Holiday Cooking

Bahh Humbug!!!  Holidays are not for kids, they are for the grown up's who only get to eat sweets til they drop this time of year.  Diets and eating right goes right out the window when the food starts to cook!!  On the request board this year is for me to try to make my Mom's famous Banana Pudding!!! Yeah, Okay!!!  I haven't made it in years.  I think Mama was in the kitchen with me and coaching me along as she was making one of her other sweet treats.  From Thanksgiving through the first of the year our kitchen had the best smell and the sweet treats and the good food was on the stove 24/7.

She loved to watch people enjoy the food she made.  Trust me, there was always a house full for her to watch!!   My Dad's always said it was a tight race between the banana pudding and her fried apple pies!  I can remember one Christmas when my oldest was small he and Daddy slipped around and got coffee and milk and took the whole plate with the apple pies on it to the back porch.  Daddy had them a little place to stay warm and they were having themselves a snack!  I sure do miss my folks, make you some memories this year.

Granny's Banana Pudding

1 c. sugar
2 tbsp. (heaping) flour
3 egg yolks
2 c. milk
1 tbsp. vanilla
1 box vanilla wafers
3-5 bananas

Layer bananas, then wafers in oven proof medium bowl. In saucepan add sugar and egg yolks; mix well adding milk when needed. Add flour to egg mixture, then the rest of the milk; mix well. Add vanilla, stir constantly on medium heat until thick and smooth. Pour over wafers and bananas.Make topping from egg whites. Beat egg whites until stiff. Add 3 tablespoons sugar. Beat again. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla; beat again. Lightly brown in oven.  Mama used mini marshmallows as a topping sometimes.  Just spread them over the top of the pudding and lightly brown them in the oven.

Thank You

I want to thank my readers for being so patient with me.  I have been trying to get settled in here at my son's house and at work.  Third shift a little different for me this go around.  I am finding out that it is taking my body longer to adjust and I need more sleep than I once did.  Working third, also fouls up my eating habits!  Breakfast isn't breakfast and dinner isn't dinner!  I have to make some changes so that I am still eating right for an aging woman.

I realize that as I get older my body needs different foods to stay healthy.  At 58 I can't eat the same things that I ate when I was 28.  I want to live long enough to see my grandchildren get through high school and maybe even college.  So let's take my recipe blog in a different direction.  I'm going to start doing some research on foods and recipes for us older folks and people who work third shift and see what I can come up with.

I hope you have a great day.  I am also going to work on my time manage skills so that I can do a better job of keeping up with my blogs. 

Husband's Football Obsession

Guest post written by Kevin Beach My husband is a football fanatic. I did not realize how much he was in love with football until we got married. He plans for fantasy football drafts weeks in advance. He will even do mock drafts in order to anticipate when players will be picked. I honestly do not think he could survive if we didn’t get NFL Sunday Ticket. He has to watch every single game available. He will flip channels to much during the football games that I worry the remote is going to break. I have never known anyone to be so involved. It has explained a lot about our dating life. I never thought about it, but we never did anything together on Sundays. He would always be busy or have to do work. The reality was he didn’t want me to see him like this. I have started to get used to it and to be honest it is growing on me. He is so involved in the games that he doesn’t notice what I am doing. I went to the mall and back last Sunday before he even knew I was gone. I am thinking this football obsession is going to be a good thing. .

Granny's Western Baked Beans With A Twist

3/4 lb. ground venison, browned and drained

3/4 lb. venison sausage, browned and drained
1 onion, chopped, brown with meat
3 tbsp. catsup 

1 can pork and beans

1 can pinto beans

1 can of Bush's Southwestern Grilling beans
4 tbsp. brown sugar

Mix all ingredients together and bake in a covered casserole dish for 1 1/2 hours at 325 degrees or bake until bubbly

I Apologize

I really do apologize for not keeping this blog more current.  I have been trying to find a decent job and get my finances back in order.  I know there is not really any excuse for keeping you guys coming to my blog and it not being updated.  Please hang in there with me for just a little longer and I promise I will get back in full swing. 

Meet The Bulldogs

This past Saturday night the school had a Meet the Bulldogs Covered Dish Supper.  I racked my brain for something to take and finally decided to take my Mom's Western Baked Beans.   They turned out awesome!  I made enough so the we would have some here as well.  Everyone seemed to like them a lot.  I even made sweet cornbread muffins to go with them.  It was funny.  I put a kitchen towel in a stainless bowl and put the muffins in it and wrapped them up to keep them warm.  Jingle Bells was carrying them for me, when she sat them on her head, I told her to be careful.  She said I got this MawMaw.  Yep, she had it alright, when she took them off her head the bowl turned upside down onto the pavement!!  Luckily I had them wrapped tight and they didn't even spill.  I really enjoyed meeting all the football players and their parents.