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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Who....

is this beautiful creature with the mesmerizing eyes. It's Zoo Atlanta's very own milky eagle owl, Mandela.

What a beauty! Photo courtesy of the Paul Clark Photography Project. Thanks sweetie.

Guava is a tropical super fruit. One cup provides 110 calories, 376 milligrams Vitamin C (that's more than 300 percent of the daily value), 699 milligrams potassium and nine grams of fiber!Guava also provides a hearty dose of lycopene - an antioxidant that appears to fight prostate cancer (when it comes to lycopene, most people only think about tomatoes). You'll find this exotic fruit in Latin grocery stores and at high end markets.

I like the juice myself.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Life is a journey...

Roll down your window and enjoy the breeze!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

St. Francisville, LA Celebrates Bicentennial...

By Anne Butler

The quaint little Mississippi River town of St. Francisville, LA, has always been a happy marriage of residential and commercial structures, its gingerbread-trimmed Victorian dwelling houses co-existing shoulder-to-shoulder with vibrant small businesses, houses of worship, schools and other structures. Thus it is no surprise that its 200th birthday celebration this month should be just such a mixture, an appreciation of the past joined with enjoyment of the present and anticipation of the future.

Highlight of the bicentennial observation will be an Open House on Sunday, November 11, at Julius Freyhan School just off Royal St. in St. Francisville. A splendid sturdy brick structure overlooking the Mississippi River, it was opened in the early 1900s as the first public school in town, its construction funded initially by a bequest in the will of one of the area’s earliest Jewish immigrants, Julius Freyhan. Freyhan had arrived in this country a penniless peddler in the 1850s and prospered sufficiently as a supply merchant to the cotton empire that he was considered one of the wealthiest men in the state at the time of his death.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

My honey, honey...

loves collards. Bet he doesn't know they're a member of the cabbage family.

Collard (also known as tree-cabbage or nonheading cabbage), is a cool-season vegetable green that is rich in vitamins and minerals. It grows better in warm weather and can tolerate more cold weather in the late fall than any other member of the cabbage family. Although collard is a popular substitute for cabbage in the Deep South, it can also be grown in northern areas because it is frost tolerant. Hybrid varieties recently have been introduced, bringing hybrid uniformity and vigor to collards.

I'd like 47 grilled cheese sandwiches to go please...

And can you hurry...I'd like to eat them in the next ten minutes.

On June 10, 2006 in Las Vegas, NV Joey Chestnut continued his amazing rise in the eating world, downing 47 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes to win the GoldenPalace.net World Grilled Cheese-Eating Contest, setting a new world record in the process.

Incredible...

On September 29, 2007 in Bossier City, LA Patrick Bertoletti won the Lousiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship by eating 21 pounds of grits in 10 minutes. Tim Janus placed second with 20 pounds and in third was Joey Chestnut with 19.

Now that's a lot of grits!

Gobble, gobble...

Got a turkey question this Thanksgiving Holiday?

Call the Butterball Turkey Hotline at (800) 288-8372 or go here. They provide cooking advice 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

Happy Turkey Day Everybody!