Mustache on a stick!

Posted on February 20, 2013 by acherryortwo

A marvelous day of mustache making.

As you may or may not know, I run an online business selling all manner of handmade items including mustaches on a stick.

Today I woke up rather late in the day. In reality it was more like early afternoon. To make up for this lazy behavior I decided to catch up on some orders I had not yet filled. Many, many hours later I had successfully satisfied my urge and had plenty of packages ready to go. 

Most of my orders go to brides who want mustaches on a stick for their wedding guests. It seems that February brides are particularly forgetful, as most of my orders this month have come from frantic ladies placing last minute orders, requesting rush processing an upgraded shipping. It makes me wonder what in particular makes February brides forget to order mustaches on a stick.

I love this job! I love working whenever I feel like it, from home, and in my jammies! An order load like this one makes me proud :)

mustache on a stick tower

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You can’t always get what you want

Posted on February 5, 2013 by acherryortwo

It seems to me that you can’t have what you “need” until you no longer need it. Something about the mystical universe knows the unhealthiness of overwhelming desire.

When you stop to appreciate what you already have, and break down that needy feeling, analyzing yourself and your situation, then we are free.

We need to open our eyes to what is around us, and all of the blessings that we experience on a day to day basis without appreciating them, or even noticing them.

The universe understands appreciation and love. The best way to get what you think you need is to think of all of the people, things, and experiences that make your life awesome. Then, in happiness and gratitude, we won’t ever need, but we will appreciate those extra special experiences that come to us while we are examining our current experience!

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Another Day of Rain

Posted on January 17, 2013 by acherryortwo

It’s been raining here in Athens, GA for 4 days straight. Yesterday the sun came out for about 10 lonely minutes in  the evening.

I’m not really someone who spends a lot of time worrying about the sun. I’m one of the palest people I’ve seen. I get a sun burn easily in just a few minutes outside.

However, lately this weather has really left me lacking my normal sparkle. Yesterday, day three of intense rain, I had trouble pulling myself out of bed, and got little to nothing done all day. I didn’t even have enough energy to lounge in bed and read; that’s much too tiresome.

Today I had one of those days where every little dumb thing goes wrong. Nothing major or bad happened. I think the lack of sunlight is starting to effect me in weird ways.

There is only one reasonable explanation to all of this: I am part plant. The lack of sun is harming my photosynthesis process. Hopefully, in the spring I will sprout flowers from my ears; fingers crossed!

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Something New

Posted on January 12, 2013 by acherryortwo

It’s a new year, and it’s time for something new! One of my many resolutions for this year is to actually start posting here again.

If I’m completely honest, I’m scared. Previously I posted mostly cooking and food related content here. I haven’t had much time to cook for the past year, so that means I have to write about my life, and I’m scared that what I write will be dark and twisty. I’m scared that you won’t like it.

Since I was little, I’ve had this fear that I am actually insane or mentally impaired. I was sure that growing up, my parent’s paid my friends to hang out with me and act like I was normal. I recently found a picture of me on my second birthday, clearly having some kind of mental breakdown, or possibly just trying to fit my elbow into my ear. This seems an awful lot like proof that my fears are true.

In past relationships, I’ve been afraid to tell anyone anything more than superficial for fear that if I let anyone else inside the dark box on top of my shoulders they would run screaming in the other direction.

This could possibly explain the poor dating choices I’ve made in the past.

I’ve got lots of excuses.

I’m also afraid of dangling modifiers. The grammar police are out there, and they are reading!

To heck with those fears! And that is something new for me.

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I live alone

Posted on November 10, 2012 by acherryortwo

This might not be a new concept for some of you. But, I have never lived alone before. Like, ever. No, seriously. I am 30 and living alone for the first time in my life.

It’s mostly wonderful. I have always been a bit of a hermit, or harbored hermit-like tendencies.

My biggest complaint about living alone is: Walking Dead season 3. How am I supposed to watch this show alone, at night, in a quiet and dark apartment? It’s just too much.

