Fall is Here!

My calendar says yesterday was the first day of autumn. My bones say it happened last week! Fall hits and I start craving homemade soups and stews. So today I had some leftover steak in the fridge and used it to make my mom's stew. It's never as good as what she used to make but it's as good as it gets now a days. Mother never used a recipe, it was just "use a little of this and a handful of that and throw in a...". As a result I cook the same way and when the girls call and say "how do you make...." I now know how my mom felt when I did that :).

So have you ever wondered how people stay married for 34 years? Give a little, take a little, compromise, agree to disagree and patience. What's that got to do with fall and stew you may be wondering. Well I'll tell you.

This is how Randy likes his stew. He is a purist and likes things simple and easy. Hand him a spoon and he's good to go.

Now I like to dig around in the soup pot and get lots of carrots a potato and just a few pieces of meat. I'll take whatever cabbage clings to the veggies, the more the better :0. Then I like to push the meat to the side and mush the veggies together. Then I pour some broth from the stew on and squirt ketchup and sprinkle seasoning salt all over the top. Oh and you should have a slice of bread with butter to mop up all the juices. Hmmm, I may have to go back for seconds! Yes, Randy's does look more appetizing, but mine tastes better!

So as you can see we agree to disagree on how we like our stew. That's how we have managed to stay together all these years.....well one way anyway :).

Cummings Studio Chocolates!

I started a dream job this week. As you may or may not know, but you will know now, :0, is that I LOVE chocolate. This is "my" store. My meaning that this is where I am actually getting paid money to show up and look at, smell and yes even sample chocolate. It's a tough job but someone has to sacrifice and do it :0.

Sure we sell other things besides chocolate, like some really good caramel nut popcorn, caramel apples and some non-chocolate candies.

This is behind the scenes. The back room where we keep the "extra" product. Look at all that yummy chocolate. Heaven, I'm in Heaven!

This is grand opening day. The balloons have pieces of paper in them that tell you what gift you have won. We gave away bags of caramel corn, chocolate covered pretzel sticks, 2 piece and 4 piece boxes of chocolate. We also were out in front of the store offering free samples to everyone who walked or rather tried to walk past the store ;) .

Here I am (in the pink) helping a customer. I'm waiting on the slow credit card machine. The lady standing next to me is Jo...she is one of the owners of this store. Which I suppose makes her my boss. But she is also my friend. I have known her since 1984 when we moved into her neighborhood. Two of her daughters are friends of two of my girls. Ten years ago when the girls were in high school they worked for Jo at the main store in Salt Lake.

So come see us at Cummings Studio Chocolates at Jordan Landing in West Jordan, Utah. we are open Monday thru Saturday, 10 am til 9 pm. I wonder if there will be chocolate in Heaven??