A quick post today as I’m making calls to everyone who might change their vote re this Tax Scam. It is unbelievable to me that anyone would condone a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit. Or that anyone (especially those of us on Medicare) would support a bill that would take away millions of dollars from the Medicare budget. Make no mistake: this is the beginning of the GOP trying to dismantle Social Security and Medicare – which are NOT entitlements, by the way. That’s our money that we’ve contributed from every paycheck our whole working lives. Again, I have to stop here or I’ll start swearing. Just imagine what I’m saying at this moment. There’s a reason they’re trying to ram this through; they know it’s bad right down to the bone.
I made eight calls this morning and will keep calling.
Pretty photo of the living room:
The sunlight is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment.
A new leaf on the monstera. I can’t take credit for this, though, I believe it was already there in tightly furled form when I bought the plant. There’s another one on the opposite side.
As you know, my mom’s side of the family is from Canada. When I was a kid, my grandmother (who was a baker extraordinaire) made Butter Tarts. I used to have her recipe but I’ve somehow lost it – which makes me very sad. In a discussion with a friend from my hometown on Facebook, I discovered that her grandmother also made tarts and she was from Canada. So I googled them and learned that Butter Tarts are a Canadian thing. I didn’t know that they were exclusively Canadian! It makes sense, now that I think of it. Anyway, I found a couple of recipes that seem close to my grandmother’s and I’m going to try one today. I’ve actually made Gram’s recipe once before – I remember making them for Don. So where the heck is the recipe card???
Fingers crossed. I loved her tarts, which were very rich! Thought I’d bake some and take a few over to The Boys, which is what I’m now calling Rick and Doug. Don has requested one, as well. Two days and counting and he’ll be home!
Happy Friday.
Thank you Claudia for making those calls!
Just heard Flynn is pleading guilty this morning! Huzzah!
We are getting closer to ending this nightmare!
A very good sign, Carolyn Marie!
Will you post the recipe if it is like your grandmother’s? I hope you will.
Yes, I will.
I also checked out recipes online for the butter tarts. I’d never heard of them, but they look delicious—and sound like mini pecan pies, same filling with or without pecans or walnuts and raisins, sometimes. What was in your Grandma’s filling?
That tax bill is making my stomach churn and my blood boil! What insanity is in charge in DC!
Gram always used raisins, which is what I will be using.
I keep hearing rumors of Pence news later today. Please let it happen before he can cast the deciding vote on the Tax Scam.
I’m so angry today !! Just can’t stand what our country is becoming. Calling, calling, calling! On another note, butter tarts sound amazing!
I can’t either. I feel like I’ve been tense since November 8th.
thanks for making all those calls.
things are very scary and we all need to take action so that our government is truly “of the people, by the people, for the people (and does) not perish from the earth”! (thanks to abraham lincoln for those good words.)
i hope you find that recipe card! butter tarts sound yummy.
and glad don will soon be home (and is hopefully feeling 100% better). nice for both of you.
sounds like a great weekend ahead. hope that’s what everyone has!
kathy in iowa
Me too. I don’t think Don will get here until Sunday evening as he plane lands at 4:30 at Newark. But, he’s coming!
Swear away, Lady, this would make Mother Teresa swear! I pray his supporters see the truth before it’s too late for all of us and our country. 😨
Thank you for the calls, I’m calling too.
They are like cult members. They choose to believe anything he says.
I am making calls as well, especially to Republicans! Those tarts look like what we use to call “Pecan Tassies”….. there were several types of tassies we baked for parties, including savories!
There is a tea room here that makes pecan tassies. I think tarts are bigger – cupcake size. Anyway, they’re delicious!
Me too, making calls that is. And sending emails. I feel like my head is going to explode from all the horrors they are trying to shovel onto us.
I’m interested in the butter tarts and the recipe. Can’t wait to see pics of your tarts.
My head is in danger of the same thing! Thanks, Deb.
Ditto, ditto and DITTO on all the political stuff! I’ve been tweeting, e-mailing, signing petitions, sending texts, calling pols yadda yadda on this too. We have to – the Resistance is not going to give up on anything! We know now what we can do! I didn’t realize we could call anyone except on reps though. I’m lucky – both my Congressional reps & my US Senators are both Dems – and smart enough to know this bill is UTTER CRUD. Unless, of course, you’re a billionaire. You go girl! I’ll be glad to call other Congress people other than my own – if it counts. Does anyone know if this is the case? Usually I’m asked for my address, zip etc. Oh and hey, if you hit on your grandmother’s Butter Tart recipe, would you be willing to share it? No one bakes like the Brits, IMO at least. I love shortbread myself, and have a great recipe from my mother’s 2nd best friend [the wife of my Dad’s BEST friend] who was also from Canada [Scottish ancestry]. They were melt-in-your-mouth luscious!! Have a great weekend – and Peace. 🥟
#Resist
I called everyone whether they were from my state or not. If you leave a message they generally don’t ask for your zip code and my cell phone area code is generic.
