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Fried Green Tomatoes with Basil Garlic Mayonnaise

Recipes in this postFried Green Tomatoes

I remember when the wonderful movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe came out in 1991, and I wanted to try fried green tomatoes. It was not until 1993 that I was able to get a hold of green tomatoes to make the dish, and again in 2009.

When I was at the corner store, there was a big box of beef steak sized beautiful green tomatoes. I bought two, and I’m going back for more. Those tomatoes were wonderful!

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Spane the Train Conductor – How to Make a Train Conductor Hat

Spane wearing his train conductor hat. You have to watch this video to the end, it’s so cute!

So, last night, after we had our wonderful Fried Green Tomatoes with Basil Garlic Mayonnaise, it was time to get started on Spane’s hat for the annual chorus performance at his school.

Spane came home with a rather large piece of dark blue construction paper, out of which we were to make a hat that expressed his personality. Spane loves trains – a conductor hat was the obvious choice.

So, I looked for vintage conductor hats for my reference – all the other hats were from costumes for engineers – not conductors. The train conductor hat is similar to an airline pilot hat, but not quite. Once I found one, it looked pretty simple.

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White Chocolate Rum Raisin Cookies

White Chocolate Rum Raisin Cookies
White Chocolate Rum Raisin Cookies

White Chocolate Rum Raisin cookies are a delightful change to the usual chocolate chip cookie. No alcohol! Do you like rum raisin ice cream? You will love these cookies!

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Rosy Peaches with Ice Cream

rosy peaches with ice cream
Rosy Peaches with Ice Cream

Rosy peaches with ice cream are grilled peaches with rose preserves and peach ice cream.  Fresh peaches, ice cream, roses, and Marsala – what dessert could be more elegant?

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Barbeque Salads – Red Cabbage and Steamed Red Potato

My friends, Amber and Stevie invited me over for barbecue this evening. I love it when Stevie barbecues – he has a great big drum barbecue and he has my Weber until I drag it home some day. He said “I have a lot of meat, do you girls want to make potato salad?” and …

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