It’s Time to Vote!
| May 13, 2013 | Filled under Life |
You guys nominated Betsy Crocker for New Times Miami’s “Best Blog” and now it’s time to vote!
Just click this link: http://readerschoice.miaminewtimes.com/ and scroll down to the best blog category. Click on “Betsy Crocker” and it will ask you to log in with either your Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, or Gmail account (and yes, if you’re feeling generous you can vote once from all four!).
Voting ends May 29th and the winner will be announced on June 13th!
Again, thank you for all the wonderful support. You guys are the best!
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Nominate us for New Times Best Blog!
| April 25, 2013 | Filled under Life |
Nominate Betsy Crocker for New Times Best Blog!
If you enjoy reading the blog, I would really appreciate your nomination. Just click this link: http://readerschoice.miaminewtimes.com/ and it will ask you to login with Facebook or Twitter (or you can always go back and do both!), then scroll down to Best Blog under the Arts & Entertainment section and type in “Betsy Crocker” and you’re done (for now)!
The top 5 nominees in each category will then be listed on May 6th for voting and the final results will be revealed on June 13th.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
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Garden Update
| April 22, 2013 | Filled under Garden |
It is crazy how much everything can grow overnight. I took a few pictures last week that I meant to post but when I looked back at them I realized everything just about tripled in size. We recently added a second raised bed with green beans, carrots, spinach, more peppers, collard greens and onions, but it doesn’t look like much now since we did a lot by seed this time. But for now, here’s what’s growing in our garden. I love going outside every morning to water our plants and see what’s going on in there. We’ve had a few little critters munching on some of the leaves, but since we’re going the organic route it’s to be expected. But no harm done so far! We’ve already eaten a bunch of cherry tomatoes, handfuls of fresh herbs, a green pepper, and about three bags of lettuce.
Our first strawberry of the season. And it tasted so much sweeter than the ones I usually buy from Publix.
And our newest addition – a lemon tree, thanks to a living social deal we got for Christmas. I am so looking forward to pitchers of fresh squeezed lemonade later this year!
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The Fair
| April 18, 2013 | Filled under Life |
This weekend we headed over a fair we’ve been driving by for a few weeks. From the road it looked huge but it didn’t live up to our expectations. It didn’t even have the ONE thing I go to the fair for …. grilled corn! These people need to get their act together. I did end up having a lemonade the size of my head (Did I mention we just put a lemon tree in our backyard? I’m looking forward to fresh squeezed lemonade this summer!) and fries covered in bright orange cheese. Yummm!
We didn’t go on any rides, I really don’t trust those things to fling me up in the air and bring me back down safely even though when I was younger I was first in line for all of them. But we did play a few games, and gave all our expensive prizes to Hailey (who was more interested in saying “Hiiiiiii” to the elephant with the toothbrush than anything else). I didn’t take too many pictures, because well, there wasn’t much to see! Where’s the Broward County Fair when you need it?
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Tornado Warnings & Neighborly Gestures
| April 16, 2013 | Filled under Life, Recipes |
If you follow me on Instagram (and if you don’t…why not?!) you probably already saw that our brand new gazebo (I’m talking like 2 weeks old!) landed on the neighbor’s roof the other day. Yeah! I know!
Here in South Florida we’re used to lots of pouring rain and harsh winds, so when they issued a tornado warning we were all “Yeah, ok. Whatever.” But let me tell you, it’s no joke! There we were minding our own business, making dinner, when the neighbor knocked on the door (our neighbors never knock on our door, they might wave every now and then but that’s it) and we walked outside to find this:
And this is after all the pieces on the floor were pulled off the poor guy’s roof. If you notice the six (!!!!) CEMENT stones are still attached! My heart was broken! We have the absolute WORST luck! I realize in the grand scheme of things this is something so minute (especially recently) but at the time it seemed terrible and when I called my mom she laughed!
Thankfully it didn’t damage his roof, and he wasn’t even mad. So, I did the only neighborly thing I could think of: I baked him cookies!
I am so glad I didn’t skimp out and used my time intensive recipe with melted butter, two kinds of sugars, and chilled dough because when I brought them over he asked me if I baked them myself (yes, from scratch) and told me he was a baker! I didn’t know that but I think we’re going to get along justtttt fine (if we can keep our next gazebo on the ground, that is)!
