So I really don't have many details, but I am again in shock! Mom called me to tell me that Shawn's school was evacuated for a bomb threat! They took all the High School students to the "next door" Junior High building... They escorted all of the driving students to their cars and they had to leave right then, no going back into the building... Then they escorted all the walkers/pick-ups (they no longer bus the High School kids, no matter their distance) to the parking lot and they had to get into their ride's vehicle and leave, again no going back into the building... I am hoping that they let the kids get their coats before doing all this outside stuff, since they aren't allowed to get them now! Please pray for these students and the people that are doing these threats! This town needs God more than I could even possibly think they do!
Matthew 9:11-13: When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Greg's Birthday Dessert means finding our new favorite frosting!
I stumbled across the best frosting recipe ever by accident… and best part is that when I was searching for a frosting recipe, I had forgot that powdered sugar is a main ingredient in frosting and I don’t have any… so here’s what happened: Greg’s birthday is Wed, we celebrated last night since he was off because of the holiday and he has a meeting right after work on Wed that will keep him out until 9 or 10pm… He said “since we are celebrating tonight, will you make this sugar cookie mix that Rick gave us?” I said “I was thinking about that since I can’t get you a cake ” (money too tight)… so I started looking for a frosting recipe and found "that's the best frosting I've ever had" on the Tasty Kitchen Blog… looked at it and thought “you don’t put flour in frosting?” (I keep telling y’all that I am not a Susie Homemaker lol) so anyway, you use 5 Tbs. flour, 1 c. milk, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 c. sugar and 1 c. butter (can do half butter and half shortening which I did to conserve my butter supply hehe)... Whisk the milk and flour together and place over medium heat, stir constantly until it becomes thick (mine wasn't thickening for a long time, then suddenly it did!), let it cool completely! add vanilla and stir together. In a bowl, combine sugar and butter (in my case 1/2 c. butter and 1/2 c. shortening) and whip until fluffy and well mixed. Make sure your flour/milk mixture is completely cooled, add to sugar/butter and mix on medium-high until completely mixed and resembles whipped cream (I beat it for about 3 minutes)... frost your cooled dessert... Oh My!! it is delicious Greg was in love with it as well as O and I! (yes, we taste tested it before frosting the cookies)... So I frosted the cookies, and I stuck a candle in the middle cookie and we surprised Greg by singing Happy Birthday.. we all enjoyed even though it isn’t a sugar cookie frosting (apparently it’s best on chocolate or red velvet cake )... Oh by the way, the frosting was the perfect mix between a buttercream and a whipped frosting! Delicious!
My Crockpot Italian Sausage
So Wed night I need to have an easy Italian Sausage sandwich, that doesn't require a stove... My first thought was a crock pot with some peppers and a little broth, but of course I don't have peppers in my house :( So I went online to look up recipes and most of them required peppers and some even had onions (which sadly I do not cook with hehe)... Then I found one that uses spaghetti sauce and tomato paste and tomato sauce, but I used the last of my spaghetti sauce 2 nights ago- shoot! So I went into my kitchen and came up with this concoction:
8 Italian Sausages (I plan for left-overs for lunch the next day)
1 can tomato paste
1 can tomato sauce
1 can diced tomatoes with chilies
1 can diced tomatoes
approx (I didn't measure this at all) 3-4 cups Chicken broth (would have used beef if my chicken broth didn't need used up right away)
1. simmer sausages in some water (not enough to cover, but enough that it could boil- in fact I accidentally boiled mine for a minute) for about 7 mins (long enough for me to fiddle with figuring out what I wanted to put in the crockpot and put it in)
2. mix together in crock pot the rest of the ingredients
3. add in sausages and make sure they are coated
4. cook on low 4-6 hours, my crock pot seems to cook hotter than most so I will cook mine on low for about 4 hours
5. Serve on Hot dog or Hoagie buns
I'm thinking (and thought while I was adding it) that I added too much broth... so you really can't use the mixture as a "sauce" on your sandwiches, so maybe a little less broth would be better... I didn't take pictures, but the family seemed to like it! Will definitely try again :-)
Crochet and freezer cooking update
So I haven't accomplished much, but wanted to post an update...
I don't think I like freezer cooking... The meats disintegrated beyond recognition for 2 of the recipes, 1 recipe didn't care for and 1 recipe I didn't care for... plus the 2 that didn't work took just as long if not longer than a normal meal prep would have taken to fix, so it didn't save me time and the 2 that worked would only take about 20 mins prep in the morning... Therefore I don't see how this method saved me any time... :-(
As for crochet, I have the pattern for sale and haven't had a chance to do much else... I am trying to design a versatile finger less mitt pattern to match the scarf but haven't been able to do yet... then I want to design a cover for my tablet and that,s not going so well yet... Finally I want to design a shawl that has an inlaid cross design, and haven't had a chance to start it either... but at least the ideas are there!
So far that is all that I have for an update...
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles." Isaiah 40:31
Freezer Cooking?
So I am trying the idea of freezer cooking... I spent about an hour and now have 6 meals in my freezer that all I have to do is thaw the night before and cook the day of, and these 6 are all crock pot meals! I will take another hour or so tomorrow and make up more (at least another 8-10) which will give me 14-16, but there will be 7-8 different meals as each meal type is 2 different evenings... I'm excited to see how it turns out! I'll let you know after I have tried some of them...
I finally did it!
So I have been crocheting for several years, but really picked it back up and learned the most in the last 2 years... Greg has been watching me and listening to me talk about it (even though he could care less) and finally asked me the one day "Why don't you sell your patterns?" I told him that I didn't have any patterns since all I do is alter patterns to meet my needs... So there was a lot of back and forth on it and finally he understood why i couldn't sell what I had altered slightly for fit or something... Then I made a blanket for a friend's baby shower that was a MAJOR change from the original design... Greg told me to sell that pattern and I continued to fight him on it... Finally, I had several people explain to me how it was my own design, so I have that pattern being tested for clarity/errors... Then I designed a scarf, using some other patterns as reference, but my own design... I am happy to tell you that the pattern for that scarf was tested by two lovely ladies and is now finally ready for sale!!! X's Keyhole Scarf is now available to buy for $2.50, as a Ravelry download... As of right now, you have to be a member of Ravelry (free to join) to purchase this pattern, but I am working on figuring out how to make it available to anyone... (Edited to add, I think the buy now button will allow you to purchase without joining Ravelry) So here is my scarf from the X's Keyhole Scarf pattern:
<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/purchase/o-baby-n-more/133992"><img src="http://www.ravelry.com/images/shopping/buy-now.gif"></a>
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39
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