Spanakopita Recipe w/ Video

Spanakopita



1 Large Leek cleaned and diced
3/4 c Scallions cleaned and chopped
1 Med Onion diced
1 TB xvoo
2 Boxes frozen Spinach (thawed and squeeze out excess water)
3/4 c Crumbled Feta cheese
1/4 c Parmesan cheese
2 TB Fresh chopped Dill
3/4 tsp Gound Nutmeg
1/2 tsp Ground Cumin
1tsp Kosher Salt
1/4 tsp Ground pepper


5 Sheets fillo dough (room temp..Keep covered with damp cloth to avoid drying)
3 Tb Melted unsalted butter

1 Egg yolk
2 TB Milk

Get pan nice and hot...add the oil and the leeks, scallions, and onions. Turn heat down to medium and sautee till tender. Set aside and cool. In a bowl add the spinach, feta, parmesan, dill, spices, egg, and cooled onion mixture. Mix well.

Preheat oven to 400. Grease 9 inch round baking dish with non-spray or butter. On a flat surface carefully place a fillo sheet down. With a pastry brush paint on the butter. Start from the center of the dough using outward brush strokes only. Lay the buttered fillo sheet into the dish with 2 inches overhanging the side. R epeat steps with the fillo... turning pan 1/4 turn with each additon of fillo making a total of 5 sheets. Add the spinach filling. Fold overhanging fillo inward all the way around to make the top crust. Mix the yolk and milk togethert in a bowl. Carefully brush on top of the pie. Place on center rack of oven and bake for 40 min at 425 or until golden brown .... Serve hot or cold ... ~ ENJOY~ :)~

Bread Pudding Recipe... :)~

Bread Pudding

In a bowl mix together:

2 1/4 c Milk
3 Eggs
1 1/4c Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tsp Ground Nutmeg
1/2c Rasins
1/2c Chopped Pecans
1c Peeled & diced grannysmith apple

Add 5c Stale bread cut into cubes . Mix well and let sit for 45 min.


Spray some non-stick spray on an oven proof dish, and add the mixture. Bake at 350 for 1hr. or until firm. It will puff up and deflate within minutes of cooling.

Serve warm with Whisky sauce... or I like to eat mine with some chocolate ice cream!


Easy Whiskey Sauce:
4 oz can Condensed milk, 1 oz Fine Whiskey..mix well.

Celebrate GOOD Times .. C'mon!

GO OBAMA!... Nuff said!!!!!!!

Election 08

Ok here is how my day went.... Kat and I got to the polls at 7am and waited in line to vote for almost 2 hrs. Which would've been fine with me if I had actually voted. When we got to the table where they look up your name, mine wasn't there. Even though I registered to vote in March of this year when I renewed my driver's license at the AAA office in Stratford CT ....

So now they put me in a new line to fill out a provisional ballot. More waiting.... Finally they gave me the paper work... As I read it I noticed that there was no place for me to cast my vote for Question 1 or 2 or any other race besides the presidency and congress Hines/Shays. ...What What WHAT!!!???... Como Que COMO!!!??? ... WTF???

So now I am told that I would have to got to Town Hall (which is in a bad part of the city ....where there is NO Parking) and wait in line all over again if I wanted to vote on Prop 1
So I took my paper work and crumbled it in my hand and walked out.

I registered 7 months ago so that this wouldn't happen... and it wasn't just me... Everyone that was in the 2nd line with me were told the same thing.... WTF!!! ... I wonder how many people were turned away and told that they had to go wait someplace else for another 2 hours, and then didn't because of the time and the inconvience???

Turns out allot! .... I went to City Hall and waited another hour for someone to take my name/ address/ DOB.... so they can tell me which long ass line I have to yet still stand in. While I was waiting there was this young Suit trying to keep people happy by answering questions and making phone calls like the lady who took my info. After about 45 min I went up to him to see if he could help me... He listened but could do nothing and appologized, as I had heard him do to at least 10 others.

Finally the lady called my name and told me that I am NOT registered. I told her that I registered when I renewed my driver's license. She asked at the DMV and I said No at the AAA office in Stratford. She just repeated herself and said that they have no record of me registering, and if I wanted to vote for only the president I could stand in a line that was at least 2hrs long. I wanted to scream soooo loud at this point, but there were 2 very large police officers standing there and I didn't want to start trouble... Cause I gotta tell ya, iffin I had let my mouth run loose I am most certain I would've either been escorted out or arrested!... So I told them they can take my vote and shove it... and walked out! I did not vote today. I tried twice to no avail...

