Hey everyone! It’s Carrisa guest posting for Isabel today. She’s busy running around Canada the local shopping malls having a great time. So not fair.

So here we are, the day after Thanksgiving. Maybe you are one of those people who has the day off and yet you get up even earlier than usual to do some of that Black Friday shopping. Or maybe you are still in bed for a couple more hours because you have to go to work. Hopefully you aren’t one of those that has to get up at 3am to go work retail because there are crazy people out there getting up at 4am to go shopping. I would hate for you to have to deal with all that.

But if you are the luckiest of the bunch you not only have the day off, but you actually use it to sleep in and watch tv. And eat leftovers. You have your priorities in order. And while eating a leftover bowl full of turkey with gravy and mashed potatoes sounds delicious, I’m here to offer you another alternative for that leftover meat.

Chicken Turkey Corn Chowder

Ingredients:

• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 lb boneless skinless chicken turkey breast (you can use dark meat as well)
• 2 14oz cans of creamed corn
• 1 14oz can of chicken broth
• 1.5 cups milk
• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 2 8oz blocks of cream cheese (don’t be one of those fat free cream cheese users. it’s not right.)
• 1/2 cup of chipotle salsa. (you could use regular salsa, but the chipotle is so much tastier)

If you are using leftover meat you obviously don’t have to boil it first. But if you decide to keep this recipe and use it later on with chicken then yes, throw the meat in a pot of boiling water until it’s cooked. Probably about 20 minutes for white meat.

In a large pot melt the butter and stir in the chopped onion. Saute on medium high heat for a couple of minutes. While that’s going on, take your blocks of cream cheese and cube them up. And I really do mean it when I say don’t use fat free cream cheese. Maybe 1/3 less fat would be ok, but the fat free I just can’t see it being able to melt as well.

Once the cream cheese is cubed throw it in the pot. Reduce the heat to medium. We are wanting to melt the cream cheese into the onions, but not scorch it. It’s going to look like a big ole blobby mess. When the cream cheese is mostly melted add in the 2 cans of creamed corn. Keep stirring. As the corn heats up it will help the cream cheese along. Then add the chicken broth and the milk. Keep stirring it all so that everything just kinds of melts together. You can even get out a whisk if you’d like. Then add the chicken and the salsa. If your chowder seems too thick you can add more milk or chicken broth. It’s technically a chowder, but if you want it to make into more a soup you go right ahead.

Now you want to be careful not to scorch the chowder. So medium or medium-low heat is best. And also stir often. Once the chowder has had time to simmer and get all hot and stuff it should be ready for eating. Start to finish I can make this in about 30 minutes.

This soup is best served with tortilla chips. Lots of them.

Hola! (I don’t really speak Spanish either.) My name is heidikins and I am the queen of heidi’s world. This is my first time guest posting for Isabel, or anyone else, for that matter. I have been thinking a lot about what I wanted to write about; frankly, it has been a little trickier than I thought it would be. I don’t have kids, I don’t have pets, I usually only read economics and history books (i.e. dead-beat boring to most of the world), I don’t have a boyfriend, I don’t have a plant, I don’t watch TV and thus, cannot comment on the latest episode, I’m not working on any major projects, I did not just return from, nor am I planning any upcoming vacation and the latest excitement in my life involved some sliced banana and a jar of Nutella. And while I feel comfortable posting this sort of literary drivel on my own site, when asked to fill in for a master like Isabel, I feel like I need to step it up…like, a lot.

After quite a bit of thinking, and several first paragraphs I’ve decided to vent about relationships; specifically the non-romantic ones. We all have our share of romantic relationship tips, advice and horror stories; and I could probably venture to announce that any one of us could write a well-constructed essay on the nuances of dating or marriage. However, I’m not going to do that.

