RECIPE ROUNDUP

Good afternoon kittens! I want to introduce you to a new occasional feature called Recipe Roundup. In this feature, I'll share recipes that I have created or found that I love. So here we go!

Creamy Potato Soup
This hearty comforting soup is perfect on those cold winter days when the snow is piling up and the wind is howling outside. Serve this soup with a hunk of warm crusty french bread and you're set with a bowl licking meal.
Ingredients:
3-4 pounds Yukon potatoes, peeled and sliced
5 carrots peeled and sliced
2 tablespoons powdered chicken soup base
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of celery soup
8 oz sour cream
1 pound bacon, chopped and fried crisp
1 medium onion chopped
salt
pepper
milk
water
1/3 block Velveeta cheese cubed or 2 cups sharp cheddar cheese grated

Using a 5 quart stock pot, fill 3/4 full with sliced potatoes. Add water just to cover potatoes and powdered chicken soup base and bring to a boil on high heat. Once boiling reduce heat to simmer and add sliced carrots.
While potatoes are cooking, fry bacon in large skillet until crispy. Remove bacon and reserve on paper towel lined plate. In rendered bacon fat, cook onion over medium low heat until soft.
Cook potatoes and carrots until water has reduced and broth is thick. Add cream of chicken soup, cream of celery soup and sour cream. Stir until soup returns to a simmer. Stir in bacon, cheese, onion and salt and pepper to taste. Once cheese is melted, ladle into wide serving bowls and use crusty french bread to clean the bowl.

I hope anyone who tries this enjoys and I would love to hear your comments and to see your favorite recipes. I'm always looking for new foods to try!

The Olympics

Hello kittens! I love the olympics. Both winter and summer. I love the downhill skiing and snowboarding and ice skating in the winter. I religiously follow the swimming and gymnastics in the summer. I'm not really sportastically inclined until the olympics come around, then I'm hooked for two weeks. One thing I don't love however, is the politics that come into play.
The games aren't about politics, they are about sportsmanship and showing that we can all get along and have fun with some friendly competition. Of course I want the United States to win gold medals, but that isn't the most important thing.
Now I want to say to Mr Pleshenko of Russia, GET OVER IT. You lost. Get over it. You didn't perform at the same level as Evan Lysacek and you lost. Stop being a sore loser. Nobody likes a sore loser. And you've upset my new boyfriend, Evan.

"The White Death"

Happy Tuesday kittens. I'm writing to you from the snowy wasteland that is currently Ohio. We are smack in the middle of our second snowstorm in less than a week. This one is expected to pile ten to fifteen inches of snow on top of the sixteen that we received from the weekend storm. I LOVE IT!
Yes I know I'm crazy, don't care. I like snow. I have no problems driving in it and love to play in it. I've gotten to put my cross country skis to good use and I've had a blast making snowpeople. When I say snow people, think back to the Calvin and Hobbes comics. Remember the snow creations they would make? Decapitated snowmen, alien snow creatures, armies of small snowmen in formation; that's what I make. It's fun. And it gives my warped little mind a harmless outlet. I did take some great photos while I was out. I'll upload them soon. I'm thinking a few of them will get printed and framed for my bathroom redecorate too. Photos of that will come as soon as I'm done with it.
Have a wonderful Tuesday kittens, I'm off to the Walmarts for dog food before we're completely snowed in and I can't leave. TTFN!

Welcome

Welcome! I know, pathetic way to start huh? If I were a bit more computer savvy I could have done a cool big bang graphic or something, but I'm not, so you get a welcome. This blog is over a year in the making. My best friend suggested it long ago as a way for me to put my opinions out there for the world to see, and I think she's just tired of listening to my shit. And I've got a lotta shit to say. Or bitch about. It depends on who you ask.
A little about me. I'm a fabulous gay man living a fabulous gay life. I'm very opinionated. And loud. And a bit obnoxious at times. And did I mention opinionated? I'm an ultra liberal Democrat. I love politics, theater, fashion, cooking, and arts. Those subjects will be the main topics of conversation on this blog. I'll share my views on politics with you, my adoring reader. I'll share my reviews of restaurants and new recipes that I find or create. I'll discuss theater performances I've seen or been involved with; both amatuer community theater and professional.
Fashion week is one of my favorite times of year, and I subscribe to most every fashion magazine on the planet so be on the lookout for reviews, gossip and pics.
This blog truely is designed to be an outlet for my thoughts and opinions, and a way for me to improve the world I live in! So, sit back, laugh, argue with me, agree with me, but most of all; keep an open mind.