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Do I even say anymore that I know its been awhile since I've posted? Or is it really just a waste of both our time? I'll let you decide.

So back in July we moved my brother up to Arkansas for him to start work on his PhD. After about 4 days of mostly spending time in his apt I got incredibly stir crazy. So I convinced/forced my family to take part in some extended out door activity. We found a putt putt course. Pictures follow.

So its time for my monthly blog post :D

This one is certainly a mishmash of random stuff, but those are the fun ones right?

Through someone elses blog I have been considering doing reverb10's month of reflection. Which being that it is the middle of the month I suppose I should get working on that if I am going to do it... I do think some of the prompts are rather silly, so I most likely won't be doing all of them, assuming I do any at all.

As well I plan on making myself a flannel sheet, which I'm sure many of my readers can attest that cold sheets are not welcome in the midst of winter.

I also intend to fix my moccasins before the school break ends. See picture below for reasons why.

Apparently it is to epically fail, well at least the eggless, gluten free kind. They have decided that they don't like butter and spit it out and are just a gooey mess. Evidence provided forthwith (and yes I know this is not the exactly correct usage but who care :D)

Well so I'm drinking coffee again hehe, you may be wondering why... Well i know from previous experiance that coffee, in moderation, doesn't really affect my stomach. Also, my mother pointed out to me this morning that there are more and more people talking about how a lot of people with wheat gluten problems, also have problems with corn gluten. So starting tomorrow, or friday, I will be relinquishing my tasty hold upon corn, and we'll see if that helps any. That I will need more prayer in than coffee, because that cuts my food options down majorly. Well so here goes another of my food journeys, we shall see where it takes me, don't worry, you'll be getting updates... :-p

Oh and if your wondering why I haven't made my next TULIP post yet, its because its rather finicky, but soon I promise... *soon is a relative term*

I found this recipe through a friends blog, who had it from another blog... It looked rather tasty, so I tried it. As anticipated, it twas rather tasty, though the sauce is very sweet, though that might be just cause I had to mess with things a bit... *Insert Side Note* Is "cause" a legitimate word? *End Side Note* The recipe is here, if you would like to try your hand at these tasty, and yet slightly annoying poofie things.If anyone has made these, or something similar, and has advice please give it.

First attempt at doing the meringues, as i'm sure some of you can tell it started to break...

AND it really broke now... I did cook some of them but they were sad indeed.

Second attempt, YAY!!!! it worked, mostly lol, it was not quite as firm as the recipe said it was supposed to be, but idk lol. I think I should have tried whisking the first batch more after adding the sugar and such, but such is life.
Cooking los meringues... It had lots of fun boiling up and being a pain...

The meringues after having been cooked. NOT what they are supposed to look like, but tasty still.

The sauce!

Cooking the sauce!

Sauce in bowls

Finished product

Finished product from a different angle...


So there you have it, poofy things in sauce!

So some of you  know I have stomach pain problems that I STILL have not figured out what causes it, even after 2 years of trying different things. So even though I've done it before, I think I'm going to try and not drink coffee for a week or so, doing only tea. So I would much appreciate prayers to be able to stick to it.

This is a recipe I found from a dutch food blog I read. Its for potatoes that are topped with a butter, orange zest, parsley, garlic, salt and pepper mix. It came out really well, though I was rather curious when I saw it. The orange is just strong enough to be there, but light enough to not taste like you're eating an orange. It adds a very nice, light, refreshing flavor to the potatoes. I would recommend boiling the potatoes, instead of baking, which I did. I used russets, cause thats what we had :-p, i would probably use a potato that had a thinner skin though. The potatoes were a bit hard to crush well, but they worked well enough.

Anyway here is the link to the recipe, hope y'all enjoy.

BUTTER!!!


Empty bowl after have made the butter mixture.


Empty tray?


Whole potatoes!


Crushed potatoes!


In the oven! :-p


The end result

We went to Benjy's for my 20th birthday dinner, was a good choice hehe. Really good food, bit on the expensive side, but worth it in my opinion. Sorry for the poor pics though.


Appetizer they set out, yes its empty.. :-p, cheddar biscuits (couldn't eat those), some flat bread (couldn't eat that either), and some sugar crusted cranberries and mixed nuts, those were really good, could eat those all day :D

What i got, roasted chicken (from a local farm) with some pretty good cheese grits and shrimp (meh :-p), pretty tasty cept for the shrimp.

Shrimp tamale my mama had. Not a huge fan of shrimp but not bad... :-p

Spinach risotto, my brother got, nice flavor, spinach flavor was over powering.

Beef Arepa's that my dad had. Shredded beef on corn cakes, they were pretty good.

This *was* lol a coffee creme brulee, forgot to take a pic lol, had a very nice, strong coffee flavor.

A few days ago I visited Catalina Coffee shop with a friend, which is considered one of the best indie coffee shops in Houston, if not also the US. Most of you know I LOVE coffee, its a passion for me, well I had really been wanting to go to Catalina but had just never made it over there. Well I finally did and it was awesome. Their espresso which I tried was the best I have ever had, it was a bit acidic for my taste, but it nicely coated my tongue, and the flavor was full bodied without being overwhelming. We also got to try chemex pot brewing there too, we were both really excited to try it, and it produced a really clean but tasty cup of coffee. The atmosphere was really nice also, well mostly at least lol, some of their pictures they had on the wall could have been changed but thats to be expected at an indie place. Also there are not many electrical plugs to be had, but that is a minor issue. They also roast their own beans, so if you're really into local its a good place to go. I would definitely recomend visiting it if you like coffee, its on Washington just east of sawyer street.

Hope you enjoy

As many of you know I'm a bit of a coffee geek, well I was wondering the other day, why do most people drink coffee? Is it more for the flavor or just for the caffeine buzz? Well I have created a survey to that extent :D So here it is, let me know if y'all think I could add more questions or jsut change it around a bit.

If you love food, then you will absolutely melt thinking about eating some of these things. And for any of you who have or choose to eat GF, this blog is for you.

Enjoy!

I'm sure many of you know who the Duggar family is, if not please listen to this important announcement. :-p They are a family that live in AR, and they currently have 18 kids, the oldest of which is married. They have a show on TLC called "18 kids and counting", I was watching one of them the other night and found out about a new concept. A gender party. The episode was about Josh (the oldest) and Anna (his wife, duh) and their soon to be born baby. They were trying to figure out how they were going to fairly tell everyone the sex of the baby, without someone feeling left out. They were told of the concept of a gender party. This being that you send the results of the ultrasound to a baker, and they then color the inside of the cake pink or blue (depending on the sex...) and then you have a giant party and slice the cake, and everyone gets to find out together. Side note, it was/is a girl, but thats not the point of this post... :-p Now most of you know that I am majoring in Hotel and Restaurant Management, so any strange concepts like this grab my attention. So anyway thought I would let y'all know, and if anyone knows more about these, or has attended one let me know!

Daniel