The Best Beef Stew EVER!!!!

Hi, I’m Cooking Monster and I have an addiction.


I LOVE Pioneer Woman’s blog. If you have not been, GO!

I have to go every day (if not more than once a day)

I laugh and cry with her life. I read her home schooling section and think about doing it in my mind. I look through her Photo section and wish I could take photos like that. (Thank god I don’t have to, that is my brother’s job). I get ideas from her home and garden section.

Then you get to the cooking section.

I can not stop cook from it!

Not a single recipe is bad. And oh my god the cinnamon rolls and I don’t like them. (I know the husband is working on my issues).

I typical stick to the baking, it is what I do best!

However I branched out the other day and found the best beef stew! It has beer in it. How can it be bad!

Just try it!

The Best Beef Stew ever.

Old favorite, only new and improved

I have a Candy Dish at my desk. I have had it there for years, but since the move to a larger office I ask for donations. I’m sorry but going from an office of 5 to an office of 60 makes a difference. Most give money and then I go and buy the candy. You learn what people like and what they don’t. (I have found that M&Ms are always good!)


I have one co-worker that just brings me candy. Which I have to say is nice.

Anyway, after lunch she brought me….

“How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie roll pop?”

I love that old ad, but I digress.

You have Cherry…

Grape…

Orange…

Chocolate…

Raspberry…

And Pomegranate?????

Sorry, when did Pomegranate become a flavor?

I know I have not bought Tootsie Pops in a while but still, when? What? 

Sorry, this has throw off my whole day.



P.S. it taste really good!

A New Year, A New Blog

I have decided after talking to friends and family to change things up a bit.


How can I talk about food with out talking about the people and what was going on at the time, plus there are a few blogs and forums that should be talked about as well I think.

For starter:
If you have never been to cake wrecks you should! Also, the pioneer woman, her stories are everyone of the idea for me. (In the Recipe section on the side I have linked to her.) Please go thru the Tenth Annual Weblog Awards, there are so great blogs!



The next thing I must talk about is my hubby's rule. See I don't like trying things that are new. You would think with being a foodie I would but sadly I am picky, that is right,
I am Cooking Monster and I am a picky eater!
So my hubby and I would go to dinner and he would say "try this", my reply was "I don't like that". The problem with this is I had never eaten the food item before, so I would not have known if I liked the food or not. My hubby, well he realized really quickly what I was doing. (He is smart like that, but don't tell him I said so)
And so The Rule was made!
"I have to try the food once. If I do not like it, I do not like it but I have to try it!"
I have found that fried veggies are not that bad. Sushi should be tried more than once. It may look bad but taste good.
Need least to say, you the reader should have some good reads and maybe even a video or two of me eating something. (which my hubby loves doing)

So until the next post,
try the rule,
Cooking Monster