Adventures in Life
I bought blueberries, I hid blueberries. They found blueberries, they ate blueberries.
I walked in on one of the sons eating the last of the blueberries, the ones I thought I had carefully saved to make the most amazing baked oatmeal recipe ever.
Fortunately, I recalled the recipe stated you could use raspberries instead. So I went out to the side yard and picked almost a cup full.
I’m not sure which way I like it better.
Mmmm, mmmm, good! You should try this recipe!
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I don’t get up early enough to enjoy a good one at home so I decided to make and freeze a bunch of stuff that I could take to work and reheat.
Breakfast Burritos were tasty. I filled these with different combinations of sausage, bacon, green onions and cheese.
So were the Egg Muffins with bacon or sausage and cheese. Baked the eggs in a muffin tin and they came out just the right size for the English muffin.
Unfortunately, I’ve run out. Oh dear, guess I’ll have to head on over to Pinterest to find some more breakfast in a muffin tin recipes, what a shame!
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.
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.
A huge thank you to my cousin Vicki for sharing the abundance from her apple trees. Three bags down, one to go!
Apple Cake, truly wicked!
Apple juice, a dozen apples and it’ll be gone in an instant. I keep forgetting how many apples it takes to get more than one glass of juice. This is a dozen.
Roasted Applesauce with Sage, my all time new favorite applesauce recipe.
Two days in a row I was feeling the love from my food. I was lovin’ it back too!![IMG_0643[1]](https://i1.wp.com/www.hootido.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_06431.jpg)
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I finally made it to the Farmer’s Market on lunch the other day. Arrived 30 minutes before the close of market and got all the deals I was hoping for. It was sad to see that most of my favorite summer fruits for making jam are almost gone for the season. Perhaps I’ll try again next week and see if I can preserve some of that summer goodness.
Meantime I’m thinking of making some ketchup before these beauties are through.
Fantastic Mother’s Day gift that just keeps on giving. Thanks sissy!