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12 Tuesday Jun 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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bakery, big girl pants, bun, cooking, flowers, groceries, leftover, one, popcorn, Smak Dab, widow

was talking with someone recently about the difficulty of cooking for one…

cooking for one is definitely different and certainly takes more thought, preparation and effort… really easy to have a bowl of popcorn instead…

my technique is to make enough for two meals and then have leftovers for lunch or supper the next day…

I’ve been trying to think about what I will have in the evening and take whatever I’ve decided on out for supper in the morning before leaving for the office…

the plan for tonight was to cook a couple of herb and garlic sausages and pick up a bun to put one of them in…

stopped at the bakery but they didn’t have a single stick of bread left… great for them, but not so good for me, lol…

then it was off to the grocery store to pick up a few buns… also found a nice steak, some chicken and a bit of hamburger…

came home, cooked the sausages, added Smak Dab mustard, Miracle Whip, grated onion and lettuce to a whole wheat bun… it was delicious…

and I have enough to make another bun for my lunch…

burnt…

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, burnt, chicken soup, cooking, dumplings, phone, talking, widow

tonight I finished the chicken soup that I started on Sunday evening…

I also made dumplings to go with it… such a simple thing… a bit of flour, baking powder, salt and milk makes the most delicious bite… my mom didn’t cook a whole lot, but her dumplings were the best… I enjoy using her recipe…

as the dumplings cooked I spent some time on the phone… the timer went off a few times as I was talking but I waited a bit…

not such a good plan… maybe the bottom was a little burnt… still very tasty;-)…

Nutimik, day three…

13 Sunday Aug 2017

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, travel, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, boat, campfire, camping, cooking, diving, family, fun, marshmallows, Nutimik, wakeboarding, water, widow

vacation is such a wonderful time…

big breakfast of sunny side up eggs with hash browns and bacon… again, on the campfire…


then another glorious day on the water…

tubing, cliff diving, wakeboarding and beach time…


for dinner tonight’s menu was steak, shrimp, lobster, potatoes, mushrooms, green beans and peas…


dishes are done and we are roasting marshmallows… 

quick trip down to the beach to post this and then off to bed…

cooking…

18 Thursday Sep 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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bechamel, big girl pants, cheese, cooking, crockpot, Pinterest, potatoes, purple

last night and this morning I worked on a crockpot recipe for our potluck today…

for the last year or so we have had Souper Thursdays where we’ve taken turns bringing soup for our lunch…

today was our kick-off meal…

I chose to make crockpot scalloped potatoes… spent quite a bit of time on Pinterest looking for possibilities…

on Sunday I made a test batch which we had to go along with the tacos, lol…

came out very nice and were cooked perfectly…

last night I made the cheesy béchamel to go on top of the potatoes… I have always called it white sauce and have used the recipe that I learned in grade seven home economics class… still have the book… but really béchamel sounds so much fancier, lol…

I also prepped the onions and peeled the potatoes… I enjoy thinking of the people who will be eating my food as I work…

this morning got up, sliced the potatoes and filled the crockpot with the potatoes, salt and onions… then I poured the sauce over and took the whole thing to the office… plugged it in on high and left the crockpot to do its work…

hmmmm, apparently four hours wasn’t quite enough time, so had to nuke them to finish cooking right before our lunch… put a few more potatoes in and guess they needed just a bit more time…

but my crockpot is beautiful…

IMG_8265.JPGmy daughter bought it for me and I traded my black and silver one with her for this gorgeous purple one…

potatoes were good by the way…

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