Zach Heckendorf Plays At Red Rocks!

My Friend

Mama Kirsten

is 

OH

SO 

PROUD!

as

she

should 

be

ZACH
her
baby
boy

is 

PLAYING

AT 

RED ROCKS

THIS

WEEK

To Be 17

and

Playing 

at 

RED ROCKS

HUGE

BIG

GIGANTIC

watch

the video!

 

Something Is Fishy!

Mama Says

Something

Is

A

Little

Fishy

Baby Girl #2

Whipped This Dish Up!

Sh here is what she did....

She made a wonderful salsa

with these ingredients:

CHOP

Tomato

Cilantro

Mango

Purple Onion

Avocado

Jalapeno

DRIZZLE

 Lime juice

Olive Oil

Salt

Pepper

STIR

and

REFRIGERATE

then

Fire Up The Grill

GRILL
the

Salmon

DUMP

salsa

on

salmon
and

EAT

Linking Up To
Spotlight Yourself Wednesday
Tasty Tuesday Recipe

The Girl Can Bake!

This

Little

Girl

of

Mine

CAN BAKE

I

tell

ya!

SHE REALLY

CAN BAKE!

She cooked up some good

old fashioned homemade custard

and

dumped it in a graham cracker crust

and 

loaded it with strawberries

YUM

Tree Drama

Just Some 

Friendly

Photos 

of

Trees

I 

Shot

VERY 

DRAMATIC

and

EDGY

cuz

that's

how 

i

roll

Eggplant Casserole With Italian Sausage

Is Your Mouth Watering Yet?

Well It Should Be!

I love this easy crowd pleaser!

The only hard part is keeping

the critters from snatching the

fried eggplant before I can load

it up in the casserole!

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds of ground Italian sausage

1 eggplant

4 cups mozzarella cheese

8 cups gravy (spaghetti sauce)

1 cup flour

olive oil for frying

salt

1 cup milk

Peel the skin off the eggplant and slice in rounds about 1/4 inch thick.  Place slices on a kitchen towel in a single layer. Moderately salt each slice.  When the eggplant sweats (about 10 minutes) flip each slice over and repeat the process.  After the sweating is complete heat up about 1/2 cup of olive oil in a skillet on medium heat.  Dip each slice in milk and then flour and fry until slightly brown.  Drain on a paper towel.  Continue to fry all the eggplant adding new oil to the skillet when needed.  In a separate skillet brown and drain the sausage.  Add the gravy to the sausage.  I make my gravy from scratch and it is different each time.  A really good store bought brand is fine.  Now you are ready to assemble your casserole.  Spray a good size casserole dish and spread about 2 Tbl of gravy on the bottom.  Place a layer of fried eggplant on the sauce.  Next spread part of the sausage mixture on top of the eggplant.  Sprinkle the cheese on top of  the sausage.  Repeat the layers until all ingredients are used ending with the cheese on top.

Bake covered at 350 for about 45 minutes or until it bubbles. I usually take the cover off the last 10 minutes of cooking as I like me cheese a little crunchy on top! Serve it up with some salad and bread and you are good to go my friends!

Easy No Fail Ciabatta Bread

Look at this NICE Bread!
This recipe is from

my new Blogging Friend

Papa Steve

from

The Clean Team

The Best Carpet Cleaning Service

in the city of Denver!

It truly is a no-brainer recipe!

Go HERE

to get it!

Summertime Meal....Simple and Healthy

AHHHHH

Summer is Here

FINALLY!

Fire Up The Grill!

A simple but yummy meal

from

the grill!

Grilled Chicken

Salad

Bread

Grandpa's Blue Pot

Exploring

 "The Barn"

was 

a

 favorite

pastime in the summers

at

Granny and Popeye's

House

we would spend hours

moving the hay from

position to position

to create the perfect room

sweeping the floor

until every crevice

of our body

was totally and completely

filled with dust

avoiding snakes and spiders

as we carefully

maneuvered through the

dark

and

very narrow hallway

to the "House"

keeping the cows

and

or

goats at bay

as we ran to the wooden door

climbing in the upper loft

better known as 
"The Attic"

to find more 
treasures

to fill our 
"House" 

trying to remember to

"Close The Gate"

so the animals

did not escape

finding old pots and pans

to make "Stew"

swinging open the wooden hatch

to let air in and out

and in

and out

trying hard 

not to smash fingers 

in the process

locking up our "House"

to eat "Supper"

and

catch fireflies

on 

the fresh cut grass

My Great Grandpa's

Blue Pot

Now sits

proudly

in

my garden