Recipe Journeys

It has been a very long time since I've added any new blogs. I am going to commit to my writing and discuss some new recipe adventures. Now with the fun world of apps its great to explore recipes at your finger tips. I loaded the betty crocker recipe app and its great! I made the summer chicken stew and it was delicious! Great mix of vegetables and not a heavy stew feel. Its 100+degrees here in Phoenix and soup isn't ideal but I've made two soups in the last month and they were well received. I also made the whole grain banana bread minus the whole grain cereal. The recipe is fairly health to begin with but I didn't have any Total cereal so I just didn't add it. The bread was awesome! Using vanilla yogurt allowed me to omit vanilla extract and the recipe called for less butter than other recipes and the yogurt was its moist substitute. Only 120 calories a slice. Also yummy! I plan to do some more baking as the weather cools down and the AC isn't required to survive.
Tomorrow Herb crushed pork tenderloin a Paula Dean recipe. oatmeal cookies, and if I can find my red velvet bars recipe...lots of work to do.

One day at a time

So we're doing it!

Cynthia and I are taking the steps to finally fulfill my dream of owning my own bakery!! I KNOW I'm a damn good business woman and I know I can be successful at whatever I put my mind too, so I'm all about it...I'm focused and determined to make this work! It may take years, but you gotta start somewhere..baby steps. Business Plan in place, Marketing Strategy configured...now for the fun of the government to get the ball rolling...We need a website, so if anyone is so generous to help us get that going, that would be AWESOME! If not I'm sure I can figure it out...but any help would be appreciate...

Thank you all for your support.

True to the Title

Blogging as fun as it is and as much of a great outlet it is for me; I'm so tired of being on a computer after work that I don't want to sit and type anything else...I hate my job, it really does suck! 3 years ago I would have told the world how much I loved my job, at it was true.

The two things I do love spending time doing no matter what is cooking and baking. And fortunately everyone I know loves to eat! The title of my blog is Occasionally Sweet and the sole reason I picked that title because it's my dream to open a bakery, whether I'm involved in the creative side of it or not, I love to bake and I love baked goods. So I try new things and I have a list of proposed menu items for my bakery and I decided this holiday to attempt to add to my collection. This holiday season I stirred up a few new recipes which I am certainly proud to say that they were GREAT! Here's the list...if you're interested in any of them, please let me know and I will email you the recipes...

1. Apple Cobbler: I've always been a huge apple fan and this new recipe is simple and absolutely hard stopping delicious! the crust is very crispy and apples are still firm but sweet and lots of texture. I added cranberries the last time I made it, nice added tangy-ness.

2. Red Velvet Fudge Brownies: Subtle Chocolateness...This is nice but not rich by any means. It's lite and decadent. Who KNEW!?

3. Butterscotch bars: This recipe blew my socks off. These bars made me proud. I was so shocked by the crispy edges and soft centers...so nice so nice. Everyone loves these, I am now making my third batch in the last month..

OK, only sharing those 3 today.

I am woman...

I love being a woman!! Trisha Yearwood says it perfectly for me in her song "Real live woman" that song captures exactly how I feel right now. I am very comfortable with where I am, who I am and how I got here.


Enjoy the lyrics...check Trisha out, she's an amazing artist...

REAL LIVE WOMAN (Trisha Yearwood)
I don't buy the lines in magazines
That tell me what I've gotta be
I don't base my life on a movie screen
I don't fit the mold society has planned

I don't need to be nineteen years old
Or starve myself for some weight I'm told
Will turn men's heads--been down that road
And I thank God I finally know just who I am

I ain't a movie star
May never see the view from where they are
And this old town might be as far as I'm goin'
But what he'll hold tonight in his hands
He swears is so much better than
Anything that this ol' world can show him

(Chorus:)
I'm a real live woman
In love with this man I see lying here next to me
Lost in the way that he's holdin'
This real live woman
In the arms of a man where I'll fall asleep knowing
There's nothing on Earth he loves more than
This real live woman

I work nine to five, and I can't relate
To millionaires who, somehow, fate
Has smiled upon and fortune made
Their common lives a better place to be

And I no longer justify
Reasons for the way that I behave
I offer no apologies
For the things that I believe and say
And I like it that way

Thirty something...

With age comes wisdom

Blueprint 3

I'm counting the days until 9/11/09, Jay Z has done it again!!! I am SOOOO incredibly excited! I need some NEW good music to enjoy and am eager to see what the master has brought to us now...that's all

and Purple Rain is on TV...that's just great :)

Michael Jackson

My burst of blogging wouldn't be complete without a word or two about the legend and icon, Michael Jackson.

We all have our opinions about this legendary man and unfortunately the world isn't as forgiving and people still continue to disrespect this man even after he has passed on. He is a MAN for peats sake, let him rest in peace. I remember MJ as the man in the mirror, as the monster in Thriller as a man with an incredible voice and an incredible talent for moving his body! I want my kids to know MJ as I did a music icon. I will play his music and remember his life for all the good it brought the world. Let's remember him for his positive contributions to the world instead of dwelling on his alleged mistakes.

Remember the good people have brought to the world and forgive for the bad.

RIP Michael Jackson, your memory lives on in all that cherished your music and talent.