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Fascinating Facts and Trivia, Dragon Art, Easy-Cheesy-Loaded Grits Bake

Wonderful Wednesday greetings, friends!

Well, believe it or not — we’re more than half way through August and guess what pops up next month?
Fall on the horizon.

Don’t know about you, but I am R*E*A*D*Y for cooler temperatures and breaking out some apple recipes + soup recipes + homemade bread (in my bread machine — close enough to homemade as far as I’m concerned.  hehe)

Super interesting, intriguing round up to share today!

BEGINNING WITH

DRAGON ART ILLUSTRATIONS
The detail, whimsy, talent — has me going back to study them again and again.

LESLIE ELMAN’S TRIVIA/FASCINATING FACTS
Always makes me feel smarter and more interesting – and – should I be in a group of people able to WOW from learning these today.

QUICK QUESTION
My favorite color when I see a rainbow?
Can’t nail one specific color down.
All the colors in the rainbow are parts of Nature’s artistic magic of the whole.
Rainbows = Stunning + Beautiful and each colorful arch soaring across the sky absolutely never to be seen just like this again.
Each so original and doesn’t last long – so when I see one – I look at it as long as I can before it just slowly fades away to be seen in a new form another day.
You?

RECIPE FOR EASY-CHEESY-LOADED GRITS
Hello superstar southern style greatness!

TRACY BECKERMAN’S TOILET PAPER COLUMN
Is a gas-of-a-laugh!  As always.
And she so innocently wasn’t even trying to be a toilet paper hoarder.
I do recall during * that time * in the not so distant past when there were those who bought up everything they could get their hands on and left little or nothing for the rest of us to just get by.

THANKS ONE AND ALL
For popping in this Wednesday, August 21, 2024 and giving us a read + sharing + engaging+ commenting.
We are grateful.
Have a grand rest of your week.

Catch ya Friday.
Same time.
Same place.

Ready?
Set.
Let’s go!
Enjoy.

POP Quiz

POP QUIZ

  1. WHICH HORROR FILM ICON NARRATED THE 1966 ANIMATED SPECIAL “HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS?”
    a) Lon Chaney
    b) Boris Karloff
    c) Bela Lugosi
    d) Vincent Price
  2. IF YOU’RE TRYING TO DEVELOP A “SIX PACK,” YOU’RE STRENGTHENING AND TONING WHICH MUSCLE?
    a) Abductor hallusics
    b) Latissimus dorsi
    c) Rectus abdominis
    d) Triceps brachii
  3. WHEN REFERRING TO THE G7 OR G20 GATHERINGS OF WORLD LEADERS, WHAT DOES THE LETTER G STAND FOR?
    a) Global
    b) Green
    c) Group (of)
    d) Guardian
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QUICK QUESTION

WHAT IS THE BEST COLOR
IN THE RAINBOW?

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POP QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. Horror film icon Boris Karloff narrated the 1966 animated TV special, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”
  2. If you’re trying to develop a “six pack,” you’re strengthening and toning your rectus abdominis muscle, better known as your “abs.”
  3. The G in G7 and G20 international summits stands for “Group of.”

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EASY – CHEESY LOADED GRITS

These Easy-Cheesy Loaded Grits are fantastic.  I don’t recall who gave to me the recipe but I’m in love.
I don’t make grits that often — like rarely –but I should get really diligent about preparing more often than not because I totally love me some grits.

When grits were on the catering table for breakfast on a production/show we were working — I always made room.
Frankly, everything else on the catering table/offerings — were passed up by me.
My eyes were on the grits!

Just plain ol’ grits, topped off with spoonfuls of salsa and breakfast was TDF!

Nothing like this grit loaded recipe, however!
This recipe is almost too good to be true.
But ’tis true.

THIS RECIPE AS IT STATES — IS CHEESY LOADED GRITS

So very MEMORABLE!
((Think a hearty breakfast/brunch with a runny egg on top.  Same for a light dinner!  and/or a side of sauteed spinach, mushrooms and small diced red bell pepper — or a filling wrapped up in a prepared corn tortilla shell.  Bite after bite is a delight.  Least it is to me.))

