Where's My Brownie?!?!

Dear, have you seen my special brownie?!

HENRY!!!!!!!

Shiver Me Timbers

Garrrr Peter!  Our first pirates are up and ready for a fight.  The pirate labor force is pretty scarce  so we had to settle for cardboard cut outs backlit by a flood light.  Baby got back huh?

Flourless Cookies

I was reading a website by a doctor who treated her autistic daughter with a natural foods diet void of gluten and glutamate.  It is unbelievable how she reversed her daughter's autism as long as she's on the diet.  She has videos on her site unblindmymind.org showing the transformation.  She has some recipes, one of which are nut butter cookies.  I made a batch and I think they turned out pretty good.

Here's the recipe:

2 cups nut butter (I used 1 cup almond and 1 cup macadamia butters)

2/3 cup raw honey

2 eggs

Dark chocolate chips (not part of her recipe)

Mix ingredients and bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.

BBQ Championship

Wife and I went to the California BBQ Championship at Dana Point.  It was a beautiful day on the coast, but pretty hot.  We even got to see the hulk at the entrance....at least I think that's him.

                                              

We went to the event to see what's needed to compete.  Our friends in Denver have started competing and wanted to get some pointers.  Since we are part of his west coast crew we obliged.  We saw lots of different BBQ rigs.

   

We tried lots of different different food.  Pulled pork, tri tp, burnt tips, mac n cheese, buffalo turds (jalapeño poppers), but these bacon wrapped donut holes were definitely the best....we went back twice.

                                             

We're still learning about this blog thing.  We kept on eating things before taking a picture.  We got half way through the candied bacon when I realized we didn't take a picture.  We did take a picture of half of it though.

        

Hmmmm

                                           Honey!! Have you seen my ukulele?!?!

                                  

30 mm Shot Glass

We bought this shot glass at the BBQ championships today.  The lady who makes them gets the casings from the Air Force after they've been fired from an A-10 Warthog.   We got a red anodized U.S. Marines shot glass as a shout out to my son.  Her website is bigshotbombshell.com

                                      

This is what the actual round looks like.

        

Aloha-aye

My son, who's stationed at USMC Hawaii, got this ukulele for me at the flea market in Honolulu.  I've  been practicing everyday so I can play something when he comes home on leave in November.