Big Mac Sauce

This video shares 'the secret' of the Big Mac Sauce and it's pretty easy to duplicate. It contains yellow mustard, mayonnaise, relish, paprika, garlic powder, and onion powder, as described in the video.  You would just use it on a cooked burger patty seasoned with salt and pepper.  Top with shredded lettuce and minced onions.  Of course, you would also need a burger bun.

I quickly whipped a batch up and L was the first to taste it and said it was pretty close! Do you think you'll try it?

Apparently it's been out on the internet for awhile so it's not really a secret.

Paint Party Friday - The Sun Will Rise

Happy Friday the 13th!  I hope you're not superstitious!


Here's my acrylic (6.5" x 4.5") for Paint Party Friday. Please visit the others to see their work this week. Thanks to Kristin and Eva for hosting.

I found the quote on Pinterest and thought it went well with my sunrise.

Fire Rainbow

This meteorological phenomenon was featured in the newspaper a few days ago. Isn't it beautiful? It was taken by an amateur photographer just north of Toronto using his Android smartphone. I've never heard of a fire rainbow before, have you?

Fire Rainbow

Blueberry Biscuits

L made these blueberry biscuits for us, after I got the recipe off The Southern Lady's blog. They were delicious and are pretty much gone. She has another blueberry pudding cake recipe which we will try next, as it's blueberry season!

Pear Sorbet

Pear Sorbet

Every summer in July, Toronto has a Summerlicious restaurant special. Hundreds of restaurants have special prix fixe menus. On the weekend, we all decided to go to Katsura, a participating Japanese Teppanyaki restaurant. The chef was juggling the salt and pepper shakers as usual, they put on a special display while cooking. He even sets a tower of onions on fire with brandy. Anyway, he told us the night before, he dropped one of the shakers and cracked one of the plates. He had never done that before, in 21 years of working as a Teppanyaki chef. The plates and all the vegetables had to be cleared away and the process restarted, the poor man!

I had the pear sorbet for dessert, it was very refreshing.

A Nun Grading Papers

This one's hilarious, enjoy!


CAN YOU IMAGINE THE NUN SITTING AT HER DESK GRADING THESE PAPERS, ALL THE WHILE TRYING TO KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE AND MAINTAIN HER COMPOSURE!

PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WORDING AND SPELLING. IF YOU KNOW THE BIBLE EVEN A LITTLE, YOU'LL FIND THIS HILARIOUS! IT COMES FROM A CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST.

KIDS WERE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY CHILDREN. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RETOUCHED OR CORRECTED. INCORRECT SPELLING HAS BEEN LEFT IN.


1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.

2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.

3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIGHT.

4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.

5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.

7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.

8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TOMOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.

10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.

11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHEDCANADA THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THEBATTLE OF GERITOL.

12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.

13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES..

14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.

15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.

16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER.

17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.

18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.

19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.

20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.

21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.

22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.

23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN.

24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY, WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.

25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.

Wild n Reckless

For Sunday Sketches and Summer of Color I did an acrylic (4.5" x 6.5") on cardstock.  The Summer of Color theme is 'Wild n Reckless',  a sherbet in green apple, blue raspberry and purple fruit punch.  I'm pleased with the way this one turned out!  I used the colours as a background and added the sailboat as a neutral focal point.

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