What is Texas Tuesday? A chance for you to show off the awesomeness that is TEXAS!! You can blog about anything; restaurants, vacation spots, venues, concerts, your hometown, shops, fashion, sports, etc. The linkup is not limited to Texans, we just ask that the post is about Texas. 

We don't make following any of the hosts a requirement, but we do ask that you include our button and at least post about a Texas related topic. Any links that are not related to the link up will be deleted. (button code is in grab box below the image above)

We've invited Texas bloggers to co host with us weekly. If you're interested in being a co host for our link up please email Amanda at princessofthepanhandle(at)gmail(dot)com and she will get you on the calendar. 


Today I'm Co-Hosting Texas Tuesday and I am excited about this. This is one of my favorite link ups. I was going to write about my camping trip in East Texas two weekends ago but alas I don't have pictures yet. When you start talking about the South many get very defensive and love to argue who is and isn't Southern. I always say if you're from Kentucky, Oklahoma or Florida, you have no room to talk. Your state was either a territory or you didn't have to balls to succeed. Y'all already know that I lived a few years in East Texas for college and absolutely loved it. While DFW will always be my home and I'm proud of the Water Tower/Jesus Town I grew up in, I would move back to East Texas in a heartbeat if a job presented itself. With that said, if you want to learn more about East Texas and the culture, you should watch the movie Bernie with Jack Black. I won't give the movie away but it's about a man in Carthage Texas. Carthage is not far from Nacogdoches (where I went to college. Nac is the "oldest town in Texas") I've been there once and it wasn't pleasant. A friend in college Grandpa had a farm out there and we spent a day on it. I was bit by a spider and yellow jack and it caused such a bad reaction. Well, despite that I had fun out there. This little a beauty of a clip explains Texas in 101 seconds. Happy 80th Birfday Willie!

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Tomorrow I'm starting the blog everyday in May campaign. I think it's a wonderful idea to get everyone back to the basics of blogging. I also like that they're topics for each day to help you along. Y'all be looking out for that.

Welp, that's all. Tomorrow I'm co-hosting The Texas Tuesday Link-Up and y'all should all visit.
Also go check out the lovely Kaitlyn who sponsors this lovely gift exchange.

If you couldn't tell by now that I'm a HUGE sports fan... go run a lap and have several seats for not being observant enough. Last week I went to my first professional Hockey Game with one of my besties. Her boytoy couldn't go. He's a huge hockey fan and even plays in an adult league. Hockey is not big in my family. We would watch it here and there but not on the regular. We are Stars fans but not in the sense like we do with the Rangers, Cowboys and Mavericks. I had nice seats for my first game and we even one 5-1. This sets us up nicely going into playoffs. It was also cool because a few of the famous players from when I was little and The Stars won all those Cups were there. Dirk was also there. The camera kept flashing to him. We tried to find him after the game since we heard he was meeting fans but we failed. Some of the guys around us where surprised that I knew what was going on. Just because I'm not a huge fan of a sport doesn't mean I'm clueless. But it was fun and I'll def have to do it again.

Psalm 40:28-29 “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”

Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”

Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
                 

Prayers to all in Boston. I refused to watch any of the news coverage because it just broke my heart.

And it's stormin' something fierce here today. (Wait, that totes made me sound like an East Texas Nac Rat. Welp, thanks goodness I ruined it with the previously,poorly written sentence!) The Angels are cryin' for our lost generation. That or the devil is just beatin' his wife again.

On a happier note: Y'all know I am a huge sports fan. Especially Dallas teams. Well, I'm headed to the Starz game tonight and I am too thrilled. Y'all have a great rest of your week if I don't catch ya by then.

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It's been FOREVER since I posted a good recipe and y'all know how I love to tell y'all I cook better then yew, while making you suffer through a recipe post. Today is one of those days. I really did want to update y'all on my Easter Weekend but alas I have no pics. I had to take my phone into Apple yesterday and since they were unable to fix the problems I've been having for weeks they just did a hard rest. I haven't been able to back up my phone for a few weeks now. I wasn't to upset because I didn't loose all that much in the process  Just pics from the weekend. Y'all already know that I'm half Cajun and pretty daggum proud of that. Wait, what does that have to do with what I'm about to say... HA! This Easter it was pretty low key for my family. We ate a small dinner alone in our pj's. I knew we would be at Church most of the day this year so I wanted something that could cook while we were gone. This was perfect because you could just set it and forget it. I've said it before but I'll say it again: If you are afraid to slave over a stove or let something slow cook for hours then you could never be a Southern Cook. Just ain't gonna happen y'all. If your new then I suggest you reference this post on how my recipe post work.
Now that we've gotten the awkward story out of the way... let's get to the recipe.

Ingredients: Pork Tenderloin (at least 2 pounds) 1/2 cup of flower 1 small onion chopped Creole Seasonin' like Ton Cha Cha's Small bell pepper chopped 1/2 cup of celery chopped 2 cloves of garlic shopped 1 package of chicken or turkey gravy.  1 can of diced tomatoes A little mustard & BBQ sauce if desired.  A stick of butter

Directions: 1. Season the Pork Tenderloin in the Creole seasonin' and then dredge in flour.  2. Poke a few holes and insert the chopped bell pepper, onion, celery, garlic and butter inside. Sprinkle the rest all around and in the crock-pot.  3. Cover and cook for 9 hours on low. Yes, it makes a difference if you try and put it on high and speed up the process. Patience my dears. 4. Afrer about 9 hours of cookin', sprinkle the gravy mix and the can of diced tomatoes on top. I like to then add a few spoonfuls of mustard and BBQ sauce cause most of my family hates tomatoes. 5. Carefully stir and then cook for another 30 mins. 3. Place the contents in a nice size pitcher. Add the seven cups of cold water and stir baby stir.

This can also be cooked in the oven. This particular time I cooked it in the oven cause the pork tenderloin was to big. You can also do this to straight Porkloin. If cooked in the oven place in a roastin' pan. Do all the steps the same except cook at 350 degrees for about 2 hours , 3 if your oven takes longer, with a little water. Enough to cover the bottom. Then add the tomatoes/gravy and cook for another 45 minutes or so.