CABANA BOY COOKS: Grandpa has to Brag on Granddaughter

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Grandpa has to Brag on Granddaughter

First, I want to thank everyone who is following my food blog whether on a regular basis or occasionally. On Monday the blog broke the 10,000 hits mark. Each week the number of hits is slowly increasing. I'm picking up more hits from many different countries around this amazing world of ours. The biggest increase seems to continue to be from Russia. Thank you followers from Russia and please continue to spread this link to friends and family.

Cabana Boy & New Assistant

Today I'm not going to talk about food, cooking or recipes. As a proud grandfather for the first time, I have to brag up my granddaughter. Her name is Eleanor Ruth and they call her Nora. The Eleanor Ruth part is after two of her great-grandmothers.

Nora will be 4 months old next week. She is already rolling over from stomach to back and back to stomach. She loves to stand on her own two legs but needs us to help her balance. I'm sure it will be awhile (months) before she is holding herself up against a table or chair of some kind. But like every grandparent, our granddaughter can do things no other child can do (at least in our minds).

The great part for me is taking care of her a couple days a week while her parents work. She has become my new assistant helping me with this blog. I'm sure she will contribute more as each month goes forward.

Deep in Thought

As I mentioned above, she is ahead of her age and is already giving me feedback on a regular basis. I'm going to need her help as Google has updated their blog screen. I'll have to figure out what changes (much less why the changes) they have done to screw up everyone. The screen is already flashing messages that I am having problems.

Hopefully, I figure it out and am able to show a few photos of Nora. By the way, she loves to jabber but you have to listen close to figure out what she is saying. Fortunately only a grandparent can understand her language and we don't tell her parents. That's for them to figure out someday.

One of the great parts of being a grandparent is watching personalities develop. She is a very happy baby and I can see some family traits. The only bad one so far is from her grandfather. She doesn't like to go to bed either. You can always sleep some time in the future as far as the two of us think.

Play Time

Enough on Nora today. Tomorrow is a recipe for "Pepper Jelly" which has a bite to it. The recipe covers a mild version and a hotter one. This jelly is great to put over room temperature cream cheese and serve with crackers. I happen to like it on toast, pancakes and waffles too. Then Friday's recipe is for "Apple Butter" and if I do say so myself, it's damn good (pardon the French). Be sure to check them out and try them too. They are not hard to make and it is well worth it. Have a great week and thanks again for your support.

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BetsyBSeptember 19, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Nora is beautiful, and you are such a proud grandpa, Barry! I can't wait to meet her!

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EllierSeptember 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM
So true, Betsy!
And Barry, you are hilarious with this baby! However, because she is of your stock, I believe she is far above any other child's intellectual and personal development!

I have to tag on Betsy's comment because "it" won't let me leave my own, I've tried often in the past, even though I have a google account.

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Cabana Boy Cooks is a food blog that gives a little insight and help on Tuesdays. That is followed by recipes on Wednesdays and Thursdays each week. This blog is for all who enjoy cooking but is geared towards new & inexperienced cooks.

This food blog came about because I wrote a cookbook for new and inexperienced individuals wishing to learn their way around the kitchen. It is an extension of that cookbook and offers more than 600 recipes here. The cookbook has an additional 125 recipes plus helpful instruction and advise..

I try to offer recipes that cover all aspects of cooking. You'll see on the tabs above that the recipes are broke into categories. Gluten-Free and Vegetarian recipes are marked behind them with a (GF) or (V) sign. Many of the other recipes can be adopted to meet gluten-free or vegetarian by making minor changes.

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More Than Your First Cookbook

Every year, thousands of young people graduate high school or college and find themselves on their own for the first time. Amid all the excitement and freedom that comes with this fresh start, many of these newly independent people will find themselves out of their comfort zone when it comes to one critically important area--food.

This cookbook helps those people establish a new comfort zone in the "Kitchen" and learn to enjoy being creative in their culinary pursuit.

The cookbook draws on all the years of my life to collect the recipes, tips, anecdotes and life advice that will help everyone. From safety and sanitation to menu planning and budgeting, I walk new cooks through all the basics of food preparation. A great gift for children or grandchildren just beginning to cook for themselves and a useful reference for more experienced cooks, this cookbook offers readers 125 mouthwatering recipes to match all tastes and abilities. I believe that cooking should be fun and personal, so all the recipes leave room for experimentation. There are even tips on how to make a few of the dishes fit into a vegetarian diet.

Breakfast, soups, salads, sandwiches, entrees, sides and desserts are all covered, along with a few odds and ends. Whether you're looking for the right way to set the table for a formal dinner, you want to take your grilling to the next level or you just want to figure out how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon, The cookbook will help you find the answer.

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A few years ago, my granddaughter discovered she has Celiac and needs to be Gluten-Free. I started doing a special week of Gluten-Free information and recipes on this blog then and they appear every four (4) weeks. So if you happen to be on a Gluten-Free diet or know someone that could this help, please check it out.

There is a recipe tab above that holds all the GF recipes (in alphabetical order). It also holds the information posts in the order they have been posted.

All Gluten-Free recipes have this (GF) mark behind the titles. There are many other recipes on this blog that are or can be easily adapted to be Gluten-Free. So you may want to check other recipes too.

I also try and mark VEGETARIAN recipes with a (V) behind the titles as well. I hope these features help many of you that want or need these options for your lifestyle.

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I spend over 40 years in the food industry doing everything from pot scrubber/dishwasher to managing around 250 employees. In 2009 I retired from my career to start a new adventure. That adventure was to write and publish a cookbook for new and inexperienced cooks. Many of my years in the industry involved working in "Higher Education." I saw a need for such a cookbook as I watched college students move on to a life on their own. So it has become a mission of mine to help anyone that wants to improve their cooking skills and learn to enjoy being in the kitchen.

In April of 2011 I started my food blog "Cabana Boy Cooks" as a continuation of the cookbook. The blog covers many areas and topics. It also offers at least two (2) recipes a week not found in the cookbook. There is now over 200 recipes for you on this food blog.

Once a month, I write a food column under "Cabana Boy Cooks" in the weekly newspaper, Nodaway News Leader in Maryville, MO that includes a recipe. Some of the recipes are from this food blog and others come from my cookbook "More Than Your First Cookbook"

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Grandpa has to Brag on Granddaughter

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