingredients:

1 lb bologna, thickly sliced and cut in quarters

salt to taste

1 med onion, sliced

carrot, diced

turnip, diced

potatoes, cut in cubes

water

2 – 3 tbsp ketchup

Directions:

Thickly slice one pound of bologna, cut in quarters, and fry until slightly brown.  Put in saucepan, add salt, onion, carrots, turnip and potato.  Add enough water to barely cover.  Let boil slowly until vegetables are tender.  Then add 2 or 3 tbsp of ketchup for flavour.  As always, I serve with some nice fresh rolls.

Corinne’s meatloaf

Ingredients:

1 egg, slightly beaten

1 tbsp sweet relish

1 tbsp ketchup

1/2 onion, grated

1 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

1/2 onion flakes

2 & 1/2 lbs ground beef

1/2 cup Oglivie Quick Oats (or you can use other brand)

Directions:

Combine slightly beaten egg with relish, ketchup, onion and seasonings.  Add ground beef and quick oats; mix thoroughly.  Pack into a 9″x5x3″ loaf pan.  Bake in moderate oven at 350ºF for 1 hour.

Now one of my favourite recipes….the Dessert!!!!Tonight it is going to be a steamed pudding…….yummmmmmmy.

Steamed Molasses Pudding

Ingredients:

1 cup raisins

3 tbsp shortening

1 cup boiling water

1/2 cup fancy molasses

1 & 1/2 cup siftedflour

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

1 egg, beaten

1 tsp baking soda

Directions:

Place raisins and shortening in a bowl.  Add boiling water.  Blend in sugar and molasses.  Add beaten egg and sifted dry ingredients.  Pour into greased 1 – quart mold.  Steam 2 hours.  Serve hot with desired sauce.  After all this we will finish it off with a nice drink….

Coffee-Chocolate Liqueur

Ingredients:

10 & 1/2 cups water

4 cups sugar

2 oz vanilla (or vanilla bean)

3 tbsp instant coffee

26 oz Vodka

Directions:

Boil water, sugar and vanilla for 30 minutes.  Dissolve instant coffee in a 1/2 cup of boiling water and add to the pot.  Cool and add Vodka.

Make sure you share this with your friends because too much may impair your judgement…hehe. But you will enjoy it.

Household Hint of the Day

Buying Bread:

When you buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest?  Many people “squeeze” for freshness or softness.  Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week? Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Each day has a different color twist tie.  They are:

Monday = Blue

Tuesday = Green

Thursday = Red

Friday = White

Saturday = Yellow

So if today was Thursday, you would want a red twist tie — not a white tie which is Fridays (almost a week old)!

To remember the colors of the twist tie, they go alphabetically by color – Blue-Green-Red-White-Yellow, Monday through Saturday, skipping Wednesdays.

Very easy to remember.

I thought this was interesting so checked it out. I looked in the grocery store and the bread wrappers DO have different color twist ties; and even the ones with the plastic clips DO have different colors.

I learn something everyday.  Now you can enjoy fresh bread when you buy bread with the right color on the day you are shopping.

Joke of the Day ( A bit bad but not much.)

Rum & Coke

A priest was seated next to a Newfie on a flight to St. John’s .

After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken.

The Newfie asked for Rum & Coke, which was brought and placed before him.

The flight attendant then asked the priest if he would like a drink.

He replied in disgust….. “I’d rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips.”

The Newfie then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, “Me too, I didn’t know we had a choice.”

Bean night tonight! clk here

Hello,

well it is a cold but beautiful day here in Ottawa.  Any day is nice when the sun is shinning.  However I am anxious for spring to arrive.

Thanks to all of you that have sent me recipes and emails and as promised, I will get them posted here.  Tonight I will be making baked beans another favorite of Lee’s.

Message to Dianne Drodge-Lockyer……Ask your mom (Virtue)who looks identical to my grandmother if she got any nice tea bun recipes…… I love tea buns and am always looking for the perfect recipe.  Thanks!

Baked Beans with Pork

Ingredients:

2 cups dry beans

6 cups cold water

1//4 lb salt pork

1 medium onion, sliced

3 tbsp brown sugar

1/4 cup mild molasses

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp mustard

pinch of black pepper

2 tbsp ketchup

Directions:

Rinse beans; soak overnight in 6 cups cold water.  Simmer beans in soaking water or enough to cover for 1 1/2 to 2 hours until tender.  Drain, saving liquid because it is rich in vitamins and minerals.  Put pork and onion in bottom of bean pot or casserole.  Add beans.  Combine remaining ingredients with 1 1/2 cups hot bean liquid or water, and pour over beans.  Add more water if necessary to cover them.  Bake beans very slowly at 25oºF for 5 – 7 hours.  Remove cover during last 1/2 hour to brown beans.  Add boiling water as required during baking to keep beans covered with liquid.  Serve these with some nice fresh rolls.