I recently joined Facebook, the massive social-networking site that promise to “connect you with the people around you.” In the past few weeks I have found some of my co-workers; I’ve found some of my friends from college; my first date, my first kiss, my first boyfriend, my BFF from junior high who I haven’t heard from in almost a decade (and, coincidentally, have not missed); I have “re-connected” with some of my friends from high school. If by “re-connected” I mean “been accepted by,” which kind of baffles me in the first place, I wasn’t “acceptable” when we saw each other on a regular basis, but somehow I am now? I have friends listed on my Facebook home-page that didn’t talk to me more than once or twice in my entire high school career. This online quasi-friendship over the past few weeks has been more intense than four overly-dramatic years of having classes together, passing each other in the halls, and carefully picking my way through the chaotic hormonal days of teenage-hood. I have read countless updates on their lives, their classes, their jobs, their relationships, their vacations; and while it is interesting to see where people are, what they are doing… it seems ironic. We are linked as friends, but I have never called them, hung out with them, met them for a concert or movie…and frankly, I don’t see my starting that up anytime soon. What is the point?

I am not saying that I hate Facebook, or that I will delete my account. In some cases it has been great to catch-up with someone I haven’t talked to in ages; the periphery friends who scribbled along-since disconnected phone number in my year-book, “Have a great summer!!! Call me!!! CU L8R!!!” But other than a wall-post or two with the overly generalized “how are you doing?!?” queries (”I’m good, living ______, working _______, dating/not dating/married now… It’s been forever! How are YOU?!?”) I probably won’t call them up to hangout, or meet them for dinner or a movie. Those relationships where I was genuinely invested I have kept up with. And those that were less important, I let slide; and by-and-large, I haven’t looked back. Sure, every now and then I remember some humorous incident, or some horribly embarrassing moment, and wonder whatever became of the cast of characters from my teenage life. But I don’t see some enormous benefit of searching out those people -who have somehow been immortalized in my head as pimply, seventeen year-olds with braces, myself included- and seeing them now as mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, they are in masters programs and high-profile jobs, or they are working at the same gas station where I bought 59 cent sodas and Jolly Ranchers…other than the occasional update and online photo album, my contact with these “friends” will be minimal, if not non-existent. (Is that double-negative too confusing?)

Sure, according to Facebook I may be “popular” (believe me, this would be the first time EVER) with gobs of friends scattered across the United States; but I know that my real friends, the ones who actually know me and care about what is really going on, are the ones who call me on weeknights to catch up, or send me a text to say hello, or meet me for lunch or dinner to dish about the latest and greatest from our lives. So, what does this say about “social-networking?” Personally, I think it is just a number. “You have 27 friends.” “You have 284 friends.” “You have 938,745,682 friends.” So what!?! You and I both know the ones that really matter, and they aren’t usually the ones who will list “we went to school together” as the most defining characteristic of your friendship.

Will I continue to check-up on my Facebook account? Yes. Will I spend hours pouring through my yearbook or work directories, looking up everyone who has ever come into my world? Absolutely not. I’d rather call up a girlfriend to talk about how hott Hugh Jackman is in leather, or call up a guy friend to thoroughly dissect my latest crush, or meet my best friend and her kids for an afternoon in the park, or write an email to a blog-topia friend, letting her know that the latest break-up/work crisis/personal hell is only temporary, and it will get better. I guess I’m old fashioned that way.

Isabel flattered me, little ole Vesper, by asking me to participate in the HOW TO week.

She also asked me to change her cat litter out while they’re on vacation. I wasn’t so flattered.

There is one thing that I feel like I can do pretty well and love to teach others to do and that is knitting. Considering that is WAY to involved to try and teach in a single blog, I decided to give some hair do how to’s instead. The do’s I’ve included would be appropriate for semi formal occasions or just looking nice on a date or looking nice to go to the ballet, etc.
The first thing to decide when doing your own hair is whether or not you want it curly and for how long. If you are dealing with super stick straight fine hair like I have to, you may have to take into consideration more factors such as humidity and wind. The general rule of thumb on curly hair is if you want it to stick for longer, or in my case at all, dirty hair curls and styles better. “Dirty” can mean just putting styling product in your hair, or washing your hair late in the day before your event and not washing it the day of. Usually what I use when I’m curling my hair is Paul Mitchell Extra Body Sculpting Foam and then a very generous helping of hairspray, my favorite right now is Garnier Fructis Style Pure Fix Spray in strong. For all the do’s below, I didn’t have enough of my hairspray so I picked up some “Big Sexy Hair” Firm Volumizing Hairspray.
INSIDE OUT BUN

This is a great do if you are in a rush and don’t have time to curl your hair! Great for medium to long lengths of hair. If you have long enough hair to put in a high pony tail with about 4 inches of tail you can do this!
Stuff needed:

Bobby Pins(small)

Pony Tail elastic (covered so it doesn’t damage your hair)

Hair Spray

Bun decorations

1. Part hair in front and pull hair into high pony tail. You may need to keep out the front sections and pin them back later so you can keep the part. Don’t like the part? Just pull it straight back but be sure its sleek and smooth!

