Week 54 Monday (1/19/15)

Recipe Review

Today’s Recipe and Location:           Champagne Cocktails        

Found in: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays

                  Pages:  354 - 355     Copyright:  2013  Harper Collins

         Unfortunately, I do not drink liquor, so this recipe is only in the Holiday book and not in the blog. I can’t really say a lot other than it looked good and something that would be fun to serve at a party.

Random Reflections - Bucket List #42

         I think I would love to take a formal cooking class. I do think I am a pretty good recipe follower, but I do not think my technique is like that of a professional chef. When I was watching Julie/Julia, I learned that there is a right way to chop an onion. What is it?  I don’t know so maybe it would be fun to learn the right way to prepare food.

Take a formal cooking class

Organize and host a Christmas Caroling Party

Watch the IMBd list of the best 250 movies

Vacation in Colorado

create a list of home repairs

Prepare to teach a new course at Aurora University

Visit Brookfield Zoo and photograph the animals

Have absolutely no debt

Set up a schedule for next summer to visit area cities

Organize and purge the basement

I am going to learn as much as I can about large animals

Make repairs in each and every room of my home to prepare to sell

Research Hadrian’s Wall for visit to Scotland

Enter a quilt in a local fair

Write a book about school for parents

Host a game party

Purchase a truck

I would like to learn more about fostering animals

Visit the narrowed list of Kentucky towns each for a weekend

Have a B.M.I. of 24.9 or lower

Return to Florida/Alabama and see old friends

Play tennis again

Learn to play bridge

Have an in-ground pool

Finish writing a book on the Scent Family

Save up enough money for a down payment on my Kentucky house

Research every town in Kentucky in hopes of relocating

Work on learning calligraphy and bettering daily penmanship

Begin making my own clothing using a mannequin

Volunteer at an animal rescue

Visit all 50 states

Photography courses

Complete all of Mom’s and my scrapbooks

Go skiing again in Colorado

Meet the Duggar family

Watch every nominee and winner for the Academy Awards to date

Remodel my kitchen

Take piano lessons

Write 2 books for my great-nephews

Travel to Wales

Travel to Scotland

Alaskan cruise

Wants and Wishes

         I want a gas grill that would be usable all year. My Dad had a gas grill permanently installed by the back door to our porch in my childhood home. Due to its location, all we had to do to use it in the winter was shovel a scoop or two, and then grill away. I loved being able to grill all year around.