Last night I made some Pineapple Tea Buns (Josephine Hynes)submitted to downhomer.  Boy are they ever good……..You have to try them.

Pineapple Tea Buns

Ingredients:

1/2 lb butter

1 cup sugar

1 small can crushed pineapple

5 cups flour

5 tsp baking powder

2 eggs

Directions:

Cream butter, sugar and eggs together; add pineapple.  Mix together.  Add flour and baking powder.  Bake at 350ºF for 15 – 20 minutes…..These are so simple but oh so good.

Household Hint of the Day

Cat hair: To remove cats hairs from clothes and furniture, rub with wet rubber gloves.  This works really well.

Joke of the Day

The Bank of Montreal was running a recent PASSWORD AUDIT and it was found that Stevie O’Toole from Conception Bay was using the following password: MickeyDonaldMinnie GoofyDaffyBugsElmerPlutoOttawa.

When Stevie was asked why he had such a long password: he replied ”Lardjezus! are yez blind er’ stupid?  Shore oi wuz told me password had to be at least 8 characters long wit’ one capital”

Back Again Clik Here

Well it sure seems like forever since I have posted a blog.  I have been having some major computer problems.  (they are great when they work).  I am hoping that it is all resolved.  So much have happened since my last blog but the most important is that my mother in law was hospitalized and I am hoping that it won’t be too long and she will be recovered and back home……We love you Terry!

FYI: If there is anything you would like posted on this site please email me at corinne@dilkie.com.  I will be glad to post it for you.

Now let’s get to the good stuff….the food.  Tonight I am cooking a Spaghetti Casserole.  This is a must to try.

Spaghetti Casserole

Ingredients:

1 large onion

3 celery stalks

1 med green pepper

1 large can mushrooms, or fresh

salt and pepper to taste

2 lbs lean ground beef

1 pkg spaghetti

1 can spaghetti sauce

1 can spicy stewed tomatoes

Parmesan or grated cheddar cheese

Directions:

Cut up onions, celery, green pepper and mushrooms.  Add salt and pepper, and saute in frying pan in butter or margarine.  Brown ground beef and boil spaghetti.  In a greased casserole dish, pour first layer of onion, celery, green pepper and mushroom mixture.  Then add layer of browned drained ground beef.  Add tin of spaghetti sauce over ground beef.  Place spaghetti noodles on top.  Layer spaghetti with full tin of spiced tomatoes.  Top off with cheese of choice.  Bake at 350ºF for 1/2 hour or until cheese melts.  Serve this with some nice fresh rolls or garlic bread.

Tonight I will be having a real nice desert and because it got Zucchini in it of course I will tell myself how healthy it is..

Zucchini Apple Crisp

Ingredients:

1 large zucchini

1/2 cup lemon juice

1 tsp nutmeg

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

Topping:

1 1/3 cups brown sugar

1 cup flour

1 cup rolled oats

2/3 cup soft margarine

Directions:

Peel zucchini; remove seeds and slice as you would apples for pies (about 6 cuts).  Put zucchini and lemon juice in saucepan; cover and cook over medium heat until tender, stirring occasionally (15 minutes).  Add sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon.  Blend well together.  Remove from heat, pour into greased 13 x 9 pan.  Mix all toppings in a bowl until crumbly. Sprinkle over zucchini.  Bake at 35oºF for 40 – 45 minutes until golden brown.  Serve with vanilla ice cream.  You will just love this!

Now I think you should have a nice little drink with this (if you drink alcohol)

Iceberg Alley (Submitted in Downhomer book by Ron Young, St. John’s)

Ingredients:

1/4 lime

1/8 lemon

1 ounce vodka

Diet 7-Up or diet Sprite

Directions:

Fill a tall glass with ice cubes, then squeeze in and throw in the lemon and lime.  Put in Vodka and Fill glass with your 7-Up or Sprite.  This makes a very refreshing drink.  Great on a hot day!

Household Hint of the Day

Clean a Vase (after all valentines day is approaching and you may get flowers)

To remove those tough stains from the bottom of a vase; fill vase with water and two Alka-Seltzer tablets.

Joke of the Day

The Best Smart Ass Answers of 2009!!

SMART ASS ANSWER #5

It was mealtime during an airline flight.
‘Would you like dinner?’, the flight attendant asked John, seated in front.
‘What are my choices?’  John asked.
‘Yes or no,’ she replied.

SMART ASS ANSWER #4

A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets.  As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her.
Without missing a beat, she said, ‘Sir, I need to see your ticket, not your stub.’

