I know I’ve said it a few times on this blog, but I try not to drive on Sundays. Well, thanks to the beautiful snow storm that rolled in Friday night and stayed through Saturday evening, yesterday was also a no-drive day for us. Since we were pretty much stuck in the house all day [...]
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Serene Sunday
Posted in Food Waste Friday, Home Cooking Challenge, No Drive Days, Stitching, Sunday's, Uncategorized on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Snow Day
Posted in Home Cooking Challenge, No Drive Days, Stitching on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is what we woke up to this morning. This picture above was the sight I saw standing on my front porch looking into my front yard. (Note to self: Next time put shoes on before going outside to take pictures!) My car. My neighbor’s house. My son’s car. The weatherman is forecasting another 6 [...]
Food Waste Friday
Posted in Food Waste Friday, Home Cooking Challenge on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To see how others are doing with reducing their food waste, please check out The Frugal Girl. ___________________________________________________________________ We weren’t as resourceful as I would have liked this week. I ended up throwing away 1/2 loaf of home-made bread (we did manage to eat the first loaf at least), leftover zucchini from when I made [...]
What’s Cooking Tonight?
Posted in Home Cooking Challenge on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick update tonight… Dinner tonight will be Easy Chicken Divan and basmatti rice. (I wish I could say the photo was my food, but I can’t. It seems our camera has gone missing again. The picture above was taken by Tara and posted on allrecipes.com) Our planned Mexican meal for last night was [...]
An Attempt at Menu Planning for Next Week…
Posted in food, Home Cooking Challenge on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dinner last night was a huge hit. There was much eating of homemade garlic bread, Newport Beef casserole, salad and chocolate cake! I made one large casserole and one smaller casserole (for my Dad to take home). Even after the two casseroles, there was still enough leftover to make a second large casserole. Hooray! It [...]
Happy Birthday!
Posted in food, Gifts, Home Cooking Challenge on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is my dad’s 68th birthday. So, in keeping with my attempt to keep life simple, instead of buying him a card or a gift, I’m cooking him his favorite food for dinner tomorrow night. His all time favorite dish is Newport Beef Casserole. ( Okay, it’s also one of mine. Doesn’t that work out [...]
Simply Sunday
Posted in Gifts, Home Cooking Challenge, No Drive Days, Stitching, Sunday's on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I try to keep my Sunday’s as low key as possible. It’s a day I normally spend at home (always a no-drive day for me) with my family. Today I’m working on a friend’s baby shower gift. Here’s my progress so far. For brunch this morning, I baked the Cinnamon Crumble Coffee Cake (recipe courtesy [...]
Goals Update
Posted in Home Cooking Challenge, No Drive Days on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As promised earlier, here are my updated goals. _________________________________________________ Goals! (updated through Friday 1/8) 4/100 No-drive days (Off today. Stayed home.) 3/150 No-spend days (No change. I updated my Quicken to 2010 and paid bills. ) 0/104 Days of walking/exercising 6/31 days January’s Home Cooking Challenge (Dinner was awesome! Gecko Boy had 5 BBQ sandwiches [...]
How Much is Enough?
Posted in food, Home Cooking Challenge, Spending on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
That question has been on my mind a lot lately. I often find myself looking around my house and complaining I don’t have enough storage space. Then I remember back when I was a young mother in a rented apartment. I had less than 1/3 of the “stuff” I have now, but I didn’t feel [...]
Dinner and a quick post
Posted in food, Home Cooking Challenge, No Spend Days on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick post tonight since I need to finish working on some other things. For dinner: Slow cooker pot roast – I cut up an onion and put it on the bottom of the crock pot. Then I mixed the following together: can of cream of mushroom soup, dry onion soup mix, horseradish sauce, [...]
