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I love to cook, perhaps the whole starting the kitchen on fire when I was in 2nd grade was just the start.  (Short of it~ small town, dad a firefighter, me trying to cook frozen hash browns, starting a grease fire, then proceeding to try and put it out by water and lastly smothering it with things.) Afterwards my parents gave me a microwave cookbook and I wasn’t allowed to touch a stove for a very long time!  I haven’t set a kitchen on fire since, although the fire dept. has been called out due to um my lack of attention span on um … a grilled cheese night during college.  OOPS!  My mom’s going away present when I moved in with Patrick was a couple cookbooks!  You think she was trying to tell me something? 

So anyhow, we like to entertain. (Yes, even Patrick gets into it!)  I actually wish I could do it more but sometimes the kiddos just take the entertaining energy out of me!  I like to break out all the magazines, the cookbooks, do some web searching and come up with new things to try.  Yes, my friends & family end up being my guinea pigs but I haven’t killed anyone yet. I have my recipes all organized in various 3 ring binders, magazines overflow and I am addicted to www.allrecipes.com

Sunday night we had our friend/neighbor Carl over, while his wife is off in Alaska, and our good friend “Sam the Man” joined us also. 

I’ll put the actual recipes behind a cut but here’s the menu, I guess you could call it that.

Apps: Spinach Dip & Cream Cheese Puffs

Salad:  South-of the-Border Caprese Salad

Dinner:  Penne Chicken with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Dessert:  Sour Cream Peach Pecan Pie

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