Welcome to Gilly's Place

A few years ago my granddaughters asked me to put together a cookbook of about 20 family favorite recipes and when I did the 20 pages looked rather skimpy so I added more, and more, and more till their binders held 60. Heavily embellished I gave them to the girls at Christmastime. Every Christmas since then I've added 60 more pages to their collections and have reached the 300 mark...and they're looking forward to getting even more. These are not random recipes, they're all tried and true. Anyway, when word got around it seems everybody and their second cousin wanted a cookbook so I began selling them to cover the cost of materials and now I'm passing them on to others as digital freebies, who like me, enjoy family, friends, cooking, and sharing. Print the pages to a standard letter size and save them in any old binder that blends with your kitchen. Please do print them for yourself and gift-giving to family and friends but please do not claim as your own as it wouldn't be fair to the designers I buy from or the wonderful talent that is freely given by bloggers. I'd love to hear from you...

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Chicken Fingers with Dipping Sauce

I COULD JUST CRY!!!  The guy at Staples said he'd transferred all my folders to the new Dell but he MISSED THE TWO BIGGEST FOLDERS EVER!  I lost my PCCrafter folder of over two hundred scrap kits and since the company closed down the site 12/31/11 I can no longer upload and save them to hard copy.  My DIL's BIL is a self proclaimed computer geek so I'll see if he can draw the little suckers out and put them on a flash drive for me.  If not, I'll cry for a day or two then go on with my life.  The second folder, BTW, contained all my other scrap kits in one folder they were lost also but that's not too too bad.  I had about 80% of them on CDs and another 10-15% can be re-downloaded from my accounts.  Lesson learned...I'm out to buy USBs by the case load.

A small bit of good news, he recovered my Happy Hour folder with lots of unpublished cocktail recipes.  I think I'll get good use out of these for the next day or so, (teeheehee, she said sarcastically.)

So, now the crying's done, let's get on with it, shall we?

Thanks for stopping by, catch 'ya later!


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Hi guys, what a month!!!  Sorry I've been away for a while but life's been throwing curves at us and we've been going round in circles for at least three weeks now.

Not in order but you'll get the gist of it.  One of my husband's older brothers died and two days later his best friend of over sixty years died also.  Hubby blew the radiator on the truck, decided he needed a new car, took out a loan and bought himself a car.  Over Christmas (which was supposed to be quiet) I had more guests than I've had in a while and was ill prepared to entertain.  I got bit by a stray cat I'd been feeding and because it was a stray I had to get the series of rabies vaccines, not painful but a bit of a pain in the you-know-what.  Animal Control couldn't catch him so after ten days Officer Garth called to tell me since I was still alive I didn't have rabies.  LOL.  BTW, I'm still feeding Gray Cat twice a day. Hubby needed day surgery for a recurring problem.  My PC had been fluttering and finally collapsed in a time when I could ill afford a new one.  To replace the motherboard would cost me over three hundred bucks so I thought may as well save and get a new one.  I went without, watched a gazillion movies, took as many naps, sent for take-out cause I didn't feel like cooking, suffered though withdrawal till my hubby could take it no more.  He surprised me by going to Staples, had my data transferred to a brand new Dell Inspiron and told me to go play...so here I am.

I need a day or two to learn the ins and outs of this new Dell but I'll be back later this week.
Thanks for stopping in, catch 'ya later!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Pink Adobe French Apple Pie

Well guys, I'm not as dumb as I look!  I managed to fix the problem with no outside help.  Thank you ladies  (Sheri, Betty, and Terilynn) for the comments, that gave me the bit of hope I needed to try and try again.  I guess we go on from here.  I celebrated the fix-up with a bit of shopping, and oh boy, new goodies to play with.  Can't wait for the weekend.

Ever been to New Mexico?  Ever been entertained at the Pink Adobe?  Ever tried their apple pie?  I haven't either, lol, but they tell me this is their recipe.  Whether or not it is, it's a little extra work, but darn good, so I hope you give it a try.

Thanks for stopping in, catch 'ya later!

typo has been fixed, sorry about that

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Gingerbread Men

Bless you for your patience, if I can't resolve this by the end of January I might do away with the blog.  I'm finding it annoying and "help" can see my front page, why can't I?  Can you?

Thanks for stopping in, catch 'ya later.

AND BETTY, that might be a blogger glitch too so don't worry, love hearing from you.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Crockpot Potato Soup

Hi everybody, well, I'm not making any advancement in getting my new posts on the home page.  In case you've a little more patience than I do I'm adding one today you'll have to hunt and peck for.  I've done everything suggested by Blogger Helpers but to no avail.


Anyway, here's...