SO HERE’S HOW WE MAKE THIS RECIPE
INGREDIENTS —

  1. 1 pound mild or spicy bulk pork/turkey sausage
  2. 1 small yellow onion, finely diced
  3. 4 cups water
  4. 1 tsp salt
  5. 1 cup quick-cooking grits
  6. 3×4 ounce cans of diced green chilies
  7. 1 3/4 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese — divided
  8. 1 3/4 cups shredded Monterey jack cheese — divided
  9. 2 TBSP butter
  10. 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
  11. Chopped fresh cilantro (about 1/2 cup)

NEXT —

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  2. In a large skillet, cook sausage and finely diced onion over medium heat about 6-8 minutes, breaking up the sausage with a spatula into small crumbles, stirring sausage and onion together — until sausage is no longer pink and onion pieces are soft.
  3. Drain any sausage grease.

MEANWHILE —

  1. In a large saucepan, bring water and salt to a boil over medium-high heat.
  2. Slowly stir in the grits (I use a wire whisk)
  3. Reduce heat to medium-low heat and cook, covered, about 5 minutes, stirring every now and then with a wooden spoon until thickened.
  4. Remove from heat.
  5. Stir in the green chilies, half of the cheddar cheese and half of the Monterey Jack cheese, butter until cheeses are melted.
  6. Stir in the lightly beaten eggs.
  7. Now add the sausage onion mixture.
  8. Mix all well with a wooden spoon.

TRANSFER TO —

  1. Greased 13′ x 9″ x 2″ baking dish (think cooking spray oil all around bottom and edges).
  2. Top off with remaining cheeses.
  3. Bake uncovered, 50-60 minutes, or until golden brown and set.

REMOVE FROM OVEN —

Place baking dish on a protected counter top and let stand about 10 before serving.  Sprinkle with chopped fresh cilantro.

SERVE WHICHEVER WAY STRIKES YOUR FANCY

Voila!

~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box

RIDDLE ANSWER

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LOST IN SUBERBIA

My Toilet Paper Runneth Over
By Tracy Beckerman

“Hey, honey, why is there a roll of toilet paper in my shoe?”  my husband asked.

It was a perfectly reasonable question.  People don’t normally store rolls of toilet paper in their husband’s shoes.  But I had a DEFCON-5 toilet paper storage situation.  Also, I’m not normal.

The trouble started when I ordered toilet paper online.  I had hastily ordered what I thought was a pack of 12 rolls of toilet paper.  What I got, though, was 12 PACKS OF 12 rolls of toilet paper.  Even for a couple that goes a lot, that’s a lot of toilet paper.

Had we still been living in our old house, I would have laughed it off and stored it all on the apocalypse shelves in the basement.  But we were in a new house with very few closets and no storage in the basement.  The paper towels had already claimed a large portion of what little storage real estate was there.  So there wasn’t even room really for one 12-pack of toilet paper, much less a case of it, no matter how much I squeezed the Charmin.

They say when one is rich in toilet paper, they are rich in love.  But it soon became clear that the toilet paper situation was on the verge of disrupting the otherwise peaceful coexistence of my husband and myself in our home.

“The toilet paper is in your shoe because there is no other place to put it,” I  explained.

“And that is because …” he wondered aloud.

“I overordered the toilet paper!”  I said defiantly.  “And now we have enough toilet paper to wipe everyone’s butts for the next decade, but there is nowhere to store it!”

“Just how much toilet paper are we talking about?”  he asked.

I sighted.  “One hundred and forty-four rolls.”

He raised his eyebrows and said nothing.  He knew when he was on dangerous ground and decided he could live with toilet paper in his shoes.

But soon enough, the shlit hit the flan.

“There is toilet paper in my sock drawer,” he said, pulling out two rolls covertly trying to blend in with his socks.  I had put them in with the white sports socks so they would be less noticeable.

