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Alecia and Angie conspired and Angie my best friend just drove from Mississippi and knocked on my door! Just to see me!

Garlic Braid Bread

• Cutting board/pizza slicer
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Pop Open the can of refrigerated Pillsbury Crusty French Loaf dough.
• Slice lengthwise in half then into halves until you have 4 strips
• Bread dough with the beginning briad (or plait)
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  Braid the dough starting from the right side, cross over 2 strips to the left, then under the 4th strip, start from right side again, cross to the left over 2 strips, then under the 4th strip, repeat until you reach the end (do not stretch dough, handle lightly)
• Bread braid ready to bake, topped with garlic, and Parmesan.
• Choose a cookie sheet, baking pan, or a piece of foil to bake the bread on. Spray with non-stick cooking spray first. Place in 350F degree oven for about 10-14 minutes until golden brown.
• Remove from oven when golden brown, serve in cloth or paper napkin lined bread basket, alternatively just warp it up in a clean cloth napkin or clean lint free dish towel and serve to your guests. Bread will easily tear apart and your family and guests will eagerly devour it.
•  Feel free to top with whatever suits your fancy, and serve hot nacho cheese or softened cream cheese, or pizza sauce or melted butter as a dipping sauce.

Easter Menu

Lil Smokies wrapped in Crescent rolls
Lil Smokies in Jack Daniels Sauce
Garlic Braid Bread
French Loaf
Green Beans and bacon and onion
Potato Soup with crisp bacon and caramelized onion
Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Potatoes
Homemade mac and cheese
Cornbread
Steamed vegetables
Black and green olives/sweet and dill mini pickles/cheese and cracker plate
Green Bean Casserole
Brisket

Two layered butter cake with milk chocolate double layered icing and chocolate covered coffee beans for dessert
plate of Twinkies/Rice Krispy treats/Otis Spunkmeyer Chocolate Chocolate Chip muffins/Milk chocolate pudding cups for those who don't like cake.

Cooking Class

So I've learned that Hobby Lobby and Platt and Michael's offer cooking classes and Wilton Cake decorating classes for a minimal fee plus some class supplies, but still! I heard one of the wedding cake classes is an intense 4 hour class! I am SO excited, guess what I want for my birthday!

Car batteries oy vei!

Alright so I found out the hard way this morning that car batteries are NOT meant to last more than two or three years at MOST!! Now as you may know I leave early for work because I think if something happens on the way to work, I need time to deal with it so it doesn't cause unnecessary drama, and I am not late to work. So today I get in my car and plug in my iPhone and turn on my iPod app and head to QT to get fuel and I leave my car sort of turned on, enough to listen to my music as I pump gas, well as I am waiting my music goes dead, and I think maybe I was getting a call or something but when I get in my car to leave it won't start!! Ugh! So I had to get a jump, so long story short I now need to go get a car battery and I am getting the BEST money can buy because this past winter I had to get a jump early one morning and it was freezing, so yeah note to self, batteries die.

I want one!

Easter dinner

Easter dinner will be held at my place at 4:30ish on Sunday, this will be the last dinner for
a while. Happy Wednesday!

Cause once is never enough..

Early to bed, Early to rise!

So I bought Harry Potter Friday and have watched it three times already!  I believe it is the most beautiful movie shot in the franchise yet.  Me and my people are going to decide tomorrow night if we are going to have a Easter feast or not, only because I have been doing SO much work lately in the kitchen and people think I need to slow down and relax, but I am truly happy when my friends are over laughing and playing games and eating my food and helping me cook "yes I let people help" now; slice this, chop that, mix this, stir that, lol.  That TOTALLY counts as delegating!  Even professional chefs have sous chefs right?  Nod to you Wade!  Alright so I laughed while watching this video, $1.48 for gas, I remember when it .98 cents!  A friend said nothing good really came out of the eighties but then he changed his "tune" when I busted out my case for ALL things 80's and he finally had to admit I was right. 

So storms are on the horizon, so sayeth my my trusty NOAA!  As you know I LOVE some precipitation, so bring it on!  I better get in the shower and get ready for work; which is going SO great by the way.  Have an amazing Tuesday, I plan to make today better than yesterday.  I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.

Carol of the Bellls

Sometimes music can just describe your mood or feeling.

Moods

Hurt.

Foodie Pictures from birthday parties yesterday!

Ah the good life is relaxing on a Sunday and thinking about Friday and Saturday night, and looking forward to next weeked and all the fun stuff we have planned!  Alright yesterday we observed Robert and Pam's birthday, and here are the foodie photos I'd like to share as I spent most of the day and night in the kitchen but the parties were well worth it!  Here we go, see my recipes on my older blog posts:

Robert's Menu:
Pork butt roast
Greens
Mashed Potatoes with bell pepper and onion
Cornbread
French bread
Brown Gravy
French Vanilla Kahlua Cupcakes
Double Decker Yellow Cake with 2 pounds of milk chocolate and chocolate covered coffee beans