This Looks Like Such Fun!

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Published by ali redford

I love dogs and people. I want living creatures to thrive. I love to cook, and share the food, but ya gotta get in line in front of the dog.

7 thoughts on “This Looks Like Such Fun!”

  1. One of our favorite road trip pastimes is finding the tiny local town or county Historical museums and seeing what’s in there. Usually we’re the only people in them and whoever’s manning the place is happy to talk to us. They usually have community or church cookbooks (bound with the plastic spiral binding); a snapshot of the local’s favorite recipies. Mrs. BDR’s mother gave us a huge box of her cook books when she downsized many years ago, so we have a surfeit of them.

    And, it seems, every one of them has the joke recipe “How to cook an elephant” 🙂

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    1. I have all of my MILs, too. I’ll have to check on the elephant recipe! I’d just done a purge, gifting all my cookbooks to the local library except one Betty Crocker and one Better Homes and Gardens; the librarian put them on the shelves for people to check out. There were some cool ones, but space is at a premium in a 984 sq. ft. house, and I only used the 2 when I used one. I’m happy someone will use them! And then came MILs. Such is life!

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      1. Honestly I rarely use any of our cookbooks, even our battered and stained “Joy of Cooking” wedding present; right now our ‘cookbook’ is a couple stacks of printer pages held to the side of our refrigerator by some strong hard drive magnets.

        At least for the recipes I don’t know by heart by now and cook like an old grandma just throwing things in the pot because I’ve done it for decades.. (guess who the cook in the DesertRat household 🙂

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      2. Hi Ali. That is so grand of you to gift your personal cook books. One of the only good things my adopting father did was give me a bound book with blank pages. He meant it as an insult because I read to escape the horrors of my life. In my life he gifted me with three of them, each time making me come and expect a great gift as I was forbidden to have books at home even school books only to open them to find them a book of empty pages. Each time he delighted in my heartbreak. Why do I say it is a good thing? Despite my abusive adopting father wanting to make it bad for me, Ron has taken on one of those books and written his mother and his family recipes in. And as we create new recipes for stuff we like as we cook it he adds it to the book. Something the man who abused me who would put pork chops in the cast iron pan and then while they burn to a crisp would go out and work in his garden. I love everyone who comes here to My Playtime and comments. Hugs

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    2. Hi Bruce. When Ron and I first moved to Florida and things were much better and our funds also better we would just take car trips. We would just head out in a direction and see where it would take us. We ate at a bunch of wonderful little restaurants and we also saw so many small roadside attractions. I remember the day we set out to see the mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs. We had so much fun. But we had so much more disposable income and I was not so into my blog. Plus Ron did not feel such pressure to remodel the house. I so wish we could go back in time to those days. But we live in the timeline world we have. Hugs

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      1. My wife suffered endless ear infections as a kid, to the point that today changes in altitude cause her agonizing pain, so flying anywhere is right out, hence long-range road trips.

        So we regularly take long road trips for vacations, especially while her mom was alive, including to Florida (Ft Meyers) and later Ohio when she went into assisted living.

        Plus she loved to see our dogs, who fortunately were excellent travellers (…the two we have now have never been on a long road trip, but have proven to be good in the car, so the next one will be a new adventure for everyone!)

        In particular they were a huge hit at her assisted living place, doted on by everyone.

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