2. Part the tail into 4 sections: a top, right side, bottom, and left side. Starting with the top section, roll the hair away from the middle of the pony tail toward the scalp. If you want it to be a smaller bun, roll it tighter. A bigger bun? Roll it bigger. When you get to the scalp, take a bobby pin and pin it on one side of the roll. Then take another one and pin it to the other side of the curl.

3. Repeat step 2 for all other sections.

****Don’t forget to pin back the front sections!!! You can add their little tails in with the two side rolls.

4. When done pinning all sections, bun should look continuous, not like 4 sections. You may need to pin some of the ends of the rolls together so it looks more continuous.

5. Smooth hair and spray. If you want to decorate the bun a little bit you could but a sparkly necklace around the base or flowers or whatever (think baby’s breath like Liz wore in P and P for the big ball at Bingly’s)

Voila! Fancy hair in no time flat!

I’m goin out tonight hair!

This can be done sans curly or curly. So it can be more elagent (with curls) or more casual(with out curls). Good for any length that can be pulled back half way and flipped a bit (so a longer short cut to long hair). On the model, her hair was a bit too dirty to curl so I just left it straight.

Stuff needed:

1 or 2 pony tail holders (smaller if you can find them)

a couple of bobby pins (whatever size)

Hairspray

1. part hair and keep these front sections out

2. Behind these sections, gather hair half back and put into a half pony tail. On the last twist around, don’t pull the hair all the way through the pony tail holder.

3. Take the right front section of hair and twist it so it is twisting under and back. Using a bobby pin, pin this in place for a second while you do the other side.

4. Repeat step 3 with the left side.

5. Taking the second pony tail holder, take both twisted front sections and pony tail them onto the already exsisting half up ponytailed hair. If this is too confusing, pin them better into place with a couple more bobby pins but make sure the pins aren’t showing and that the ends of the hair are pointing up.

6. At this point, all your hair that is half up is ’spraying’ forward on the crown of your head. Look in the mirror and arrange it better so it’s cute looking (you’ll know when you see it). When it gets there it may be a good idea to bobby pin the little half pony tail ‘butt” into place.

7. Spray hair and smooth bottom half of hair. You are ready to par-tay!

Optional: If you wanted to be more dressy by curling, curl your hair FIRST (with curlers or curling iron) and then do this hair style.

PS: HOW DO I USE CURLERS?

I had a good friend that liked me to do her hair and liked it to be curled with curlers, but had no idea how to use curlers herself. If this describes you, this is covered in this next section. As long as your hair is long enough to wrap around the curler atleast once, you can use curlers (be warned though, the shorter the hair, the bigger “big” hair it turns out with curlers). They are also great b/c they give your hair a lot of body and style in a short amount of time.

Stuff Needed:

Set of curlers with varying sizes of curlers

extra bobby pins in case any of the curler pins are missing

hairspray *

*disclaimer on hairspray: if you have short hair (ie shoulder length or shorter) or naturally wavy or mousse infused hair you will probably NOT need to spray any hairspray at all, even if the directions say so. I needed to on my model b/c she has straight stick hair that is VERY long and no mousse or body. If you find yourself in the same predicament, don’t be afraid, hairspray is your friend.

1. It helps if you use mousse before you dry your hair to help give you that extra oomph of body (for us body challenged hair people). If you don’t use mousse its ok. Hairspray is your friend.

2. Take your most front and middle section of hair and a middle sized curler. Spray the roots of your hair with hairspray, and then, starting from the ends of your hair, roll your hair down with the curler toward your scalp. Pin in place with a curler pin.

3. Repeat step 2 with the section of hair directly behind this section, except make it a tiny bit bigger and use a large size curler.

4. Next, on the right side, take the top half of that section of hair and, after spraying some hairspray underneath at the roots, take a large curler and roll the hair under from the ends until the curler reaches your scalp. Pin in place with a curler pin.

