Last Scenes of Summer at Mama Holli's House

Homemade Strawberry

Shortcake

just

SCREAMS

SUMMER

Flowers Which I Planted From

Bulbs TWO Years Ago!

BLOOMING

for

the

FIRST

TIME

Baby Girl #2

Learning to Cook on The Grill

Watching my Yard

Turn

from

Mulch to FLOWERS!

MAGIC!

Ribs That Have Cooked

for

HOURS!

YUMMMMM

Views from my Kitchen Window

Birds DIVING

for

Berries

Summer Pie

MY OH MY

Watching The Birds

BEAUTIFUL

Need I say More?

Goodbye

Summer

See you in about 9 months!

Flowers Please Stay!

School has started

The air has a different scent

The nights are cooler

I am not quite ready to surrender Summer

not ready to surrender the warm air

not ready to surrender the afternoon rain

not ready to surrender the flowers

oh how I Love my flowers

The Palette

What a beautiful vintage palette

from

 The Graphics Fairy! 

A

Palette

Is

A

Work

of

ART

all

by 

itself

I love to stare at my daughter's palette

while she works.

It tells a story.

It has a clear beginning and end.

The paint dances and swirls

on the hard surface

aiding to create the masterpiece.

Looking at her palette helps me

to peek into her mind.

To see the story unfold

even before

the 

paint

reaches the canvas.

Summer In Breckenridge

Oh How I Love

the

MOUNTAINS

in

the

SUMMER

fresh clean air

clear blue sky

crisp cool breeze

Love it!

I REALLY do!

A Mama Bird

On My Front Door

I

Find

A

 Mama Bird

Builds

A

Nest

She Waits and Protects

She Waits and Protects

She Protects The Eggs

With All 

That 

She 

Is

A New Life Begins

We are all Mama Birds

We have the Responsibility

to

 Protect all Life

and

it 

is

truly

a

gift

to

 give

 life

Mama Needed a BIG Dose of Vitamin D

And

Mama

Got

It

SUN

BEACH

SAND

AHHHHH

SAND ART

OURS

AND

THEIRS

SHELLING

DIGGING

BURYING

Sweet Baby Girl

Until next year....

Marco Island

Florida

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

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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

Mama Cora Gives Mama Holli an AWARD!

Mama Cora is sending me

some 

Lovin!

She awarded me this!

Mama Holli Trendy?

Well I guess So!

If Mama Cora says it

then it is TRUE!

Thank you my friend!

Go HERE

to see Mama Cora!

She has the sweetest blog

with the sweetest words

and the sweetest photos

and the sweetest recipes

and the sweetest stories

and

well I think you get the picture!

JUST GO!

Nifty Neapolitan Cookies

MAMA HOLLI

MADE

 THESE!

Pretty Neapolitan Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter softened

1 1/2 cups of sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp almond extract

6 drops red food coloring

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1 (1oz) square unsweetened baking chocolate, melted

Line a large baking sheet with waxed paper and set aside.  Cream butter and sugar. Beat in vanilla and egg.  Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Divide the dough into thirds. Add the almond extract and red food coloring to one third of the dough; spread evenly into baking sheet.  Add walnuts to the second third of the dough and spread on top of first layer.  I used a rolling pin to assist me.  To the remaining dough add the melted chocolate and spread over the other two layers. Cover with waxed paper and refrigerate overnight.  Dump dough out of pan and unwrap.  Cut loaf in half lengthwise.  Cut each portion into 1/8 inch slices.  Place 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes when edges are firm.  Cool on wire racks. 

Store

In

A

Pretty

Jar

to

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