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They're really easy to make too. I made them from memory of a recipe I saw sometime last year, last night. Anyway, I figured I'd share the recipe from memory, too.

Ingredients
1 lb pork sausage
8 oz cream cheese
32 oz whole mushrooms
2 teaspoons of minced garlic
1 tablespoon of butter

And here's what you do: Preheat your oven to 350. Fry your sausage in a cast iron skillet. While it's frying take the stalks off your mushrooms and cut them up into the sausage. Make sure you have a little hollow in your mushroom cap so you can fill it in. When the sausage is brown and mushrooms are kind of rubbery, add your garlic and then fry it all together a little more, maybe 5 minutes, maybe less. When that's done, throw in your cream cheese and let it melt over the sausage.

When that's finished, you'll have a nice creamy meat mixture. It tastes AWESOME on some artisan bread.

Then fill your mushroom caps with the filling, dip their bottoms in the butter and line them up in a pyrex pan. Pop them in the oven for about 30 to 40 minutes.

And viola! You have an incredibly unhealthy - but tasty- appetizer or finger food for your work party or football party or whatever.

I also think if you use just 16 oz of mushrooms and just dice them all up in the meat mixture, you can serve it with an artisan bread or in a roll and it'll make an amazing spread. I've been contemplating selling it as a street food at our county fair in august. I'm not sure if it'd make a good street food or not, but I might give it a try. I think on a roll with a side of potato wedges it would rock. You could also dice up some onions and peppers and maybe even tomatoes and cook it in and I bet it would be really good.

Anyhow, that is my recipe for your holiday delight and enjoyment. Now go out there and harden some arteries!]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=85 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:14:56 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=83 Market Street for all the restaurants, shopping, farmer's market, Shakespeare on the Square, Sundown in the City, and Christmas in the City. Then there's the University of Tennessee, World's Fair Park, Old City, etc.

I hope it actually happens. We need a change and jobs and all that fun, adult stuff. ]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=83 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:36:22 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=81
So, the spam bots are still out there and posting away. I am getting fed up with them, but I don't know what to do about it. I have spam protection on, but it doesn't do much good. Frustrating!!! I will be locking comments more often, most probably. I think adding my link to career builder upped the numbers. I will not do that again :(

I am so looking forward to having money again.]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=81 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:28:07 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=79
If anyone h as any job suggestions, please feel free t o let me know. ]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=79 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:35:03 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=77
Jon and I have kicked our job search into high gear. We're doing a lot of looking in Knoxville at the moment. Of course he's having better luck than I am. That's typical :) But I am having some luck. So that's very inspiring. Ideally we want to live in downtown Knoxville on Gay St. or t hereabouts, so we need jobs t hat will help us do that. I l ove downtown Knoxville, it is super fun.

I would love to do some work for The Knoxville Voice or The Metro Pulse. That would rock my world. I also want to go back to school. I don't especially want to go back to UT, but I really want to get my Masters. And I think I sort of blew my whole college experience when I was there before, because my life got really weird. I would probably enjoy it more with Jon there.

So, that is what's up with that. It's kind of exciting.]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=77 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:45:53 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=75
At the moment I'm waiting on Jon to get home. I like him :) Tomorrow I have a Dr.'s appointment a nd then I am going to do a bit of job hunting. My goal is to get a job by the end of the year.]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=75 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:21:48 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=73 General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=73 Sat, 8 Nov 2008 03:30:28 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=71
Also, my article for All Things Girl is up. You can find it here. Feel free to read it and comment on it. Dig that picture of Marley Barley up in the top. She is becoming so famous. And not a bit spoiled more than she already was. You can't add more to something that is already overflowing.

Now, to go write some words and hope I can j ust let myself go and write without thinking and bogging myself down. That is where I tend to fall. I think and then I procrastinate (like writing this journal entry.) ]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=71 Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:26:52 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=69 General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=69 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:12:02 -0500 http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=67

I have not been so proud of this country in over 8 years. Tonight, it is good to be an American. I think I might cry.]]> General http://spiniffy.com/index.php?itemid=67 Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:37:29 -0500