5. Repeat step 4 for the section of hair right underneath, except use a medium size curler.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for the left side.

7. Now you still have a ton of hair in the back to curl up right? Starting with that middle mohawk line, take a large curler, grab an appropriate size section of hair right behind the last curler, spray the roots and curl and pin. Then go on the left side and then the right side of this curler and, also using large size curlers, repeat.

8. The next layer down in the mohawk line, take a medium size curler and an appropriate size section of hair, spray the roots, and curl and pin. Do the same on either side of this curler, although by this time, you may only have small size curlers left. No problem, just make sure that the section of hair isn’t too thick for these tiny but powerful curlers.

9. For the remainder of your hair, divide into small sections for the small curlers, don’t forget to spray the roots, and curl and pin.

10. I’ve been told that the curlers only need to sit as long as it takes to brush your teeth. Usually, if I’m using them on myself, I’ll do my make up and then take out. 5 min is probably PLENTY OF TIME.

11. Remove curlers. Flip your head upside down and shake out. VOILA! Curly awesome hair!!! (Don’t forget to spray with hairspray to help keep the curls!)

12. Want to do something with it? You can either do the above style i mentioned, or you can just twist little sections back and pin with bobby pins.

Thanks to my hair models: Ooster, Grasshopper, and Beastie!!

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Hey Kids, Lets Get Crafty With Cards!
September 6th, 2007 @ 5:01 am

You know, because you have so much free time on your hands…

Remember me? I’m Isabel’s bestest friend May. I’m the one that just deserted her for the lush green fields of Reno!

Since we’ve packed up & moved away from everyone we know & love, I have a LOT more time on my hands. I was super excited when Isabel asked if I’d do a guest post, especially since I had so much fun with the last one I did. This is extra exciting because I am now allowed to read her super secret blog (which I am SO PROUD of myself for resisting the temptation to read it for the past 1.5 years, and I was SO HAPPY when as my going away gift she told me I could start to read it…) So class, today we’re going to make some beautiful greeting cards.

To make this as painless as possible & fun for the drawing-challenged, I have hand-drawn some designs for your use. (Go to Isabel’s Flickr page for my designs.) You’ll need to print out the line art for the cards (best if printed on card stock). Then I’ll show you what I’VE done to color them in, and you can go get all crafty yourself…

Random Bullet Pointed Tips:

• Buy envelopes before you make your cards. That way you can make the cards exactly the right size. Or, if you’re like me, you may have a stockpile already to pull from… (Because you never know when you’ll need 500 envelopes, right?)
• I buy reams of card stock to make my own cards (it’s a bit of an addiction. Husband was not happy when he had to move all my paper in move. Sorry, husband…). I use a paper cutter like this to cut it down to the right size. If I’m really ambitious, I’ll use a butter knife to score where the paper will fold before I cut it. Then I get a pristine fold line. It’s very satisfying.
• Coloring Your Card:
• Colored Pencils are the fastest. That’s what I used for this post, but you can also use:
• Cheap Craft Paint to get some nice strong color on your card.
• Watercolors will work (if you’ve laser-printed the designs, but if you printed it on an inkjet printer it will smear.)
• Glitter glue is your friend. Embrace the glitter glue. For best results, color the design in first & then enhance & highlight with the glittery goodness.
• I like to make the envelopes match the cards by adding a little “flair” to them. After all, they are custom, right? Like this:

• You can glue or tape the designs directly on the cards, but the foam-ey tape makes it a little more 3-D & funky. (Confession – I didn’t have any of that tape, so I just rolled up a little paper & taped it behind the designs to make them stand up off the card).
• NOW GO GET CRAFTY!

And now to make this post a little more interactive, and to catch me up on my BF’s secret life, I want YOU to tell me about your favorite Isabel post. The best comment will win this set of cards* (plus some more that I will throw in, because 4 cards isn’t much of a set…)!

Hooray for giveaways!

Tomorrow is the last in the week long series of How-To’s. Make sure to come back and see what Vesper will be teaching us.

*but only if you’re comfortable giving me an address to mail the prizes to.

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Now if only Isabel can figure out how to do this herself!
September 5th, 2007 @ 5:01 am

Hello all you awesome Isabel readers! My name is Christar and I will be your guest poster for today while Isabel is on vacay with The King and Sweet Babboo.

