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Tired of Shrimp - Can you believe it

We have had shrimp of one kind or another for 2 weeks straight.  I think I’ve had enough. 

Maybe I’ll try this tonight- I do like an appetizer with my glass of wine.

Beer Cheese Bread Dip

1 jar of Cheese Whiz
1/2 can of beer
1 packet of Lipton onion soup mix
Scooped out loaf of rye bread

Melt Cheese Whiz, add beer while melting. Add soup mix and mix well, pour into cut open rye bread. Use broken pieces of bread which were scooped out of loaf for dipping.

Generations

Thanks, Buzz, for picking up the ball on the blog generations. 

I’m thinking we might win a fabulous prize.

Blogging Families

Anyone know of any 3 generation blogging families?  Besides our family, that is.

As you might know since Buzz let the cat out of the bag a while back, I am the third generation Blogger in our family.  I’m guessing that’ pretty unique

Snippet

Snippet - What a great word.  I have just recently begun to overuse this word, and decided I should look it up in the dictionary and find out what “snippet” really means.

I was hoping for more.  The description was so short and insignificant that I looked it up in several places.  Here are the results:

Pronunciation: ‘sni-p&t or (sn p t)

A bit, scrap, or morsel: “sparkling black bass ... strewn with snippets of coriander and basil” (Gael Greene).

Informal - A small or mischievous person.

Function - noun - Date: 1664

a small part, piece, or thing; especially : a brief quotable passage

snippet - noun [C] INFORMAL

a small and often interesting piece of news, information or conversation:
I heard an interesting snippet on the radio this morning.
I love listening to snippets of conversation in restaurants.

Or, you can create your own snippet

I do believe that I shall continue to overuse the word.  It’s so cute.

Oscar

–when we go for our evening walks (very healthy) we visit with a beautiful 17-year old black and white cat whose name is Oscar, who lives at the end of our street.  He’s much friendlier to us than our own cat. 

The other day when we had wine and shrimp out on the deck, I saved a shrimp for Oscar.  He was very happy with the offering.

Until now, we have always had to call Oscar, and he’d come lolly-gagging out from under one of the trucks in his driveway to greet us.  The day after his mini shrimp-fest, he was sitting at attention in the yard waiting for us!  I guess all cats love shrimp.

Now I suppose we have to have shrimp every day - Drat!

Food Trivia

Seems like most everyone in our family likes to cook.

When I saw this food relatedTrivia game, I thought it might be fun. 

Turns out I don’t know much.

But I still think I’m a good cook.

Blueberry Season

Hope you had as nice a 4th of July as we did.

Thanks, Pat and David, for the great picnic. 

I’m always glad to see the blueberries at the grocery store and in season.  We eat them year round on our cereal.  We freeze about 40 pints, and I make blueberry jam.  A lot of work, but ever so good. We also try to make a few favorite recipes with the fresh blueberries.

Here’s a recipe to try if you become inspired:  (I’ve made it, and it is really good)

Blueberry Quick Bread
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup blueberries
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs and sugar together. Add milk and oil.  Mix

Sift together dry ingredients and combine with other mixture stirring only until blended. Fold in blueberries and nuts.

Pour into 2 greased loaf pan Bake at 350 degrees 60 minutes. Cool about 15 minutes, and remove from pans.

Enjoy