Summer has really exploded here! My tomato plants have gone BEZERK. My cubanelles are thriving, and even my basil, green onions and chives are smiling from ear to ear!! But there was a little extra fun this year. My next door neighbor challenged me to grow some cucumbers and zucchini. (Wait for it…) Out …

  Oooohhhhh, to own a food truck! I could sell these babies! 😉 They’d sure beat the horrific food in this town hands down. Maybe someday…when I win a small lottery…well, no harm in dreaming! 😉 But these Barbecued Smoked Pulled Pork Shoulder sandwiches would knock their SOCKS off. Ever since I was a little …

  Seriously good, homemade, pulled smoked pork shoulder required a seriously good homemade barbecue sauce. So while our smoker did it’s magic, I decided that no bottled barbecue sauce was going to do. No matter how good they claim it to be, to me, homemade is always better. 😉 And when I saw that we …

  “Independence Day of the United States”, also referred to as “The Fourth of July”, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, by the Continental Congress declaring that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and no longer …