Archive | February, 2011

Oatmeal 5 days/5 ways

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old. When I was just a wee child, last year (not really but it seems like that), my mother would serve me oatmeal.  And I […]

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Motorcycle Monday: Deadwood

With a foot of snow and temperatures of –20F what do Harley riders do?  Throw a party with gambling, drinking and karaoke.  The Big Sky H.O.G. chapter put together a membership night using the theme  “Deadwood”.   I was pleasantly surprised at how well they had organized it, I know it takes a lot of work […]

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Recipe Makeover: Potatoes Romanoff

As soon as I get my Williams-Sonoma catalog I tear through it, looking at every item on every page.  Devouring every recipe, exciting new product and then checking my account and once again realizing that I have the proverbial champagne taste on a beer budget. I may not be able to afford everything I want […]

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Oreo Cookie Brownies

Sometimes you need to make something to go, a special delivery for someone?  Do you know what the best thing about making a dish for someone else is?  It doesn’t matter how many fat and calories it has (bwahaha), I mean it’s the thought that counts.  If you plan it right you also make sure […]

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Motorcycle Monday: Jazz-Blues

What is your lifelong dream?  Do you dream of world travels?  The perfect home?  A cabin in the mountains?  A luxurious vacation in the tropics?  Very few people get to realize a dream come true.  McGyver and I have friends that made their dream come true. We met Jürgen and Sigrid through the H.O.G. Trier […]

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Lemon Granita

Lemon is one of my favorite flavors, I am more of a lemon lover than a chocolate lover (weird, I know).  Mary at One Perfect Bite has been posting lemon recipes for the last couple of weeks, driving me absolutely crazy.  Especially the lemony sweets. Meyer lemons have magically shown up here in Great Falls, […]

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The Coolest Ride

These long Montana winters are getting me down.  I am ready to ride, so very ready.  Currently the weather is quite warm (for us) and the snow is melting off nicely, but…. still to dangerous to ride.  Patches of ice, salt and sand on the roads makes me ill at ease, plus the 70 mph […]

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Love. Birds.

This Valentine’s Day you’ve probably planned to go out to eat or make a special meal.  You’ve carefully selected the perfect gift to show your sweetie, honey, baby, kid, mom, who ever just how much you love them and how special you are to their lives.  I did something different. This Valentine’s Day, I showed […]

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