Tuesday 4 Meme- Cooking

 

Cooking

Welcome to Tuesday 4 which we keep going in memory of our dear friend Toni Taddeo.
This week how about talking about cooking tips and advice? We probably all have some

things to pass along!



1. What is the most valuable kitchen utensil you have or one you use often and

 could not live without?  My Pampered Chef items.  I have a small spatula and a 

stoneware cookie sheet small and a large and they are all amazing.

2. Do you have any fancy gadgets like air fryers, etc in your kitchen? How are they

working out for you?  We use our InstantPot a lot to make our food.  It is fast and 

there are so many good recipes for using it out there.  Karl likes to cook with it, I 

tend to cook the traditional way...in the oven or stovetop.

3. Do you have any step or labor saving ideas that make cooking and meal

preparation easier?  Karl using the InstantPot makes everything go fast.  When

I am cooking, I will make extra and freeze it for another time.  I recently made

lasagne and meatloaf and we froze a second pan for another dinner.

4. What is your favorite recipe of all time? Would you share it with us?  My favorite

 recipes to make are lasagne and cheesy burritos.  They are basic.  I don't really use a

recipe for either.  The lasagne is lasagne noodles, spaghetti sauce and hamburger meat,

mozarella cheese and ricotta cheese...layer and bake.  The cheesy burritos are hamburger

meat with burrito seasoning, velveeta cheese with rotel tomatoes...you put the meat in a

burrito soft shell and roll them up. It makes about 6-8, then you pour the velveeta and rotel

...they are mixed together as if you were making rotel dip...pour cheese on top of the burritos

and bake in a dish.

Have a  very Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I am off to get my hair cut and colored tomorrow. 

I am on Spring Break this week.

Sunday Stealing- Ask Anything

 

Ask Anything

 

 

1 Do You Sleep With Your Closet Doors Open Or Closed?  Closed

2 Do You Have Freckles?  no

3 Can You Whistle?  yes

4 Last Song You Listened To.  I can't remember

5 Name Something That Relaxes You.  Blogging, playing games and watching tv

6 What Sounds Are Your Favorite?  Listening to Josh, my dogs barking, kids laughing

7 What Do You Wear To Bed? cotton pajamas

8 Do You Sing In The Shower?  not very often

9 What Books Are You Reading? The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

10 Do You Believe In Magic?  no

11 Can You Curl Your Tongue?  yes

12 Have You Ever Caught A Butterfly?  I think so when I was young.

13 Name One Movie That Made You Cry.  Black Beauty made me cry several times.

14 Peanuts Or Sunflower Seeds?  Peanuts

15 Are You A Heavy Sleeper?

Saturday 9- Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral

 

Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral

Saturday 9: Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral (1944)

 

Selected because this Wednesday is St. Patrick's Day. Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it here.

   

1) Bing Crosby sings that he learned this song from his mother. Can you recall a song from your early childhood?  I remember learning some nursery rhymes when I was young. Rock-a bye Baby stuff like that.  My dad sang them to me.

 

2) Bing was NBC's first choice to play TV's Columbo. He turned down the role because, by that time, he was in his 60s and just didn't feel like working a full week anymore. Peter Falk eventually got the part and played Det. Columbo for 10 seasons. Do you enjoy detective stories, whether on TV, in movies or in books?  I do enjoy movies and tv shows about detectives, but I do not enjoy reading them very much.

 

3) Bing could trace his family back to County Cork. While it's said that on St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish, can you honestly claim Irish heritage?  I am adopted and do not really know much about my heritage.  I am going to do one of those tests one of these days.  It would kill my mom if I did anything like that while she is still alive.  She is so weird like that.  If you have any recommendations for the heritage tests let me know.

 

4) Other than St. Patrick, what is Ireland famous for?  It is famous to me for no snakes.  Ok, how about potatoes?  I don't know.  It is beautiful there?  How about beer?  Ireland makes me think of green lush hills.

5) "The wearing o' the green" is one way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Will you wear something green in honor of the day?  maybe. I have to go out that day and get my hair done.  

6) Have you ever had green beer?  I think I did in college.

7) Have you ever ordered a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's?  I have!  I worked there in high school and I had one then.

8) A four-leaf clover is considered good luck. Do you have a lucky charm?  no

9) Speaking of Lucky Charms, they are magically delicious.  What brand of cereal is in your kitchen right now?  We have some honey nut cheerios.  I do not eat much cereal though.

Tuesday 4 Meme- Traveling

 

Traveling

Welcome to Tuesday 4 and new questions. We continue this meme in memory

of Toni Taddeo and hope you will enjoy it enough to continue coming back.

Lets talk about Travel...

1. How far have you gone from home and where did you go? We went to Kissimee, FL for our honeymoon and back again to Disney World when Josh was about 5 years old.  It is 16 hours

and 39 minutes  from Missouri.  It was 1,129 miles.  This is a picture of Josh at Cocoa Beach.

We took a day and went to the ocean.  This vacation was two weeks.  We had so much fun.

That is Karl in the background.  This was around 2004.

