12 Saturday Nov 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cream, food, moments, mushroom soup, Pinterest, widow
made cream of mushroom soup on Saturday…
had some mushrooms that needed to be used up, so I searched Pinterest for a recipe…
the one I tried was simple and turned out delicious…
made me happy because I no longer use canned soups and now I may make some recipes that call for them…
09 Friday Feb 2018
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. soup, big girl pants, delicious, excited, moon, Olympics, Pinterest, scoffed, sports, Thai Shrimp, widow
yesterday I packed up a container of Easy Thai Shrimp Soup as it was my day to provide soup for Souper Thursday…
I had saved the recipe to my Pinterest page ages ago, but made it for the first time the night before… with a few changes as I went along…
as I left the house in the morning, I had to put down my bag and take a picture of the beautiful moon in the sky…
the soup was a hit… everyone loved it…
I brought home the last little bit and scoffed it down for my dinner as I watched the start of some of the Olympics, even before the opening ceremonies…
so excited for these next two weeks of sports…
13 Friday Nov 2015
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big girl pants, burger, delicious, mushroom, oven, Pinterest, portobello, tasty
just finished my first portobello burger… amazed to say it was delicious…
put spinach, grape tomatoes – all that I had (and worked pretty well) – and grainy mustard on an English muffin…
used a Pinterest recipe where the mushrooms were marinated for thirty minutes in oil, balsamic, garlic, basil and cilantro… baked them for twenty minutes at 400 degrees…
had heard many people say how great these burgers tasted but I figured it would just taste like a mushroom…
I will certainly have another…
30 Wednesday Sep 2015
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today I celebrated six years at my current work… I was so excited that I barely slept last night…
had been thinking for weeks about what I could make as a thank you gift for my colleagues…
decided on coasters with some of my photos on them…
had a hard time choosing the pictures… going through my albums I needed thirteen but picked about fifty… decided to make them all, lol…
that was a good plan because I wanted everyone to be able to pick one they liked, not get stuck with something that didn’t speak to them…
spent time on Pinterest looking for a good process and then spoke with my daughter about best practices…
tried Modge Podge on a few, but that didn’t work… was very nervous about trying the resin but it was very simple once I got the hang of it…
as I worked, I thought about which person would choose which picture… I was right for about half…
my workplace is pretty special… I have been able to expand my “job” to fit my skills and likes and that is quite wonderful…
my colleagues are all great people who care about one another and the people we work with…
in my work life I have been blessed… I haven’t really seen my positions as work, more as a calling… and this position has been no different…
I am forever grateful to have these people in my life…
18 Saturday Jul 2015
raindrops on everything in the garden…
started out bright and sunny, then clouded over and rained…
then it cleared for a while and repeated the whole process… really a surplus of drops…
talked to my daughter and she was making pesto from her surplus of basil… so I tried making some this afternoon… found some recipes on Pinterest and went from there…
hard to tell but this plant is about half what it was before I used it for the pesto…
came out very nicely, and I added it to spaghetti for my supper…
tasty… think I will make some more and maybe freeze it… the basil is growing like crazy…
11 Thursday Jun 2015
on our way home from work last night we stopped at Safeway and picked up the ingredients for Souper Thursday… my turn… found the recipe on Pinterest and made it without time to test…
interesting experience today as I brought the ingredients to the office, put them into the crockpot, and let it do its thing… usually I spend the evening preparing the parts and often getting the soup ready for the next day and then reheat it at the office…
I doubled the recipe and in the process may have put in an excessive amount of tortellini… so we ended up with stoup… a cross between soup and stew… it was good… and easy… certainly the simplest soup I’ve made…
been very happy with the irises I took into the office on Monday… last couple of blooms opened up this morning…
all in all a good day…
18 Wednesday Feb 2015
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spent the evening gathering the bits and pieces to make tomorrow’s Souper Thursday offering…
saw this recipe on Pinterest and thought it looked like a good possibility…
first time making it and the first time I will do all the cooking at the office in the crockpot…
will be an interesting experiment…
cut up and packaged the various components… had to go online to figure out how to do some of the cutting of ingredients I haven’t used before…
all ready:-)…
18 Thursday Sep 2014
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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…
my 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…
09 Sunday Feb 2014
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yesterday was my 450th blog post… quite amazing really…
I wrote about divesting books and got a few likes and a couple of new followers…
following the MBlog 2014 conference we went out for dinner and I got to spend some quality time with Cynthia Sanchez (Oh So Pinteresting) who gave me some great tips on how to grow my blog using Pinterest… things have been busy since then and I haven’t been able to look into her suggestions further, but hope to make some time in the next few weeks to test out her suggestions…
empty closet…
today I spent quite a bit of time emptying my closet so that my contractor can work in it tomorrow… in the process I have injured my back…
sadly I haven’t finished getting all the books off the shelves, and have had to let go of the plan that they would come off the wall and it would be freshly painted, sigh…
not yet empty bookshelves…
08 Sunday Dec 2013
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big girl pants, bubbles, Champagne Bubble Party, decorating, decorations, George would be proud, glass ornaments, Gordon Ramsey, importance of family, Pinterest
didn’t leave the house today…
spent a lot of time watching Gordon Ramsey cook Christmas dinners… yum… couldn’t drag myself away, lol…
bubbles in the window…
also put up some decorations… I’d seen something on Pinterest and had wanted to try it and had fun hanging up some glass ornaments using the idea…
through the window…
broke one in the process, but was very happy with the outcome… it also reminded me of the special time we had at the Champagne Bubble Party this summer because I was using the clear glass ornaments that we hung all over the garden to represent bubbles…
moved the Norfolk pine into the window but not sure if I will leave it there…
stuck cover on hot tub…
never did get out to try and open the lid of the hot tub… maybe after work tomorrow…
been thinking of the importance of family and how blessed I am with the wonderful family that I have… George would be so proud of all the kids…
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