Category Archives: Growing Up

I’m not lame, I’m growing up!

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I’m also over at Amber’s blog today as the Feature Career of the month! Be sure to go check her out – she’s an amazing blogger!

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You know you’re a grown up when the highlight of your weekend was buying cookware!

Kyle and I have been slowing accumulating bits and pieces of things we’ll need once we find a place of our own. Currently we’re renting his mom’s house and a lot of her stuff is still here and we’ve been using it. Earlier last week we decided it would be a good idea to start buying pots, pans, silverware, etc., while we have a little extra cash, because once we buy a place, we’ll have to budget ourselves.

There was a fabulous sale on a set of Cuisinart pots and pans at Canadian Tire (One of the best stores on Earth, IMHO) so we scooped one up!


I must say, it may sound lame, but I’m pretty excited for them! I’ve already used the 10″ skillet and they’re wonderful :) My rice didn’t even stick to the pan, which is a bonus because I suck at cooking. I feel like Julia Child! Okay, not really, but seriously! I wanna cook my heart out!

That stock pot is just tempting me to make delicious soup. Yes …

Friday Food: Jam-Buster Muffins

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When I was little, my Mom used to bake her face off. Cookies, muffins galore! One of my favourites were cornmeal “jam-buster” muffins! Oh, man were they good! Delicious muffins with a jammy surprise? Yes please!

And now, a taste of my childhood!

Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ cups cornmeal
  • 1 ½ cups buttermilk
  • 2 ¼ cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ¾ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 3 eggs, lightly beaten
  • ¾ cup butter, melted
  • Strawberry jam

1. Combine cornmeal and buttermilk. (I’ve never used buttermilk before and didn’t realize how awful it smells!) Let stand for 10 minutes.

2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda (which I forgot to add when I made them — Oops!) and salt. Blend in cornmeal mixture, eggs and melted butter, stirring just until moistened.

3. Spoon batter info muffin tins lined with paper baking cups, filling each just to the top of the paper liner. With a small spoon, shape a well in the centre of each muffin. fill each well with about 1 tsp of strawberry jam. Bake in 400° F oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Makes about 16 muffins!

Now, like I said, I accidentally forgot to add in the baking soda, and my wells were kinda lame, but they still turned out really good! Next time I may fill the cups half-way and add the jam, and then put another bit of batter on top. Also, I used raspberry jam instead of strawberry, since that’s what I had in the house. I encourage experimenting with your jams! I found 20 minutes was the perfect baking time, but my oven is the devil and runs a little hot.

Mine turned out nothing like the picture in the cookbook. Oh well!

Happy Friday ya’ll! :) I’ll have an exciting newsy update for ya’ll sometime next week too!

Also, a little self promoting: Check out my post at In it to Gym it!

Kids These Days

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The other day I was stalking my way through Facebook, minding my own business, when I noticed that someone’s kid had a Facebook account. And I’m not talking about someone my age, since we’re all someone’s kid and all. I’m talking about a 6-year-old.

Now, what the hell does someone that young need a Facebook account for? I know … it’s the games, right??? I suppose that’s allowed, but should these kids had “open” profiles? I clicked on this little girl’s profile link and I could see all of her pictures, who her friends were, etc. This, I thought, was not cool.

Any creep and pervert could click on this little girl’s profile, start a conversation with her, and abduct her. (An extreme thought, I know, but I’m serious!) All it takes to prevent something like this to happen is to “close” her account to people she’s not “friends” with and have people not be able to sere her info, including her picture. And sure, the parents may say “Oh, we supervise our kids 24/7 when they’re on the computer”, but are they really?

Maybe it’s just because I never had computer games and such when I was little. I was happy with my NES and playing boardgames by myself. And what are we setting our children up for the future if all we show them when they’re young is computer games and Internet? It’s no wonder why kids these days are becoming more and more anti-social.

Why are parents doing this??