Good to know! Guess I’ll be on the phone a lot more in the future. Thanks my friend… 🇺🇸
xo
Just glad that D.C. stupidity is balanced today with butter tarts, anticipating Don’s homecoming, and cottage happenings on your side, and chocolate lava cake, my college daughter’s homecoming, and lots of holiday stitching on my side. Often times, I wish that were enough….
Enjoy your daughter’s homecoming, Wendy!
With all the crap going on ~~ butter tarts, shortbread, chocolate chips, oatmeal, gingersnaps, etc. etc. all seem a bit like antidotes to the mess. I just m in shameful awe of what this country is becoming. I also don’t understand how those who voted AGAINST the health care bill can now vote FOR this hot mess. I guess it all comes down to the contributors and who owns them. As it always is…… we follow the money to understand. And with this travesty, the money is all the more telling. We continue to call and email. I am so tired of living in a country where we have to FIGHT for things like health care and fairness in taxation which should be “givens”. I spend most of the day wandering the house shaking my head in disbelief. But, it is all too real. Hope the rest of this day is better. However, I don’t have much faith in that being the case……
They are all owned, therefore corrupt. It’s insane. They are not governing for us. They’re governing against us.
Calling until my finger is a nub. I can’t believe this travesty of a bill, and I feel so impotent in the face of it—-NOT my favorite feeling.
My grandparents (on my mother’s side) were from Canada as well (naturalized citizens before my Mom was born.) My son is now studying in Montreal and enjoying connecting so many family dots. I do not have a good recipe for butter tarts, so I will be interested in seeing what your search turns up. We are heading up to Quebec City for an early Christmas next week, and hope to figure out lots of Canadian Christmas traditions we might have missed along the way.
Back to the calls—-Peace, Leslie P.
Have lots of fun in Quebec!
I am hoping that Flynn (coming out with info. against the admin.) will stop the tax bill in it’s tracks!
I don’t think that will work, though if this was a sane Republican Senate, it would.
Claudia, There is no way I am for this crazy tax thing. It will certainly help rich business owners. Trump maybe thinking of when he goes back to the family business after he leaves office. It would be so nice for him. I am all for keeping jobs in America…but a huge(As Trump likes to say ) tax cut for the rich isn’t the answer really. Move over my turn to cuss. LOL. Blessings to all of us who “earned “our Soc.sec. and medicare. xoxo, Susie
Exactly. That’s my frigging money and they can’t steal it. I’m not kidding. I’d sue them.
The recipe card is slipped inside an old recipe book. Unless of course if you kept it in a drawer with too much stuff then it might of slipped behind the drawer. I had that happened once. ;)
I checked all my books – shook them out. Nothing. Can’t find it in any drawers, either!
I live in Guelph Ontario Canada and my grandmother made butter tarts using currents and pecans – oh my they are so good – maybe try them!
I usually just make them at Christmas but you have inspired me to put the ingredients on the shopping list to make this weekend – yah team!
Susan my grandmother used currants as well. I made the first batch, but the filling isn’t quite like my gram’s. Can you share the recipe for the filling in your tarts?
Claudia, so happy to share my grandmother’s butter tart recipe.
1 cup currents
1 cup brown sugar
2 beaten eggs
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup finally chopped pecans (not in her original recipe)
Scald currents with boiling water, drain and cool slightly
Add vanilla and butter
Add sugar and beaten eggs
Spoon into tart shells
Bake 375 for 15-18 minutes depending on the oven
Makes 12 large ot 24 small tarts
Enjoy!
Thank you, Susan! Much appreciated!
Yes, butter tarts are definitely a Canadian thing as is flapper pie. Are you familiar with flapper pie?
No, I’m not!
I was just researching and I guess flapper pie is more of a western Canadian thing and I’m from Saskatchewan so certainly the west. One of the best recipes for flapper pie can be found in a blog called The Kitchen Magpie. Check it out if you have time as it is total yummy deliciousness.
I’ll check it out, Brenda. Thank you!
Love that big monstera plant…the new leaf looks so shiny!…Just the name butter tarts tells me they have to be good!…I have got some bad news to share with you today…I found out that my son has diabetes…as if he needed more problems to deal with…I’m happy that Don will be home with you soon Claudia…
I’m sorry to hear the news about your son. Can it be managed with dietary changes?
Dr has started him on pills…his test result levels were very high…sigh…
xoxo