It’s Halloween and you know what that means. Time for costumes and what else, candy! If you think you don’t possibly have enough candy or the candy just isn’t doing it for you and want something extra special then check out this pie! This pie has got miniature Reese cups, Hershey’s chocolate and cheesecake all in one pie! It’s a frozen treat that I am sure will please you and your guests. When Christmas comes around, dye it green instead of orange!

I do hope you enjoy this pie and hope you have a Happy and safe Halloween. The ingredients for this pie are simple but you can add more to it. I had originally intended to decorate this pie with candy corn but the store was sold out! This was a really good pie and it was gone very quickly. Hope you enjoy it!

Rot Your Teeth Pie (MP4) (106 MB)

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On Friday my Grandma and Grandpa came over and visited with us for a little while. I had been wanting to go out to my Mamaw Ruby’s to take some photos. I went home with them and walked back home. As I walked back home I went by the pond in my Mamaw Ruby’s field. I sat on the porch swing and recorded a video journal entry. I then walked up to the church and took a few pictures then walked on home.

By the time I got home I was exhausted, much like I am now after being in the kitchen for four hours, but that’s another story. Anyways, I put this video together with some music that I have been enjoying all week, several of the photos I took and of course the video journal entry I made which I placed in the middle of this video.

I hope you enjoy the music selection I chose. I have been listening to Jamie Sieber all week and absolutely love her music. I purchased the “Hidden Sky” album from Magnatune and thankfully Magnatune allows you to use their music for your productions (make sure you read the license terms before you do) because they are not evil! The track I chose for this video is “Hidden Sky.” You can listen to the entire album on Magnatune for free! If you like it, support the artist and purchase her music.

For the production of this video I used InterVideo WinDVD Creator, which is what I have been using other than the previous video. My trial copy of Sony Vegas Pro 8 expired so I had to go back to what I was using. In the video I mention getting water and I wanted to put that clip up over me real quick. I thought that would have been neat. Oh well. Anyways, I enjoyed this one and hope you will as well. Stay tuned!

Hidden Sky (MP4) (80 MB)

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If you’ll recall from “The Drive Home” we drove over a bridge with water underneath. A couple of weekends ago I went back down there and took some video and photos of the river. I’ve finally gotten a video put together from that Sunday drive down to the river. I added some background music and also some of the photos I took. This is my first video I created using Sony Vegas Pro 8. I have been using the trial and like it a lot. Too bad I won’t be able to continue using it since it costs an arm and a leg!

The background music for this video is “Fountain of Life (Lean On It Mix) - DJ Anser” which you can listen to at Magnatune. I am very appreciative of the fact that Magnatune has Creative Commons licenses on their music so I can add legal music to my videos. Thanks, Magnatune.

Fountain Of Life (MP4) (40.8 MB)

Fountain of Life from andymelton on Vimeo.

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It’s getting that time of year when it’s cooling down outside and you want something warm to keep you warm! My sister gave me her recipe for potato soup. It’s a rich, thick soup. Very tasty. Something that you can eat on for days, too. Depending on how much you make! It’s a very simple recipe. The only hard part will be peeling the potatos. Sit back and let me show you how I made it.

If you’ll click on the image above, it will take you to the Flickr set containing the other photos of the soup that I took. I am going to try and do that from now on. I was going to give you an Apple TV sized video, however it was going to be 140MB. I thought the standard size would be plenty for this type of video.

If you’d like the recipe please send a self addressed, stamped envelope, with a cash donation of $5 to me, Andy Melton. Click here if you would like to view the full recipe.

Homemade Potato Soup (MP4) (93 MB)

Homemade Potato Soup from andymelton on Vimeo.

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Part of this video is a couple of weeks old (the sunny part) and the dark, dreary, rainy part is from this past weekend. If you’re wondering why it seems like it was from two different days, that is why.

The title for this video isn’t completely accurate. It’s not a complete drive home. I just take you to the Presbyterian Church in Lancing. I hope the video quality is bearable. I wish I had a better camera, one with stabilization!

I hope you enjoy the song in this video, I really did. The best part about the song is that the artist licensed it song under a Creative Commons license. The artist is Jamison Young and the song is “Top of the Hill.”

