Planted Salad Veggies

Today, I planted two kinds of lettuce and some spinach.  I have a cucumber thicker than my thumb and two squash almost as thick as my pinkie.  Half of my zucchini plants aren’t looking so good.  One looked done for and another was almost there, so I pulled those two up.  I moved a third [...]

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A Week of Jogging

This past week, I’ve been jogging twice a day, for at least 5 minutes at a time.  When I felt up to it, I would also do workouts from the Runner’s World Beginning Running Program.  That involved jogging 1 min./ walking 2 min. 10 times (30 min.) one day and walking 30 min. the next.

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Works for Me Wednesday – Jello Singles

I made banana pudding with the Sugar Free, Fat Free Vanilla Jello Singles.  I also used whipped cream, bananas, Nilla Wafers, and of course, milk.  You add a Jello Single to 1/2 cup of milk.  Then, you stir for 90 seconds and let it sit for 5 minutes.  If you’re doing more than one serving [...]

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Completed Tops (3 Done)

Here are some pictures of the three long-sleeved tops I’ve completed.

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Cooking Pictures

Remember all of those tasty dinners I’ve been going on and on about?  Well… here are some pictures!!!
I’m also including a picture of my menu.  I printed the calendar on Cindysporch.com.

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The Freezer Clean Out

This past weekend, in preparation for a shopping trip to buy groceries in anticipation of cooking delightfully-delectible dinners, I realized that I didn’t know what was hiding in the depths of my freezer.  Thus, I printed a Freezer Inventory from Organizedhome.com, took everything out of my freezer, organized it, wrote down what I had, and [...]

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Fabric Messiness and Progression

When making several blouses at once, and being quite busy at work, so that you’re extremely lazy in the cleaning department at home, I’ve noticed that I tend to have piles of fabric pieces.  Here are some pictures.  I’m also including an “assembly line” neckline/interfacing photo, as well as a pic of all 8 fabrics.

On [...]

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Bread

Recently, I made a loaf of bread.  I made the dough in the bread machine, then transferred it to a baking pan.  After letting it rise some more, I baked it in the oven.  The recipe is from Money Saving Mom.
The bread was very tasty and a good texture.  It was delicious with sandwiches.  Plus, [...]

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Enjoying the New Cookbook

I actually turned down going out to dinner so that I could eat beef roast leftovers!  My new cookbook is great!
The Spicy Shrimp were yummy.
The beef roast with potatoes and carrots – fantastic!
I made the pork tenderloin with honey-mustard sauce.  I haven’t tasted it yet, but it looks delicious!
In regards to clothing, I’ve finished two [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – October 20

I’m back with a menu!  It’s all because I got a new cookbook!!
This week, I’m using recipes from my new cookbook, Pat and Betty’s No-Fuss Cooking.  The recipes incorporate a Reynold’s product, such as aluminum foil.  I haven’t been able to find large oven bags at grocery stores (only turkey size), so I’ll use foil [...]

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Sewing Saturday – More to Sew

I went to JoAnn Fabrics to buy suiting material for four pairs of long dress pants.  After much contemplation and comparison of patterns, I decided to make the long version of the pattern I used for capris.  With the fabric 40% off and also the use of my 15% off-the-entire-order teacher card, it came out [...]

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Eager to Cook

I have a new cookbook.  It’s called, No-Fuss Cooking.  It uses recipes from the Reynold’s Kitchen, including tons of foil packet cooking recipes.  This is how I prefer to cook, so I was very excited to find a recipe book. The recipes are super simple, often requiring only meat, veggies, and seasoning.  You put the [...]

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