tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32966866425643453662011-04-21T12:24:26.885-07:00I'm just your average cookie baking, mud slinging Southern hospitality kind of gal out to show the world that I can make something of myself.LadyNightStalkrnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296686642564345366.post-35599841565847195862008-06-25T18:56:00.000-07:002008-06-25T19:51:48.545-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_S8T3C-VuswI/SGL4yUHQjEI/AAAAAAAAAAY/sjP76Pd_q1Q/s1600-h/chris.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216004861724757058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_S8T3C-VuswI/SGL4yUHQjEI/AAAAAAAAAAY/sjP76Pd_q1Q/s320/chris.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6666;">So, Chris is down at the National Guard base to be an extra in some country music video. It's going to be a 12 hour doozy. I think it's funny that they asked him to be an extra in a country music video as an airman..when he is an actual airman. Don't they call in models for that?! Ha ha..Don't get me wrong; my baby's a hottie, but that's like work for him. You called him in to be some good looking beef on a music video. Ha ha..whatever saves them money, huh? Atleast he's getting paid for it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6666;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6666;">I have a lot things coming up. July 13th is my birthday. July 18th is the day I have my wisdom teeth taken out. Ha ha..that's not even a week apart. Oh well, what can you do? I'll have the house to myself all of next weekend. Thank goodness..I need some time to myself. Maybe I'll actually be able to do some things I've been needing to do..like paint the rest of my closet or something. I've been working on painting the whole bottom of the bordering of my walk-in clost in black and then I was going to finish drawing the cherry blossoms on my wall and paint that in. It kind of looks like doo doo right now. I'm just glad that it's a closet and people don't normally check out your closet on a regular basis. Unless there's closet dwellers that I don't know about; and if so, I'm glad my friends aren't any of them.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6666;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6666;">I need to go looking for some antique stores. I'm really tempted to start buying and saving up on useless antiques. That's just the southern side to me that just has to be a natural pack rat. Isn't that typical? </span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6666;">Maybe I can get back to Lynchburg, TN. and visit the Jack Daniels distillery again..And while we're there I'll check out those small town antique shops. Those are the best. I need a really nice dark wood bookcase. Yes, that would be nice. Something to actually put my many books on. I'll keep my eye out for something.</span></div><div> </div><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3296686642564345366-3559984156584719586?l=lifeasla.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>LadyNightStalkrnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296686642564345366.post-37894346365626288412008-06-25T18:05:00.000-07:002008-06-25T18:53:56.444-07:00<a href="http://www3.jjc.edu/SP07/amiddleton/images/raspberries2.gif"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www3.jjc.edu/SP07/amiddleton/images/raspberries2.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have a thing for raspberries.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ffff99;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#ffff99;">Lemon</span><span style="color:#000000;">-</span><span style="color:#ff6666;">raspberry cupcakes</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Ingredients</strong></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">3 cups powdered sugar, divided</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">4 1/2 teaspoons finely grated lemon peel, divided</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">2 large eggs</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">1 1/4 cups self-rising flour</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">1/4 cup buttermilk</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, divided</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">12 teaspoons plus 1 tablespoon seedless raspberry jam</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Fresh raspberries (for garnish)</span></em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners. Using electric mixer, beat butter, 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, and 3 teaspoons lemon peel in large bowl until blended, then heat until fluffy and pale yellow. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating to blend after each addition. Beat in half of flour. Add buttermilk and 2 tablespoons lemon juice, beat to blend. Beat in remaining flour.</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Drop 1 rounded tablespoonful batter into each muffin liner. Spoon 1 teaspoon raspberry jam over. Cover with remaining batter, dividing equally.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Bake cupcakes until tester inserted halfway into centers comes out clean, about 23 minutes. Cool cupcakes in pan on rack. Meanwhile, whick remaining 1 1/2 cups powered sugar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon peel in small bowl. Spoon half of icing over 6 cupcakes. Let stand until icing sets, about 30 minutes. Garnish with raspberries.</span><br /><br /><br />And alcohol.. =P<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff6666;">Raspberry Margarita</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Ingredients</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>15 to 20 red raspberries<a href="http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/Margherita.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 166px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 282px" height="389" alt="" src="http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/Margherita.jpg" border="0" /></a></em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>2 cups ice</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>2/3 cup margarita mixer</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>1 tablespoon orange juice concentrate, thawed</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>2 teaspoons Rose's sweetened lime juice</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Your favorite tequila</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Raspberries (for garnish)</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Put raspberries in a blender with ice, margarita mixer, tequila, orange juice concentrate and sweetened lime juice. Blend until smooth and slushy. Pour into 2 glasses and garnish with whole raspberries, if desired.</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><em><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><em><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></em></strong></p><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><em><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></em></strong></p><br /><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3296686642564345366-3789434636562628841?l=lifeasla.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>LadyNightStalkrnoreply@blogger.com0