Let me first tell you that I heart Isabel and her blog. She is so awesome! But, obviously you already know that. One of the neatest things in finding Isabel’s blog was to find out that she was just as awesome as I am. We really do have a lot in common and we’ve been able to talk about places and events that have happened that we are both familiar with. You know, like Fry Sauce.

Isabel has told me many times how she loves my hair and has told me a few times that I should do a How~To on my blog on how I do my hair. I never got around to it and to be honest, a girls beauty secrets are kind of sacred, but because Isabel is my homie and I know all Isabel’s readers are awesome, I’m totally going to share this secret with you.

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1. I’m going to start off from the beginning, meaning freshly washed, wet hair. Your hair doesn’t have to be freshly washed to follow this How~To. If it’s not, just skip to the step 3. After taking a shower, and towel drying my hair, I like to set my part where I’d like it, and I lightly spritz my part with hairspray to get it to stay.

2. How you choose to dry your hair is a personal preference with each person. I try and let it air dry as much as possible, so less heat damage is done to my hair. Sometimes I get too impatient and just blow dry it all. Either way works! But your hair definitely needs to be dry to continue to the next step.

3. After your hair is completely dry, it needs to be straightened with a flat iron. Note: Even if your hair is naturally straight, I still suggest using a flat iron, because it does make a difference, especially at the ends. It giving your hair a sleek look.

Always start from the bottom layer and work your way up. So using a clip or a ponytail, pull all your hair up on top of your head, so only the very bottom layer is available.

4. Start on either side you want, but make sure you’re only straightening as much hair that can fit into the flat iron at once. Start at the root (or as close as you can get without burning your scalp) and press the straightener together and slide it down, going all the way to the ends of your hair. Sometimes you’ll need to redo a section of hair if you didn’t get it completely straight the first time, and that’s ok.

5. Continue doing this until the whole bottom section is done. Then let down the middle section of your hair and repeat step 4. Once the middle section is done, continue doing as many sections as you need until your all your hair is straight. My hair is pretty thick, but I usually can get all my hair straight with only 3 sections: The bottom section, the middle section, and the top section. Once you’re done, your hair should look similar to this:

6. Now that the straightening is out of the way, it’s time to rat for volume! Personally, this is one of my favorite parts of doing my hair. I start with the back section, holding my hair straight up and with a comb, ratting my hair by brushing the underside of the hair towards the scalp.

You’ll want to do this a few times until your hair is all ratted and honestly, you’ll want it to look a little ridiculous as though it’s ratted too much, simply because you’ll brush a lot of it down. So once you start you’ll want it to look like this:I know what you’re thinking, but trust me! It will look fabulous once it’s finished.8. Once your hair is ratted like crazy, you’ll want to gently brush out the very top of it to cover the rats underneath, leaving it looking like this:

9. After ratting a particular section, I always like to spritz the underneath (aka, the ratted part) with a little hair spray so the rats don’t fall out later. This has happened to me more than once, but usually only on one side, so one side is ratted while the other is flat. It’s not a good look.

10. Once you’ve ratted the back side, it’s time to rat the left and right side of your head. Start on either side by taking a section that goes from your forehead to the back where you’ve already ratted. Rat the hair by repeating step 6, lightly spritz with hairspray and allow to dry.

So now, your hair should look like this:

11. Now that it’s ratted and dried, comb over the very top of the rats to conceal the ratted part underneath. You may need to rat certain section over again to get everything to look even so you’re not lop sided or bumpy. I suggest using a second mirror to check out the back and sides of your head to make sure everything looks alright.

12. Once everything looks good to your standards, then go ahead and lightly spritz your hair with hairspray to hold. You look fabulous!

Come back tomorrow, when we’ll be hearing from Isabel’s best friend May (who just deserted Isabel for Reno). May promises to deliver.

(And by “deliver”, I don’t mean deliver the baby she’s carrying.)

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Cooking with Carrisa
September 4th, 2007 @ 5:01 am

Hey guys, it’s Carrisa. I’m so thrilled to be guest posting here for Isabel. She’s kind of my favorite internet person. And when she told me this was going to be a week of How To’s… well I knew right away what my contribution would be. Cooking!

