Wow, what a weekend... Lots of fun at the MidWest GeoBash (for those that don't know it is an event for Geocaching)... We left Thursday early evening, got there around 8pm or so and stayed until Sunday morning... When we left Sunday late morning we headed out to do lots more caching and didn't get home until after 1am! But it was fun... Glad to be home again (and not camping hehe) but boy has O been an issue today... I am so emotionally exhausted from him right now... So I am headed to my Bible where I will look for passages to remind me that this too shall pass... (since I am still having problems with Bible Verse Memorization, I wouldn't mind a few pointers but I do have a few places that I like to look first so I'm not clueless yet hehe)
I know that I am going to start with Proverbs 3:5-6~ "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight."
I will then go to these and see where I am lead after that...
1 Peter 5:7~ "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."
Psalm 130:7~ "Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption."
Anyway, as for supper, I had to wait for eggs so it is very late tonight (quiche, that apparently I am making wrong so it takes over 1.5 hours to cook the way I have been doing it- need to look into this)... I think it is about ready and I am hungry (and it smells so good) so I am off to eat!
Have a great night and May God keep you safe!
Another Culinary Success
Woohoo! Thanks to this recipe from A year of Slow cooking I had another success with supper last night... again, I had to alter it but that is what happens when I am picky and don't have everything needed... So here is what I did:
Crockpot Salsa & Chicken
Chicken Breasts (although apparently thighs will yield a juicier outcome)
1.5-2cups Salsa
1/2 bag frozen corn
Dump them into crockpot and cook on low for about 4 hours (if chicken is thawed)... Serve over rice
We liked it, except the chicken did get dried out because I didn't have enough salsa and it cooked longer than 4 hours... Will definitely try this with more salsa and a little less time as well as putting some salsa under the chicken as well as on top of it...
Crockpot Salsa & Chicken
Chicken Breasts (although apparently thighs will yield a juicier outcome)
1.5-2cups Salsa
1/2 bag frozen corn
Dump them into crockpot and cook on low for about 4 hours (if chicken is thawed)... Serve over rice
We liked it, except the chicken did get dried out because I didn't have enough salsa and it cooked longer than 4 hours... Will definitely try this with more salsa and a little less time as well as putting some salsa under the chicken as well as on top of it...
Thoughts on Aurora, CO
My post Friday late morning from other blog on the Aurora, Colorado event
I am saddened today... I wonder what the world is coming to in these dark times... I know many people will ask "How can God let this happen?" and the only thing I can say (from my tiny knowledge of anything) is that God didn't let it happen, He gave everyone free-will and that is something that He will not take from us... Yes it is sad and tragic, but God is not the one to blame... So here are my quick thoughts... Pray for the victims and their families-that the injured recovery quickly and that the ones we lost be grieved and remembered... Also pray for the shooter- that he will see what he did was wrong and seek God to turn his poor lost soul around...
I will be praying all day today, for those involved, for those now too scared to leave their homes, and for any other lost soul that needs to seek God in his life... I hope many of you will join me in prayer!
Psalm 27:1 "The Lord is my light and my salvation — whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?"
Proverbs3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will direct your paths."
I am saddened today... I wonder what the world is coming to in these dark times... I know many people will ask "How can God let this happen?" and the only thing I can say (from my tiny knowledge of anything) is that God didn't let it happen, He gave everyone free-will and that is something that He will not take from us... Yes it is sad and tragic, but God is not the one to blame... So here are my quick thoughts... Pray for the victims and their families-that the injured recovery quickly and that the ones we lost be grieved and remembered... Also pray for the shooter- that he will see what he did was wrong and seek God to turn his poor lost soul around...
I will be praying all day today, for those involved, for those now too scared to leave their homes, and for any other lost soul that needs to seek God in his life... I hope many of you will join me in prayer!
Psalm 27:1 "The Lord is my light and my salvation — whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?"
Proverbs3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will direct your paths."