SMART ASS ANSWER #3
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store but she couldn’t find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, ‘ Do these turkeys get any bigger?’
The stock boy replied, ‘No ma’am, they’re dead…’

SMART ASS ANSWER #2

The police officer got out of his car as the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window. ‘I’ve been waiting for you all day,’ the officer said.
The kid replied, Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could.’
When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.

SMART ASS ANSWER #1

A truck driver was driving along on the freeway and noticed a sign that read: Low Bridge Ahead. Before he knows it, the bridge is right in front of him and his truck gets wedged under it. Cars are backed up for miles.
Finally a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, ‘Got stuck, huh?’
The truck driver says, ‘No, I was delivering this bridge and I ran out of gas.’

Computer Problems…clik here

Good Day to you all,

Sorry I have not posted in a few days but I had computer problems and could not access my blog.  But today no probs getting on.  So here goes…..

First I have to thank a special friend Julie for giving me tickets to go see Guns N Roses this coming Sunday night and I am taking 2 other couples with us….I can’t wait.

Now tonight I will be cooking pork chops and am using a recipe that Claudine Barnes of Corner Brook submitted in the DownHome cookbook.

Mexican Pork Chops

Ingredients:

4 pork chops

1 tsp salt

1/8 tsp pepper

1 green pepper, cut in 4 rings

4 tbsp instant rice, uncooked

1 can stewed tomatoes

Directions:

Brown pork chops, season with salt and pepper.  Top each chop with pepper ring and fill each pepper ring with rice.  Pour 1/4 Stewed tomatoes on rice.  Pour ramaining tomatoes in baking dish.  Cover tightly.  Bake at 350 F about 1 – 1 1/2 y hours.

Carrot Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup margarne

3/4 cup white sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

3//4 cup coconut

1 cups carrots, cooked and mashed

Icing Ingredients:

3 tbsp butter

1 1/2 cups icing sugar

2 tbsp orange rind, grated

1 tbsp orange juice

Directions:

Cream margarine and sugar; add eggs, flour, baking powder and salt.  Blend in carrots and coconut.  Drop by teasoon on oiled cookie sheet.  To ice, combine icing ingredients.  Frost cookies when cooled.  Bake at 350 F for 15 – 20 minutes.

Household Hint of the Day

Ink stains on Clothes: To get ink stain out, spray ultra-hold hairspray on stain, let it dry, then wash as usual.

Joke of the Day (bad but funny)

Three men – an American, a Japanese and an Irishman – were sitting naked in a sauna.
Suddenly there was a beeping sound. The American pressed his forearm and the beep stopped. The others looked at him questioningly.

“That was my pager,” he said. “I have a microchip under the skin of my arm.”

A few minutes later a phone rang.

The Japanese fellow lifted his palm to his ear. When he finished, he explained, “That was my mobile phone. I have a microchip in my hand.”

The Irishman felt decidedly low tech and, not wanting to be outdone, he decided he had to do something just as impressive. He stepped out of the sauna and went to the bathroom. He returned with a piece of toilet paper hanging from his behind. The others raised their eyebrows and stared at him.

The Irishman finally said, “Well, will you look at that. I’m getting a fax.”

Baking Day….Click here

Good Morning!

Today I am baking a couple of different recipes.  I have a dinner party tomorrow night and so I would like to try a couple of new recipes. I am not cooking dinner tonight so I will just post the cookies and other goodies that I am making.  The first one I found in The Downhome cook book.  I have to say that the DownHome cookbook is amazing.  All sorts of treasures in there.

Apple Cake (Grace Ryan, Newmans Cove)

Ingredients:

1 tin apple pie filling

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp baking powder

2 cups flour

1/2 cup oil

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together with a spoon.  Bake at 350ºF for 45-60 minutes.    Icing when cool…

Apple cake Icing:

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

1/2 cup white sugar

2 tsp flour

3 tsp milk

3 tsp hot water

1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Cream together butter and sugar; add rest of ingredients and mix well.

Black Beauty Cake (Ina Belcher, Tonawanda, New York)

Ingredients:

6 oz chocolate chips

1//4 cup evaporated milk

1/4 cup hot water

Blend in blender or on stove to melt chocolate chips.  Pour into 9×13 inch cake pan.  Add; 1 cup mini marshmallows, 1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

Mix one small cake mix as directed on package.  Pour over mixture.  Bake at 350ºF for 30 minutes.  Serve warm with ice cream.