I said nothing.

He went to make breakfast.

He sighted.  “There is toilet paper in the pots and pans.”

I nodded.

He opened the microwave.

“There are four rolls of toilet paper in the microwave!”  he said through gritted teeth.  “Honey, this is ridiculous.”

“I don’t know what you want me to do,” I replied.  “I’m doing the best I can.  There’s just no place to put all the toilet paper.”

“Well, we can’t keep it in the microwave and the pots and pans,” he said.  “Can you find another place?”

“Fine,” I said reluctantly.

“Is there anymore toilet paper hidden that I should know about?”

“Not that much.”

He eyed me suspiciously, then went to the front closet to get his jacket to go to work.  But as soon as he opened the door, something shifted inside the closet, and suddenly 36 rolls of toilet paper rained down upon his head.

“Tracy!”  he yelled.  “Toilet paper is literally falling on my head!”

“What?”  I said, shrugging.  “At least it’s soft.”

~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon:  A  Story of Life, Love, and Kibble.
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Fascinating Stuff

  • Chad, China, Guinea, Morocco and Turkey have something in common besides being nations of the world.  They’re also five of the 13 countries whose names in lowercase are acceptable words in standard Scrabble.  A chad, as you may recall from the 2000 U.S. presidential election, is a fragment of paper; china is fancy dinner plates; a guinea is an old English coin; morocco is a type of soft leather and turkey is a big American bird.
  • Author Orson Welles was the uncredited narrator in the 1961 Biblical epic film “King of Kings.”  The text he read was written by legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury — who also was not mentioned in the film’s credits.
  • Raymonde de Laroche was an actress and singer in Paris in 1909 when she persuaded aviator Charles Voisin to teach her to operate a plane.  This he did, by standing on the runway and shouting instructions to her as she engaged the engine and — without his permission — took off.  Her 300-yard flight was the first recorded by a woman.  In 1910, she became the first woman in the world to hold a pilot’s license,  but when France entered World War I, she wasn’t permitted to join the air force, so she worked as a chauffeur instead.
  • Chicago’s own Dad’s Root Beer is reputed to be the first purveyor to package bottled beverages in six-packs, which was introduced in the 1940s.
  • The sport of wheelchair basketball was introduced in 1946 as an activity for World War II veterans who were being treated for paralysis.  Two years later, teams representing six Veterans Administration hospitals across the United States competed in the first National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament.  In 1960, men’s wheelchair basketball was one of the eight events at the inaugural Paralympic Games.  The women’s event was added in 1968.

~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
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6 replies
  1. Marty says:

    Daymaker hit a home run again. I love a serving of grits covered in butter but now to think cheese added. I can do that!

    Now to the amazing RAINBOW and its breathtaking color. I don’t think it’s possible to be in the presence of a rainbow and not stop what you are doing and turn ALL OF YOUR ATTENTION TOWARD ITS AWE!

    • Cheryl Clarson says:

      Howdy Marty –

      Grits recipe appears/reads to have many fans.

      Same, rainbow thoughts. Love how you describe your feelings when seeing a rainbow. Well said and spot on.

      Thanks for reading + sharing your rainbow thoughts!

  2. Carol says:

    Love the grits recipe for the up and coming (!) cooler weather – sure to happen in the not too distant future 😉

    Also love the artwork, always stunning.

    And I agree with Marty – the rainbow is much too lovely to isolate one favorite color. The whole of the bow is radiant beauty.

    Thanks DayMaker!

    • Cheryl Clarson says:

      Hi Carol!

      Fist bump to grits and cooler weather!

      Next time we all see a rainbow — pretty sure we’ll remember the comments and thoughts about this particular post and do a double smile.
      I totally love your “whole of the bow” description of the rainbow. Brilliantly said.

      Thanks Carol!

    • Cheryl Clarson says:

      Hey J –

      Seems like the grits recipe sparked a lot of interest! Winner Winner!

      Thanks so much for your time and thoughts and compliments.
      We’re so happy you enjoyed!

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