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Cornbread and Moonshine

Amy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:35:17 +0000

My neighborhood has started a new tradition of cooking things off. It’s no longer good enough to just get together for a hot dogs and beers, like normal neighbors do, we have make a contest of it. The whole cook-off thing started over the summer with ribs, which are the only exception to my half-assed… [keep reading]

Stand-Off

Amy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:08:46 +0000

Something horrible happened to the toothpaste about three months ago–Or, I should say, something horrible started happening to the toothpaste about three months ago. It started with an explosion of some sort, or perhaps a stabbing. Toothpaste is all over the bathroom drawer, making a sticky, minty coating on everything else in it. Prescription drugs,… [keep reading]

Aprons, Playdates, and Parted Hair

Amy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:56:35 +0000

So I have this friend Meg who wears ironed aprons, has perfectly parted hair, and served us grilled angel food cake with strawberries on china for a play date snack. I even had a saucer for my coffee. This, after I offered up a frozen pizza and whatever the kids could find on the kitchen… [keep reading]

I think I just found a troll penis in my refrigerator

Amy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:45:33 +0000

For reals. It started out with me throwing out the four flat bottles of tonic in the fridge to make room for the new bottle I opened to carbonate my gin, but then I was on a roll and started tossing other useless food stuffs. Scrambled eggs from last week, gone. Prime rib that was… [keep reading]

Jesus really wants us to eat donuts.

Amy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:02:01 +0000

Okay, remember when I wrote that post about the Joys and Concerns of the kids at Sunday School? Here’s a post script that was too late to make the May Overheard list.

Ella’s Joys and Concerns

Ella: “Mommy, is today a church school day?”
Me: “No, baby, church school is over… [keep reading]

Why I Can’t Quit Dunkin’ Donuts

Amy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:31:51 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, while I waited for my psychiatrist to write up my prescriptions at the end of our session, I mentioned that I was heading to the new Dunkin’ Donuts that just opened down the street from her office. “One opened near my house, too. It’s changed my life. I eat about… [keep reading]

Recipe For Disaster

Amy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Amish Friendship Bread Starter (Don’t say I didn’t warn you):

1 pkg. active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup warm milk

Soften active dry yeast with 1/4 cup of warm water for about 10 minutes. Stir with a [keep reading]

Bees and Beer

Amy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:23:00 +0000

Today Just Barely the Youngest turned one and a half years old. When she was born less than two weeks before Christmas, we decided we wouldn’t make a big fuss over Addison’s birthday and celebrate her half birthday instead. Because the child loves bugs (points to them, picks them up, eats them, etc), and because… [keep reading]

Sooooooey! Here cutlet, cutlet, cutlet!

Amy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:39:00 +0000

As if any pig recipe could possibly top that ham-cake I offered up at Easter time…

I’ve never been a big fan of pork (thatswhatshesaid), especially pork chops, but I found some cutlets on sale one day and there’s nothing I like more than a deal. They could be selling marinated poo and I’d… [keep reading]

Soooooey! Here ham, ham, ham!

Amy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:28:00 +0000

Unlike the many applications I have up my sleeve to deal with the 40 lbs of turkey that are inevitably left over from my inability to buy anything less than a 600 lb genetically altered bird come Thanksgiving, I’m not that good with the ham that remains after Jesus rolls back the stone and the… [keep reading]