Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Valentines!

The Family

I made my own meals this week no recipes.  First night was baked Zitti with four cheese sauce, mushrooms  garlic, fresh spinach and garlic and cheese sausage  .  Night two was Spaghetti with chicken, bacon and mushroom, tomato and parm cheese.  Then it was a lovely breakfast!  bacon eggs and English muffins.
I'm pondering making a cookbook gift with my recipes and photos.  who knows

Viola went home this week to become a service dog hopefully we will be able to follow her progress!


Valentines were made!

We made strawberry popcorn and it was delightful!





Wednesday, January 9, 2013

uh oh!

seems people are reading and i'm not posting!  UhOh!    Here I am, we aren't off to a good start, nasty sickness going around the house.  But 2 days before the new year I ran for dog transport in the middle of the night in the middle of a snow storm to pick up 6 very stinky dogs in Kittery.  What a wild night.
Haylee was still awake waiting for the puppies when I arrived home after 1am.  

I brought 2 darlings puppies home with me fore the night and sent the rest off with Julie Damon of http://www.beaubuddyrescue.com/  One was ours to foster and the other was going to another kind soul  Well....Stormy Since he had no name and it was one helluva ride isn't leaving.
Weeee not exactly what I was planning...but he's a delight and so laid back!
So due to being sick I haven't gotten terribly motivates but we started this week off right.
I made meatballs on Sunday for meatball subs, Yum and we just ate the rest with spaghetti tonight.  I've cooked a chicken with a lovely paprika rub we have one of our own birds left.  Then I need to find the best deal on local chicken.


Paprika, sea salt, and Italian seasoning, a little olive oil rubbed on the bird first, I prefer coconut oil but I'm out.  The gravy was wonderful and I also roasted a head of garlic inside.

We had an attack on our duck Sally this past weekend, she got a terrible head wound.  I brought her inside because i was to be at a photoshoot just after this happened.  I expected we would loose her when we got home.  She was well, we cleaned her up and Tony stopped and talked to our friends at http://www.dehleranimalclinic.com/ and the recommended a sugar bandage, not much else to be done.  So we wrapped her in sugar and honey after consulting our friend Google.  Today 3 days later she is eating and drinking and even cleaning tonight.  We built her a box and she's staying in for a while at least until she starts quacking really loud!



Wednesday, November 30, 2011

behind again and the world is racing away!

Where did I leave off?  I'm going to have to look I've been cooking bunches and we are preparing to make holiday gifts.  We made lots of thanksgiving decorations.  

Turkey Tetrazzini!  
Recipe was a bit labor intensive and i wasn't delighted with it when it was on the table.  Everyone ate it and said it was good, but agreed something was missing.  I ate the leftovers at work 2 days later and it was amazing!!


Tony and I had an evening in while Haylee was at Grammies!  He made me Yummy chocolate Cherry Martini's and we played Video games!


Haylee and I made turkey goblets for thanksgiving dinner!



Grampy liked his!

We made Chinese food for thanksgiving dinner again.
turkey wonton soup
turkey egg rolls
stuffing egg rolls
porcupine balls
sweet and sour pork
General Tso's turkey
and my floppy pecan pie.  I'll get it right someday!





Last night i made gingerbread and it came out perfect!!!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

summers days are numbered...

Busy as usual!
Had a lovely weekend, checked out the Farmers market at crystal springs Farm ! what a wonderful market.  I bought lots of tomatoes!  I'll be planting more next year!  So, on Monday i canned diced tomatoes.


Paste Tomatoes from the market.

Preparing the water bath for peeling

All the steps.  1. coring, boiling for 30 seconds, cooling, peeling.




Preparing to jar.

Ready to be boiled.  See my wonderful new tongs!!

Fully processed.

I also made and froze approx 4 dozen Meatballs made with organic grass fed beef from Little Alaska Farm