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Happy New Year!

Monday, January 4th, 2010

OK, a few days late, but better than never!  Spent Christmas week visiting a relative in Phoenix, got back on the 30th and have been trying to get back to something resembling “normal”.  Unfortunately, the year started off with a big old cooking FAIL.  Yesterday we had our Christmas here at home, and I wanted to make sausage cheese balls.  Just been on my mind for a while and Christmas seemed a good as excuse as any!

Now, I haven’t made these in about 10 years.  I pulled the recipe from the Betty Crocker/Bisquick website.  I thought the proportions seemed quite a bit off – 3 cups of bisquick, 4 cups of cheese?  To just one pound of sausage?  But then I thought, hey, it’s Bisquick’s own recipe!  They of all people should have it right.

I should have trusted my instincts and found another recipe.  They were awful.  Ended up as sort of a cheesy dough with bits of sausage and just terrible.

Next time I’ll be using this recipe from Consumer Web Help – the proportions seem much more reasonable and the sausage isn’t so far outnumbered by the cheese & Bisquick.

Ah well, lesson learned.  Onward and upward!

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Salsa Jack Cheese

Monday, November 30th, 2009
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You may have noticed that we don’t necessarily focus on “gourmet” stuff here so much as “stuff that just tastes good”.   I suspect Salsa Jack cheese falls into that category.

I spied it at the grocery store while doing the Thanksgiving shopping and thought, “Why not?”

It’s really tasty.  It’s the same idea as Pepper Jack cheese, but with salsa ingredients instead, ie, tomatoes, onion, peppers, etc.  It’s not as hot as some Pepper Jack cheeses, but still has a hint of heat, so it’s not boring.

My market sold it under their private label brand, but I do know there are other companies out there that produce it.  So if you see it, give it a whirl!

(No pics, cause I ate it.)

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TurkeyQuest 2009: Success!

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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In my fridge there is a 7.92# Shady Brook Farms turkey breast!  The first market I went to last evening had at least a dozen of them.  Much better than the year I had to go to 3 different stores to find one.

I always get the biggest one I can get my hands on, because the leftovers will NOT go to waste.  I like turkey, but don’t eat it a whole lot.  My brother LOVES turkey.  Last year he had 8 meals in a row of turkey sandwiches after Thanksgiving.  We’ll see if he can break the record this year.

As it stands, we will again have enough food for a small army, even though it’s just my brother & myself.  But I won’t have to cook for at least 3 days afterwards!

The cheese & sausage plate will be a meal in and of itself.  I’ve got summer sausage, hard pepperoni and…  There’s one other thing and I can’t remember what it is off the top of my head but it’s in the fridge.  For cheeses, we have good old sharp cheddar, pepper jack, salsa jack (never heard of it before, but it looked interesting,) smoked gouda and dill havarti.  I also have a roll of Salame Panino.  (Salame rolled in mozzarella!) It just looked really yummy.

Can’t wait!

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