2. Do you think the hassle of travel is worth the trouble?  I definitely do.  In my experience 

with travel, our planned vacations like that make great memories.  We have made day

getaways, but those are not the same and do not make the same memories.  It is worth

it to travel and spend some time making memories with family or friends.  This picture

is of the dolphins on the dolphin tour in Orange Beach, AL. 2009

3. Are there places you would like to visit or have plans for visiting?  I would love to go back

to Orange Beach, AL and spend some more time on the beach.  I would like to take a

vacation in the mountains and stay in a log cabin.  If we had the money, I would like

to travel all around the U.S.  This photo was taken at the top of a lighthouse in

Pensacola, FL.  Josh was fascinated with lighthouses at the time and we were able to stop

at this one.  Great view! 2009

4. What trip was the best you've ever had?  Orange Beach, Alabama.  We journal our vacations

and I wrote probably 8 pages of the things we did.  I loved the dolphins.  We were ocean front 

and our condo was great.  I got up every morning and watched the dolphins jumping in 

the ocean.  This was Josh and I in 2009 on the dolphin cruise in Orange Beach.

I feel very fortunate to have been able to take the vacations we have, but I really would

love to be able to take more.  We really do not get to go very often.  I did not share any pictures of our trip to San Antonio, but it was a lot of fun too.  We went to the Alamo, Sea World and 

Schlitterbaun water park.  We also went shopping at the outlet mall.  Ok, I found one.  

This is Josh at Sea World in San Antonio, TX.  I think that trip was 2012.  It was our last 

planned out vacation.  I hope we get to go somewhere again soon.

Sunday Stealing- Alec Clayton

 

Alec Clayton

 

 

 

 

From AlecClayton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Do you put ketchup on hot dogs?  Yes

2. How many TVs in your house?  4

3. Do you put salt on watermelon?  no

4. Can you swim?  yes

5. Are your parents still alive?  my mom is

6. First car?  Ford Fairmont

7. Surgeries? tonsillectomy, c-section, gall bladder removed

8. What do you drink in the morning?  Pepsi 

9. Can you do 100 push ups?  no

10. Can you change a tire?  no

11. Tattoos?  none

12. Do you wear sunglasses?  yes

13. Do you have a phobia?  snakes and mice

14. Do you have a nickname? Ray Ray

15. Are you a picky eater?  a little bit

Saturday 9- Birthday

 

Birthday

BIRTHDAY (2014)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Katy Perry sings that she wants to give her lover something good to celebrate every day. What is making you happy this fine Saturday?  It is going to be a nice warm weekend, so I am excited about that.  Sunny and near 70º F.

2) The video is all about baking a birthday cake. When did you most recently enjoy something home baked? Were you the baker?  My co-worker Tina is always baking me something and bringing it to school.  She is so sweet.  

3) Tell us a memory from one of your birthdays.  My 21st birthday.  I was in college and my roommates decided to throw me a birthday party.  We drank some beer.  My roommate got so drunk I found her in a closet all by herself in the dark.  I went out to the sand volleyball court and played volleyball with some friends that were at the party toward the end of the evening....so we were playing in the dark.  I went back to my apartment and had sand all over the bathroom from my shoes and clothes.  It was crazy and I do not do stuff like that anymore, but it was fun at the time.

4) This week's song shares nothing but the title with a Beatles song. (Here's a video of Paul McCartney performing it live.) Can you think of another title that's been used by more than one song?  Nothing is really coming to mind.

5) Similarly, this week's featured artist was born Kathryn Hudson and called Katy Hudson until she changed her name to Katy Perry to avoid confusion with the actress Kate Hudson. Have you ever met anyone else with your same name?  no not in person, but I have seen some people on facebook with my name.  Of course, I have met many people with my first name.

6) Katy and actor Orlando Bloom became parents to a baby girl in 2020. Bloom is best known for his work in the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Are you a fan of either of those film series?  I love both and love him as an actor.

7) In 2014, the year this song was popular, Prince William toured the United States and attended his first NBA game (Nets vs. Cavaliers). What's the most recent sporting event that you watched?  Last weekend I watched a Spring Training game of the St. Louis Cardinals.  It was good to see them again.

8) Also in 2014, Joan Rivers died. While best-known for making us laugh, she was a very successful entrepreneur, selling jewelry on QVC. Have you ever ordered anything from TV?  No, but my mom does all of the time.  She picks up some neat stuff.

 

9) Random question -- Have you ever been told you talk too much?  Goodness no.  I am kind of quiet.

Tuesday 4 Meme- Houses

 

Houses

Hi and welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 kept alive in her memory.
This week's questions come from Pamela Steiner from Florida and the
Open Doors Closed Windows blog. Let's jump right in:



1. In what part of the country is your current home located? North, South, East,

West, Mid West, coastal, rural, city, mountains or plains?  My home is located in the

Midwest, I live in Missouri.  We have lots of lakes and rivers as well as hills and 

so many trees.  Our house is in a rural area. It is really quiet and peaceful.

2. Why did you choose your present home, and how long have you lived there?  My

husband had actually already bought this house before we got married.  I

thought we would move years ago, but here we are.  We have a good location.

 It is quiet and in the country.

3. What do you like the most about your present home?  There was an addition to our

home and the master bedroom is in the addition.  It is a huge room and I love that. 

The sun shines on that room in the afternoon and it has the prettiest color or hue 

from the sun.

4. If money were no object, is there anything you would change about your present home,

or would you keep it just the way it is?  We have redecorated a lot of our home including

the yard with privacy fencing and lawn furniture, but I would like to re-do the kitchen

and we need some fresh pain in the inside of the house.  We also need new flooring.