Oh. Also. If you like the Creative Commons image that I added at the end of the video, feel free to take it from here. I’m posting it, too, because I had been looking for one so I finally just made one. I realize now I should have made it bigger since I released the video in a larger format. Oh well, I’ll do it the next time.

The Drive Home (MP4) (40 MB)

The Drive Home from andymelton on Vimeo.

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I know. It’s been a while since I have posted a video. I apologize for that. I have been very busy working on website projects. However, last week I did find the time to make a cooking video. I made home made salsa. I really love this salsa. It’s really easy to make and really delicious, in my opinion.

I hope you’ll enjoy this video. I was in a bit of a hurry to record it. The batteries in my camera were dying.

Update 08/28/08: The music in this video is really annoying. I apologize.

The music in this video was provided by Como en el Barrio.

Home Made Salsa (MP4) (52 MB)

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In the last video I posted you saw some clips that I took at the Potter/Presswood family reunion. Someone brought some broccoli cornbread to the reunion and it was really, really good. I did not get the chance to get the recipe from anyone at the reunion but I found one online and thought I’d give it a shot.

It turned out really well and I think it’s absolutely the best cornbread I’ve ever made. The cornbread is basic cornbread but with cottage cheese and broccoli in it. It’s really good and it’s really moist.

The recipe I used is available on AllRecipes.com or if you’ll click here I’ve got it on full entry for this post (the permalink) so in case the recipe gets removed from that site it should still be here.

Broccoli Cornbread (MP4) (55 MB)

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Today was the annual Presswood/Potter family reunion. I don’t remember when the tradition started. We’ve been having these reunions every year ever since I can remember. I’m sure they were happening before I was born. A long time ago when I was much younger these reunions would take place at Charles’ house, my Mamaw Ruby’s brother. The reunions are now held at the church out the road from my house.

I tried to record some of the stories that people were telling. I’m going to start recording more things like this when I get the opportunity to, hopefully more audio with the iRiver, too. Lately, I feel this need to archive everything so that when I’m old and gray I’ll have things to look back on. I feel as though my generation has access to all sorts of technology that the older generation did not have access to. I think I should put it to use and record history.

Speaking of recording history. If you’d like to see the photos from this event you can look at them here.

Presswood/Potter Family Reunion 2007 (MP4) (47 MB)

Presswood/Potter Reunion 2007 from andymelton on Vimeo.

We’ve got a garden this year and it’s been producing really well. We’ve got quite a bit of summer squash, more than we’ll probably ever know what to do with it. I figured why not make a tasty treat with it. This dessert would be absolutely wonderful over some vanilla ice cream. Health nuts, you might not want to watch this one!

I also do another short cooking video in with this video. You’ll find out my reasons for doing this in the video. I hope you enjoy both the squash and the chili.

Baked Dessert Squash (MP4) (50 MB)

Baked Dessert Squash from andymelton on Vimeo.

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Another raw video. I felt like talking about my thoughts on and of Independence Day, especially this year. I talk about my thoughts on the digusting commutation that President George W. Douche gave to Scooter Libby.

If you’re interested in doing a video for MikeyPod, and you really should so he can win, here are the instructions I had read off in my video:

• Go to Podcast Ready, sign up, even if you’re not going to use the service. Use the promo code “mikeypod”
• Make a video of you saying “I love podcast ready”, send it to MikeyPod
• If you make a video and you make it funny and say what you love about Podcast Ready, MikeyPod will get more points.
• If MikeyPod wins, one of the people who registered using the promo code “MikeyPod” will receive a new iPod.
• Upload to YouTube and send the link to MikeyPod
• If you upload the video to YouTube yourself it should be tagged with “mikeypod”, “100kplay” and “podcasting”
• Email the link to mikeypod@gmail.com
• July 31st is the deadline
• MikeyPod’s YouTube, Website, Email

In the video I also talk about: my family shooting fireworks and spending way too much money, the health benefits of Earl Grey tea, photography contest I’m going to be entering with my sister, website projects, donations, Steve Harris & Feeder.

For those of you who don’t like longer videos, I apologizie. This video is 39 minutes long and it’s also got a nice fat file size. I apologize if either of those are inconveniences to anyone, I just really needed to talk, I suppose!

Independence Day 2007 (MP4) (173 MB)

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