My friend Missy was showing off her daughter’s senior photos recently and I noticed a really cool silhouette.?? I love sunset and beach silhouettes and plan to take some when we go on vacation but I had not thought of trying casual silhouettes and making composites out of them.?? Creative idea for which I am grateful for!?? When I was taking Tori’s hat pictures, she kept trying to crawl away from me.?? The silhoutte above was taken from one of her crawling profiles.?? The rest I just digitally added for the fun of it.?? Her little tiny silhouette looks so precious I think.?? I keep opening this picture back up and staring at it – she just looks like a little baby doll.?? I love the way she sits on her knees like that.?? Can’t wait to do more silhouette composites now.?? Working on Braxtyn’s pictures today so I bet I’ll think of something.?? 🙂
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Reminds me…Susie had not seen Tori for quite some time and when she saw her this past weekend she said that Tori looks much bigger in pictures than she does in person.?? Not something I can judge seeing her everyday but I thought that was an interesting observation.
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Here is a funny that probably only family will appreciate.????Wed I attempted to make Grammy’s biscuits and gravy.?? Apparently, it DOES matter the ratio of bacon grease to flour that you use 🙂 – who knew??? Anyhow, it was a DISASTER.???? Following??are bits and pieces of conversation with her over the last two days best I can remember:
G: Well how much bacon grease did you use?
D:?? Well I cooked a whole package of bacon so I just used it all.
G:?? WHAT??? OH NO!?? You can’t use that much.
D:?? Yes I realize that now.?? :)?? Then I had to add a ton of flour to make it into a paste.
G:?? A paste??? No it shouldn’t be like an actual paste. ??Just thin it out with more milk.
D:?? I did.?? I have thinned it out so much there is now very little flavor left and it still is the conistency of a very heavy pudding!
G:?? Well honey don’t worry.?? It took me a long time to get it right too.?? Mine didn’t always come out perfect either.?? Now how did the biscuits turn out because I forgot to tell you something.
D:?? The biscuits were fine but I burned the sausage all to bits and had to cut the burned parts off.
G:?? I am sure it was fine but I forgot to tell you?? that I heat the oil in a pan and then dip the biscuits on both sides in the oil before I bake them, that way they won’t dry out.
D:?? Oh – you didn’t tell me that yesterday.
G:?? Now Doni.?? You only use a LITTLE bit of oil.?? You don’t just dunk the biscuits in a lot of oil – I am talking about just lightly coating them.
D:?? What Grammy??? Afraid I am going to deep fry your biscuits next?
G:?? Well I just didn’t know – thought I should be sure to tell you.?? (I am laughing at this point – she was serious).
G:?? Now I also want to tell you that I feel bad about this and I am sorry but I did tell your Aunt Beck but only because she has ruined the gravy before too just like you.
D:?? (Now I really have bubbles of laughter trying to get out).?? Grammy why would you be concerned about telling anyone about my disasterous gravey attempt??? 🙂
G:?? I just didn’t want you to feel embarrassed honey.
ROFL!!!!!!?? So is that soooooooo Grammy or what??? Funny funny funny.?? I am a pretty decent cook but I think gravies are hard to master and as for the dumb sausage…the package directions were misleading hee hee.?? 🙂
And the whole flour, bacon grease, oil thing….Grammy is from Oklahoma…nuff said?
8 responses to “Silhouette”
Okay my family put bacon grease on popcorn, fried eggs in it, and used it for most anything possible and then some but I have only ever made gravy from butter. Now I’m dying to try this!!!!!! I even have my grandfather’s bacon grease container, it has a nifty little tray thing with holes in it to strain out the bits so you end up with just the grease 🙂 ha ha ha.
I love the silhouette pic, so precious! I would keep looking at it over and over if it were my little one too.
Love the food makin’ story! That would be my mother in law teaching me something that she does perfectly. That may be why I still haven’t bothered to learn her pie crust technique. She makes it so perfectly, how could I ever compare, LOL!
….. love the picture, almost makes me wish I had one of Kayla as a baby to put next to her senior pic 🙂
the gravy story sounds much like conversations I’ve had with my mom when trying some of her ‘tricks’. Now I just invite her over and ask her what she needs 😉 LOL
Grammy sounds so much like my grandma it makes me want to cry! (I told her this a long time ago). I had so many phone conversations with my grandma about how to cook things it was ridiculous. Cherish these moments, you can’t get them back. I can’t tell you how many times I go to the phone to call my grandma when I need cooking advice and it has been 6 years since she has been gone!
P.S. I just LOVE GRAMMY! – she is soooooooo sweet! (As if you didn’t know that I felt that way already)
Love the silhouette! So precious!
ROFL!!! I can hear every word! I can make the gravy but STILL cant master home made biscuits no matter how hard I try! They are more like hockey pucks than biscuits!
well this is how i make my gravy after cooking the pound of bacon i take a 1/4 cup greese and 1/4 cup flour and stir that up let that cook for 5 mins it gets rid of the flour taste then add 1% milk until its to the thickness i like. there is only 2 of us i usually have gravy left over so you might want to do 1/2 cup of each
grammy is so so sweet! little did she know you’d go ahead and tell the world yourself. 🙂
my mom always browned the whole package of sausage (like ground beef – crumbly) and then after it was just getting more crispy you sprinkle flower until it’s covered – you kind of play around with the recipe over time to get it right – but i bet 1/4 cup is about right. stir it up and let it brown a little bit with the sausage (a minute or so – stirring on probably medium heat)… i add a little other seasoning at this point – usually won’t need much salt depending on the sausage – but a little season salt and lots of pepper for jas. then add milk little by little until it’s the consistency we like (reducing heat so it doesn’t burn, of course.) for the most part, it always turns out really good this way!
you’ll have to let us know when you finally get grammy’s version down. 🙂