Support Our Troops
Posted on | November 10, 2009 | 3 Comments
As many of you may already know I served in the Navy as well as my husband and brother. With Veterans day being tomorrow and the holidays coming up I wanted to share a few ways you can support our troops. There are Sailors, Soldiers, Airman and Marines serving all over the world away from their loved ones. They give up many of their freedoms so the rest of us can enjoy the comforts of home.
Veteran’s Day Events
Irag and Afghanistan Veterans of Ameriaca (IAVA)
-IAVA has a list of local Vetern’s Day Events. Find an event near you!
Applebee’s Restaurant
-Gives free meal to Veterans on Veteran’s Day.
San Jacinto Musem-Houston, Texas
-Free Admission
UNO Chicago Grill
-Free entrée or individual pizza (with an entrée or pizza purchase of equal or greater value).
Outback Steakhouse
-Free Bloomin’ Onion and drink
There are tons of offers out there and there’s no way I will be able to list them all. Listen to your local radio stations and news channels for offers in your area.
Support Our Troops All Year
Baking GALS
-Volunteer bakers from around the country
Holiday Mail for Heroes
-Red Cross
Here are other ways to support our troops:
-Place a yellow ribbon on a tree or your car
-Email your family/friends that are deployed on a regular basis
-Attend a homecoming even if you do not know a service member returning. There’s nothing like a homecoming!
-When you see a person in uniform shake their hand and say “Thanks for serving our country” you have no idea how much this will mean to a service member.
-Visit a Veteran’s Hospital
Please feel free to leave more suggestions in the comments. I would love to hear your ideas.
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Pumpkin Butter
Posted on | November 3, 2009 | 5 Comments
Do you have a favorite butter? Apple, honey, pumpkin? My favortie is pumpkin butter and it’s super easy to make. The recipe that I use is from Libbys Recipe file. It takes no time all to make and you probably have everything you need in your pantry. I love eating pumpkin butter on buttermilk biscuits. It’s also excellent on pancakes, toast, bagels, the possibilities are endless really. How do you like to enjoy your favorite butter? My daughter loves pumpkin butter she likes to eat it by the spoon full.
Pumpkin Butter oh so yummy
Ingredients
1 can (15 ounces) LIBBY’S® 100% Pure Pumpkin
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup honey
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
Directions
Combine pumpkin, sugar, honey, lemon juice, cinnamon and cloves in medium, heavy-duty saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; reduce heat to low. Cook, stirring frequently, for 20 to 25 minutes or until thickened. Serve with biscuits, breads and corn muffins. Store in airtight container in refrigerator for up to 2 months.
Recipe makes 2 cups.
Pumpkin Butter
Cookbook Review- The Pioneer Woman Cooks:Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
Posted on | October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Cover of Ree's cookbook
First things first……Go buy this cookbook! You can go here or here or here or your local bookstore whatever you prefer. If you haven’t been reading Ree Drummand aka The Pioneer Woman’s blog I highly recommend you start today, in fact leave here and go there. Once you arrive at her site you will understand why you should be reading her blog.
Now that I go that out of the way, back to her new cookbook. This cookbook is everything you would want a cookbook. I’m the type of cook that loves to see the finished product of a recipe and it’s a bonus to have step by step photos. I never a buy cookbooks unless it’s in color and has plently of pictures. Ree’s cookbook is everything that I could ever want in a cookbook. It’s full of color and the pictures are so goreous. It’s just like her site with step by step photos of every single recipe all in color. Her recipes are not over the top they are just simple and delicious recipes. You do not need any type of cooking school to be able to make her recipes. They are wonderful southern recipes from the heart and guaranteed to please everyone. I have already made several recipes from her site and my all time favorite is Migas. I was very pleased to find out it was in her cookbook.
Migas! So delcious you must try this recipe,
She also throws in a few pictures of her family. From her four beautiful kids to her sister-in-law, brother-in-law, sister, friends and of course her rugged cowboy, Marlboro Man. Her book is a lot like her site. She has cows, horses, dogs and of course the beautiful wild mustangs. Her photos of the wild mustangs are my absolute favorite. Her sense of humor is also in her cookbook. You wouldn’t be able to call it The Pioneer Woman Cooks with her wonderful humor. One of my favorite parts of the cookbook has nothing to do with food, its the dedication, to Marlboro Man.
Book dedicatioin
I didn’t want to post too many pictures of her book, I did not want to ruin the wonderful surprise of this great cookbook. I hope she publishes another book in the future. I love this cookbook and I know everyone that buys will too.
Step by step recipes all in color.
Then there's this. This picture shows up more than once in her book.
