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Dragon Wings Are Coming – Game Of Thrones Inspired Chicken Wings And More
How incredibly excited (and sad) are we that the FINAL season of Game of Thrones has started?! It is going to be a quick season, but hopefully, also one of the best! Every good show needs good food to go with it. When that food is inspired by a favorite character (Daenerys and her Dragons), even better! I made this recipe during Season 7, and decided I would only make it during the actual GoT season, but with the show wrapping up, I decided I will have to make it whenever I feel like it…I guess I will just have to re-watch all eight seasons 🙂 Anyway, last season, I…
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“Beauty Sick” – A Book Review
Book 3 of 12 Beauty Sick by Rene Engeln, PhD Never be too proud of your youth or your beauty. You did nothing to earn them, and you can do nothing to keep them. – Beauty Sick After several months of being told I needed to read Beauty Sick, I finally relented, and decided I would read it for my third book review of my Bucket List books. I do not even know where to begin with my review on this book! I can tell you, this book had a profound impact on me. You can see by the cover of the book that this book deals with “How the Cultural Obsession…
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“Char’s Corned Beef And Cabbage” – A St. Paddy’s Day Tradition Part 2
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb Happy St. Paddy’s Day!! I think the same can be said about a really good recipe sometimes, and Char’s Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe is definitely one of them! Today is the day! The brisket has been sitting in the fridge all week, brining nicely. Hopefully you have remembered to flip it every day so that it saturated nice and even. Today we are cooking up what, hopefully, will also become your favorite version of corned beef, just as it has mine! Like I said…
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“Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper Lee” – A Book Review
Book 2 of 12 – Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields February’s book for my bucket list of books, took me a couple of weeks longer to finish than I expected. But I have finally finished it, and I am excited to share it with you! I came across this book in a bookstore in downtown Beaufort, SC. The bookstore, in itself, is a fantastic find! Nevermore Books is located in one of the buildings in the Historic District of downtown Beaufort, and is home to many hard to find and vintage books. I was just going to go in and browse. As I walked around looking at all…
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“Char’s Corned Beef And Cabbage” – A St. Paddy’s Day Tradition Part 1
“And shepherds we shall be, for thee, my Lord, for thee…In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti” – The Boondock Saints Traditions, we all have them for holidays, and St Paddy’s Day is no different! For me, one of those traditions is wearing something green (even though the original color of St. Patrick’s Day was blue). Green eventually took over as the traditional St. Paddy’s Day color (all the pinching we endured as kids, just enforced it), and, for me, that is still my color of choice for the day. They say that Catholics wear green, and Irish Protestants wear Orange. But just know, you are probably still getting pinched if…
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Shrimp And Grits With Cafe’ Brulot – Mardi Gras 2019!
Welcome to post Mardi Gras 2019! In all honesty, I had no idea yesterday was Mardi Gras! The fact that they had a Mardi Gras Celebration in Defuniak Springs, Florida last month, totally threw me off I guess! I found out early enough in the day at least, that I was still able to put together a meal for the occasion. Just as in NOLA, Shrimp and Grits seem to be a staple here in South Carolina. I first had the dish last summer when I was passing through Charleston, S.C. It was so good, that I had it again a few weeks ago at a local restaurant here in Beaufort,…
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Historic DeFuniak Springs, Florida
I have come to realize that there are a lot of places, that, at first glance, there does not seem to be much there. I have also come to realize, that, it only takes a little exploring, to change the way you see that place. Welcome to DeFuniak Springs, Florida. This is one of those places. When you first exit Interstate 10 on the outskirts of town, it does not look like much. A few fast food and chain restaurants, along with some stores, hotels and other local businesses line both sides of the highway. Basically, it looks like a typical little town, that has been here for awhile. …
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“High Achiever” – A Book Review
Since #14 on my Bucket List is to “read one true story each month for a year”, I decided to post a review for each book that I complete for my Bucket List, as I complete it. This will not only provide some insight into the book itself, as well as my opinion of the book, but, maybe, it will encourage others to read it as well – and form their own opinion. If you have already read it, feel free to share your thoughts on it! Here we go with book 1 of 12… High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins This is not a book that I would have normally…
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Building A Bucket List
Welcome to the newest category of my blog – “Bucket List”. For the past couple of years, I have been adding things to my bucket list as I think of them. I decided having a category for these items, would not only help me keep them in order, but give me a place where I could write about them as I accomplish them, as well as record my journey getting there. Even though a Bucket List is a list of things you want to accomplish before you kick the bucket, it is not a morbid or sad list. It is merely a list of things you would like to do,…
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Hockey Night In Boise, Idaho – The Steelheads VS The Walleyes (Toledo)
I am not a t.v. sports fan. I do not really follow any particular sport. I will occasionally watch a football game when it comes on, and I’m usually good for catching a few events during both Winter and Summer Olympics. Otherwise, if I am not actually at the game, it just isn’t going to hold my attention very well. I have found though, that most sporting events where I have actually been there, watching it, I have really enjoyed the sport – no matter what it was. Whether it is a result of getting swept up in all of the adrenaline, excitement and yelling of the crowd, or the smell of…