Alphabetized

Alphabetized

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A
AGE?45 and loving it

B
WHO IS YOUR BEST FRIEND?
K.K.


WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY?
September 30

C

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CANDY?
Twizzlers


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR?
shades of orange

D
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BREED OF DOG?
Beagles & German Shepard / Lab Mixes


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DESSERT?
Tirimisu


E
WHAT IS YOUR ETHNICITY?
I am a German & Polish Vintage

F
WHAT DO YOU FEAR MOST?
something bad happening to my family & home


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER?
carnation


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FRUIT?
watermelon

G
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE GAMES?
 Apples To Apples, Life, Jenga


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TYPE OF GUM?
Big Red


H

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HOCKEY TEAM?

Pittsburgh Penguins

Let's Go Pens!

WHAT IS YOUR HAIR COLOR?
This month???

Brown w/ Caramel Highlights

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
Peppermint Stick Ice Cream

J
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE JELLY BEAN FLAVOR?
Jelly Belly - Pear

Or

Orange / Tangarine 

WHERE IS YOUR FAVORITE JUNK FOOD PLACE?
Primanti Brothers

The most amazing sandwich with the coleslaw & french fries 

right on the sandwich


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE JUICE?
Cranberry ~ goes great in a cosmo

KHOW MANY KIDS DO YOU HAVE/WANT?

Would love to have children but life's roadmap didn't turn out that way

L
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

In the city that has the worlds greatest football team

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LETTER OF THE ALPHABET?

I'm partial to the letter F ~ the first letter in the word food

M
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MONTH?
October

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE?
Just one? Hmmmm...Ones I have watched over and over are...Gettysburg, North & South, The Sound Of Music, The Parent Trap, Chocolat, Julie & Julia,

Devil Wears Prada, No Reservations, Pretty In Pink, Erin Brockovich, The Proposal & The Blind Side to name a few

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSCIAL GROUP/ARTIST?

BON JOVI

N
FAVORITE NUMBER?

I like the number 3
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
Jacquelyn Irene

O 

ARE YOU AN ONLY CHILD?
Yes

P
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO PAMPER YOURSELF?

Have a pedi-cure
buy myself a bouquet of flowers
buy a bottle of wine and enjoy it while 

creating/cooking in the kitchen


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING?
pepperoni


Q

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE(s )?
"If you rest you'll rust" - Denise Austin

"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail" - Ben Franklin
R

WHAT DO YOU READ?
I read cookbooks as if they were novels ~ they take me on trips around the world without leaving my home.

I enjoy historical romance novels when I want to escape stress

And I love Mystery Books written around food


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANT?
Bell Mia's - Utica NY

The best Italian Food

The Dobbin House - Gettysburg PA

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNACK?
pretzels w/ hummus


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SANDWICH?
A Reuben from Reuben's in Montreal Canada

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO SHOP?
The Market District ~ it's about the food my friends
TWHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW?
Extreme Makeover - Home Edition

WHO IS/WAS YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER ?
Mr. H - he made the 1st day and 1st class in college by far a lasting impression

his words of wisdom have stuck with me every day.  R.I.P. Mr. H you 

were the greatest!

U
WHAT KIND OF UNDERWEAR DO YOU HAVE?
the no panty line kind


WHAT BRAND OF UNDERWEAR DO YOU WEAR?
Whatever is on the rack  at a good price
VWHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE VEHICLE?
Ford Mustang

WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE VEGGIE?
Mushrooms


WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE VEGGIE?
Grilled Corn on the Cobb

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION?
California, Wine Country & The Grand Canyon
WWHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK?What ever day my days off fall on


WHAT IS YOUR KIND OF WEATHER?
sunny, puffy white clouds, light breeze--70 to 75*F

WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE WRITERS?Anyone who writes an amazing cookbook or food review
WHAT KIND OF QUESTIONS HAVE AN X?
 xceedingly brilliant ones ~ like all of the above

Y
WHAT YEAR DID YOU TURN 21?
1986


WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR?
Fall

Z

WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN

Libra 

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ZOO ANIMAL?

Definatley a tie between the monkeys & penguins

s'more bars

Yeild: 1 1/2 Dozen

1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/3 cus all-purpose flour
3/4 cup grahm cracker crumbs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
5 milk chocolate candy bars ( 1.55 ounces each)
1 cup marshmallow creme

1) In a large bowl, cream butter & sugar until light and fluffy.  Add egg and vanilla; beat well.  Combine the flour, cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture.  Set aside 1/2 cup for topping.

2) Press remaining mixture into a greased 9-inch square baking pan.  Place candy bars over crush; spread with marshmallow creme.  Crumble remaining graham cracker mixture over top.

3) Bake at 350 degrees for 25 -30 minutes or until golden brown.  Cool on a wire rack.  Cut into bars.  Store in an airtight container.

Cooking Withdrawl

What have we done?

After living in our home for almost 11 years now we have finally taken the plunge into remodeling our outdated kitchen.  

For years I have so longed for an updated modern kitchen with all the bells and whistles that today's kitchens have to offer but there was one little barrier standing in my way.  Our home is my husbands childhood home and as you all know the heart of the home is in the kitchen and his family truly lived in their kitchen.  His mom ran her Avon business out of her kitchen from their peninsula table which was the heart spot in the room.  After his parents passed we decided to move to the bigger home on a quieter street which was less traveled than what our 1st home was on.  Of course I never thought the day would come that a change in the kitchen would come.  When I would ask about changes I would get "My mom lived here 40 years and liked things just the way they are." Yes it's been a journey.  

Living in a home that had a kitchen that was a one person working kitchen with no dishwasher was a rough road for a person who's career by trade is working in a restaurant for a living.  Amazingly this past November I was told my Christmas gift this year would be a new kitchen.  I just about fell over.  The planning process has been a long one.  I never would of thought the journey starting in November would still be under way in April.  But my dream is coming true.  I put a lot of heart and background into the planning.  I used the ideas in my head of how the operations of a restaurant work to make the flow of preparing a meal especially a holiday meal work with ease and when I presented my ideas to everyone I did get a few raised eyebrows but in the end everyone truly saw the vision of the direction I was going.  Now the puzzle is being put together.  

As you can see from the above photo the cabinets arrived actually today and the anticipation of the final results is pain staking.  We ordered the cabinets seeing the style we loved but the cabinet stain we only had seen a small piece of wood to choose from.  So when we actually got to see a cabinet when they unwrapped one was a huge sigh of relief.  It was perfect.  

I guess it's like anything when you plan something out without really knowing the results you have an unsettling knot in your stomach for you pray you make the right choices but also you also realize what we pick out we have to live with for 40 or 50 years.  It's not like you just change your kitchen's look like you change your sheets every week.  

Having to live on cereal and yogurt everyday is healthy yes but can get depressing for a gal who is so use to cooking something everyday.  I haven't been able to watch the Food Network like I usually do for I can't go in to the kitchen grab ingredients and create.  I've even been avoiding reading my cookbooks and cooking magazines some just because they make me hungry looking at the photos.  

I keep thinking about what I'm going to cook first once everything is in place.  The excitement of the new kitchen is insane not only the look but the new appliances.  

Oh what will the 1st creations be? Yes I'm like a kid in a candy shop.  Wheels are a churning, will it be homemade perogies, chicken riggies, chili, a turkey dinner with all the fixins???  Yes I'm having cooking withdrawls big time.  

Well the kitchen adventure lives on.  I must smile, relax and keep dusting till it's all said and done. The way I see it Extreme Make Over Home Edition builds a home in 7 days why can't a kitchen be done in 24 hours???  I'm not impatient now am I?