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Holiday Cookies and Candy

October 30, 2011

As the holidays approach, I thought I would dig into one of Grandma Tuckers old recipe boxes. I had to go through and reorganize it after years of putting cards back in the improper places. I guess that’s what I get for not paying attention.

Rather than type them out, I thought I would just paste the scan of the cards. I like having these old cards. It’s a lot more personal than just reading the recipes from a book because I know that my Great Grandma Boom*, Grandma Tucker and Mom(Marti Hall) touched these cards. I am slowly scanning all of the cards into my computer to ensure they are not lost. Hopefully nothing will ever happen to them but I will now have the electronic copies as a back up.

This is the recipe that Grandma Tucker let me make all by my I myself, well, she was right there. But still, I did it all alone. After watching and helping a bunch of times, she finally let me do it. Of course it turned out great!

pbfudge

I am going to try to remember  to come back every couple of days or so and post a new recipe.

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Grandma Boom; I always knew Grandma Boom as Grandma Boom. I was a little kid, 8, when she died. I got really confused when she died because her grave stone said Geneva Boyer? So Mom and Grandma explained to me that when my mom was little that they lived in Lafayette. Mom had a hard time saying Boyer and called Bloomington Boomington. So when they would come to visit Bloomington, it was to see Grandma and Grandpa Boomington which of course got shortened to Boom. When she got older she still called them that and I then that was Me and my little brother did.

Grandpa Willy going to work

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2010 in review

January 2, 2011

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

 

The busiest day of the year was April 18th with 470 views. The most popular post that day was Time for Morels, the tasty Mushrooms more valuable than gold!.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were tips-tools-tutorials.com, search.aol.com, studentloansinterest.org, facebook.com, and google.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for morel mushrooms, blueberry, morels, morel mushroom, and morels mushrooms.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Time for Morels, the tasty Mushrooms more valuable than gold!
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2

Blueberry Crisp

3

Perhaps some chocolate would be nice!
4 comments

4

Downtown Bloomington Restaurants

Fried Green Tomato Lasagna (lasagne verdi fritti di pomodoro)

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Thanksgiving Treat

November 24, 2010

 

 

Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip

1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese

1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin

½ cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 ½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

Mix all ingredients in a food processor until blended. Chill one hour before serving.
Serve with apple and pear slices. Also tastes great with Ginger Snaps or Graham Crackers
Makes about 2 ¾ cups (11 servings of ¼-cup each)



PumpkinPatch

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