February 24, 2009
· Filed under Downtown Sanford/Lee County, Family Stuff, Recipes, Restaurant Reviews
This has to be the most neglected blog ever (well, except for Jay 
!!). Life has been crazy and turned upside down over the last couple of months and my blog has been put on the back burner. I have to admit that I have really missed it!
One thing that definitely deserves a blog post is the breakfast Jonathan and I had at Myra’s Saturday morning. It was amazing!! I had my usual stuffed french toast. I typically do not eat french toast, as it usually just tastes like loaf bread with eggs to me. If I had to pick one food that disgusts me more than any other food…it would be the egg! If it would the only food left, I would probably try to force myself to eat it…but it would have to be desperate times!
Anyway, back to the french toast – Myra leaves the eggs out for me and dips it in a sort of pancake batter. It is then stuffed with nuts, cream cheese, and powdered sugar and topped with some whipped cream — AMAZING!
Jonathan had his usual eggs (nasty…but for whatever reason he loves them!), bacon, and hash browns. This time he had hash browns with onions, bacon, and cheese — also AMAZING! They were the best hashbrowns/home fries I have ever eaten. We’ve been doing a lot less eating out these days, so it was nice to get to see Myra and Martha.
Speaking of not eating out, I have made it a point to try as many new recipes as possible each week. There are several that I know will become “regulars” in my recipe collection. I’ll try to post several of them soon.
That actually leads to my other recent project…I’m writing a cookbook! I don’t actually know that anyone will ever want to read it, but my sister talked me into it a couple of months ago and I wanted to have it completed for my granny’s birthday in March. I’m getting down to my deadline and I have to get it finished over the weekend. More on that soon!
May 13, 2008
· Filed under Recipes
NOTE: I wrote this passage weeks ago and for some reason never published it!! So, it is a little late!
Of course I love to bake and make candy, but I really love to cook. With our busy schedule and my kitchen constantly being filled with cake and candy, I don’t get to cook big meals as much as I would like. But today was different. There was no wedding cake today, all of the other cakes and special orders were picked up yesterday, and Phillip was with us this weekend (he loves a big meal and is my best taste-tester!)…so, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to try a new recipe.
For a week or two I have had my eye on a pot roast recipe in the Feb/March issue of Taste of Home. Oh, pot roast – I have spent a very long time trying pot roast recipes. I have my old standard that my mom has made for as many years as I can remember and then I have one with Catalina dressing that my mother-in-law uses. But I wanted my own special pot roast – something with a great gravy. I am obsessive over gravy. I rarely eat it in a restaurant — only those where I know the gravy is amazIng (FYI – Paula Deen’s restaurant The Lady & Sons has the greatest gravy in the world!!!). So, my first requirement for a new pot roast recipe is that the gravy has to be very appealing to me, and this one looked great.
So, I put the roast on around noon and I followed the recipe exactly. By 6 when it was time for dinner, I found the most delicious treat in my crock pot. It was spectacular!!!!! All three of us loved it and really made pigs of ourselves. The link for the recipe is http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Pot-Roast-with-Gravy and we all highly recommend it!!
Everyone assumes that when you own a confection company you constantly feed your family cake and candy and it just isn’t so! We rarely have dessert, and when we do, it is a special treat and there is usually a reason to have it (rarely “just because”). So, in honor of the first unofficial day of strawberry season (my daddy brought us some beautiful and delicious berries this morning), as soon as dinner was over, I made sour cream pound cake with strawberries (some dipped in chocolate) and whipped cream. It was the perfect end to such a great meal!