Combining Day to Day blog with this one
I am going to combine my 2 blogs into this one... so here is a post from Thursday on my other blog:
What a crazy year it has been... I try to get into a routine and fail, I try to get better at certain aspects in life and fail, sometimes it feels like all that I do is fail, but I know that God still loves me and that is the important thing... One thing that I have been succeeding at doing is reading a devotional every morning, it has been so refreshing for my soul! This week has had some other great things happen in it... Things that are more day-to-day and having to do with being a mom and housewife (still not sure how I feel about that title, but hey)... This week I have tried 3 new recipes, all of which were successes! This is great news since I tried a new recipe a couple months ago and it was ok, then when I tried to re-make it just last week it was a huge failure, followed by 2 other meals that I make all the time failing horribly... so what did I make this week? Monday I made Lasagna Roll-ups... It is the same idea as lasagna, but instead of layering everything you roll each noodle up individually so that each noodle is a serving... Here is what I did:
Lasagna Roll Up (got the main idea from this site: All Recipes.com)
Brown 1 pound of ground beef (I seasoned mine with oregano and parsley) Boil lasagna noodles until Al Dente (or my version of al dente is just before they are soft enough to eay hehe)
Mix together Ricotta Cheese and Shredded Mozzarella Cheese in a bowl Once everything is cooked and mixed together, lay noodles on a piece of wax paper, put a TBS of sauce and spread over noodle, then crumble about 2TBS of beef across the sauce, drop/spread 2TBS of cheese mixture over that... Roll them up like a jelly roll... Once they are all done (I made the entire box of noodles) I put some sauce in the bottom of a baking dish and placed a few lasagna rolls in the dish, covered them with more sauce and baked at 375 for 30-35 mins... The rest of the rolls I put in aluminum foil and a storage bag to put in the freezer for an easy freezer meal later
My family loved it!
Tuesday I made this Vegetable Tian meal... I have no idea what that is and had to alter the recipe that I found, but again it was a huge success Here is what I did:
Vegetable Tian (adapted from Budget Bytes)
I had browned too much beef on Monday so I had about 1 pound of ground beef seasoned with parsley and oregano that I layered at the bottom of a baking dish, next I sliced zucchini, cucumber (they suggest squash and I would have if I had it, but the cucumber worked well), tomato and potato and stuck them vertically on top of the meat alternating the veggies (don't layer them, you want them standing on the "edges")... sprinkle some salt, pepper and oregano (or was it parsley or something else?) on top of all the veggies, cover with foil and bake at 400 for 30 mins, remove foil and add a generous amount of shredded cheese (they said Italian blend, I used a colby jack blend) and bake uncovered for another 15 min
this was probably Greg's favorite, not sure that O cared for it, or he may have not been hungry and I thought it was missing something so I'll keep experimenting...
Finally Wednesday I made up my own Noodles and Beef Tips
Noodles and Beef tips (basically my own recipe, but I saw a recipe somewhere just can't remember where that used a packet of gravy and a packet of Au Jus and I made up the rest from there...)
I took Country Style Beef Ribs and put them in a crock pot, sprinkled some cumin and red pepper on top, added 1 packet of brown gravy mix, 1 packet of Au Jus mix and 1 cup of water... Cooked on high for about 1.5 hour then turned to low for 3 or 4 hours... towards the end I made egg noodles as normal, while they were cooking I took out the beef and cut into smaller pieces and put back in the crock pot for the remaining time and let them marinate a little more... then pour the beef and gravy on the noodles and have some deliciousness!
Greg and O loved, but I thought I put too much cumin in (which it did come out a little fast for my preference) otherwise complete success!
Now tonight is going to be a simple grilled chicken on a salad of romaine lettuce, cucumber, zucchini and tomato topped with cheese and dressing! yum and simple!
Now for other news... O told me 8 different colors yesterday while he was coloring, he would pick up each crayon and tell me its color... He told me blue, black, brown, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow! Then when showing Daddy, he was being a stinker and not paying attention, but if I would tell him to grab the red crayon he did and did so with all 8 colors again! (had a little problem with purple at first, but got it soon enough) So proud of my little man!
Well this post is longer than it should be, so off I go!
Have a blessed day and remember that God is in control!
What a crazy year it has been... I try to get into a routine and fail, I try to get better at certain aspects in life and fail, sometimes it feels like all that I do is fail, but I know that God still loves me and that is the important thing... One thing that I have been succeeding at doing is reading a devotional every morning, it has been so refreshing for my soul! This week has had some other great things happen in it... Things that are more day-to-day and having to do with being a mom and housewife (still not sure how I feel about that title, but hey)... This week I have tried 3 new recipes, all of which were successes! This is great news since I tried a new recipe a couple months ago and it was ok, then when I tried to re-make it just last week it was a huge failure, followed by 2 other meals that I make all the time failing horribly... so what did I make this week? Monday I made Lasagna Roll-ups... It is the same idea as lasagna, but instead of layering everything you roll each noodle up individually so that each noodle is a serving... Here is what I did:
Lasagna Roll Up (got the main idea from this site: All Recipes.com)
Brown 1 pound of ground beef (I seasoned mine with oregano and parsley) Boil lasagna noodles until Al Dente (or my version of al dente is just before they are soft enough to eay hehe)
Mix together Ricotta Cheese and Shredded Mozzarella Cheese in a bowl Once everything is cooked and mixed together, lay noodles on a piece of wax paper, put a TBS of sauce and spread over noodle, then crumble about 2TBS of beef across the sauce, drop/spread 2TBS of cheese mixture over that... Roll them up like a jelly roll... Once they are all done (I made the entire box of noodles) I put some sauce in the bottom of a baking dish and placed a few lasagna rolls in the dish, covered them with more sauce and baked at 375 for 30-35 mins... The rest of the rolls I put in aluminum foil and a storage bag to put in the freezer for an easy freezer meal later
My family loved it!
