making it up as i go along
from: Matt & Jess original
Ingredients
star shaped pasta
frozen spinach
spaghetti sauce
mushrooms
Directions
Start water boiling and cook star pasta to package directions. Use a bit of non-stick spray in the bottom of a skillet and cook the mushrooms. Cook spinach according to package directions. Combine with mushrooms, pasta and spaghetti sauce.
from: Annabel Karamel's site
Ingredients
200g carrots, topped and tailed and sliced
125g salmon fillet, skinned
60ml orange juice
40g grated Cheddar cheese
a knob of butter
2 tbsp milk
Directions
Put the carrots into a saucepan, cover with water, bring to the boil and cook over a medium heat for about 20 minutes until tender. Alternatively, place the vegetables in a steamer and cook for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, place the salmon in a suitable dish, pour over the orange juice and scatter over the cheese. Cover, leaving an air vent and microwave on high for about 2 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork . Alternatively, cover with foil and cook in a pre-heated oven for about 20 minutes.
Flake the fish with a fork, carefully removing any bones. Drain the carrots, mix with the butter and milk and puree in a blender together with the flaked fish and its sauce. For older babies, mash the carrots together with the butter and the milk and then mix the flaked fish with the mashed carrots.
from:
Ingredients
a quantity of fruit or vegetables (good choices include: sweet potatoes, corn, apples, broccoli, carrots, peaches)
water
Directions
Skin your fruit or vegetables if necessary. If the vegetable is something like an apple or potato, cut it up into small pieces.
Either place in a steamer and steam until soft or place in a pot with just covered with water and boil until soft. Drain water off and puree in a food processor or mash by hand.
a post about the cool stuff that I've seen in the not too distant past. I've been collecting it, but haven't had time to put it all together. I've got a few right now. Here's what I've come up with …
You can hardly help but lurve Chow's Neo Slacker Thanksgiving. The faux Rockwell is priceless and the recipes sound delicious … and not so much your typical Thanksgiving fair. The overall site is pretty darn neat as well. It may have to become a daily read.
Gross as it is, we have that musty towel smell in our house. Here's the way to get rid of it! I knew you had to use vinegar … I just didn't know how.
My neurotic Martha side (the one that nags me to pick stuff up before bed and wags a finger at me when I use canned … anything) cannot help but love Organized Home. Their printable forms section just about makes her faint from giddiness. Yea, a favorite for sure. Just wish they'd do a site re-design.
Speaking of nerdy home organization stuff, I recently ran across (maybe even off a link from Organized Home) these freezer cooking printable labels. I love their sleek Martha design. Now does someone want to come over and cook me up some casseroles?
Always a sucker for cookbooks, I cannot resist the printable cookbooks I found on All Recipes.com. There's one for Back to School, Halloween and Summer. Hopefully they'll keep adding to this excellent collection.
And speaking of cookbooks, one of my most favorite cookbook authors, Molly Katzen, of Moosewood fame, recently came out with a veggie dishes cookbook. I'm very excited to see what it's like.
Oh and while we're still on the food stuff, as if you need another reason to visit NYC, here's an article all about this year's Chocolate show. My sis went a few years back and said it was amazing. I think this would be better than going to E3 or MacWorld or ComicCon or umm… pretty much any of that nerd stuff. Continue reading “IOU …”
So… I did it, guys. Finally took that smart phone plunge. Yay! I am sitting on my couch, blogging away which I suppose I can do on my laptop, but with this guy, I can blog from like… the Broncos Game or something. hehe
So I bought the HTC Mogul. E'mail, web, 2 MP camera phone, games, etc. Cool cool cool. Best part? After rebates, my company's PDA reimbursement plan and the aforementioned Discover Card deal, I will pay around $60 for the phone. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I'm cheap like that.
Now I just have to figure out how to use it as a phone. haha.
As you may have noticed, I spruced things up around here a bit in the name of fall. I've been working on this theme since mid Sept… but you know … kids, housework, etc. Just finally finished it. Yay me.
We had our carpets cleaned yesterday. They look pretty good … except where the kitchen meets the living room. They also used dry cleaning instead of wet which apparently coats every surface of your house in a thin layer of whiteish powder. Matt went BS crazy last night and wiped down and vacuumed the whole house practically cuz he was paranoid about it. Not that I don't agree … I just love to see him doing housework. hehe.
I have got to get my butt in gear for holiday shopping. I've been slowly collecting ideas for people, but I am really not doing so well. I dread going to the mall, even to window shop. I just hate it.
On the bright side, Discover Card is giving you $20 for each $200 you spend at specific malls between now and Dec 31. This is awesome for us because we spend a TON on groceries, etc. at Super Target and one of the malls (Colorado Mills) in CO (not far out of our way) has a Super Target attatched. Guess where we're doing our grocery shopping until Dec 31. They also have a Borders there. All the other shops kinda suck, but anyhoo, I will check them out. Wish they had an Amazon outlet. Continue reading “Potpourri”
Thursday meme cop-out post, stolen from Nanette.
Rules: List a word that describes you for every letter of the alphabet. Offer as much or as little explanation as you wish. Please keep the words positive (for example, don’t use “fat” for F or “lame” for L), and feel free to get creative. Tag as many or as few people as you wish.
A – artistic (at least I like to think so)
B – bossy
C – crafty
D – dorky (and unashamed of this fact)
E – easy-going
F – funny
G – gamer
H – hiker
I – industrious
J – jenius (hehe) Continue reading “Me from A-Z”
Matt is back in town, though he has to go out *again* next week. Does this make 4 wks in a row?? I don't remember.
What is my point? I don't think I have one. Just rambling and moaning. Perhaps I'll have an amusing anecdote for you tomorrow. Oh here's something: I used to think people were saying “an amusing antelope.” Good night.
We've been eating almost all of our meals at home lately, but I haven't had time to post recipes, so in one big list, here's what's been cooking at our house.
* Layered Mexican Chicken
This was very good, but needed a bit of salt and spice (definitely have the salsa with it!)
* Slow Cooker Chicken Paella
Other than the fact that I accidentally put too much turmeric in this, it was very good. Tabby was a huuuuge fan.
* Classic Shepherd's Pie
This is a really really nice light version of a classic. Matt is a huge fan and has requested it twice again already.
* Pumpkin Dip
Absolutely perfect for this time of year, and awesome awesome with apples.
* Cajun Dip
Very spicy (hits you coming and going), but has a very nice flavor.
* Slow Cooker Lasagna Stew
No idea why they call this “stew” … it's basically just lasagna you cook in a slow cooker. So easy and very good.
* Ham and Cheese Calzones
We both really liked the filling for these, but agreed the bread was a bit much (in quantity). Might be very good as a sloppy joe kinda thing … open faced sandwich.
* Fish Stick Soft Tacos
Basically, you make a fish taco from a couple of fish sticks. Not earth shattering but very quick and surprisingly good.
