Daily life and travel with food and cupcakes as a common theme.
Posted in Canning and Preserving, Eat Local, Food, Home Style Cooking, Pumpkin and Squash, Recipe on Nov 7th, 2009
Warning: The FDA does not recommend canning pumpkin. That was a small footnote on the bottom of a long recipe I found online for making pumpkin butter.
It was a footnote I wish I would have noticed before I peeled three pumpkins with a potato peeler. One I wish I would have read before I pan [...]
Posted in Arizona, Breakfast and Brunch, Canning and Preserving, Eat Local, Food, Fruit, Home Style Cooking, Recipe, Reuse on Sep 28th, 2009
Admittedly, I get myself worked into a frenzy when there are harvestable items in Arizona. I don’t want to hash out old news, but for those of you who have visited my blog from time to time, you’ll recall my citrus bandit phase this past spring.
I’m trying to control it, but it is prickly pear [...]
Posted in Arizona, Canning and Preserving, Condiments, Food, Fruit, Home Style Cooking on Sep 27th, 2009
Canning is another one of those crafty homemade endeavors that was on my list of “things to learn.”
It’s amazing how many resources there are online on the subject and how an online shout out got me an invitation to a friend’s house to take a stab at learning the process.
Ball’s website has online tutorials and [...]
Posted in Appetizers, Food, Home Style Cooking, Recipe, Vegtables on Jul 5th, 2009
Years ago I remember seeing a Food Network show of some sort on National food festivals. This one was on the Vidalia Onion Festival, and I recall thinking that would be an amazing festival to attend. Like the Gilroy Garlic Festival, can you imagine how good the whole thing would smell?
So when I was an [...]
Posted in Food, Home Style Cooking, Pork, Recipe on May 25th, 2009
This weekend I ended up with a snazzy electronic purchase. Its the first time I can recall that I was excited about something that had to do with electronics, stereo, television stuff. I mean the only reason I have a flat panel TV is because I won one at our company Holiday party.
I also have [...]
Posted in Cupcakes, Desserts, Home Style Cooking, Recipe on May 9th, 2009
Sprouts is a regional farmer’s market style grocery store and I do a majority of my grocery shopping between Arizona home based grocery chain Basha’s and Sprouts. Sprouts stores have these candy displays where gummy worms, sugared candies, Boston Baked beans are all in bulk tubs next to organic wheat flower and pumpkin granola.
You can’t [...]
Posted in Food, Holidays, Home Style Cooking, Life, Restaurants on Jul 8th, 2008
If you were to observe any of the women in my family at a restaurant, you would note that each of us when we unroll our napkins, we place them immediately in our laps and proceed to set our silverware out in it’s proper place. I don’t want to say that we had lots of [...]
Posted in Appetizers, Food, Home Style Cooking, Restaurants, Travel on Jul 6th, 2008
So, far my trip to Texas has given me a change to disconnect. It’s easy to do with no computer, no Internet and no cell phone reception.
I’ve spent hours on this porch sitting in a rocking chair, drinking sangria and watching the water.
I bought a box of sparklers at this firework stand.
I drove to Snook [...]
Posted in Beef, Food, Home Style Cooking, Life, Potatoes, Soups on Mar 19th, 2008
I’ve always heard that you can tell that a girl’s from Texas if she can drink beer. Most people equate Lone Star Beer with The Lone Star State, but a beer that I’m finding more often outside of Texas is Shiner Bock beer. In college Shiner was elite keg party beer. Usually the Shiner keg [...]
Posted in Breakfast and Brunch, Food, Holidays, Home Style Cooking, Life, Potatoes, Recipe on Jan 2nd, 2008
This is the first Holiday in a LONG time that I haven’t gone crazy being away from the office. I’ve taken extended time off, almost a whole two weeks. Yes, I have checked in a few times, but not obsesevely.
What’s been keeping me busy? Family, friends and a new venture I’ll reveal more about later.
In [...]
Keesha oversees recruiting and training programs for GoDaddy.com. She is responsible for building programs that attract and retain amazing employees.
Keesha loves food and photography and is passionate about community volunteering. She sat on the board of directors for the Junior League of Phoenix and is on the Children's Museum of Phoenix committee. She attended Blinn College and Texas A&M University. Her most private cupcake confession? She doesn't like frosting!
