Real Italian Housewives Spaghetti Sauce

Of course, I would never give you my recipe for my Italian Spaghetti sauce (or gravy???)
But here are some key ingredients:

BLOG TIME

The Blog is back! After a long, hot, dry summer in Vegas, with little knitting and cooking accomplished, I feel the creative juices coming back...As many of you know, I am a little obsessed right now with the Real Housewives series on New Jersey. It just feel a little too close to home...I think maybe I may have ended up like one of them if my father wouldn't have come home that fateful day and said "Clara! Pack up the house, we are moving to California! I remember thinking "what the heck is "California" and no one really explained it to me (did they ever explain anything to me???) until we were at the airport saying goodbye to all my New Jersey aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, friends...my whole life changed that fateful day...I may have stayed in New Jersey, and lived near Patterson, and drove  a  Cadillac, married a mobster, and had kids in my mansion....oh well...instead I had these gals:

Loser-ville

I just almost burned a pot with boiling water! What does this mean?????
Now I can't cook water?

Also, I ordered a yougurt machine from Target today - spent an extra $10 for the automatic shut off.
I'll keep you all posted...

Socks still suck

Yes. I'm insane. I started another pair of socks. I'm almost done with the first one, just a teeenny bit more of the toe to finish, then on to the next one.

Part of me is taking my time with the toe, so that I never have to start numero dos. These are for me. I love myself enough to not want to share any of these billions of tiny little stitches with anyone. Anyway, at least I'm still knitting.

And someday, I'll use the magic loop, two socks at time method, maybe when I have lots of time to whip up dozens of pairs. Next lifetime.

I guess I was on a blog vacation.

But I'm back!

I will have to be gut-wrenchingly honest here and confess that due to many batches of burnt food (salsa, beans, stews, and then hard boiled eggs), I felt unworthy to blog about my fine culinary adventures....

Then I decided to lose some weight and I sort of lost interest in cooking all my favorite foods like vine ripened marinara sauce, homemade salsas, the famous tamale feasts, eggplant parmagiana...

And I started making instant sugar free jello and crazy stuff like celery sticks and sliced cucumbers. I also became a salt fiend. I gave up chips and salsa and sugar and white flour. Life hasn't been that fun to blog about.

And I've lost 25 pounds since January 15th. So that's the good news!
This Saturday, Mike and I celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, and then going to Memphis for 5 days to see Graceland and Beale Street...and probably find some damn good southern food, not fried, but tasty. I'll send pictures!

Michelle can't stop eating Tamales!

The hat came hot off the needles, as she knitted it up in a day, wore it for the Tamaleta...or Fiesta de Tamal, as Luis Munoz would call it...

I couldn't stop knitting, and got a little crazy....