You would think that after over 200 yrs of voting we could come up with a system that works. One that lets people who have been responsible and have registered on time be allowed to vote at their designated spot... oh yeah and to have every vote count...None of this electoral college shite... a vote for a vote! ... Dare to dream!

On the up side... I had the chance to edjimicate some peeps! Over the weekend I had over 400 hits to my site from mostly people in CT looking for info on Prop 1 in CT. .... Woot Woot!

VOTE NO on Prop 1 in CT :)~

Ok...I'm about to get all political up in here cause in just 4 short days WE the People of the US of A are having one of the most historical elections for a new president...
So get yer butt out there and VOTE!

It is especially important for us here in CT for our local vote...

Here in Connecticut we have a clause in our state's constitution that requires the question to be posed on the ballot every twenty years: "Should there be a convention to amend the state constitution?"

Holding a convention isn’t change, it’s politics as usual. State legislators decide who goes to the convention, not the taxpayers. It will be a convention of lobbyists, politicians and special interests groups.

The public has no say on what the lobbyists propose to do to the constitution. The political group pushing for the convention will use it to ban marriage for gay people, outlaw abortion and take away people’s rights. Big businesses will use it to give themselves special tax breaks, overturn environmental laws and take away workers’ rights and benefits.


In early October CT became the 3rd state to legalize same sex marriage by a vote of 4-3 by our state's Supreme Court. The court ruled that the state had “failed to establish adequate reason to justify the statutory ban on same sex marriage.”

Woooot! Wooooot!... Hurray for CT... right???!!!... WELLLLLL....


Soooo of course the religious right peeps/Catholics are heading a campaign to overturn this decision by running ads on our local radio stations. Ok they have their right to free speech...but be straight forward with what you are saying!!!
But Ooooh Nooo...They are being sneaky and hiding behind the guise of "Power to the People" telling people if they are not happy, and don't trust the decisions that their local politicians make..Or if they want more "rights for the people" then they should vote y to amend our constitution...


MORE RIGHTS FOR WHO???... Certainly NOT ME!!!... These "Religious Right" people want to take away OUR Civil Rights! What the HELL ever happened to SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND FRIGGIN' STATE?... The Church SHOULD HAVE NO SAY...
HELLO PEOPLE!!!...GETTING MARRIED IS NOT A RELIGIOUS RIGHT!!! Come on, think about it...People who don't believe in "their God" ,or any god at all for that matter, get married every F-ing day... but that is OK???

SO given what I just said...WHY???...WHY do people think that they have any right to TAKE AWAY MY CIVIL RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN OF THE USA?...

So I ask my readers: Think about what I said here today... Whether you live in CT or not....because eventually this decision will come to your state too!

VOTE NO ON QUESTION 1 if voting Connecticut!

That's Soooo Gay!... :)~

I saw this commercial the other day and I just LOVE IT! It's one of the "That's So Gay" adds.. At first I thought the shopper was the chickie that plays Tina on The L Word... but after further googling... i couldn't find anything that linked the two... so KTGRL and T... Good catch!.. LOL

There are a few words or phrases that I cannot stand to hear coming from the mouth of a straight person... It's one thing (totally still not condoning the usage) for people who are gay/lesbian to say these things... You know.... like when a black person uses the N word....

So when I hear people say these things..."Faggot, Dyke, Queer, and...That's So Gay..." when I'm out in public I usually can't refrain from saying something to enlighten them as to how hurtful and insulting they are being... So here is the commercial courtesy of YouTube...

Happy National Coming Out Day! :)~

Last year I posted about how I came out to my dad... and then deleted it after 2 days... Well I'm going to try this again... and maybe I will keep it this time....maybe!

So... A tiny bit o back story here.....
My dad is a "Born Again Christian" ....It was the religion I was raised in, and conformed to till the age of 26..... For over 10 yrs. I had suppressed my feelings because I was led to believe that God wasn't going to love me anymore if I were to have sexual wants and desires that involved women... The people in my church would've prayed over me and asked god to heal me and would've tried to "cast the demons out of me. "...For Realz!... "The Demons"

So when I was 26-27 I stopped going to church and I finally started coming to grips with My relationship with My god, and what that meant to ME... Why would this loving god just stop loving me because of who I loved???... Why?!?!?!.. and then I had this epiphany one day while listening to an Etheridge tune called "Talking to My Angel.... It just made me realize that "everything was going to be alright! "

So with all that said ... here is the short version of my "coming out to my dad"...

