I Want to be a Star!

My next project on Key West Cantina is to create some cooking videos.  I have filmed my first one. It's about how to make Key Lime Pie with Meringue topping.  

It's a simple recipe, but no one seems to make them.  The history of the pie in interesting. When sailors used to land on the island, which was virtually uninhabited then (for one thing, it has no natural fresh water), they found lime trees with little, tiny, tart key limes.  They also found birds eggs.  So, they just mixed them up. The lime chemically cooked the eggs.  They added some sugar and they had a primitive key lime pie.  The limes were good for them--prevented Scurvy.  We saw a billboard last time we were there that said, "Prevent Scurvy. Eat Key Lime Pie."


But now my DV tape is stuck in my camera and it's in the shop, so we'll all have to wait for my cooking show debut.  I did get half of it uploaded before I took the camera to the shop, and the other half is safe on another tape, so, yes, you will get to see it.  I just have to edit out all the laughter when my husband almost fell off the kitchen stool laughing at me while I was filming and decide if I should leave in the part when I was "beating" the egg whites when he loudly proclaimed that I could "beat him anytime."

Wishing I were in Key West . . .

This summer, we took our third trip to Key West. The first time, we stayed in a conch house in old town. The second time, we learned about Fantasy Fest. No room at the inn in Key West during Fantasy Fest, so we rented a house on the beach on Cudjoe Key and fell in love.

This summer we rented the larger house next door on Cudjoe Key and took the whole family, myself, my husband, his two boys, their girlfriends and my teenaged son. My husband entered the Hemingway Look-A-Like Contest and we went shark fishing (video).

We absolutely love Key West, but we know we can't live there. The kind of work we do does not exist on Key West. We also know lots of people have the same desire and same problem. http://keywestcantina.com/ is born of our commitment to live a Keys lifestyle as much as we can wherever we have to live. Healthy limey food. Tropical Music. Learning to relax and enjoy ourselves as much as possible. Then get back down to the Keys as often as possible.