Now I myself am a picky eater. My husband is also a bit of a picky eater. My husband also does not like some of the finer things in life like cheese… and noodles. Sometimes I wonder why I even married him. However, there is one food that has teh cheez on it that he will eat. Pizza. Apparently there is something somewhat non offensive about mozzarella. Unless of course your name is lasagna in which case you are #1 on the most offensive foods list. Crazy husband.

So because I can get him to eat pizza, I figured I could get him to eat these lovely gems that my mother used to make for me. So let me introduce to you… Pizza Burgers!

There aren’t a whole lot of ingredients involved here. I like to keep things nice and simple. Now I know what you might be thinking. Is that SPAM??? Um yeah. In my defense this is absolutely the one and only time you will ever find Spam in my kitchen. We do not eat Spam. But for the sake of this recipe, just bear with me. I did not create the recipe, I only share it.
Ok, can we all just agree to be on board with this now? Ok, good. Now go preheat your oven to 350 like a good girl. Or boy. Then get out a skillet and turn the heat to medium high. And also? I am no Pioneer Woman so please excuse my mediocre photos and my not so clean kitchen. I’m a messy cook.

So toss that ground beef into the skillet and cook it up right. You don’t need to add any seasonings to the meat, but you’re more than welcome to if you’d like. I imagine some minced garlic or oregano would be alright.

While the ground beef (or ground turkey, your call) is cooking take that hunk of Spam and introduce it to your cheese grater.

That grater likes to show the Spam who’s boss.

Don’t forget about the skillet. It’s important to remember to stir.

Once that meat is all good and cooked, go ahead and drain it. It’s the right thing to do.

Toss it back in the pan and reduce heat to medium. Then add that wretched Spam. It won’t bite, I promise.

Now add that jar of pizza sauce. Make sure it’s pizza sauce and not pasta sauce. There is a difference you know?

Now add the cheese. Mozzarella of course. About 1.5 cups. Or more if you REALLY like cheese. Which I totally do, but for the sake of my husband I hold back a bit. I would probably even put some parmesan in there if it were up to me, but I don’t really like sleeping on the sofa so I just stick with the mozzarella.

After a couple of minutes it will look like this. This is where I fight the urge to add something wonderful… like maybe some sliced black olives. But again… the thing with the sofa. I really love my wonderful comfy bed. Of course now that I think about it I could totally get away with adding chopped onions to this. Why have I never done that before? You should do that. And let me know how it is. But don’t add peppers. Because I don’t like those. And it is all about me right?

Now where was I? Oh right.

Take a cookie sheet and spread out the hamburger buns. Squeeze as many of them on there as you can. I like to get things done in one batch. That may be why I don’t like baking cookies. Of course I still bake them. They have such a power over me.

Now get out a spoon or one of these handy dandy ice cream scooper. This one is one of those fancy ones from Ikea that cost me a whole $1.49. Try not to be jealous. I have connections.

Scoop the fabulousness onto the buns. Don’t be skimpy.

You could even throw caution to the wind and sprinkle some additional cheese on top. I only did it to these three, out of respect for my husband.

Slide them puppies into the oven and bake them for about 10 minutes. Or maybe 12. Depending on your oven. You’re really just trying to get them nice and toasty. I don’t have a real timer so I use the one on the microwave. Don’t judge me.

When they come out they will look something like this. I probably should have left them in for a couple more minutes to make the buns just a bit toastier. But hey… we were hungry.

Now if you are a normal family you might do something like serve these with some salad. Or some kind of vegetable on the side. But in keeping with tradition, I serve them solo. Just like Mom did.

Don’t those look good? So can we all just agree to look past the fact that they have Spam in them and just give them a try? And if you absolutely just can’t get past the Spam then go ahead and be a traitor and just use some other kind of ham product. But just know that if you do, you are dead to me. I mean it.

Pretty much everyone I’ve ever fed these to has loved them. Of course I usually don’t tell them about the Spam until after they’ve inhaled them. Sometimes I don’t tell them at all. I just call it a secret ingredient. What they know won’t hurt them.*

Well that’s it for my how to post. I thank you all for your time. And I thank Isabel for allowing me the opportunity to share with you all.

Make sure to come back tomorrow to see what Christar has in store for us.

*No Jews were harmed during the making of these pizza burgers. I would never secretly serve pork to a Jew. Just so you know.

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