First week in, and I’m already late with posts! Same old, same old, right? Yep. Let’s get this one going now though…

Crock pot meals are going to save your sanity during NaNoWriMo, and these recipes are word-worthy!

This is what’s for dinner tonight, wonderfully spiced beef sausages in a hearty sauce, served on basmati. A good dinner for a mid-week slump.

My tastebuds soared into ecstasy the day that my friend Lorna introduced me to hot pepper relish from Bicks. Unfortunately, it’s extremely hard to find in the wild (aka the local Co-ops, Superstore, Wal-mart, etc.) so I went on the hunt for recipes I could use here at home. With the abundance of various hot peppers being grown locally and a few imported as well, I felt confident I’d have no problems sourcing the main ingredient.
I wasn’t satisfied with those I was finding online, and so I turned to Facebook …

More often than not, Grandma’s Cookie ‘Jar’ was filled with one or the other of the cookies below. Store-bought was a rare treat, and even then usually store-brand versions of oreos.
You know, the kind that taste of sawdust and sugar? Yeah. But it made me appreciate the home-made cookies a little more.