Luckily, I collect swords. I keep two under my desk whenever I am watching an episode. I also make sure the front door is locked, I close and lock the office door, draw the curtains, and keep an unsheathed sword in my right hand. I will also admit to watching from under a blanket, and praying that I don’t have to pee. There might be hallway zombies.

Aside from scaring several years off of my life once a week, I live in a beautiful, peaceful, quiet, and generally awesome place. I have found myself slightly on the lonely side on occasion, however.

When I find myself drifting into a bought of loneliness, I like to think about all of the places I’ve lived and all of the people I’ve lived with. I recall a particular roommate in college who refused to wash her sheets for two semesters; the smell was unbelievable. I recall naked hippie man running naked through the jungle at 2 am, crowing like a rooster. I recall a quiet evening at home downtown when the neighbor below us was shot. I recall laying in bed listening to some video game or another, having listened to it for a near marathon of 2 days straight and thinking, “He will get tired of shooting Nazis soon.”

I recall all of these things and then I am so very thankful to live alone, unencumbered by others. There is no one to use all of the forks, make messes, and annoy me constantly. And if you aren’t thankful for clean forks, then what can you really be thankful for?

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Dalai Lama’s Instructions for Life

Posted on September 10, 2012 by acherryortwo

I recently stumbled across His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s Instructions for Life. I’ve printed it out, and it’s hanging above my desk. I find it quite inspirational, and I thought I would share!

Instructions for Life

 

 

  • Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  • When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  • Follow the three R’s:
    • Respect for self
    • Respect for others
    • Responsibility for all your actions.
    • Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
    • Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
    • Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
    • When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
    • Spend some time alone every day.
    • Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
    • Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
    • Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
    • A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
    • In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
    • Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
    • Be gentle with the earth.
    • Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
    • Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
    • Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

I’ve made a printable version, so you all can hang it in a prominent place, and be reminded! Download the PDF here.

 

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The New Place

Posted on July 7, 2012 by acherryortwo

The new place is much better than the old place. Isn’t it always? It seems that way to me!

As promised, here are some pictures. I haven’t hung up much art.. Or any art, actually. And there are no pictures of the office. The reason for that is because the hideous pile of things I don’t know what to do with lives in there.


 

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Midnight Moving

Posted on June 8, 2012 by acherryortwo

It’s moving day once again! Well, tomorrow is moving day. Aaron is on his way over with a borrowed pickup truck to load up the last of his possessions.

I think that one of the only reasons I am okay with all of this is that I am getting my own place. My own space with no one else’s mess. I am 30 years old (meep!) and I have never lived alone. I’m actually really excited about this!

I hate my old apartment. I have been living with bugs and our neighbor’s cigarette stink for 6 months. I am ready to go, go, go!

My new place has a giant balcony overlooking some very dense forest and Stanford Stadium is in the distance. There is a huge bedroom with a closet that is almost the size of my old apartment. The office is a very nice size and has the balcony with a sliding door. The living room is smallish, but big enough for my purposes. There is a lovely kitchen with really nice cabinets and stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. It’s all very lovely! Pictures to come.

The only issue I really have is that it is on the top floor. I actually kind of really like that it’s on the top floor, except for the moving bit. I am kind of dreading hauling all of my heavy stuff up three flights of stairs!

Aaron is coming tonight to get the rest of his stuff, like I said. Then after loading up all his stuff (washer, dryer, bed, desk, tons of boxes, etc) he is driving back to Atlanta and unloading it (by himself?) and then driving back in the morning to help me move around 9 am. Wee! It is 11pm now, and he hasn’t shown up yet. I am starting to wonder how it is all going to work out.

There is nothing I can really do about any of it, so I am just going to assume it’s fine. :)

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I Love Moving

Posted on June 3, 2012 by acherryortwo

Few people have uttered those words. But it’s true; I love moving. Or at least, I love the idea of moving. I love throwing away things I don’t need, packing everything in categorical boxes and arranging them alphabetically in nice pile in my dining room. I love it so much that it’s 5 days until my move and I am completely packed.

