While living in Istanbul and watching BBC television, I learned about true cooking. I don't know if I had ever talked about my mother's cooking. To quickly recap: it was horrible and I believe that she enjoyed torturing us. This would include her sibling and their children as well. Which is the reason why as of today, moving forward in my life, I decided to learn how to cook the right way. For all our survive. Now I know that some of us are not baking masters however we would contribute something to the Thanksgiving or the Christmas dinner dessert table. So here is another simple recipe for you. Preheat the over @ 325 degrees. In a nice size mixing bowl: 1 box of Duncan Hines Spice Cake Mix 3 eggs (as stated on the back of the cake box) 1 cup of water (as stated on the back of the cake box) 1/4 cup of olive oil (do not use cooking oil as the back of the cake box says) 1/4 cup of Grand Marnier 1 orange which you will shave the outside skin to in
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Now some of y'all already know that I favorite hobby is to watch Korean soap operas on Dramafever. Y'all there have been times where I have called either Asia or Glenna crying after watching one of them. They be laughing at me and I tell them watching the Korean soaps while going thru perimenopause is a very strong roller coaster that sometimes I can not control. Though getting through my emotions all in one sitting can be and has been very healthy for me for the past year. At this time I was doing a marathon and I was watching a show by the name of Murphy's Law of Love, and right way I knew that I was watching my life story in Taiwanese and how absolutely interesting and funny it. (My very own shade! Love It!) So I get to episode 17 where the heroine meets up with her ex-boyfriend and he tells her about what he needed to do take control of his life after their breakup. First, you got to watch the show to understand where it was coming from and second, I wish I was w
Happy All Saint's Day Everyone!!! (November 1st!!) To those of you who do not celebrate the whole Halloween thing and those of you who did too much trick-n-treating last night. Isn't it nice that we can be a devil or a witch on one day and the following we can go to Saint Peter and ask him to forgive us provide that he gets the Heavenly Father permission first of course? But okay, okay reality is now starting to stink in for some of us who start planning for the Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner, Christmas vacation, etc. I am already planning my holiday liquor in Milwaukee with Asia and Sam. I would start practicing now but I need to focus on school. (Haha haha I think this is why I started drinking in the first place! I started school back in 2008 and haven't stopped drinking since then!) (Leave me to my denial please!) Okay, so I got a few dates to bring to the surface for November before Thanksgiving Day. So November 1st is also National Calzone Da
Recently I was given a letter where the word "quit" was used against me. Upon reading the letter even though the Company A understood my reasons for the request that I asked for, Company B use the word "quit" to describe me. First of all, ladies and gentlemen, I am NOT a quitter. If a few of you are like me then you grow with a family or with grandparents who enstealed in you reasons as to why you should never quit something that will have a bright light at the end of tunnel. You were probably told that quitters never to get to accomplish anything else in life, and that they find some things in life too difficult to handle as the older they gets. My grandfather was very strong able us grandchildren completing things or goals so that we come reep the rewards to have a better life. And in turn we parents try to teach our children not to become quitters themselves. However when it comes to that damn job, most of us quit on the principle, principles that you be
Okay, let me say that it is scary that we only have two months left of 2016 when once we get through October. That is frighten to comprehend, Where did the year go and for the time being I can only remember the year being a year of shootings and riots. Of course, there is the President election with the entertaining Donald Trump! (Yeah, I said it! Not voting for his ass!) So believe it or not our day into October is a scary holiday for real! October 1st is National Ghost Hunting Day! I can not remember what channel it is on cable but they have all these Ghost Chasers Shows that I was absolutely annoyed by whenever Pat would watched them. (Sidebar: No longer living with Pat! Now I can get some damn sleep!!) Now I am not interested in chasing any damn ghost let alone visiting any damn hunted house! I might visit Great America for their Halloween Special, I said I might!! Strong ass might here! I, personally can not wait until October 4th which is National Taco Day and National
Y'all I know that I have been slacking for two months, however, I have a very good reason. . . . I moved! Yeap! I took another leap into another adventure in my life. This move has been in the works since the beginning to the year. Though I had one major factor in my mind at that time, however, it is funny when life throw some many things at you that will cause you think again as to what is currently going in your life. You know how in your last few weeks or n recent weeks, reality always gives you something that will leave you in a state of mind that will cause you to either conscience or non-conscience make a change in your current place that slowly starts to hit you. Regardless if it is a decision of changing jobs or moving across the city, across the state or across the nation. And the next thing you know is that you have to make a move or this move for best for you. Then came crunch time! See during the summer I was packaging all my things in tubs, the big 44 gallon
