Cakes & Cookies

Chocolate cake
Coconut Pineapple cake
Corn bread
Pound cake
Carrot cake
Assorted cookies (butter & chocolate chip)
Cup cakes

Happy New Year! Time to start the new year with new recipes and some good kitchen conversation. Here are some pictures of some cakes made in 2008.

VETERANS DAY

I just want to say about Veterans Day that it is a holiday of celebration. We already have a day of commemoration, that's Memorial Day. Veterans Day started as Armistice Day, a celebration of the end of World War I. Today, it should be a celebration of appreciation for those who have served in peace andwar and lived to tell stories about it - even if they have since passed on. Many of the speeches I've heard today seemed more appropriate for Memorial Day - a more somber day, for sure.

PORK ROAST DE L'ONCLE LONNIE

Marinade:
1/4 cup of vinegar
1 tsp salt
1 tbs worstershire
Marinade for one hour.

Insert:
2 onions
2 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of sage
2 tsp of salt

chop onions, garlic, sage, and salt.
Insert onto pork shoulder.
Roll up shoulder and tie down.
Place pork shoulder in french oven, uncovered, at 300 degree oven for four hours.

Take shoulder out and place in shallow roasting pan.
Deglaze french oven with white wine.
Add deglazed juices to shallow pan.
Place roast in oven uncovered for three hours more at 300 degrees.

Remove roast and cool to room temperature.
Place in refrigerator for 24 hours
Remove from refrigerator and slice.
Place sliced roast in a pan with gelled juice; cover and heat in oven at 250 degrees for 30 min.

Serve. YUM!!!

Barbeque Spareribs 2

Marinade:
1 package of spare ribs
1/2 cup of apple juice
1/4 cup of organge juice
1/4 cup of vinegar
1/8 cup worstershire sauce
2 tbs of salt
2 tbs brown sugar
1 tbs black pepper to taste
2 tbs onion powder
2 tbs garlic powder
1 teaspoon celery salt
Marinade the whole slab of ribs for several hours or overnight.

Cover ribs with parchment paper
Place ribs on an appropriate grilling rack over a pan to catch the juices.
Place in an oven at 220 degrees for eight hours to 12 hours.
Take out of the oven and refrigerate for several hours.
Take cold ribs out of the refrigerator and slice them into invididual ribs.

Barbeque sauce:
(secret combination) However, it does include tabasco sauce, ketchup, and molasses. That's all you're going to get out of me.

Place individual ribs on a rack and cover ribs with barbeque sauce.
Place in an oven at 350 degrees.
Check ribs from time to time to base with sauce until you are satisified they've reached the browness you want without burning.
Remove ribs and enjoy the crispy outside and falling-off-the-bone tenderness of the meat, inside.

James Carville Sums It Up

I'm no great James Carville fan, but he sums things up nicely:
"If you think what America needs is a tax cut for people making over half-a-million dollars a year then vote for McCain. If you think middle-class people are struggling – that their incomes are going down and they need help – vote for Obama. It’s a very simple choice".- CNN's Late Edition
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NUT'N-BUT-MUTTON 1

This is not my recipe, but it looked kind of interesting.