What have you been cooking during the pandemic lockdown?
Keep your sense of humor this holiday season!
Live, Love & Laugh!
~ Sunny
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Talk Turkey to Me. (Comedy Video)
What’s the scariest thing in YOUR kitchen?
I want to know!
You can read all abut my love/hate relationship with cooking and the pressure I feel to cook, especially as a Southern Woman in my essay for B-Metro Magazine by clicking this link:
Sunny’s “Be Happy!” Comedy Video ~ Tip #4
“Be Happy!” ~ Tip #4 ~ Make a Favorite Meal
As we wrap up this month long commitment to improving our happiness by adding more laughter into our lives, I hope this video will give you a laugh for the day and help boost your happiness quotient.
With the election coming up next week and all the divisive rhetoric that inundates us all, I think this might just be the week we need joy and laughter in our lives the most! I hope my videos this month have given you a reason to chuckle. I do believe sharing a laugh has a way of bringing us all together, even if for a short time, and reminds us that we do have a lot of things in common. I have seen this in the poler opposite groups of people who have enjoyed my videos and it is encouraging and makes me feel better! Laughter can be a unifier.
And, make sure to join me later this week for another “Be Happy Hour!” and lets celebrate another reason to share a laugh! ~ More info. coming soon ~ stay tuned!
Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy! ~ Sunny
National Martini Day! Cheers!
In honor of National Martini Day I have cooked up something extra special and serving up some fun wearing my fun, new apron that I created for the dish that doesn’t cook, but still likes the dressing! 😉 You can get your very own by clicking the apron link below. I hope you enjoy the video ~ and the apron! ~ Cheers! Sunny xo
P.S. I have lots of other fun products available featuring the same design so make sure to browse around while you’re shopping at my Zazzle boutique:) Thank you so much, Sunny!
Funny Retro Pin-up Girl Style Apron
A perfect gift for the dish who doesn’t cook, but still likes the dressing. ~ You are sure to keep up appearances as the “Hostess with the Mostest” when you take that selfie wearing this fun, retro inspired pinup girl style apron. ~ After all, you wouldn’t want to give the wrong impression.
SUNny DAY Post: X-Mas In July…….in August!
It’s that time of year again! Actually, it was that time of year again last month for our annual X-Mas in July “Epic Southern Living Magazine Christmas Cake Baking Party!” However, this year one of my nieces couldn’t make it for any dates in July so we moved it to August. And, once again, it was a chaotic, but fun, success!
Here is the cake we decided to make this year:
Ta Da! We did it! The Southern Living Magazine Chocolate Citrus Orange Cake with Candied Oranges and Chocolate Ganache Filling!
This annual tradition came about a few years ago when I realized that Continue reading
SUNny DAY POST: “What’s Cooking?” A Poem for National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month ~ so here’s a little poem I wrote: #SundaySupper 😉
Photo: Billy Brown ©sunnybrown
SUNny DAY Post:
I don’t know about you, but for me, Sunday’s are a great day to get caught up on all the housework…….NOT! Hahahaha! It IS a great day to curl up on the sofa and catch up on your reading ~ so I’m sharing my latest column from this month’s B-Metro Magazine and hoping it gives you a little laugh. My husband still hasn’t decided if it’s a good thing or not 😉 Happy Sunday! ~ Sunny
Sunny, (and hot! ;) in the Kitchen: Recipe for Disaster!
If you need a little break from all the Thanksgiving festivities, and all the family togetherness (ha!) just go stick your nose in a book ~ or a magazine ~ or here online at my column from B-Metro Magazine. I hope it gives you a little laugh. If you need more time away just read it again, slowly:) And, Good Luck making my mom’s famous Banana Pudding from her recipe ~ lol!
Happy Cooking! ~ Sunny
My B-Metro Column: Sunny’s Entertaining ~ Xmas in July, Baby, it’s Hot Inside!
Well, it happened again. For some reason I thought that maybe, just maybe, baking the Southern Living magazine Christmas cake in July would not be as frantic as it is when trying to make it in December. And once again, I was wrong. But, when your nieces ask if you can have a Christmas in July cake baking party you don’t stop to think about the details, you just say it’s a plan! And, so now, I just make myself crazy twice a year. Because, let’s face it, with or without the SLCC, December is the craziest time of the year. And now, July is, too! The best way I thought to sum it up for you was in this little poem. So, here’s the latest scoop on our Second Annual Christmas in July Southern Living magazine cake baking party (sung roughly to the tune of “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow.”)
Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the air inside is so delightful
Now that it’s five below
Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow.
This heat doesn’t show signs of breaking
And I’ve got a cake that’s baking
So I’ve turned the air down real low
Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow.
I don’t know what I was thinking
I guess I must have been drinking
I should have just said “No”
Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow
It sounded like fun at the time
To celebrate Christmas in July
So when your nieces ask you to make
A Southern Living Christmas Cake…
Just say no. Just say no. Just say no.
Just because it’s summer
Doesn’t mean it will be “funner”
Your nerves will still be shot
And the kitchen too damn hot
Just say no. Just say no. Just say no.
The whole of summer break
Is not long enough to make this cake
Too soon they will go back to school
I hope by then that it will be cool.
We won’t have time to make the garnish
On all 27 steps we moved too slow
But it should still taste delish
Just say no. Just say no. Just say no.
I think I’ve learned my lesson
That we should have started sooner
And so next time I will remember
Unless we start it in December
I. will. Just. Say. “No”.
Oh, boy—I sure hope so, I hope so,
I hope so!
You can see all the fun on my website at www.itsreallysunny.com
Until next time…Cheers! ~ Sunny
Photo: Billy Brown
Sunny’s Entertaining: 2nd Annual Xmas in July! #family
I am happy to say that our 2nd Annual Xmas in July Southern Living Magazine Christmas Cake Baking Party was a success!
with Sam, Esar (my niece’s lovely French foreign exchange student-who was the stand-in for my daughter) and Lauren
Last year I got the bright idea (?!) of getting the girls in the family together with my daughter and my nieces, along with my mom, to bake a Southern Living Magazine Christmas Cake. Despite the heat, outside and in the kitchen inside, we had so much fun that a tradition was born. However, just like the recipe for the cake itself, it takes a lot more planning than you would think trying to coordinate everyone’s schedules and get everyone together at the same time. Continue reading
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