Recipe of the week

Here is the first installment of the "Recipe of the Week." Well, with the Super Bowl now set and everyone getting ready for their Super Bowl Party's here is one that will please everyone, and you won't believe how easy it is. Now, before I give you all the recipe I need to give credit to where credit is due. I actually got this one from my Father in Law. So Dad, thanks for telling me about it, and letting us try it.

First if you are making mashed potatoes or another dish that requires you to peel potatoes this is a great appetizer.

Potato Skin Strips:

Peel your potato skins in long strips and soak in cold water to remove the starch. While your skins are soaking heat a pot of oil (Canola, Vegetable, Corn, or Peanut) to 375 degrees, and warm your oven to 350 degrees. Make sure you only fill your pot half full! Drain your potato skins and dry the skins completely. Remember water and oil don't mix! Once you have your skins completely dry and your oil has reached 375 degrees place a handful of the skins in the oil and fry for 3 to 4 minutes or until crispy. Once you have fried all your skins sprinkle them with some Parmesan Cheese and place in a warm oven for 90 seconds or until the cheese has melted.

Other toppings that have gone well with this have been: Truffle Salt, Fresh Cracked Black Pepper, and Cheddar Cheese.

We will try and get a few more recipes for you before the Super Bowl and since the 49ers aren't in the game this year. We are going to be cheering for our second favorite football team. Lets go Steelers! Enjoy the appetizer.......

New for 2009

Happy New Year everyone. I have taken some time away from blogging, but I have not forgotten about it. I have been thinking of some new ideas for this blog and I have been working them out and hopefully I will have them up and running by this weekend. One of the new ideas I have been kicking around to adding to this blog is a recipe of the month or of the week. We'll see how it works out. Some will be pretty simple and fun to try and others will be pretty extensive, but they will be very good eats.

I will also keep you updated on Dawg-ette and puppy, and everything else that is going on in Dawgs House. So here is to a great 2009, and check back to see whats happening at Dawgs House........

We're still here....

It has been well over a month since my last post, and like many of you we have been extremely busy with the Holiday Season. Puppy just celebrated here first Christmas and she had a great one, but I think next year she'll really have fun with it. Santa brought her a new changing table and a little covered wagon. She is still just a little to small to take it for a ride, but the time is not to far off. A few other things she got for Christmas was a Elmo Live, Elmo DVDs and some new clothes for the spring and new sleepwear for her to use now. I couldn't help myself so I got her a cute pink Sharks jersey and some Shark PJ's. Dawg-ette and I are going to Puppy to her 1st Sharks game in February and she needed something to wear. All in all we had a very nice holiday, and New Year's is right around the corner.

We'll hopefully I will have another post before the end of the year, but if not Happy New Year to all of my readers out there. Until next time, peace out.

Gobble - Gobble

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. On this day lets all give "Thanks" for all of our family and friends and everything they mean to us. Also take a moment to think about those who are not as fortunate to be with their family and friends this Thanksgiving.

So to all of you out their "Happy Thanksgiving" and for everyone who is going shopping tomorrow on Black Friday, have fun with all the crazy people.

Much Love from Dawg, Daqwg-ette, and Puppy

Good Bye Old Friend, Hello New Pal

Yesterday was a bitter-sweet day for me. On one hand I had to say good bye to an old friend, my 1996 Isuzu Rodeo. After 12 years and 200,483 miles the time had come to move on to something new and just a little more reliable. The picture above was taken minutes before I sold her to someone I hope will use her and get their money out of her. My Rodeo has taken me many places to enjoy time with my family and friends. This was the ride Dawg-ette and I took on our first date, on our honeymoon, and the ride that brought Puppy home in from the Hospital after she was born.

The final mileage for me, 200,483. Many trips to many events and good times with family and friends.

Now for the new Pal.

