Adventures in Life
We had a terrific Christmas at our house. Family, friends, and great food.
One of my favorite gifts this year is the mini bowl for my blender.
Creamy peanut butter in 45 seconds. Amazing,Good things come in small packages.
Tonight we delivered the last batch of Christmas presents so I can finally post the fun I had making them.
Happy New Year!
Baby back ribs!
When I was little my parents had that scary pressure cooker with the wobbly pressure valve that everyone thought would fly off and kill someone. The only thing that I remember being cooked in it was stuffed bell peppers (blech!!).
Now that I’m a big girl and have my very own not scary pressure cooker, I realize there is so much more that you can do with it.
Got this beauty from the in-laws many moons ago and let it sit in the cabinet for a year or so before I figured it all out. Now I can’t live without it–I’ve even replaced parts–it’s that precious to me. It’s not electric neither which is important to me too.
AND it’s never had a green bell pepper anywhere near it!
Can’t wait to eat some ribs.
I do, and here’s why, he came to Thanksgiving dinner.
Life has gotten in my way lately and I haven’t had a Saturday morning cooking session in quite a while. It was good to get back in the swing of things today.
I started off with french toast, using up the (more than) day old bread that my honey brought home from the restaurant. Since we were out of syrup I had to get busy.
Here we have chocolate, vanilla, brown sugar, and pear:
Best part of the double batch of chocolate syrup is you have to make chocolate milk with the leftovers that won’t fit in the bottle. And maybe little Joe will use the pear on his toast/cakes/waffles, but no one else will so I had to make some yogurt to go with that.
Next we’re off to my sister’s birthday party where her hubby will impress us with pulled pork sandwiches. He’s been smoking and slow cooking the pork for days. We are all encouraging him to follow his dream of cooking school; I promise to taste test anything and everything! And then tomorrow night it’s off to my man’s brother’s house where his wife will make my cherished birthday dinner. Same thing every year–no deviation–catfish in red sauce with green beans amandine. Ahhhhhh.
What a food lovers delight this weekend is turning out to be.
September was a month for items lost in the post. First my birthday present was sent via UPS to USPS, complete with tracking number that showed that it was received by USPS back in early September. Then my August needle felt exchange package never arrived at its destination. I forgot to take a picture and it was one of my favorite pins.
So today I was surprised by my belated birthday present that was finally delivered. Since I called for a refund and reordered due to lack of delivery, I now have a LOT of silicone pop makers.
I sent Nancy a replacement for the August exchange…maybe she’ll finally get the original package?!
This time of year in Sonoma County is often referred to as the “Crush.” Little Joe helped me squeeze my first batch of concord grape juice. He lasted a little over a minute and said his purple hand came clean. When I showed him mine…
…he said I just needed to use soap, his came right off. Hmmm, maybe he didn’t crush long enough cause mine’s not coming off.
Got an entire bucket of grapes off one vine, only from the bottom vines.
Wasn’t sweet enough to drink straight, gonna have to cut and sweeten it I think.
We just spent a week in the Sierra Lakes Basin. OH WOW!
One-half mile up a steep rocky road from what we thought was an amazingly beautiful lake was this amazingly beautiful-ier lake! For reals we were living the good life; five lakes, one pond and one river later. Ahhhhh!
After a fruitless search for an orange pillow for #1 son to bring to class, my good friend Katharine said, “You should just make him one.” So I thought to myself, well I do have the stuff…
Thanks also to my small sister for providing the copious yards of fur that I had no immediate use for but excitedly accepted when offered!
After seeing what #1’s pillow looked like, and helping me sew and stuff it, #2 said he needed one. So of course, now #1 needs one for home too. Told them both the ones for home weren’t going to be anywhere near as big as the school one. Two was all I could handle tonight though, this was a LOT of hand sewing. #1 will just have to make do with his school pillow for now…
While no animals were harmed during the making of these pillows, it looks like I plucked a bunny in my room!
Found this delish recipe on Pinterest tonight. Started out with 24 mini muffins, not so many left now. Both boys did practice some math when I had them tell me the difference as an explanation for why they couldn’t have another.
#2 son wanted to use my Kindle and usually won’t let up on me, but he saw the picture and decided I could keep it until I finished making these.
PS – Is it wrong of me to be drinking egg nog on a 94 degree day in July? I didn’t think so!
Thank you to the Pinterest pinner that pinned the suggestion to serve chili on cornbread waffles. Yummy!
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