ABC's - Anniversary, Buttons and Coney Dogs!

This is going to be a bit of a random post for me.  I have been sort of in a blogging "funk" for the past couple of weeks and have had difficulty getting my thoughts down in a post.

Yesterday was 31 years since this day.....

I really cannot believe it! Surely I am not old enough to have been married 31 years! Where does the time go? 

Walt and I have been through our share of "for better" and "for worse" in our 31 years together, but if I had to do it all over, I would walk down that aisle again on that Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. in South Georgia and commit myself to the same man. We are truly soul mates!

On another note.....Did you notice the new "cuteness" on the side of my blog. My daughter, Faith, has helped me (and many others) with blog design. She is so creative and just has a "knack" for this stuff. She designed this little button for me and how adorable is it? 

She has decided to make her services available to anyone needing help with their blog.  For more information on her blog designs, just click on her "button" below. She will be glad to help you with redesigning your blog, designing one for the first time or making you your very own "button".

And, on a final note....

Walt and I LOVE hot dogs!  Especially a good ole' Coney Dog!  We try not to eat them very often any more, but nothing tastes better when you haven't had one for a while.  We have been known to drive to Sonic on a Friday night, but tonight we had our own version at home.

The only thing that could possibly make a Coney Dog any better would be to have it all prepared in the crock pot when you get home---right! Check out Mimi's Making Meals for my Crock Pot Coney Dog recipe.

Have a blessed weekend!

Holiday Cheese Balls

Thank you for all of your interest in the Cheese Ball that I posted in my last post.  Just wanted to let you know that I now have the recipe on Mimi's Making Meals. 

This is a great recipe for the holidays.  The cheese balls make great gifts or a great hostess gift to take to your holiday parties.

I hope that you enjoy them as much as my family does.

Mimi's And A Movie

"W" and I had such a great day today!  We went to church and after church we decided to go out to eat. (Since he has been out of work, we have not been eating out very often and so it was a real treat to get to go out.)  This Sunday, "Mimi's Kitchen" was closed, but "Mimi's Cafe" was open!

Faith had given me strict instructions prior to going there, that I HAD to try the Carrot Raisin Nut Muffin and let me tell you...It did not disappoint!  It was scrumptious!

We decided to order from the breakfast menu since it was still only 11:30 am, and this is what we split - Mimi's Original Pain Perdu Breakfast.

It came with French Toast stuffed with cream cheese and orange marmalade! 

Here's a picture of "W" humoring me by allowing me to take yet another picture.

After eating a big breakfast, we decided that we probably needed to "Move It, Move It, so we caught a matinee and went to see this.

It was so cute!  I think that we were the only adults in the theater without kids with us and I think we laughed harder than anyone else.  There was a lot of adult humor and I think it is probably one of those movies that every time you see it you would hear or see something that you hadn't caught before!

When we came out, "W" said, "Wow, we've had more fun THIS weekend than we've had in a long time!"

We headed back home to "Mimi's Kitchen" and started making some Holiday Cheese Balls. (Some of the girls I work with have been after me to make one of my cheese balls, so I finally got it done this evening!)

I will be posting the recipe for these little "gems" on Mimi's Making Meals in just a few days, so be sure to check them out! 

Mimi's Making Meals IS HERE!

I LOVE TO EAT!  My husband tells me that is one of the things that he loves about me -- that I love to eat and that I have a hearty appetite.  I know that my dad always said that I could eat more than any boy he had ever seen!  He tells the story about my family and a guy I was dating going to a place called The Country Kitchen in North Georgia.  It was a restaurant that served "family style"  and I mean it was delicious! Country ham, creamed corn, stewed tomatoes, fried okra, cornbread, fried chicken, chicken and dumplings -- you name a good Southern food and they had it in a bowl on OUR table!  My dad reminds me that my family (and my date) finally just went outside and waited for ME in the car because they were so embarrassed!

Not only do I love to eat, but I love to cook!  Since I was a young girl I have always had an interest in cooking. I come from a lineage of good cooks --my mother is a good cook and my grandmother was an amazing cook as well.  Fortunately, I had the benefit of learning under both of them.

I LOVE cookbooks!  If someone is unsure what to give me for a gift, they can never go wrong with a cookbook.  Call me weird, but when I get a new cookbook, I read it from cover-to-cover like a novel!  My favorite TV channel is The Food Network!

Ever since I started my Mimi's Making Memories blog just a short time ago, I have known that I wanted to have a recipe blog as well.  With the help of my very talented daughter, I now have my very own Recipe Blog and I want to invite each and every one of you to come on over to Mimi's Making Meals!

I plan to post many of the recipes that my family has grown to love over the years, as well as, new favorites that I discover  along the way. I am excited about having this new blog and look forward to hearing your comments, suggestions and requests.

Bon Appetit!