I’m home from church today with a bad cough, and ran across one of the newer shows on Food Network, Down Home with the Neelys.

The recipes on today’s episode look good, especially the macaroni and cheese:

6 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 cups milk, warm
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Dash salt and freshly ground black pepper
Dash hot sauce
Dash Worcestershire sauce
3 cups shredded Cheddar
1 pound cavatappi pasta, cooked al dente
1 cup crushed potato chips
5 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan, for topping

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.

Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a large saucepot over medium heat. Add flour and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Whisk in the warmed milk and bring to a boil, continue to whisk constantly. The mixture will thicken as the heat increases. Continue to stir while adding
the dry mustard, nutmeg, cayenne, salt, pepper, hot sauce and Worcestershire. Stir in the 3 cups of Cheddar until it melts.

Pour the cheese sauce over the noodles and add to a 3 quart casserole dish.

Sprinkle the chips, bacon and Parmesan on top and bake for 35 minutes.

I’m going to have to make this - minus the pepper and hot sauce because I’m a wimp.

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Another good list:

The Retro-Guy Code:

A Retro-Guy, no matter what the women insists, pays for the date.

A Retro-Guy DEALS with IT–be it a flat tire, a burglar, or a natural disaster, you DEAL WITH IT.

A Retro-Guy not only eats red meat, he often kills it himself.

A Retro-Guy should know how to properly kill stuff (or people) if need be. This falls under the “DEALING WITH IT” portion of The Code.

A Retro-Guy is allowed to seek professional help for major mental stress such as drug/alcohol addiction, death of your entire family in a freak tree chipper accident, favorite bird dog expiring, etc. You are NOT allowed to see a shrink because Daddy didn’t pay enough attention to you. Daddy was busy DEALING WITH IT.

A Retro-Guy should have at least one good wound he can brag about.

A Retro-Guy knows that owning a gun is NOT a sign you’re riddled with fear. Guns are TOOLS: See “DEALING WITH IT.”

When a Retro-Guy is on a crowded bus and ANY woman gets on, that Retro-Guy stands up and offers his seat to that woman, then looks around at the other so-called men still in their seats with a disgusted look on his face.

A Retro-Guy will also give up his seat to any elderly person or person in military dress, except officers above second lieutenant. (NOTE: The person in military dress may turn down the offer but the Retro-Guy will ALWAYS make the offer to them and thank them for serving their country.)

A Retro-Guy knows how to say the Pledge properly and the words to the Star Spangled Banner.

A Retro-Guy sharpens his own knives and knows how to use tools.

A Retro-Guy owns tools, usually lots of ‘em.

A Retro-Guy doesn’t need a contract–a handshake is good enough.

A Retro-Guy will take care of his neighbor’s yard when said neighbor is deployed overseas on military duty.

A Retro-Guy doesn’t immediately look to sue someone when he does something stupid and hurts himself. We understand that sometimes–in the process of doing things–we get hurt and just DEAL WITH IT.

Roy Huntington in American Handgunner, Sept-Oct 2005.
COPYRIGHT 2005 Publishers’ Development Corporation
COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group

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Are you a girl, or a grown woman? Read this and find out:

Girls leave their schedule wide open and wait for a guy to call and make plans
Grown Women make their own plans then are willing to drop any of them for their man

Girls want to control the man in their life
Grown women know that if he’s truly yours, he doesn’t need controlling

Girls punish or nag you for not calling them
Grown women understand they’re not the only ones who are busy

Girls are afraid to be alone
Grown women revel in it, using it as a time for personal growth

Girls ignore the good guy
Grown women ignore the bad guy

Girls try to make you come home
Grown women make you want to come home

Girls worry about not being pretty and/or good enough for their man
Grown women know that when they’re loved and loving, they’re automatically beautiful to their man

Girls try to monopolize their man’s time and don’t want him hanging with his friends
Grown women realize the little bit of space makes the together time even more special

Girls think a guy crying is weak
Grown women offer their shoulder

Girls want to be spoiled and tell their man so
Grown women show him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate without fear of losing his manhood

Girls get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it
Grown women know that it was just one man

Girls fall in love and aimlessly chase after the object of their affection ignoring all signs
Grown women know that sometimes the one you love doesn’t always love you back and move on without bitterness

Girls will read this and cop an attitude
Grown women will read this and repost it.

Boys will read this and be confused
Men will read this and take notes and repost it

I don’t know who wrote that, but it’s good!

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You Are Not Prissy

You’re the furthest thing from a princess - and you probably stay far away from any princess types you know. You have an easygoing approach to living. It doesn’t take a lot to make you happy. And when life requires it, you’re ready to get your hand a little dirty. There’s no problem you’re too prissy to tackle!

How Prissy Are You?

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Eve’s Flowers
    ~ Nannie R. Glass

Eve must have wept to leave her flowers,
And plucked some roots to tell
Of Eden’s happy, sinless bowers,
Where she in bliss did dwell.

Roses and lilies, pansies gay,
Violets with azure eyes,
Her favorites must have been, for they
Seem born in paradise.

And when they drooped, did she not sigh
And kiss their petals fair,
Thinking, “Alas, ye too must die
And in our sorrow share”?

And then perhaps unto her soul
This answer sweet was given,
“Like you we fade and perish here;
For you we’ll bloom in heaven.”

Roses and lilies are the type
Of him who from above,
The lamb of God, gave up his life,
A sacrifice of love.

He was her hope in those sad hours
Of blight and sure decay;
The sin that drove her from her flowers
His blood could wash away.

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Ingredient #6

Show support, as friends do. Think about how friends act. They talk about things they’re both interested in, they tell jokes, they accompany one another to activities they enjoy, whether it’s a movie or going to the gym. And don’t you hear people say to coworkers, How are you, what did you do last night? But with their mate, they’ll walk into the kitchen and just kind of grunt. Investing more energy in less-intimate relationships is crazy. I’ve done 875 Dr. Phil shows, and Robin has been in the audience 875 times.

I think this boils down to putting your spouse first, above all other human relationships. Go out of your way to support them and even sacrifice your time and list of things to do to be there for them. Be their cheering squad and sit in the front row attentively whenever you have the chance. BE THEIR VERY BEST FRIEND EVER!!!!

Note: These are the 15 most important ingredients to a happy marriage according to Dr. Phil and his wife Robin. These are from a Ladies Home Journal article

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If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, you’re not alive.

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