Recipe for MEXICAN COLESLAW! …..

Everyone pretty much has a handful of websites they visit each day. The type of website they’re type in so frequently they don’t even have to look at the keyboard. With me and Food Network.com, my keyboard just types it in for me before I even sit down. The printer has also gotten pretty wise, too. He knows there’ll be plenty of recipes to print out, so he turns himself on and starts grinding them out………..

Our kitchen scheme is all flirty and floral - lots of purples, mauves, and hunter greens. But whenever I see nostalgic art work or items, I’m tempted to ditch the flowers and go in a whole new, off-beat direction.

Like I said, I’ve been tempted before, but these little cuties (above) might have been the thing to finally do my flowers in. I totally love these guys!——

2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
3 eggs
1 cup Buttermilk
1 cup walnuts, chopped
1 cup raisins
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup blackberry jam………..

If you use frozen corn, thaw it beforehand. Canned whole kernel corn also works well. Needless to say, whenever you can go with fresh corn…go with fresh corn!——-

If your kitchen and pantry look anything like mine, there are pecans, chocolate morsels, bags of powdered sugar and flour, bottles of corn syrup, food color bottles of every conceivable shade, and about a million other “building blocks” everywhere you look. Mine are even spilling over onto the countertop.

Serious baking going on here, man!

This is the most amazing kitchen appliance I’ve probably ever seen. Granted, I’m prejudiced because it produces beverages of a caffienated nature - the very fuel I run on - but I would whole-heartedly recommend this amazing system to anyone and everyone. Trust me, if you have someone special on your Christmas list that you want to really (no, no I mean REALLY) impress, this is the route you need to take. Just be sure to grab one for yourself or you’ll be doing the self kick thing….an utterly ridiculous-looking act.—-

1 can pineapple tidbits (drained)
1 can diced pears (drained)
1 can mandarin orange segments ——-

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup shortening (I use Crisco)
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans——–

(Includes a recipe for AMAZING BBQ Chicken) I happen to live in the BBQ capital of the world - Owensboro, Kentucky - so I have a serious love of BBQ. In fact, sometimes I think those of us living (and eating) here have BBQ sauce running through our veins instead of blood.

There’s a special club that’s custom-designed for all BBQ lovers, whether they live in Owensboro, Kentucky… Mansfield, Ohio…Fort Dodge, Iowa….Pensacola, Florida…Toronto, etc. It’s the BBQ Sauce of the Month Club and my mouth is watering just from typing the words.