HAPPY TRAILS.... MRS CAKE..BEHAVE YOURSELF AND BE GOOD TO MY FRIEND..YOUR GOING PLACES YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE ..SO ENJOY THE RIDE!! XOXO

ENJOY MY FRIENDS!

This has got to be the easiest soup I make! If your feeling a lil under the weather..and can barely make it to the cupboard ..just pull out these ingredients and thrown them in a pot to stew for a big 30 minutes and you have some home made soup!

That was me the other day..wishing someone would drop me off a pot of soup..as I have done  many a time..but no one came..so I got really smart and dragged myself to the cupboard and made me some..It works! Try It!

Its a habit of mine cooking for other people when they are sick or just hungry..yall try it sometimes..and remember me when you do! ha ha ha !!

ENJOY! I did and now I feel better!

The ORIGINAL Mrs Miller of The ORIGINAL Mrs Millers Apple Cake sez HAPPY NEW YEAR YALL!

Thanks to my brother Steve, Mom got her New Years wish already... to have a pair of New Years glasses to wear..she is happy and so are we!

Lookin good yall!

Good tidings friends and a Merry Christmas night! The end to a wonderful full day it has been.. and now this post of how I feel our cake has come full circle this Christmas 2011

It was....just ..a short time ago.. it seems to me ..

...this spring it will be 4 years ago...my mother was teaching me how to bake her cake so that I could carry on her legend. and handed me over her secret recipe that day in my little kitchen....little did I know just how short of a time it would be before I would be the only one baking her cake and now it has come..full circle to me.That day in my kitchen was the last time my Mom baked her cake.This Christmas Eve I baked my mother her cake and was very proud to do so..I think I made her the happiest I've ever seen her actually Her cake couldn't have turned out more perfectly,.she was proud to devour it on this beautiful Christmas morning. And a new surprise to her was the Apple Cake Ice Cream I made to go with it..you talk about awesome  wow! Sometimes I even impress myself and I surely did impress Mom and Dad too..they

just loved it..she said "you really know how to top off the

day..Susan" Both her and Dad just closed their eyes and ate their cake and ice cream..I knew in my heart all the past few years..of trying my hardest and it hasnt been one lick easy...to carry on her legend  I ..had succeeded..after all..its said and done..I did it..I carried the cake full circle. I carried this cake several years to NC ..and fed all the people I could then I carried her cake to Kentucky and fed all I could and now Im back in Florida carrying her cake to her and Dad once again! I feel full..and happy that I did it!

I did it , I got Moms cake out there liked she had asked me to do..I even got Moms cake into several Fine Dining Restaurants in Asheville NC also in a Ice Cream Shop and on many Grocery Store shelves and got several rave reviews..Mom you can be rest assured that your cake now is famous and I thank God for guidng me to the right people who helped to do this..Its not over Mom its just beginning..one day Mom your cake will be sold by Williams and Sonoma, Neiman Marcus or some big outfit..you jus watch Mom..Im proud of you and what you have given me..and  I love you very much!

Merry Christmas everyone I hope your day was as special as ours was!

May you have a happy ,healthy and prosperous New Year 2012!

These are quite tasty...I just tried one..its hard not to sample your own creation. I'm getting ready for a friends 50th birthday party today and whipped up some good ole roast beef with sinach,provolone and fresh horseradish sauce spirals. Then decided since I had made more than enough sauce..I'd decorate with some cut zucchini slices..yum.they will surely hit the spot!  Just like anyhting I make it just grows and grows..so now we have two platters  ha ha  ENJOY!

Stumbled upon this recipe in the Nov/Dec issue of AKC Family Dog Mag in a aticle.. Treat Levels by Kathy Santo.

Very pleased to say they work quite well..!! This treat allowed me to take my pup into a new command that I had been having trouble with getting her to do. Thank you Kathy !

SARDINE YUMMIES

INGREDIENTS

3 RAW EGGS

1 CAN OF SARDINES PACKED IN OLIVE OIL ( I purchased sardines in water then drained and added oilve oil)

1 PACKAGE (an inside sleeve not the entire box) OF GRAHAM CRACKERS

DUMP EVERYTHI NG INTO A BLENDER ( I used a food processor ) AND MIX UNTIL COMPLETELY COMBINED. POUR MIXTURE ONTO A COOKIE SHEET ( I used pan spray first on pan ) AND SPREAD OUT . BA\KE AT 350 DEGREES FOR APPROX. 20 MINUTES UNTIL IT LOOKS RUBBERY AND LIGHT BROWNED ON TOP. COOL THEN CUT .

If you use a metal spatula, you can pop the baked sheet right out onto your cutting board and cut to desired sizes. So easy!

I also processed my crackers first then added the eggs & sardines/olive oil next then continued to process...it came out very smooth that way and actually quicker!

I found the article to be very interesting and just what I needed to get Roux Mae Alice

caught up with her training.

They do not smell of sardines, they actually have a pleasant smell of grahm crackers. I cut them into bite size squares..perfect for just a lil treat for her! And most of all all my Labs just LOVE them!

ENJOY!

 

I was blessed this Thanksgiving weekend with plenty..  a bounty of beautiful Maple Leaf Farms Duck Breast was given to me by my good friend Peggy Souza. Thank yu Peggars! I love you!

I grlilled them over a open flame wood fire consisting of Austrailian Pine. which was given to me by my friend Rena Johnson whom helped me cut and haul it to the truck.

This was the first time I had ever grilled duck and oh what a joy!. The wood  flame seared the duck fat side down to perfection..and then a few minutes on the other side and they were completely beautiful.

Afterwards I let them sit and regather their juices , then sliced and served over some basmati brown rice and topped  with a nice plum orange seagrape reduction..wow..I impressed myself acutally!

Rena came to have a late lunch with me at my home...so nice to have a friend over to eat!

I had cut up and cooked some great swamp cabbage on Saturday and made a Tomato pie on Friday so we helped ourselves to those also..it all overwhelmed us both as we ate and chatted..it was fun! We were so full we had to part our ways,say our goodbyes and left the Sunday afternoon to itself.

I know I went to bed early and slept very well.. ..Rena prolly did too!

Thanks to you both Peggy and Rena for ending my Thanksgiving in a wonderful way!

I hope everyone of my friends had a good Thanksgiving,

Peace and Love

Susan

 

 

Mom and I celebrated her 82nd birthday yesterday ! We went out to lunch and had a big time! After dining on a great country vegetable plate..we slurped up some good ole blackberry cobbler.. Thanks Cracker Barrel for showing my mother a good time..we sure do enjoy your vegetables, hospitality, super good service and awesome gift shop..its one of Moms favorite spots..even got her to try on one of yall's hats for a picture! It meant the world to me and her both! I love you Mom! ENJOY! We did!