I realize that this introduces some interesting problems in regards to living for the next 5 days. Where is my printer paper? Packed. Where are my knitting supplies? Packed. Where is my underwear? Where is my toothbrush? Where is my silverware? Well, you get the idea.

I love finding my new grocery store, and figuring out the best route to take to get here and there. I love drawing to-scale layouts of my new home, complete with to-scale couches, beds, and other furniture, so that I can arrange things properly before I even move in. I love buying new blenders and vacuums and decorative bottles of vegetables in vinegar.

Since I turned 18, I’ve never lived anywhere for more than 2 years. Some places, I’ll stay for three months, some for a year or a year and a half.

The thing is, this moving business, it seems to go against everything I know about myself. If I were to meet me, and I have, I would suppose that I am the sort of person who likes stability, who likes to know where, what, when, and how long.

The only thing I can guess is that I must have gypsy blood in me somehow. Or maybe I just haven’t found a place I really like yet. Once place seems to be as good as the next… but maybe that’s the problem. I wonder, do most people love where they are? How is it that someone can live in the same house for 15 years, on the same street, next to the same neighbors?

I suppose it would be different if I owned a house. If one or maybe two things in my life were more stable, maybe my living situation would be too.

Until then, a haiku:

At the time it seemed
That I needed all these books.
My back disagrees.

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Exams – Cramming

Posted on January 18, 2012 by acherryortwo

There is something very real and also hilarious about the idea of cramming as much information as possible into your brain in a short amount of time. I get visuals of shoving pieces of crumpled paper into my ears.

I don’t really believe in cramming. I’ve been spending lots of time during the week, fitting as much reading, studying, and reviewing in as possible, so that what exams come around, I won’t have to panic, ingest large amounts of caffeine, sleep deprive myself, etc., which are all things that make one do worse on a test.

Willie Nelson Mandela is my study buddy.

exams

Besides having a good study routine, and appropriate study buddy, I find that foods high in omega 3 fatty acids help me concentrate better, like fish, flax seed bread, walnuts, as well as Zola acai berry juice (which is the best acai juice, and can be purchased at Costco for cheap!).

As a student returning to university after several (hey not THAT many) years in the work world, I seem to have a different value for classes and knowledge in general. I want to get the most out of every class I take, every lecture, every practice problem. Now, if I could only develop a photographic memory…

Exams are calling me. In Oscar Wild’s famous last words, “Either that wall paper goes, or I do.”

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Back to the Future

Posted on January 2, 2012 by acherryortwo

I shall hereby declare to all my return to school. I am returning to the University of Georgia, the oldest public university in the United States!

This also marks the evolution of this website. I have no idea where it will go or what it will become. Hopefully it will be something we all enjoy thoroughly!

Go Dawgs!

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Turkey Day, Once Again

Posted on November 23, 2011 by acherryortwo

Ah, Turkey Day! Regardless of where you are, or what you are doing, I bet you are thinking about turkey. Turkey, turkey, turkey. And now you definitely are! I’m so tricky.

I realize that other countries and cultures have similar holidays and celebrations, but you have to admit that American Thanksgiving is a pretty awesome holiday.

I love the Turkey Day spread so much that every year, I vow to make it more than just the once. I’ve made what I call Thanksgiving Light, which is not light as in low fat, but is more like Thanksgiving with a few corners cut, store bought potato rolls, instant mashed potatoes, and skip the turnips all together. It’s always pretty yummy, but it’s never as good without all the sparkle, the pizzas that goes along with a holiday.

This makes me wonder about how other people celebrate Turkey Day. Do most people eat a light breakfast, no lunch, and an early dinner? Do most people start drinking wine two hours before dinner on an empty stomach to produce absolute loopiness? In my family, things like forgetting to serve the peas, leaving the stuffing in the oven, cutting oneself with the carving knife, and crying are all part of the holiday festivities. Of course the wine is always to blame.

Perhaps I should lay off the drinking this year! But what fun would that be? My holiday wish for you is that there is no forgetting, burning, cutting, or crying on your Turkey Day this year.

Happy Turkey Day! Unless you are a turkey, in which case: I love you, and get in my belly!