Ok let me tell the story first to explain why it prompted me to even start thinking and writing about the famous phrase "I am just saying!" This was a usual Saturday at the Jew Home at 8:30 am when one of the care taker came to the lobby with a care taker who will filling in for her for the next 24 hours. In the conversation with the four of us ladies (there was me, the security guard on duty Sam, Brenda the regular care taker and her replacement who name we did not catch), as Sam and I were trying to get to know the replacement she came off a little hostile about being here. So as asked if she will be here with the resident she replied "Yeap!" and the way she said it, it had a hint of "I don't want to be here!" And the first that came to my mind in which I said "Geçmiş olsun!" Though I did explain what it meant, her following response causing me and Sam to look at her with blank expressions. Yes people, it was a "I am just saying!&q
Alright, we are in the second half of the year and I am already ready for winter. However I will not be spending it here Milwaukee. But for the time being, I am going to have lots of fun in this month! July 1st - National Postal Worker Day. This is a day I think all postal workers should take revenge on those who have dogs and allow their dogs to run after them. This is always a day I think that all postal workers national should have the day off. July 3rd - National Eat Your Bean Day. This would cause the world to deploy for sure! And we do not have enough air fresher to save us on this day and the day after. July 4th is Independence Day but it also National Hillbilly Day. Can we say "DAMN!"? July 10th - National Pina Colada Day. I hope this will come with 2 sots of rum. July 11th - National Mojito Day. This is another excuse for drinking something good! But then again who needs an excuse to have a drink? July 12th - National Paper Bag Day. Now most of
While I living in Istanbul, I learned how to cook and bake a lot of different food. Now some of those food I still make today if I have both time and the ingredients to do so. Okay, so the past year my friend Asia has been asking me to make my Tequila Almond cake for her. The main reason that I have not, until recently, made this cake for her is because she has to have gluten free food. So secretly I was trying to make it using gluten free flour however it did not taste right. My advice - stick with the original recipes for certain dishes. When I was living over there, I had to make the cake from scratch, however since I been home, I have learned how to make this cake the short quick way. What you need: mixing bowl (medium size) and a whisk Pillsbury White Cake mix 3 eggs 1/4 cup of Olive oil 1/4 cup of crushed Almonds Jose Cuervo Silver Tequila, 2 separate - 1/4 cups for the cake mix 1 teaspoon of Almond extract For the icing: mixing bowl (small one) and a whisk
Hello June. (doesn't it sound like that you are literally talking to a lady with that word as a name?) Okay, who is ready to sit outside, bar-b-que, and splask mosquitoes for the summer? ME!!!! Who is ready to sit in the nail salon for an hour or two to get their pedicure done for the summer? ME!!! Have you ever notice that during the summer is when all the nail salons shops are packed with either an extend time or a sorry we booked time? Who is ready to try all to fresh and new summer salads? When you get a plate, be sure to have one come this was as well. Who is ready to smell that beautiful sweet aroma of a bar-b-que pit followed by that make your noise chase that smell grilled bar-b-que ribs? And you know the smell because huh from the gut, follow by a head shaking, shoulder scrunch, your mouth can already tasted it smell!!! MEEE!!!! Who is ready to go to some of the those summer festivals and drink lots of beer? ME!!!!! Now I got some dates for June that I
So it was my first winter in Istanbul and it was the first winter that Glenna and I was spending together. Of course I can tell you that the winters in Turkey are far different from the winter in Chicago. The differences are that one, Istanbul is some 2,634 meters above sea level (y'all don't ask me how many miles is that! I am still on the meters part) and two, there is no wind but the steel cold that is sharp enough to cut through all the layers that is between your coat and clothes. Now as a Chicagoan I am so used to being blow around by strong wind that I sometimes don't even move. But on this particular day in which I am about to talk about, I had to be Glenna's anchor so that she would not get blown way. I did tell y'all that there is no wind in the winter, right? Before I mentioned that we lived in Kadikoy inside Istanbul and on this day I can not remember where Glenna and I was going however we were heading towards the ferries by the Bosporus.
May is here people and we know what that means, right? Mother’s Day is coming!!! Who like me has a list of mothers that they too wish to find a great gift for? May 1 st Law Day since I have ever broken the law, can I used this day to do so? May 2nd National Life Insurance Day which goes well with National Truffle Day because that is a good reason to die by chocolate. And if that day for chocolate does not work well for you, then consider, May 3 rd National Chocolate Custard Day! (I am just saying!) For all teckies out there May 3 rd is also National SAN Architect Day, which reminds me to update my MS Visio to create one. Plus it is National Two Different Colored Shoes Day. This is so fashionable incorrected! May 4 th will have a more specific meaning to it so it will be National Star Wars Day, hence “May the force be with you!” This day is shared with National Orange Juice Day, which I don’t mind as long as it also involves Vodka. May 5 th Cinco d
Hello everyone! I see that we have enter into April. Where are the damn showers at? My April thus far has been fill with and still is a frozen with snow. . . STILL! Sometimes it is a mixture of snow/rain or rain/snow. There is telling and this has caused me to leave March with cold and enter April trying to recover. but that is hard to do when you have to go to work with a office full of sick people spreading their got damn germs! Stay your ass at home and rest. Seemingly that we are a some days into April and how late I am now posting in my blog, how many of you are still alive after April Fool’s Day? How many of you were brave and crazy enough to play a practical joke on your mother? Uh-hm! Your mother is the one person you should NEVER play a or any practical jokes on. Let me explain why! At any given time your mother can cause you bodily harm with her love. How? With that one special dish that you love when she cooks it. How about when she washes your