My Street Fighting Man

I had to change my husbands song to a "Stones" song of course. We are big Rolling Stones fans so I went through and tried to pick out a song...then there it was Street Fighting Man...only because of the name.

Here is the story...
It was a dark night in the streets of Philly... 2am... there he was sitting in a Denny's with a few of the guys after a long night at the Domino (local achem..bar). Joking around, being the kind-a guy B he decided to do the fork trick and there it went flying across the room. Guess what happened next.
The fork just happened to hit a table with a group of Big Men of the African descent (probably not politically correct but I tried). Well they came over and confronted the culprit. In an instant the sucker punch was launched. The brawl began fists flying, food flinging, old ladies screaming, and cops coming.
Like a flash of a light B and his friends escaped with out penality....except for the black eye....

The next day was the day B was coming to meet my parents, I was 19 and he was 24, and there it was the BLACK EYE. Can't remember what the little white lie it was to cover it up, but it worked he passed inspection. I'm sure my Dad didn't fall for it he just knew that my "Street Fighting Man" was the one for me!

Your Song

Do you have a song? Everyone must have a song.

My song is "HOT STUFF"

because I am hot stuff ..lick ..sizzle

My B well he is my "Rhinestone- Cowboy"

Name your song, my peeps, and I will put it on my playlist....pass along if you please lets see how long the list gets

4th of July or Battle of Spring Hill?

Yeah we made the trip to the big Spring Hill Fireworks Display, being from a big city like Philly didn't expect much. Last 4 years we were on the beach watching the fireworks all around us:(

This year we went to "Battle of Spring Hill " hill to get eaten alive by TN BUGS. Got the kids settled and off the works went....

B and I turned then turned around and HOLY CRAP you could see a display that is bigger than anything imaginable. It was so amazing...we couldn't believe that it was legal to shoot off fireworks like that just anywhere, the whole horizon was on lit up, so much better that we decided to watch that instead...sad huh

Driving home my B just had to reenact "the Battle", so the windows went down and out the rifle went. Yes he is watches too much History Channel crap. Just today he said that he a had a dream he was drilling a bullet to deactivate it, I guess it is better than dreaming of "girly girls". Every time a bang went of he would shoot...until I got my cannon out and shot him dead. It was a wonderful reenactment of the battle I must say.

I think it is about time the mayor put a lid on the open fireworks here...just a little scary don't ya think?

ITALIAN PASTA TRADITIONS

Ok we had easy easy easy pasta for dinner and thank goodness most of my food storage contains

PASTA

&

SAUCE

As I was so easily making dinner tonight I remembered the one time my older sister and I tried an old Italian Tradition which is to toss the pasta at the wall if it sticks it is done. Well we got a little crazy and tossed it on the ceiling and walls and cabinets. It left markings on the ceiling that left some unsightly marking that my father was not too happy about.

I paused as I was going to share this tradition with Johnny tonight...might want to wait on that.

ENJOY MY ITALIAN PASTA MAKING INFO...feel free to print out it is helpful

It is said that Marco Polo traveled to China and brought back to Italy pasta..not noodles

It is also said that he learned how to make pasta from his Chinese mistress rolling the noodles to bigger and wider sizes

.....hmmm i believe the latter

There are over 150 major varieties of pasta today...yahoo for us! carb city

PASTA ETIQUETTE

Don't shame us Italians

Eat only with a fork and in a warm shallow bowl then twirl on side with your fork

Measuring

longer pasta....1inch diameter = 2cups cooked

others like elbow, shells, rotini,ziti....1 cup = 2.5 cups cooked

HOW TO COOK

Use cold water...always...bc hot water dissloves anything that is in the pipes including traces of LEAD and RUST (need I say more)

YES add salt, but after the water has started to boil this will dissolve it quickly...and will boil faster ...good info huh

NO OIL...pasta needs to stick to sauces and use WOODEN SPOON

CookIng TimE

Throw pasta at a wall ~Yes, this really does work!

You can test pasta for doneness by throwing a piece of it at the wall. If it sticks, it's done!

Of course, you could also taste it to test for doneness, but that wouldn't be as dramatic.

DON'T RINSE

Do NOT rinse unless the recipe says to do so

The starch that makes the pasta stick to itself also helps the sauce stick to the pasta.

If you're going to toss the pasta with the sauce immediately, sticking shouldn't be a problem.

DO ENJOY

With you favorite sauce or (gravy as some Italian's call it)

Sunshine-e DAY

These are pixs from last summer oh the memories!

Isn't it just great this weather! This is my daily, since I should be at the beach this week melting my coconut oil on my bod. Things turned out okay since the B-man is home this week doing projects and stuff.

Have a Sunshine-e Day everyone ....even if you live elsewhere