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Massaman Curry Recipe

Posted on November 19, 2011 by acherryortwo

If was completely honest, I would admit that I am not a raving fan of curry. In fact is that I have actually never truly enjoyed a curry dish… That is until I tried Massaman Curry. The difference between the carry-out Indian curry that I had tried and the Thai Massaman Curry recipe, is that it has a coconut base. I won’t pretend to know a lot about curry, but there are several varieties, red, yellow, green, and Massaman.

This is a relatively simple Massaman Curry recipe, which I had the pleasure of perfecting with my mother and brother. Family cooking projects are so much fun, aren’t they?

This recipe calls for fish sauce, and honestly if you don’t have any, and you don’t think you will use it for anything else, don’t run out and buy some. It definitely adds a hint of depth and dimension to the Massaman Curry Recipe, but it isn’t absolutely necessary. I have made both with and without the fish sauce and enjoyed it immensely each way. Also, in my humble opinion, I could take or leave the cashews or peanuts. If you don’t feel like dropping $7 on a small container of cashews, don’t feel bad about skipping the nuts entirely or using peanuts. In fact, you should never feel bad about this Massaman Curry recipe. You should feel very very good about it!

I served my Massaman Curry with a little lightly sauteed bok choy. Enjoy!

Massaman Curry Recipe

massaman curry recipe

Ingredients

  • 2.5 pounds chicken, cut into 1.5 inch pieces
  • 1 can coconut milk
  • 1/2 pound potatoes, cut into chunks
  • 8 ounces pearl onions, peeled
  • 2 large carrots, sliced thinly into disks
  • 1/2 cup Massaman curry paste
  • 2 tablespoons tamarind paste
  • 1 teaspoon fish sauce
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • 1 tablespoon sweet chili sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Bragg’s Liquid Aminos, or soy sauce
  • juice of one lime
  • cashews or peanuts for topping (optional)

Directions

  1. In a large wok or skillet over medium-high heat, scoop out and warm the creamy top part of the coconut milk.
  2. Add the massaman paste to the coconut milk cream and stir to combine. Cook over medium-high heat until bubbling.
  3. Add chicken, the rest of the coconut milk, and enough water to cover the chicken. Stir, bring to a boil, then reduce heat to simmer.
  4. Simmer uncovered for about 30 minutes, until chicken is completely cooked. Make sure to add small amounts of water to keep the chicken covered.
  5. While chicken is simmering, boil a large pot of water. Cook potatoes for about 10 minutes and drain.
  6. When chicken is finished cooking, add the potatoes, carrots, and pearl onions to the curry. Simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
  7. Add tamarind paste, fish sauce, brown sugar, ginger, chili sauce, Bragg’s, and lime juice. Mix and simmer for 5 more minutes.
  8. Serve over rice.
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The best snacks on the planet – Asian junk food

Posted on November 15, 2011 by acherryortwo

Who says you can’t buy happiness?

There is nothing more exciting than sampling snacks that your tongue doesn’t get very often. I recently journeyed to my very favorite Buford Highway Farmer’s Market. I deviated from my shopping list a bit and splurged on the random Asian junk food nonsense you see here.

asian junk food

Ginger candies, mochi, Hello Panda chocolate and strawberry biscuits, clear and cloudy sake, Hot Nut, dried kiwi, oolong tea, spicy instant noodles, aloe juice, Pocky, rice candies, Chang, and some other random and assorted Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Chinese snacks.

It’s like Asian junk food heaven. And I’m so there!

I also got the ingredients for Massaman Curry, which I will post the recipe for very soon!

massaman curry recipe

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Knowledge is Power

Posted on November 10, 2011 by acherryortwo

When I was young, my father said to me “Knowledge is power… Francis Bacon”

I understood is at “Knowledge is power, France is bacon.”

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, “Knowledge is power, France is bacon” they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, “Knowledge is power,” and I’d finish the quote “France is bacon” and they wouldn’t’ look at me like I’d said something very odd but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what “Knowledge is power, France is bacon” meant, and got a full 10 minute explanation of the “knowledge is power” bit, but nothing on “France is bacon”. When I prompted further explanation by saying “France is bacon?” in a questioning tone, I just got a “Yes.” At 12, I didn’t have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I’d never understand.

