I browsed around. Not seeing too much. Actually, I'll back up and tell you, to be perfectly honest I drove past the Estate Sale and thought to myself, "just junk", and kept driving. Shortly after writing it off as "just junk", I remembered, I love someone who pretty much just, well loves junk! So I drove back to check it out... Oh my life as the junk collectors girlfriend.
Once there I looked around, nick-knacks, old out dated furniture, incomplete pot and pan sets. It wasn't until I was about to leave that I found this.
(Pause for you to oohh and ahhhh them :) )
So cute right??? My recently acquired ice cream cups! Adorable and there are exactly 4! One for me, one for the master junk collector, one for the junk collector's even MORE junk collecting furry son, and one for my perfect angel Cammy.
You know, I never really thought I had the Martha Stewart happy homemaker gene. I figured it had some how skipped me, or maybe mine had mutated and was just faulty. But no. Not the case. I just hadn't met the person I wanted to have a Martha Stewart-like lifestyle with. And as outdated as this may sound, and I know some very independent, modern women may scoff at this when I say, I can't wait to serve my master junk collecting, love of my life ice cream in these.
Oh and btw, I got all 4 for $1... yes be jealous hehe...
I suppose to further nail in my recently discovered Martha Stewart-like tendencies. I found a cookbook! But not any cookbook, this cookbook was owned by someone who very obviously who loved to cook. Someone that loved her family and enjoyed sharing her love for them through cooking. The book was complete with old handwritten recipes, cut outs from magazines, cardboards from products that had recipes listed on them. If for nothing else, I wanted to get it because it was someones life's cooking work. Their cooking legacy. And from one cook to the next, I had to appreciate it.
I was able to talk them down to one dollar. A very reasonable price. So I packed it up in my car and drove off. After I had made the purchase I chatted with the woman who did the sale with me, and she had confessed to me that the book and items for sale belonged to her late mother who had recently passed. She thanked me for so genuinely wanting to cherish her cookbook. I asked her what her mothers name was. She told me it was Janet.
So in Janet's honor. I will be cooking some of her surefire recipes. I will share them with you and we can try them together. Janet's daughter told me her mother was a fantastic cook and everyone came to visit her for her cooking. So I am exited to try these out.
Journey with me to cook through some of Janet's book. Let's celebrate her through her cooking. When I'm gone I know I would love it if one wide-eyed, wife in training tried these out. I would laugh from above, as she undoubtedly burnt a few of the breads, forgot the salt in the salt malted caramels and probably would also absent mindedly forgot to turn over the pineapple upside down cake.
I'm exited for this. Are you?
I will post a recipe sometime this week and we can make it. Let's cook up a storm.
Peace, love, and yummy cooking,
-Carmen
Btw Check out my Radio Shack Deals!
All that (minus the cookbook) for $34 :o SCORE!
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