Category: Cooking

Bouncing Cherries.

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I’m making cherry bounce — haven’t done that in about four years.  I’m making two small batches, one using brandy (which was what I used when I made it before), and one using bourbon.  Bourbon is the traditional booze for bounce in the South, so I thought I’d give it a try and have a side-by-side tasting.  Of course, I’m not making completely traditional bounce because I can only get bing cherries, and not the black cherries that grow back home (and if any of you folks back home have, or know someone who has black cherry trees on their property, let me know… that’s worth a trip home all by itself, just to harvest them for bounce).

The recipe, and my notes, are now in the database.  Have a peek HERE.  If you’re looking to make some for Thanksgiving or Christmas, you better start now.  Cherries will be out of season before long, and right now Sam’s has an awesome price on them.

Recipes Are For Eating.

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Been trying to really get into micro-managing my food intake the last week or so in an effort to change my eating habits for the better, and to be able to get to a point in the foreseeable future where I can do that without thinking too hard about it.  As a result I’ve been developing/reworking (reworking = stealing from another source and adapting to my liking) some recipes that I can use to keep my weekly meal plan lively and not a bore.  I’ve been adding the few that I have to the Recipe Library, and as a result anyone interested can benefit from my hard work.  I list the number of servings and the big 4 macro nutrients (calories, fats, carbohydrates and proteins) in the body of the recipe for reference.

The first two to make it in are Teriyaki Chicken and Scallop Stir-Fry.  If you want to easily find the specific recipes I’m adding for meal planning, just do a search for “calorie” and select “instructions”.

Enjoy.