koko's corner

It was so much fun watching Lady Hummer raise her family. I was so happy she chose to raise them right outside my door at work. 

She would nestle patiently on her eggs. 

I was first introduced to red beer a very, very, long time ago. I was told it is good for a hangover, not that I'd know anything about that first hand, mind you. 

On the cooking group today there was a discussion about V8 juice, which led to a discussion about red beer, which got me to thinking about how good one would taste about now; considering it's 100* in the shade, and no shade, and I'm doing housework like vacuuming, mopping, dusting and scrubbing, waaa, waaa, waaa.

I prefer mine in a salt rimmed glass with ice. 

I snagged the recipe for this beautiful, refreshing and easy raita from Veggie belly's blog and what a beautiful blog it is. 

Grab the yogurt, here we go...

When I made the Three Pepper Sauté the other day, I mentioned serving it with some spaghetti with oil and garlic. The spaghetti with oil and garlic is a Silver Palate recipe and one I've been using for years.

Here's the basic run down, it's so easy. I put the Silver Palate recipe at the end of the post. 

"Dang that's good" (well, he said "dam*ed," but this is a family show,) with every bite he took of this berry crisp. 

 I got the recipe from a fellow foodie. Thanks Squeaks. 

Let's make her berry crisp. 

Three different colored peppers sautéd in olive oil with some garlic, capers and finished off with black olives. 

Want to make some? 

A spicy mixture of cheddar and ricotta cheeses, baked in little won ton cups. 

These are spicy, tasty one bite treats, but if you want to be polite it would be a two bite treat.  

Grab the green chilis and lets get busy. 

We are so lucky to have a real live local butcher. This morning Stan brought home some beautiful thick sliced bacon.

Gee, did we have to think twice about what lunch was going to be! 

I think we'll just be having a lite snack for dinner tonight. 

Off for a nap ;-)

And that's that