IT CAME!!!!!

My book has FINALLY arrived! YAY! I have been waiting for this day for quite a while now. It is here. I was able to breathe a sigh of relief! My library doesn't carry the book, and I didn't know anyone who owned it, besides my mother and she REFUSED to send it up... This challenge starts this week. I will be making the first recipe hopefully on Saturday. Then I will blog on Tuesday. While looking through the book, I realized I have bitten off a HUGE chunk! Good thing I have a good friend doing this challenge with me. She lives in Oregon, so I think we are going to have a few "skyping" cooking sessions! Wish me luck!

Here's the link to the book on Amazon.. Come bake with us! :o)

http://www.amazon.com/Baking-Julia-Savor-Americas-Bakers/dp/0688146570/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328148224&sr=8-1

Tuesdays with Dorie

Hello all!

When I first set this blog up, I had wonderful thoughts of baking and cooking and blogging, for stress release, etc. Well, as you see the last post was from this past summer....I will be getting better, because I have challenged myself to participate in making and creating the recipes in Julia Child's book "Baking with Julia." I have been following different baking/cooking blogs for about 3 years now. I LOVE to cook and I LOVE to bake. I don't do it that often due to work, school, church assignments, and being single and not wanting to eat ALL of it to myself. After reading the Tuesday's with Dorie blog, they are getting ready for a new challenge this year. I have been brave and signed up! So at least once a month (hopefully twice) you will see a new creation from the book. Get the book and participate with me! It will be a grand time! Enjoy the upcoming recipes!

Buy seafood...

Seafood from the Gulf Coast that is. (Also, Alaska seafood, too.) I served a mission for my church in the Louisiana Baton Rouge mission. I served or was "stationed" in a few of the cities in Louisiana as well as a county in Mississippi. Baton Rouge, Covington, and Houma, all in Louisiana were my homes for roughly 6 weeks to 6 months each. How I LOVE the people of the south. While in Houma, I was able to meet a family who are eight generation oyster men. The Voisin's are an AMAZING family and were through a the toughest time in my mission that sent me home early. The Voisin's were always there and helpful to me and to my family. We are still in touch, and every now and then I get to see them. With the Hurricane Katrina, and then a few years later, the oil spill that hit the gulf, my heart went out to the family as well as others in the state who's livelihood depend on the fishing industry. In the past few weeks there were a group of bloggers that were given the opportunity to visit Louisiana and learn about the seafood industry and how the industry is surviving after the oil spill. Below is a link to a blog that I read, and found the article informational and well written. A bonus is a picture of Mike Voisin, the fearless leader of Motivatit Seafood, and my friend. Enjoy the article and BUY LOUISIANA Seafood!!!! (P.S. some of The. BEST. shrimp. I have EVER. HAD!!!

http://www.foodwoolf.com/2011/06/safety-louisiana-seafood.html