I just got home from the Taste of Home event at the Stephanie Weill Center. Boy was it every fun. It is a cooking school. They actually show the audience, (the place was sold out by the way) how to prepare 10 separate dishes. From soup and salad to dessert. I will be trying some of them. A couple would probably not appeal to Dick. A couple I will have to be sure there are people to help us eat it. Rather large servings, though I might be able to cut some in half.

These events are full of excitement and they give away tons of door prizes, including all the food that is prepared during the show. Bobbie won a cookbook and another friend, Pat Becher, won a prize also. Everybody received a "green" shopping bag from the Pig, one of the big sponsors, full of coupons and samples.

Bobbie and I had a good time and would go again if the opportunity presented itself. It was sponsored by The Sheboygan Press, Piggly Wiggly and Bitter Neuman.

The rest of the day I got to spend at home and I spent a good chunk of it cooking. I had a cabbage that had to be used so I prepared a cole slaw and a slow cooked harvest dish with sausage. We will probably have that on Friday. It smells good.

We had venison, Braciole de Manzo, for lunch over rice. That is the recipe I heard about on Everybody Loves Raymond and tried it using venison instead of round steak. I have found that if I use venison first when making a recipe, Dick usually likes it. Because he expects the flavor he gets. I don't care what anybody says, Venison is venison and beef is beef. We like both.

I always save the cabbage hearts for Dick. This evening when I put them in the fridge to crisp them up, one fell onto the floor of the fridge and Chelsea grabbed it and ate it. Kind of surprised me. She doesn't usually eat cabbage and has even been turning down lettuce. So eating a whole quarter of a cabbage heart was startling.

Have a nice Wednesday. Mine is going to be BUSY.

Love

Mary