It wasn’t until years later, when I saw it written down, that the penny dropped.

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Lake Lanier in the Evening

Posted on November 8, 2011 by acherryortwo

Welcome back! Oh, thanks! Don’t mention it. Where have you been? Oh, you know, away. Away? Well, no not really away, just absent. You clearly don’t want to talk about it. Clearly. Well, then how about a subject change. Splendid!

A few days ago, Aaron and I stopped by Lake Lanier in the late evening. I’ve lived near this particular lake for years and enjoyed it from time to time. I have never been a huge fan of lakes. I hate the way the mud squishes through your toes when walking out into the water. I hate that when the lake is particularly low, as it is now, it is also particularly smelly, as though the filth is more concentrated. There was a village in valley that was flooded to create the lake. There are still churches and houses at the bottom of the lake, and you can take scuba diving tours down to see them. This has always creeped me out to no end. If there are churches down there, there are also graveyards, which means ghostly dead bodies could drift up from the bottom at any moment. Call me irrational, but deep water freaks me out.

Dead bodies aside, it’s a lovely lake to look at. It was a crispy cold evening, and we took turns skipping stones across the mirror-like surface of Lake Lanier. We were enjoying the evening as the darkness steadily grew… until I had to go to the bathroom. I decided to try to squat behind a bush, since there was no one else in sight. Aaron was on “look-out” for me, which means that he was talking loudly, and making as much noise as possible. My bladder is shy and I can’t go when someone is listening! After a few minutes of suitable ruckus, my rear end quite chilled in the evening breeze, I was just preparing to do my business, when out of no where a large and happy yellow lab came galloping into view. Before I had time to pull up my pants, the slightly muddy, overly friendly lab love-tackled me, sending me sprawling into the sandy goo of the lake shore. Just then, the dog’s owner, a fit looking lady out for a brisk evening stroll, came around the corner to see me, naked butt in the air, covered in mud and animal drool, yelling at her dog. She was clearly almost as startled as I was, and when I blurted something like, “I was peeing!” She very quickly apologized, leashed her pup, and hauled him away. What was I supposed to say?

Embarrassed, dirty, and with a still desperately full bladder, Aaron and I called it an evening and came home.

Ah, the great outdoors!

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Crock Pot Roast Recipe

Posted on October 6, 2011 by acherryortwo

This crock pot roast recipe is one of my favorites for fall. Throw it in the crock pot, drive to the mountains to pick apples for a few hours, come home and your house smells divine. How is it that something so easy tastes so marvelous? If you are making pot roast tonight, I am coming over!

Crock Pot Roast

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds beef chuck pot roast
  • 4 red potatoes
  • 3 large carrots, peeled
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 package onion soup mix
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Directions

  1. Place beef in crock pot.
  2. Wash the potatoes and cut them in half. Cut the carrots into 3 inch pieces.  Peel the onion and cut it into quarters.
  3. Stuff the potatoes, carrots, and onions around the sides of the roast.
  4. Add the water.
  5. Sprinkle Worcestershire sauce, onion soup mix, salt, and pepper over the meat and vegetables.
  6. Cover and cook on low heat setting for 8 to 10 hours. The roast is done when it falls apart when cut.
  7. When serving, drizzle some of the juices over the pot roast and vegetables.
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Buford Highway Farmers Market: Ni Hao, Y’all

Posted on October 2, 2011 by acherryortwo

This weekend, I ventured to the Buford Highway Farmers Market, a store of wonder and delight! I could only identify about half of the treasures in this store, and I couldn’t even begin to imagine what to do with most of it. What on earth do you do with sesame leaf? Or peeled cactus leaves? Pickled octopus legs? Duck livers? The prices are amazing, at least on the identifiable produce and products, though I can’t tell you what a good price on duck livers would be.

