MadJon Holiday E-Cook Book Come Buy It At

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land.  Am in the great state of Texas visiting relatives for another 2 weeks.  While I was on my way home on 7-13-12 my daughter text me saying that my cookbook had been released on itunes!  Its called MadJon Holiday and may be bought on the link I have provided.  Am so excited about this book after all cooking is my passion and this helps me pass on all the love i feel for people is though cooking.  I hope that you give this a try and feel all the love that i try to pass on to you though food. Well let me tell you a little bit of how I got into this business.  I invented some products called Me Me's Pasta Gravy, MadJon's Salsa, and Me Me's Cake Syrup.  I needed a location to produce the products.  Well a location opened where I could open a cafe and at the same time have my recipes tested on the public.  Which I opened the cafe in 2007 and in three years I won like 37 different awards plus a Best Apple Pie award.  Then while Madjon's Bakery and Cafe was opened I was asked if I would be interested in hosting my own TV cooking show and I said well yea!!!  Then we started testing the recipes and everyone seemed delighted with  them and so last October we decided to start the first ebook which was a holiday book.  It took months to get everything together and a lot of hard work to get the book on itunes.  First we started the photo shoots.  Then I had to plan out the menu's for the three shows for the taping not to meantion the recipes.  Then we invited the guests and tested the foods on a lot of people.  They had to take a lot of still photo's of the foods and I don't know if you know anything about cooking shows but it takes hours to do a shoot.  Any who the end result is the E-book. Then you have to take everything that we did at taping and turn it into a book and that was no easy task.  It was edited like 4 times and I want to say thanks so much to Stacey who has worked so hard to bring this to market.  Then she had to first get it approved and then re approved.  Any who I just wanted to say I hope that you give this book a try for your holiday cooking this year.  It does have some great recipes in it.. Thanks to the Aiken Standard and their staff for all the hard work that they do for the show and for MadJon Holiday Ebook.  Go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/madjon-holiday/id520208369?mt=8 Happy trails to you and yours, Eileen Hutson, MadJon.  P.S. Looking forward to more E-books being released and all it takes is a lot more time!  Just kidding.

When Life Throws You Lemons Make Lemonade

Hello to all my foodies friends out there in web land, hope all is well.  Last week we sent the 4th in Washington D.C. and it was hotter then a fire cracker.  We had to drive our truck down because my hubby wracked our new car again!  Only this time he can't remember how he did it.  He stuck the guard rails over the rail road tracks and I thought the car was totaled however the insurance company says its fixable.  It didn't look like ti to me.  He did over 10,000.00 worth of damage, man!  The car will never be the same!  It doesn't even have but maybe 50,000 miles on it.  Engine isn't even broke in yet.  Oh well that's what I get for buying a red car!  They for some reason have a higher rate of wrecks.   At least my hubby turned out OK, again.  When life throws you Lemons make Lemonade.  Any Who we spent the 4th in D.C. and loved every minute of it!  We had a FBI tour and I say thanks for the FBI!   Had a 4th for July Party in the Hood at 8th and I and met some very interesting people.  Then we went to visit the capitol and before we went in we had to give them our water so when we left it was really hot and we had nothing to drink.  I'd given anything for a iced down Lemonade. Then our picture got taken and we ended up on the front page of the Washington Post!  He took our names and said he didn't know if it would be used but the next morning I went to have breakfast at Ted's Bulletin and they rolled out the paper and we were on the front cover with a small story!  Then my nephew saw it on MSN though his Hot mail.  Boy what a trip.  Speaking of Ted's Bulletin that is a great place to eat.  They make wonderful Pop Tart's and I ate the Corn Beef Hash with Eggs.  It is made fresh by the chef.  The service is wonderful as well, thanks to Christina Thompson.  We also marched in the parade.  We did a couple other exciting things but am going to blog on them later.  Any who I recommend that everyone go visit our capital because of all the wonderful adventures a family can have there.  You learn so much history and most of it is free of charge to visit. Please come visit me at face book fan page Cooking With MadJon and Friends or go see my cooking show at http://www.aikenstandard.com/ ASTV 95. 

Anne's Life's Lemonade

4 Cups Water
1 1/2 Cups Sugar
1/3 Cup Lemon Juice
Fresh Mint 4 springs
Fresh Basil   3 sprigs
Lemon 1 Cut in Rings

Place 2 cups water, sugar, 4 lemon rings, 3 sprigs mint and 3 sprigs basil in the pot and bring to a boil.  Then add 2 cups of water to the mix.  Remove the lemon rings and mint and basil.  Pour Lemonade over some Ice and serve with a mint leaf.

i hope you enjoyed this blog and hope that you give this recipe a try.  Please send me your thoughts and recipes at madjon51@aol.com.  Happy trails to you until we meet again.  Bona Y'all.