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English peas

by Mary Anne

Poor Paul Deen is getting a lot of snarky comments and flak recently over one of the recipes she has shared on line. Apparently the recipe is for “English peas” and basically the recipe is to take a pot, melt butter in the pot and add the peas to warm them up. A lot of people are being quite rude about the recipe because of its simplicity.

Well, first of all, let me say that I really like Paula Deen. And yes, that recipe does sound very easy. But, and this is an important but, it is different than the way I normally cook peas. I usually dump some peas in a microwave safe bowl, add a couple of splashes of water (I do not use canned peas, they are gross!) and then I cover the pan with a plate and nuke the peas for a couple of minutes, stir, nuke again.

Then I serve the peas with a slotted spoon and let each individual diner choose whether to add butter or not. Some people prefer their veggies very plain, not drowning in butter. And you know what, I don’t like cooking with butter because it burns too easily. Give Paula a break, guys!


Animal cruelty is so sickening!

by Mary Anne

My sister sent me a copy of her local newspaper, and there was a story in it about couple that has been charged with 84 counts of animal cruelty. According to the story the charges claim that they abandoned over a dozen dogs and other animals in their rented house when they moved out.

No one is sure exactly when the tenants vacated the home, but when authorities were notified by the landlord that they house appeared to be deserted with a large number of animals locked inside, the authorities discovered that the house was uninhabitable, had no furniture in it, and no food or water was left for the animals locked inside.

I hope that they throw the book at the perpetrators!  People like that should not be allowed to own any kind of pets.


I like this kind of winter weather

by Mary Anne

Hearing that the groundhogs have predicted six more weeks of winter weather, all I can say is “Oh yeah, THAT’S what I’m talking about!” The weather has been uncharacteristically wonderful around here the past few days; I have to suggest that maybe it was a delayed January thaw. Regardless, I would be thrilled if the rest of the winter is like what we have had so far around here. Warm and mild. Just the way I like it!


How much longer can it last?

by Mary Anne

When I listen to the news about how the U.S. Postal service is struggling to stay afloat, I think about all of the competition that it faces – the UPS and Fed Ex are the largest competitors for packages, and for letters and documents the competitors are fax machines and the World Wide Web. People nowadays have a lot of options to choose from when it comes to delivery services. Sometimes I start to wonder if actually putting mail in our residential mailboxes might become a thing of the past.

I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if home delivery of the mail was cut down to only a couple of days a week, or even eliminated completely in favor of people having to pick up their mail in a central location like cluster mailboxes at the intersections of their roads, or like commercial mailboxes in a post office or a general store, like in the old days when the post office was just delivering mail by pony express. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that we would revert back to ponies, just that the mail delivery would end at the posts office and people would have to come get it from there.


Don’t taste the rainbow!

by Mary Anne

In the local Sunday newspaper, in the “strange but true” section, I was shocked to read of the misfortune of a New Haven Connecticut eighth grade honors student.

This honor student, who happened to be the vice-president of his class, bought a bag of Skittles candy from a classmate in school.  This was a violation of the district-wide wellness policy implemented in 2003!  Somebody apparently did not like this poor kid, and turned him in to the “authorities” for buying contraband candy.

This poor kid got suspended from school, was barred from attending an honors dinner, and was stripped of his title of class vice-president!

All because he wanted to “taste the rainbow!”

I think the punishment is a little bit harsh for this crime, don’t you?


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