Cut Glass Squares ( Joanne Wellon)

Ingredients:

3 pkgs Jello (lemon, lime & strawberry)

1 & 1/2 cups hot water for each pkg of Jello

2 envelopes plain gelatin

1 cup hot pineapple juice

1/4 cup cold water

2 cups heavy cream, whipped

1/2 cup white sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Crust:

2 dozen crushed graham wafers

1/2 cup melted butter

1/2 cup sugar

Directions:

Dissolve each package of Jellow with 1 & 1/2 cups of hot water in separate pans.  Chill until firm.  Cut in half-inch cubes.  Soften gelatin in cold water, then add to hot pineapple juice.  Cool; fold into whipped cream mixture, into which you have beaten sugar and vanilly.  Blend jelly cupes into whipped cream mixture.  Spread unto the crust which was pressed into a square pan.  Chill for 6 to 12 hours.  Cut in squares.

Tomato Soup Loaf (Gertrude Finn, Mississauga, Ontario)

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup crisco

1 cup white sugar

1 & 3/4 cups flour

1 tsp soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1 can tomato soup

1 cup raisins

Directions:

Cream shortening, sugar and eggs.  Add dry ingredients, soup and raisins.  Turn in loaf pan.  Bake at 350ºF for 45-60 minutes.

Simple Macaroons:

Ingredients:

1 can sweetened condensed milk

coconut (use your own judgement)

cherries, cut in half

Directions:

Pour condensed milk in bowl and add enough coconut to roll mixture in balls.  Place on baking sheet and flatten slightly with fork.  Put piece of cherry on top and bake in 320 F oven until lightly brown (or done).  These are simple but very tasty.

Now for a few Drinks:

Slush Plus

Ingredients:

1 – 48 oz can pineapple juice

1 – 16 oz frozen orange juice

1 – 16 oz frozen lemonade

1 – 26 oz Vodka (or Rum)

2 cups strong tea (or coffee)

7-Up, Sprite or Coke

Directions:

Combine pineapple juice, orange juice, lemonage, tea and Vodka together.  Place in deep freezer.  When ready to serve, put 2 scoops in glass and fill with your choice of 7-Up, Sprite or Coke.  My favourite to use is diet sprite.

Prarie Dream:

Ingredients:

2 oz rye

2 oz ginger ale

2oz Whisky Sour Mix, or 1 individual envelope Whisky Sour mix disolved in 2oz water.

Directions:

Pour ingredients over ice.  Stir.  Garnish with lemon wedge.

Stage Coach:

Ingredients:

1 oz rye

1 oz coffee liquer

Directions:

Pour rye over ice, add coffee liquer.  Stir.

Now this should be enough to get any party going…..LOL

Household Hint of the Day

A tightly-tied package: When tying a package, dampen string to prevent it from slipping.  As the cord dries it shrinks tight.

Joke of the Day:  Posted on Bulletin Board at work

Dress Code.

It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise. If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so that you buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a raise. If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore you do not need a raise.

Sick Days

We will no longer accept a doctor’s statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

Personal Days

Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday & Sunday.

Bereavement Leave

This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead friends, relatives or co-workers. Every effort should be made to have non-employees attend to the arrangements. In rare cases where employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and subsequently leave one hour early.

Toilet Use

Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet. There is now a strict three-minute time limit in the stalls. At the end of three minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the stall door will open, and a picture will be taken. After your second offence, your picture will be posted on the company bulletin board under the “Chronic Offenders category”. Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be sanctioned under the company’s mental health policy.

Lunch Break

Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need to eat more, so that they can look healthy. Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain their average figure. Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that’s all the time needed to drink a Slim-Fast.

Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here to provide a positive employment experience. Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternation and input should be directed elsewhere.

The Management

Movie Night click here

Sorry I am late posting my daily recipe blog but myself and Lee went tonight to see Avatar, the 3D version.  Oh my god!  It just blew my mind. I am going to go see it again sometime.

Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs

Ingredients:

3/4 cup chopped onion

1 cup ketchup

1 cup water

1 & 1/2 tsp dry mustard

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup vinegar

Directions:

Mix together and pour over browned spareribs.  Heat for 10 minutes on high, reduce to low and cook for 20 to 25 minutes until ribs are tender.  Conventional oven bake at 375 F for 1 hour.

One Bowl Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

1 & 1/2 cups sugar

1 & 3/4 cups flour

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

1/2 cup cocoa

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 & 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together bake 350 F for 35 – 40 minutes.

Household Hint of the Day

Super Glue: If you get one of the special glues on your hand, soak it in nail polish remover until the glue goes away.

Joke of the Day (Fitness Thoughts)

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now & we don’t know where the hell she is!

The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven’t lost a pound. Apparently you have to show up?

I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.

I don’t exercise at all. If God meant us to touch our toes, he would have put them further up our body.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

I don’t jog… it makes the ice jump right out of my glass.