It was 1994.....I was at my then girlfriend Becky's house. I had called home to check the messages on the answering machine, and my step-monster had left one saying that I needed to call my dad right away!!!... That Jay...(my ex) had come over for dinner and had told them things.... That my dad had asked him if he thought that we would ever get our act together and finally get married already......
So Jay tells them that I didn't want to date men anymore....that I was a lesbian and was with women now.... That's right ...around my father's dinner table without me there he had the balls to tell my family that I was gay....

Granted it was partly my fault for confiding in Jay a month earlier. I had told him that I had started seeing a woman, and that I didn't think it would be a good time if we were to try to get back together again right now... I know I hurt him in many ways with this...From his ego to his heart and everywhere in between... but I seriously didn't think that he would lash out like he did....

Soooo anyway.... I called my dad's house and the step-monster answered... she told me that I needed to talk to my dad right now.....I told her that I wasn't ready to discuss this with them yet, and that I would do it in My time.... My way! .....

You know...it's funny...even funny Ha Ha!..... I don't even remember the conversation I wound up having with my dad about being gay... The Jay story is way better anyway....Ha!

Here are the lyrics to the Melissa Etheridge song that helped me come to grips with my sexuality... I'm sure the words had a totally different meaning to her... but it shouted to me that it was ok to come out of my little closet and say Yes I Am to the world!!! :)~

Talking to My Angel

Don't be afraid
Close your eyes
Lay it all down
Don't you cry
Can't you see I'm going
Where I can see the sun rise
I've been talking to my angel
And he said that it's alright

I've always had to run
I don't know just why
Desire slowly smoking
Under the midwest sky
There's something
waiting out there
That says I've got to try
I've been talking to my angel
And he said that it's alright

This town thinks I'm crazy
They just think I'm strange
Sometimes they want to own me
Sometimes they wish I'd change
But I can feel the thunder
Underneath my feet
I sold my soul for freedom
It's lonely but it's sweet

Don't be afraid
Close your eyes
Lay it all down
Don't you cry
Can't you see I'm going
Where I can see the sun rise
I've been talking to my angel
And he said that it's alright

Chili Stuffed Pablanos ... :)~

Vegan Chili Stuffed Pablano

2 TB xvoo
1 lg onion diced
1 ea small red, yellow, orange, pepper large dice
1 zucchini diced
3 carotts peeled and diced
3 ribs celery peeled and diced
1 lg clove garlic fine grate
1 corn on cob...cut kernels off the cob
1/2 jalepeno seeded and minced
2 cans organic whole tomatoes roughly chopped
1 lg Bay leaf
1 can each organic black, and garbanzo, and kidney beans rinsed and drained



On medium hi heat add the xvoo to the pot... get it nice and hot,and then add the veggies... Season with salt and pepper. Turn heat down to low and cook for 10 min stiring often. In a separate sautee pan on med heat toast 1 1/2 TB cumin and 3TB chili powder for 1 min. Be careful not to burn this! Now add the spices to the veggies and mix well. Add the chopped tomatoes and the juice with the bay leaf. Bring pot to a boil and then turn down to very slow simmer for 1 hr. At the very end add the beans and continue to cook for 10 more min

Slice a V into the top of the Pablano pepper as shown. Fill with the vegan chili and top with cheddar cheese! Place in oven proof dish and bake at 400 for 20 min or until cheese is golden and bubbly. Enjoy!... :)~

Call Me Cra-zazy... :)~

You know what today is???...I'll give you a hint...

Go shorty it's yer half berfday!... Go shorty it's yer half berfday!


That's right people... I celebrate my half birthday... I am 42 1/2 today...WoooooHoooo!
Seems as though I'm not the only kook out there who celebrates.... Here are some 1/2 birthday cakes I pulled from a google search... Ha!

Simply Sweet!... :)~

Put em up....Put em up!
Remmy w/her little boxing gloves on...
Winding up to pop her Pop in the snozzz!



You need a shave daddy!