Mar. 1st, 2009
Budgie circus
Mar. 1st, 2009 06:58 pmSaw this on
budgerigars. I once read that the trick to training animals is to exploit a natural talent they possess...there's a part near the end where one of the birds keeps pushing a toy car off the stand. I don't know how many times Buddy used to do that...and of course he'd always drop a toy on the other side of the cabinet the cages sat on.
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This is not why I have high cholesterol
Mar. 1st, 2009 09:25 pm...but it certainly can't help it ;-) The secret ingredient for tonight's dinner was...are you sitting down for it? A whole block of cream cheese.
I'll back up a bit and say that for years we've been taking the beautiful one hour drive out to the small town of Linden just for a restaurant called Country Cousins. It's real good, down home Mennonite cuisine. The dishes are delicious and the prevailing theory seems to be "more cream makes everything better". The first time I ate there I was extremely sleepy afterward and couldn't stay awake on the ride home. The last time I was there I bought The Christian Home Cook Book, an impressive yet simple tome that held all their culinary secrets!
Although I wanted to try a lot of the recipes, they also terrified me. Would mushroom and tomato soup really be a good combination? What about the Cherry Coke Jello? Hmm! About two-thirds of the book is made up of breads, cakes, cookies and other sweets by the way. I noticed that most of the casseroles relied on pasta and hamburger, so to get my Mission 101 goal to make five recipes from it, I finally just picked one called ( Company Casserole )
I'll back up a bit and say that for years we've been taking the beautiful one hour drive out to the small town of Linden just for a restaurant called Country Cousins. It's real good, down home Mennonite cuisine. The dishes are delicious and the prevailing theory seems to be "more cream makes everything better". The first time I ate there I was extremely sleepy afterward and couldn't stay awake on the ride home. The last time I was there I bought The Christian Home Cook Book, an impressive yet simple tome that held all their culinary secrets!
Although I wanted to try a lot of the recipes, they also terrified me. Would mushroom and tomato soup really be a good combination? What about the Cherry Coke Jello? Hmm! About two-thirds of the book is made up of breads, cakes, cookies and other sweets by the way. I noticed that most of the casseroles relied on pasta and hamburger, so to get my Mission 101 goal to make five recipes from it, I finally just picked one called ( Company Casserole )