At Home My Way

Our Missouri weather has been really CRAZY lately!  This past week we have gone from highs of low 50's - and using our furnace to mid 90's and using the AC!  No complaints yet on the heat, though.  It feels wonderful to be hot and feel that warm concrete and some dry grass beneath my toes!  I'm sure beach sand and salt water has a certain allure for the sticking of one's toes in, but after a winter of blizzards, drizzle, cold and ice, and a spring of more cold, hail, and tornadoes, this girl's toes felt pretty good just feeling some hot grass and concrete! Since it was nice and HOT on Monday, and I was spending precious time working in my garden, I chose to bake some banana bread in my crockpot instead of the oven where I had to hover inside watching it and so as not to heat up my south facing kitchen during the heat of the day.  I once baked banana bread in a stonewear bowl in my crockpot, but I have since broken that bowl and had to find another "vess...

I am back among the living - blogging!  Hurray!  We have had a very, very BUSY (did I say busy?) couple of weeks at our house.  My older daughter graduated from college a couple of weeks ago and this past weekend my younger daughter and one of my nieces graduated from high school.  To celebrate, we had two separate graduation parties and even though it was a TREMENDOUS amount of work getting our Central Missouri yard presentable for guests, we had a great time!  Each party had different foods and we did a pretty good job representing each graduate's favorite dishes.  At my older daugher's graduation celebration we served, this pulled BBQ pork (I baked it in the oven and made six times the recipe of BBQ sauce), and this Super Easy Slaw recipe , and, of course, her favorite deep fried crinkle-cut french fries, some of these  Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars  (which were a HUGE HIT) and lots of other stuff.  At the most recent graduatio...