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Yesterday I had the pleasure of having the "girls" over for lunch.....A good time was had by all as we spent the day picking out paint colors for a new back porch, eating, discussing the cost of food, eating, discussing the cost of gas and eating some more......We all have in common a love for food and we really don't care much that we're all a tad bit over weight....on the menu ....... Italian salad with my special dijon mustard, oregano, wine vinegar and olive oil vinegrette a Ham and 3 cheese Quiche with a cheddar sauce Ina's peanut butter and jelly bars (wrapped in cellophane to take home) Ice Cream Sundaes with butter pecan ice cream and a butterscotch/caramel sauce......and real whipped cream...thank you very much. here's the Quiche recipe....... 1 Pillsbury pie crust 4 large eggs 1/2 cup of good mayonaise 1/2 cup whole milk 1/2 pound of deli ham, sliced thin and then diced (I used Boars Head Tavern Ham) 1/2 pound Gouda grated 1/2 pound Swiss grated 1/2 ...

Only a man could get enjoyment out of a show that week after week has the exact same story line.......a boat....bad weather....catch fish. I'm just saying...............

Most days I get up and go straight to the kitchen. Instead of brushing the teeth and washing the face I open the fridge and turn on the Jennair...Three days a week I put on a big pot of soup and the other days the crock pot gets fired up. I've been known to cook from morning until night. If you lived in our neighborhood it would not be unusual to see BBQ smoke billowing off our deck at midnight. I've been using the crock pot since 1994 when I almost burnt the house down. That day will always be the worst day of my life....Cooking eggs preparing to make my famous "egg salad" I was distracted when daughter came home and suggested we go off to the mall.....Three hours later we pulled up into the cul-de-sac to find four fire trucks.....yes, even one of those huge hook and ladder thingies.......and the front door off the hinges. I saw everything in black and white . The house, the lawn, the trees and the fire trucks had no color. I thought for sure I had burnt the house to...

We have a dog that weighs more then our daughter and she's 32! He's huge, he's gorgeous and he doesn't listen worth a crap. Oh, for the husband words don't even need to be spoken. The husband just opens the back door, nods at the dog and he comes running...Me, that's another story. We love dogs, infact at one time we had 5. They were Golden Retrievers, they listened. Boo on the other hand knows he's French. He has that "Don't bother me" air about him...he secretly hates me....I don't know why? I feed him, give him his medicine and I get up in the middle of the night to take him out. To be fair I open the back door and he lets himself out into his run. That's when the trouble begins. I could stand at the top of the stairs with links of sausage around my neck and he still wouldn't come in. If he had hands I swear he would give me the finger. For years I thought he was deaf. I was honestly concerned because he wouldn't even acknow...

The husband loves to go to the movies.....me, not so much. But when I saw Al Pacino had a new movie out I thought why not....After stuffing my purse with 2 bottles of Coke Zero, a jumbo glass with ice, some green grapes and a few pretzels (we're dieting) we were off for an afternoon of fun and entertainment. The theater was basically empty, there were maybe 10 people in the whole place. We settled in to our favorite end seats all the way at the top and ofcourse like clock work a few minutes into the start of the movie a couple came and sat right in front of us...there were hundreds of empty seats and they found the need to make me move my feet and sit down like it was the last two seats in the place. We were tempted to get up and move right in front of them but instead we moved to the other end of the theater. The movie was set in Seattle.....first mistake. In every scene it rained. It made you feel damp and cold just watching it. Alicia Witt plays Al's teaching assistant and h...

First..a big Thanx to the daughter for turning me on to those Wacky Real Housewives of NYC....Ofcourse last night was the season finale and I even got the husband to watch....He seems to be fascinated with Francois and his genius and the little bugger didn't disappoint..The kid is an idiot and it's not helped by the fact that they dress him like a little old man from "Boca"....what was with that leisure suit he wore when he went for the "genius evaluation".....Alex would probably tell you that it belonged to Grandpa Francois when he won the Australian Spelling Bee at the age of 2. Hideous.......and who lets their children sit under the table in a resturant like the 21 Club...Also who cares that they are teaching him French when they can't even teach him not to yell at the top of his lungs in public. These people should be ashamed of themselves. But more about them later....Then there's Betheny, how does she fit in? She's not really a housewife. W...

Martha started it, Ina does it best and Rachel Ray can't participate because we all know she can't bake....Cupcakes, the new "in" thing taking the country by storm. We loved them before but now they have actually kicked out cheesecake as our favorite sweet treat...Martha just had a contest looking for the "cutest cupcake"....I have to say that some of them were really fabulous. The bucket of popcorn was my favorite. I got inspired to bake some but I must admit that I went the route of Sandra Lee to the horror of my best food buddy from Ohio...She bakes everything from scratch, I cheat. I made an old time favorite, German Chocolate. The husband loves coconut and I try to do my best to keep his weight just above a ton. I used Duncan Hines Moist German Chocolate cake batter, it's wonderful. The frosting looked funky when I was cooking it but once the coconut and the pecans hit the pan it all turned out fine....judge for yourself and get a glass of milk.

while in the express line at the grocery store today I was reminded of the husbands favorite poem from his childhood about fat and skinny having somekind of race up and down the pillowcase.....there was a very slim women in front of me in line and on the conveyor belt was 2 bags of salad, tomatoes, fat free dressing, a deli salad with hard boiled eggs and flavored water...She probably weighed in at about 105lbs. Infront of Skinny was "Tiny"....Tiny weighed in at about 350.....her order consisted of 2 bottles of Coke (not diet) a jumbo size bag of chips, a loaf of bread and from the bakery 2 giant size "Whoopie" pies.....a southern thing. It showed me that you don't need Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers, just a little common sense......when it was my turn I promptly had the bag boy return my HoHo's to the shelf.