My New 4-Legged Baby "Oreo Cookie"

Hi Everyone!

For as long as I can remember I've always wanted a horse. I mean, what girl doesn't want their own horsey, right? My extended family has always been extreme, avid, passionate horse lovers. We, ourselves, have just never had the space for a horse. Much less the extra expense of owning a horse. Ever heard the phrase "Eat like a horse"? Well, it's true, they do eat a lot! And you get no profit from horse, unlike chickens or cows. Even so, I still wanted a horse. So, my Granddad (the horse expert of the family) bought me one!

The Oreo Cookie

Yes, I finally have a horse. And even though he is just eating my money like it's hay, I wouldn't trade my handsome Oreo for the world. He is a black and white Tennessee Walking Horse. He is amazing on trails. Oreo is so sweet, but he prefers me to anyone else. He won't even let my uncle catch him, while he runs to me. Yeah, he is my big baby.

We still don't have the acreage we need to put him on, so for now I am keeping him at my uncle's 116 acre farm. Where he has a made a best friend, Ticon. Where one goes, the other goes. If I take Oreo out for a ride, Ticon will run the field and whine until we get back. If Ticon goes to the vet, Oreo will pace around the barn until he returns. It's so cute watching them play and roll around in the sand together.

 

Oreo and Ticon

So the name, "Oreo". How did I come up with that, right? His original name was "Lightning", but with his sweet temperament and slow steady pace, I just couldn't see him as a Lighting type. So for a week I thought and thought, racked my brain, bugged my family for help, when one day it was like a light bulb in my brain. "Oreo"! How simple. If you look at the pictures, you will see he has black from his rear to halfway up, then a little patch of white, then black the rest of the way. The white cream filling in between two chocolate cookies....ring a bell? Yeah, an Oreo cookie!  (and it helped that I was eating an Oreo cookie at the time) So, Oreo Cookie it is! Usually I just call him Oreo for short.

So here are a few pictures of my handsome boy.



Oreo in the barn with his Buddy "Ticon"

This picture is Oreo standing on a stump

while we were trail riding.

 Keep Calm & Ride On!

New Twist on Cooking 'Hard Boiled' Eggs

 

 

Call them what you want, hard boiled eggs, deviled eggs, angel eggs, we all make them the same old boring way. Put eggs in a pan of water, let boil, hope they are completely cooked when you take them off the burner. Or, if you have those "Eggies" you put them in their containers and boil away....again, right?

 Well guess what! There is a new and super easy way to make 'hard boiled' eggs, without even boiling! Does this happen to you...Only having two working stove burners when you need all four  and an extra set of hands because you have company coming over in half an hour and your dinner is not even half way done! ?? Yeah, that happens to me all the time! So what do you do when you don't have the time to tend to, or an extra burner for those darned eggs? Stick them in the oven!

Yes, I did just say to put them in the oven. Grab a muffin pan and put one egg in each muffin hole. Pop them in that oven for 20 minutes, then take them out and put all of them in a bowl of cold water just long enough to cool. To peel: Crack top, bottom, and all around egg. Roll on countertop to make sure it is completely cracked all around. Simply slide the egg out of the peeling. It peels that easy! Slice and serve! I make them this way all the time and trust me, it's sooo easy!

Have fun cooking!




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