Small Town living is new to me. I rejoice in the joys of the traditions and pride most small towns across america have. Like alot of small towns New Baltimore is steeped with history and community pride. Sharing some of our small town celebrations is my way of showing the pride we have in our small town.
New Baltimore is a small town right on the shores of Anchor Bay. If looking at Michigan holding your left hand in front of you its very easy to communticate what area of the state I live in. Looking at the mitten (or your hand) just where your thumb starts on the outside is Lake St. Clair. Not one of the great lakes but still a very large lake. Our small town is located on the bay of Lake St. Clair.
A cute community that is growing in leaps and bounds as people find that living in a small town is more attractive with each growing year. The town itself is very small you know the kind with one stop light so don't blink when your driving through it. But the communities around this area are very numerous. The high school my children attend is one of the largest, but it consists of about five or six small towns.
I think as the world changes more and more people want that small town feeling. So even when you live in a big city, small communites are being formed within to make you feel like you live in a small town. Please enjoy my sight and I hope it will inspire you to start your own site showing the pride you have in your small town. Or just contact me and let me know about your small town and I can add it to my site.
Please enjoy clicking page to page and don't forget to print up some of the delicious recipes I have included. These are from a collection my Mom lovingly kept for my sisters and I to treasure.
I'm Glad you stopped by my page. My husband convinced me that someone might be interested in sharing and trading small town information....Cooking tips and recipes.
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Since I have not added any recipes to my web site all summer I thought I might tell you what I have been busy doing. Two of our children graduated from Anchor Bay High School this year both Dayna and my step son Cody. My daughter Dayna was excepted at Johnson & Wales University and receiving scholarship money this was her dream come true. She was one of the only 500 freshmen accepted at the Charlotte North Carolina campus, plus she was only one of the 150 accepted into the baking a pastry program. To say the least her step-father and I are very proud of this accomplishment.
For a gift to Dayna for graduation I decided to tackle making her a quilt from all her shirts she had collected through her school years.
Not knowing what I was getting myself into I sent for the directions to make a T-shirt quilt. It took me all summer to finish the quilt so that Dayna would have a keepsake for all the hard work she did in High School.
Below is a picture of all my hard work!
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Hard work and perseverance have made this site what it is today. I add to it almost daily and hope that any readers who appreciate all the hard work I have done to donate. This will help me to continue adding to my site. Donating would help in keeping my costs down so that I can keep bringing you great recipes.
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After months of work and many frustrations we are proud to annouce the Grand Opening of our web store.
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Staying close to my heart of cooking and kitchen gadgets my husband and I ventured into trying our hand at retail sales. I know.....the chances of success are limited but I feel if you don't try you will never know! Together with my husband we have worked long and hard at something we are both passionate about. Now with bated breath we have opened for business and wait for that first sale.
Like anything in life when you are excited yet apprehensive for something you have put your heart into you want to be successful. I hope all my readers will take a look. Even if you don't buy anything you can let me know what you think!
No subject about the site is off limits. Comment about the colors, the products or even our logo. Give me suggestions how to improve our store.
Don and I are very proud of the new addition:
What I did on my Summer Vacation 2008
Ahh...remembering that brief warm season we seem to have had here in Michigan called Summer. I would have to say our summer was very short this year and we did not experience as they say the "Dog days of summer".
As brief as it was it still seemed to fly by. I traveled quite a bit, not worldly mind you just back and forth up north. I think I drove up to Traverse City at least four times if not five to visit my daughter, who was working at the Grand Traverse Resort. I wish I could say that her working experience was wonderful but being a naive nineteen year old, I think she bit off more then she could chew so to speak. Things did not work out the way she had planned and ended back at home before summer was over.
Enough said about that. If you ever get the chance to travel our beautiful state I recommend you try to visit Traverse City. Its a small town sitting on the shores of Lake Michigan. Traverse City is the Cherry Capital in the state and I was lucky enough to be there for their famous Cherry Festival. The air show by the Blue Angels was breathtaking and I will always remember it.
This is one Small Town that is a vacationing dream, with the quaint downtown area and the beautiful views from the shores. So if you ever get the chance to visit Michigan, mark Traverse City for one of your stops.
Hard Times Calls for Hard Work
Like alot of people right now in America we are struggling to make ends meet. My husband got laid off right before Christmas and because of his specialized occupation finding another job is almost impossible. I have out of necessity become quite frugal when it comes to providing meals for my family. I have also found that most of the sites on the internet saying they have coupons are not all what they are cracked up to be. All the coupons you find are for name brand products. If you comparison shop and apply the coupon it usually turns out that buying off brand products is less expensive. I use to hate to grocery shop...mind you I still don't like it but have found that it is now a bigger challenge and I never turn away from a challenge. Comparison shopping and really checking the size of the product makes a huge difference. Most of the recipes on my site are low cost and can be adapted to what you have on hand or what was on sale this week at the grocery store If you have any low cost meals to contribute please don't hesitate to send me and E-mail I would love to add them here.
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Margie Cross
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I received this recipe for Olga bread from my mother-in-law Ann. She found it in the Detroit Free Press some years ago.
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Making a fresh fruit pie is one of my favorite things to do. I remember as a kid watching my mom peel peaches over the sink. As she peeled those sweet juicy peaches, the juice would run down her arm all the way to her elbow.
I decided to make it for Sunday as a side dish with bbq chicken. My husbands oldest son was bringing over his new girlfriend for us to meet. We all had a very nice time and enjoyed the beautiful spring weather here in Michigan.
