Grapefruit and Pomegranate Punch

Grapefruit and Pomegranate Punch

 If you're tired of having the same sugar coma inducing punches at parties, try this instead. It has a bite, and I personally love it.

Ingredients:

1 quart  Ruby RedGrapefruit Juice

1 quart Pomegranate Juice

1 liter Club Soda

Handful of fresh mint

Directions:

Mix first three ingredients together. Chill. Place mint with drink before serving. 

Just as a note, this stuff is awesome to serve as a drink if you cook my  Louisiana Steak. Click on the link to check out the recipe.

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What’s in my Independence Day Basket? Spicy Salmon Wraps and Calypso Ham Sammies

What’s in my Independence Day Basket? Spicy Salmon Wraps and Calypso Ham Sammies

                I love family get-togethers. The best part naturally is the food. I like to use recipes that I can make the day before so I’m not in a rush the morning of… For the 4^th this year, I fixed Spicy Salmon Wraps, Calypso Ham Sammies, homemade honey mustard, and some fresh cut onions and peppers.

Spicy Salmon Wraps:

½ c Light Mayo

1 finely chopped jalapeno pepper

2 tsp. Lime Juice

1- 6 oz. can of Salmon

6- 7 in flour tortillas

                Mix the first four ingredients together until blended smoothly. Spread on tortillas and roll.  Cut into inch long sections. Serve.

Calypso Ham Sammies

1 pack of premade hoagie buns

8 slices of pepper jack cheese

16 slices of smoked deli ham

1 can of sliced pineapple

                Cut buns in half horizontally and vertically. Place half a slice of cheese, 1 piece of ham, and a half of a pineapple slice on piece of bun. Cover with another piece of bun. 

Kid tested, Belle approved.

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Summer Fun on the Cheap: Old Railroad Bridge Company (ORBC)

Summer Fun on the Cheap: Old Railroad Bridge Company (ORBC)

            

    In the Shoals, we are really lucky to have TVA around. They have lots of nature trails that lead you all over the water. You can see water falls, the dam, any nature you can think of, etc. What I didn’t know until recently was that the trails also lead to the Old Railroad Bridge. The bridge has been converted into a pedestrian walkway where you can see the cars bustling over O’Neal Bridge on one side and on the other Patton Island Bridge and the dam. We got to wave at people on boats as they zoomed under us. I have to say, it was a great view for not being at the beach.

                There’s informational signs and stuff around to give you a taste of the history as well. Normally I’d be all over that, but on our trip I was just enjoy my walk over the water. The only cons I can think of was that there were a lot of spots where it looked like they had just painted over a lot of graffiti. I imagine the spot is a favorite for teenagers with nothing better to do.

                We did find one piece of artwork that really stood out. We couldn’t wait to get home and ask Buddy who Sheba was. He didn’t seem too excited when we asked him. He just rolled over and wanted us to scratch his belly.

What’s for Dinner? Six Cheese Macaroni, Microwaved BBQ, and Fried Zucchini!

What’s for Dinner? Six Cheese Macaroni, Microwaved BBQ, and Fried Zucchini!

#465 from Schwan’s: BBQ Pork

         

       I LOVE Schwan’s (if you haven’t noticed from my previous posts). There isn’t much that I have tried that I don’t like, but what I like particularly more than everything else if their meat selection. I’m pretty lucky to have cows in my back yard that supplies my family with a large amount of beef. This cuts my meat bill in half which really helps my family out. What it doesn’t help out is when I need chicken, pork, or fish. When I go to the grocery store I tend to get frustrated when it comes to quality or quantity compared to the prices in the meat section. Schwan’s helps to solve that problem.

                When I was fixing the BBQ Pork, Adam looked at me like I was crazy. I was putting meat in the microwave. His grandmother would have died if she had seen me doing that (close all windows at the back of the house STAT!). It pains me a little to admit it myself, but heck, we had hot yummy meat on the table in four minutes. Oh yeah, I said four minutes. The sauce on the BBQ is perfect, and I am super picky about my sauce. Not too much, not too little, perfect. Adam and I ate the entire pack ourselves in the one sitting. Not that I recommend doing that, but it is that good. Buddy was super sad he didn’t get any scraps so I let him lick the bowl for good measure. And yeah, it was even Buddy approved.

#846 from Schwan’s: Six Cheese Tortellini with ½ c. CheesyRagu Roasted Garlic Parmesan, ¼ c. Velveeta, and ½ stick of butter

             

   One thing I thank God for giving me my Granny Jane for every day is her macaroni recipe. I make the best macaroni ever. No really, you can ask my best friend Alex. My macaroni could be the key to world peace. However, sometimes the fam needs something a little different. The Six Cheese Tort had been sitting in my deep freezer for a while and I just couldn’t decide what I wanted to do with it. Belle agreed she’d eat macaroni for supper (I told her I’d believe it when I saw it…), so I whipped something up from what I had in the fridge.

                Yummy! Schwan’s took the cake again. I wouldn’t say it’s better than Granny Jane-from-scratch macaroni, but it’s a close second. I’m surprised the three of us didn’t go into a cheese coma, but we survived with happy bellies.

Fried Zucchini

             

   I fry my zucchini pretty much the same as summer squash. You can see how I do it HERE.

DIY Review: Antibacterial Kitchen Spray

DIY Review: Antibacterial Kitchen Spray

                After hours of going through recipes I found this one…

2 cups water (hot)

¼ cup borax

3 tbsp. vinegar

5 tbsp. lemon juice

5 tsp. lemon grass verbena oil

                First off, they weren’t kidding about using hot water. I used “a little warmer than warm” water and I had a time getting the borax to dissolve the way I wanted it to. Once I did though, I liked what I saw. The cleaner didn’t smell like headache inducing Lysol that had been in the bottle before. It was much fresher. I immediately ran into one problem though…. The cleaner bubbled when I tried to use the spray side of the bottle and wouldn’t come out uniformly. When I used the stream side we were all good. It cleans very well, and I will continue to use it. I have a slight reservation about just how anti-bacterial it is. I’m sure that’s just from the fact that the hospital smell is associated with germ free to me rather than lemony lemongrass.