Gingerbread Train Time in our House
The construction of the fourth annual Gingerbread Train was completed in the Osborne house recently. The picture on the left is a preview of our 2009 caboose. Trains are a big deal in a house full of little boys and our house is no exception. This year we built a gingerbread train from the same [...]
Macaroni Pie
A Thanksgiving Dinner and Pot Luck favorite of the South
In many parts of the United States it would be called macaroni and cheese casserole. But in the deep south the name has been the same for at least three generations. My grandmother on my dad’s side (MingMa) taught my mom how to make [...]
Coupons Save Hundreds Per Month
We are gearing up for the holiday season and will be doing plenty of cooking and baking. The Publix receipt on the right is a great example of how coupons save us money. I stopped by Publix on the way home on Monday and spent $6.98 on items that our family uses. I got things [...]
Homemade Stove Top Popcorn
“This popcorn Tastes just like the movie theater popcorn”
That is what I hear from everyone who tastes the popcorn that I make by following the recipe in this post. I learned the secret to great popcorn in high school in the 80s. I cooked all of the popcorn for the concession stands at home football [...]
Blogging Idol 2
Grill’n Time has been entered into the Blogging Idol 2 competition that is produced by Daniel Scocco over at Daily Blog Tips. The competition will run through the month of November 2008 and offers a great incentive for me to revive this blog. There are over $4500 in cash and prizes up for [...]
Four Year Old Biscuits
We started a tradition in our house a few years ago called Breakfast for Dinner. My son Riley just has taken the word “for” out and calls it “breakfast dinner”. His favorite food for breakfast dinner is biscuits. This kid is not even five years old and can knock down the same [...]
Gingerbread Train
Our family embarked on a new challenge this Christmas season. We constructed our first gingerbread masterpiece. There are a ton of people doing gingerbread houses. Houses are great, but it is the trains that excite our boys. My wife found the detailed plans for this gingerbread train in Familyfun Magazine.
UPDATE: We [...]
Steak Grilling Temperature
There are way too many variables when cooking with charcoal on the grill. Meat may be a different thickness, the fire might be hotter or cooler, your fire might be closer if you have several adjustments on your grill. How do you get past the dilemma of remembering how you got that steak to [...]
Great Blog
I watch very few blogs as closly as I watch Simply Recipes. This blog is outstanding and I wish I had the time to cook and write the way that Elise Bauer does. She seems to be a blog junkie just like me. She has almost as many active blogs as I do.
Here is a [...]
Childhood Concoction
This candy is one of those childhood concoctions that really never got a proper name. I have come up with many different ideas for the name but I just can’t get the original name out of my mind. The original name was was Candy where the was filled in with a four letter word beginning [...]