Keep in mind that a lot of packaging is not in English. The packaging that is in English tends to say things like, “Instant Chicken Flavor! Extra Health Taste!” The store is only organized by nationality, fish, and vegetables. There is so much fun stuff here. I really wanted to buy a jar with a little man crying on the packaging. Why is he crying? If only I could read Japanese.

Buford Highway Farmers Market is located at 5600 Buford Highway NE, Doraville, GA 30340.

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Spooky Halloween Craft Project

Posted on September 28, 2011 by acherryortwo

I love Halloween. Just as I have overwhelmingly strong feelings about raking leaves with my family, I also have powerful associations with Halloween.

When I was a kid, my friends and I would map out our Trick-or-Treating route weeks ahead of time. We would start early, at 5 o’clock when all the little kids would go out, because there is no risk of being uncool when candy is involved. Armed with pillow cases, we would make our first round, heading back to our predetermined home base as soon as our pillowcases were two-thirds full. With a new pillow case and a new route, this would continue until most of the houses had turned off their front porch lights. Then, once back at home base, we would begin stuffing ourselves with candy, sorting good candy from nasty candy and those annoying pamphlets people give out on Halloween, and trading candy. I always hated those little crispy peanut butter rectangles. So gross.

I can’t go Trick-or-Treating anymore. I just can’t figure out a way to disguise myself properly as a 9 year old. I can, however, decorate the heck out of my room! This past week I have been crafting quite a lot, and I made these Halloween lanterns which can be purchased on ebay.

I also made this fun Halloween craft garland!

Click here to download the PDF for this garland. Simply print the template on cardstock, and carefully cut them out. Trace the the shapes onto black paper (at least two of each for a 4 foot garland), cut, and string on black thread. A super easy and fun Halloween craft project.

Also, here is a picture of my cat with a glittery star on his head.

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Salisbury Steak Recipe

Posted on September 23, 2011 by acherryortwo

The moment the weather starts to change, I get excited! I love fall so intensely, mostly because i am no longer required to rake the leaves that fall in my parent’s front yard every weekend. Fall used to be my least favorite time of year because of that. I can’t tell you what it is exactly about raking leaves that really rubs me the wrong way. Is it the allergies? Is it the fact that for the next two months of your life, your weekends will be ruined? Is it spending multiple hours being yelled at by your father about proper rake handling technique? Is it your brother jumping into the large freshly raked pile of leaves, scattering them all to oblivion once again? Well, it’s probably all of these things. I remember walking out the front door of my house as a kid, and looking up at the ridiculously leafy trees in our yard and thinking all of that couldn’t be necessary. Even after most of the leaves had fallen, there were still so many clinging on, hoping to ruin my free day. I would ask them bitterly, “Why don’t you just come down here so we can get this over with?”

Aside from reliving childhood misery, the weather change also reminds me of all of the wonderful things that I want to cook, that I haven’t been able to cook all summer. Sheppard’s Pie, Cherry Apple Crumble, Raviolis, Cranberry Nut Bread, Meatloaf, etc., etc., etc.!

Here’s one of my very favorites! Salisbury Steak recipe, tweaked to perfection. Salisbury Steak was invented by Dr. J.H. Salisbury, and actually has nothing to do with Salisbury, England.

Salisbury Steak

Ingredients

  • 1 pound ground beef
  • ¼ cup cooked, crumbled bacon
  • 1/2 onion, finely diced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Aminos (or soy sauce)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 teaspoon butter
  • 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 jar of prepared beef gravy

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, combine ground beef, crumbled bacon, onion, garlic, bacon, Braggs, salt, and pepper. Mix well.
  2. Form meat mixture into 6 round patties, about 1 inch thick.
  3. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook the patties for 8 minutes on each side, or until cooked through.
  4. In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, melt the butter.
  5. Sauté the mushrooms for 3 minutes. Set aside.
  6. Warm the gravy in a pan.
  7. Add half of the mushrooms to prepared gravy and simmer for 5 minutes.
  8. Plate the patties and cover with a generous portion of mushroom gravy, and top with a few mushrooms. Serve with steamed carrots and mashed potatoes.

Happy Fall!

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