Back again

I'm still trying to get Heidi to keep up this blog a little better but it has been a hectic month. Both of us working a lot of hours and just kind of collapsing at the end of a long day.
Well, what I really want to talk about is Soup!! Just ask our daughter about Heidi's Aunt Alice and what her husband Howard used to say. She could make the best soup ever with a bone, a rock and some water. I think Heidi has turned into her. She has made a couple of soups lately just because of our schedule and it is easier. I see "stuff" go into a pot and all of a sudden it is this wonderful meal. Fish stew, clam chowder, beef stew and last night this kind of leftover stuff and that one may be the best yet.

I hope Beth comments on this because she knows better what Howard really used to say, guess you had to be there! I'll get Heidi back here soon as the woman she is working for is coming back to work soon. Bad for our pocketbooks but good for Heidi to have some rest.

J-The other side

Beth's Pie

Well, while Beth was here she made an apple pie. It's Mine!! I let Heidi have one small piece tonight and I have had the rest!!

And this is for breakfast in the morning!!

First day at School

Tuesday was Conner's first day at school and he said it was awesome.I had him after school as Renee had to go to class.We had to stop at the grocery store for a few things and he was so good I bought some sugar free popcycles for the trip home to his house. Alittle out of the parking lot he said.. these don't taste like they're sugar free, I responded yep they are then around the corner he said are you sure they are sugar free? I said yup then at the stop light again he asked and I said why are you asking so much ? He said cause there's no white in the middle. !  I said huh then realized what he was talking about... last week I bought him some creamcycles that were sugar free also. He thought the pops were the same as he had had and he was looking for the ice cream in the middle..lol

Italian Semane cookies by Beth

These cookies are wonderful . I asked my daughter  who was visiting from Texas to make some peanut butter cookies for a birthday party , only to find out I was out of peanut butter go figure. Anyhow with No recipe she make these wonderfully delicious cookies.Not as many as there should have been got to the party.

Italian Sesame Cookies
21/2 cups ap flour
3/4 cups sugar
1/4 cups brown sugar
1/2 cups shortening
1/4 cup butter
1/2 teas salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
2tblsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp lemon extract
1/2  cups sesame seeds for rolling in
cream butter shortening and sugars add milk egg extract and bp then mix together with the flour this makes a soft dough roll in balls then sesame seeds bake at 350 degrees on a greased coomie sheet for 10-12 minutes
till golden brown and slightly cracked on top