Tuesday I made this Vegetable Tian meal... I have no idea what that is and had to alter the recipe that I found, but again it was a huge success Here is what I did:
Vegetable Tian (adapted from Budget Bytes)
I had browned too much beef on Monday so I had about 1 pound of ground beef seasoned with parsley and oregano that I layered at the bottom of a baking dish, next I sliced zucchini, cucumber (they suggest squash and I would have if I had it, but the cucumber worked well), tomato and potato and stuck them vertically on top of the meat alternating the veggies (don't layer them, you want them standing on the "edges")... sprinkle some salt, pepper and oregano (or was it parsley or something else?) on top of all the veggies, cover with foil and bake at 400 for 30 mins, remove foil and add a generous amount of shredded cheese (they said Italian blend, I used a colby jack blend) and bake uncovered for another 15 min
this was probably Greg's favorite, not sure that O cared for it, or he may have not been hungry and I thought it was missing something so I'll keep experimenting...
Finally Wednesday I made up my own Noodles and Beef Tips
Noodles and Beef tips (basically my own recipe, but I saw a recipe somewhere just can't remember where that used a packet of gravy and a packet of Au Jus and I made up the rest from there...)
I took Country Style Beef Ribs and put them in a crock pot, sprinkled some cumin and red pepper on top, added 1 packet of brown gravy mix, 1 packet of Au Jus mix and 1 cup of water... Cooked on high for about 1.5 hour then turned to low for 3 or 4 hours... towards the end I made egg noodles as normal, while they were cooking I took out the beef and cut into smaller pieces and put back in the crock pot for the remaining time and let them marinate a little more... then pour the beef and gravy on the noodles and have some deliciousness!
Greg and O loved, but I thought I put too much cumin in (which it did come out a little fast for my preference) otherwise complete success!
Now tonight is going to be a simple grilled chicken on a salad of romaine lettuce, cucumber, zucchini and tomato topped with cheese and dressing! yum and simple!
Now for other news... O told me 8 different colors yesterday while he was coloring, he would pick up each crayon and tell me its color... He told me blue, black, brown, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow! Then when showing Daddy, he was being a stinker and not paying attention, but if I would tell him to grab the red crayon he did and did so with all 8 colors again! (had a little problem with purple at first, but got it soon enough) So proud of my little man!
Well this post is longer than it should be, so off I go!
Have a blessed day and remember that God is in control!
Lapghan/ Pillowghan Update
Well here are the updates to the afghans... The square that is at the bottom by itself will go on the back as the pocket for the pillow part...
Now to finish a total of 28 more squares to be finished with all three....
Now to finish a total of 28 more squares to be finished with all three....
Lots to catch up on!
Well I did it again, I got way behind and I have been crafting away! So here are a ton of pictures to show what I have done since my last post...
I have finished the lapghans for Warm Up America... I made the green squares for second blanket, but otherwise I only joined the squares given to me with yarn given to me...
I've also done many more squares for the afghans, and will try to get that updated...
I have made several more prayer squares as well:
I've made washcloths for soldiers
Then I made a few things for the house, a hot pad and 2 dishcloths:
This dishcloth was using a knitting pattern that creates an illusion effect, I tried on my own to turn it into a Tunisian crochet method and failed, then someone told me about a thread that had a link to instructions on how to convert the knitting pattern into a Tunisian pattern! I think it is pretty cool!
I did a test for my prayer partner's new design:
As well as several squares for her Journey House project:
There are so many more that I have made or started but this post is getting rather long, so I will end now and try to get the rest tomorrow or Monday when I update the afghans...
Hope you enjoyed all of the crocheted goodness hehe
I have finished the lapghans for Warm Up America... I made the green squares for second blanket, but otherwise I only joined the squares given to me with yarn given to me...
I've also done many more squares for the afghans, and will try to get that updated...
I have made several more prayer squares as well:
I've made washcloths for soldiers
Then I made a few things for the house, a hot pad and 2 dishcloths:
This dishcloth was using a knitting pattern that creates an illusion effect, I tried on my own to turn it into a Tunisian crochet method and failed, then someone told me about a thread that had a link to instructions on how to convert the knitting pattern into a Tunisian pattern! I think it is pretty cool!
I did a test for my prayer partner's new design:
As well as several squares for her Journey House project:
There are so many more that I have made or started but this post is getting rather long, so I will end now and try to get the rest tomorrow or Monday when I update the afghans...
Hope you enjoyed all of the crocheted goodness hehe
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