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Key Lime Pie

Key Lime Pie

Traditional Key Lime Pie is not baked, instead uses the acidity of the key limes to thicken & curdle the pie filling into a fork suitable delight. Recent trends has the pie being baked to give it a little more substance and to make the eggs in the filling safe for consumption (raw eggs, I [...]

[ More ] May 31st, 2009 | 3 Comments |
Ideal Florida Meal

Ideal Florida Meal

The regional fare in Florida that I most enjoy are the: Margarita – Tequila, lime juice, and  orange liquor Cuban Sandwich -  ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard, and sometimes salami on Cuban bread Key Lime Pie -  key lime juice, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk in a pie crust So I have been [...]

[ More ] May 31st, 2009 | No Comments |
Adventure Friday Part 2

Adventure Friday Part 2

Pictures (and spelling) forthcoming…. but here is the raw update. Wow! Part 2 had two sub excursions… both started out in the direction of The Pier and the first went north and the latter found a more southerly direction…. Taste of Pinellas was wrapping up for the day. so we avoided too many entanglements with [...]

[ More ] May 30th, 2009 | No Comments |
Short and Stormy

Short and Stormy

The holiday’s intrusion this week let it fly past ever faster having 20% less filler. I even tried to strech out the posting to later on Friday to squeeze a little more into the week. Seems that the “day off” also had me taking less photos over the week.. dunno why that would happen. Tuesday’s [...]

[ More ] May 29th, 2009 | No Comments |
Adventure Friday Part 1

Adventure Friday Part 1

This post is brought to you by the adventures of Matthew and Shelley. After a leisurely morning waiting for the rain to pass we set out on a loosen up ride punctuated by various errands. Drop off the rent check, deposit $ into the bank, coffee, smoothie (no sugar), bike upgrade check.. all sorts of [...]

[ More ] May 29th, 2009 | No Comments |

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man in a powered parachute flying over palm trees with the sunset in the background