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Cukes

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What you see here is a delicious cucumber from Beth’s garden.  Since I have no gardening skills, I try to surround myself with good gardeners with surplus produce.  (Thanks, Beth.)  At one of my home visits last night a family gave me a bucket of tomatoes.  Awesome!

Anyway, I made that vinegar-sugar pickle stuff with this cucumber, and this time I used the jazzy little cutter that’s for crinkle fries.  It makes everything more fun to eat!  The vinegar stuff was a little off tonight, though.  I never measure for this – a splash of vinegar, a splash of water, a shake of sugar, salt & pepper.  If I cough when I eat it, it has too much vinegar (add more sugar to fix). So I’m sure you all must have a version of this favorite.  Share it so I can stop coughing.

Crinkle cut cucumbers! A triple-c threat.

Help me out, people.

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Is it really that good?

I’ve decided to change careers. I’m done teaching – instead I want to be one of those ladies who sits around eating yogurt all day, comparing it to everything else in life. “This is better than (verb) (adjective) (noun/situation) good.” You know what I’m talking about? The two who obviously have some sort of ‘flavoring’ in that yogurt?

To have a successful audition, I’m going to need some good lines, so help me out. How good is this yogurt? Is it ‘better than skating with Tonya Harding good’? ‘Better than smelling frying bacon good’? Help! Multiple suggestions are welcome.

Deceived!

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As I think I’ve said before, I’m not a big ice cream eater. In the summer, though, I have a hard time resisting Drumsticks – especially at a gas station. There it is, just sitting in the cooler by the cash register in its individual wrapper, tempting me with it’s chocolatey goodness. I usually regret eating it halfway through, but it’s a great first half.

Anyway, I saw these at Wal-Mart and got all excited:

Oh, joy!!

I could make my own little ones! Pack ’em with Breyers and even sprinkle on some nuts if desired! But wait – just look at the insides of these:

Oh, evil, evil deception.

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! They are NOT fully lined in chocolate. Drumstick’s interior chocolate coating means there is absolutely no chance for the cone to get soggy. Grrrrr… waste of $2.07. Stupid Keebler elves.

Don’t eat them right away.

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So, it’s time for me to go to bed and it’s time to write something. Let me share with you some pictures from Sunday, after I had delivered the birthday cookies and had some left over. I now know that if you make homemade ice-cream sandwiches, you should not try to eat them right away in the car on the way to Lincoln. You will get ice cream all over your clothes and say some bad things.

Instead, wrap them in plastic wrap and let them sit in the freezer for a couple of days. The ice cream will firm up, the cookies will soften, and they will comfort you right before you go to bed.

That’s right - not too much ice cream.

Along those lines, chocolate chip cookies make a good s’more, too. (Or so I’m told. I just made them around a campfire once at the Sommerer family reunion. I don’t eat marshmallows, so I wouldn’t know.)

Flecks o’ Flax

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Hey, I figured out a way to use up that leftover flaxseed meal that Brad was eating at Christmas. I’m putting it in the bread dough, about a tablespoon in each cup of flour. Turns out it doesn’t change the flavor very much, and it’s actually incorporating a whole grain into our highly processed white flour dough. Mmmmm….. highly processed…. You may notice the bag of King Arthur flour, as well. It’s apparently the Cadillac of bread flours, and it was the reason we went to that cute little grocery store last Saturday. Plus, it’s got a picture of King Arthur on it -how cool is that!?! I didn’t even know he baked!

Heal my heart, flaxseed.

Today, I stopped in a regular grocery store in Lincoln and they had the same flour for half the price. *sigh*

Bacon Mat Gallery

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Welcome, everyone, to the world’s first and best Bacon Mat gallery. We first learned of the magnificent idea of weaving meat from instructables.com. Whoever came up with this deserves a knighthood. Send us your photo and we’ll add it!