Last weekend Dawg-ette, Puppy and I decided it was time for a new ride, so we went car shopping and found our new ride. We picked out a 2006 Dodge Durango Limited. The first time I drove it I fell in love with it. It has everything that we wanted in a new car except navigation, but that was something Dawg-ette wanted and we'll take care of that down the road. For Puppy, it has a DVD player in the back so she can watch DVD's when we start going on road trips. Seating is outstanding. We can seat 8 people, and they each have their own cup holder as well. But the thing I like most about our new ride is the room I have behind the wheel. I have a ton of head and leg room. So now I feel like a normal sized person when I am driving, and not cramped behind the wheel unable to stretch out.

Well now we will be making new memories in our new ride, but I will not forget the memories I had in my old ride. Thank you old friend for the times we had, and the trips we went on. Hope you are as good for your new owner as you were for me.

Proud to be an American. Embarrassed to be a Californian

So it has been one day since this great country elected Barack Obama to be its 44th President and 1st African-American President. I am very proud of the fact that the people of this country finally look past the color of someones skin and looked to see if they could actually do the job. I am glad to know that after 8 years of the current administrations bad policies and mismanagement of this country that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We will see what President elect Obama will do in his 1st term as President and hopefully the powers that be in Washington can finally all work together and get this country back on her feet again. I am so excited about Americans future.

However, while I am so proud to be an American I am equally embarrassed to be a Californian. On the same day when we vote into the highest office in the world the 1st African-American President, here in California we take away the right of "Same Sex" couples to get married. For the rest of this blog refer to the first post I ran that stated everyone has an opinion. Well, not only do I have an opinion I have Freedom of Speech in the country and guess what? I am going to use it.

I am embarrassed that I live in a state that tells two people who love each other that they cannot get married because they are of the same sex. Excuse me, WHAT! If I remember correctly everyone has "EQUAL RIGHTS" in this country, and the ignorant people of California are saying if you are gay that's okay you have the same rights as straight people, but you can't get married. This is so wrong. If two people want to take the steps to get married they should be able to do so.

Over the history of this country people have fought for rights everyone else had. Slaves fought to be free back in the 1800's, women fought for the right to vote, early in the 1900's, and the Civil Rights Movement back in the 50's and 60's. All of this have gotten us to this point in our country's history, and then along comes some uptight people who think that California schools are going to teach kids about same sex marriages, and "gay lifestyle" along with some other misconceptions. Small minded idiots!

History has been, at first if you gay hide in the closet and act straight in public. Then came don't ask, don't tell. Soon after that being gay was not looked down on or that the person was not strange or different. Then you had stars like Elton John, Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, and George Michael come out and say they were gay, and that was okay with everyone. Then same sex marriages started happening and people freaked out. And so you have a group of people take it on themselves to get the new law of same sex marriages outlawed.

What has this state come to? I am extremely embarrassed to be a Californian. Hey people pull your heads out of the sand they are people too and they have rights just like you and me. If they want to get married let them do it. I mean honestly are two men or two women getting married going to somehow physically, mentally, or financially hurt you? I really don't think so. Get over yourselves and worry about something that is important. The sad state of the schools, the economy, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the unemployment rate. Something like that, not that two women want to get married and raise a couple of kids. Grow up already.

Congratulations President Elect Obama on making history. And California. Well, way to go on legalizing discrimination on a group of people. So not proud to be from California.............

Scary Morning

You know that your day could turn out to be a bad one when your car decides to die on the freeway.

So, as I am driving into work this beautiful morning listening to some Def Leppard on the radio and thinking what a great day today could be "BANG." My car just up and stops cold in the third lane on the freeway. Good thing was that we just hit stop and go traffic. So I quickly got out and lifted the hood and smack the battery and hope that this would work, ("It usually kick starts right back up"). Well not this time, so as cars are going by me on both sides I get out and try it again and thankfully it work on the second go around.

Needless to say that once I got the car started and moving again I took the next exit off the freeway and made it to work on side streets. Hopefully the rest of my day is better than my morning commute to work. I don't need another heart pounding experience like this one for a long time.

Here's to a better day to all of you and to a bright future..........