Soup’s on…

Potato this time and my favorite.  This is one of my mother’s recipes that comes from her multi-heritage background.  I’ve heard it could be possibly from Germany or the Ukraine.  I’ve seen many variations over the years and I personally think it may be from anywhere it was cold and the possible following [...]

Soup’s on…

Yum.

This is my first time making this soup.  It’s 3 bean and ham.  I used black-eyed peas, lima beans, and navy beans.  I soaked them first for about 8 hours and then assembled all the ingredients which was the ham bone, beans, an onion, some garlic, a little celery salt, a [...]

Cheesecake

DH decided to try cheesecake.

Turned out gorgeous.

Unfortunately the taste was only so-so.  That’s OK because I think we’ll be seeing another version of this shortly.

Sunday Sky Version

I’m trying to finish up a few things around here today, so much knitting and not much talking.

We did manage to catch the sun going down and bouncing off the watertower.  Against the background of dark, dark clouds, it was a gorgeous site.

Other then that we got our baked apples and [...]

Bread and Waffles

So I know this is a knitting blog, but boy am I finding it hard to chase after a puppy and do the knit thing lately.  Plus I’ve been so tired.  It didn’t help that Sunday I decided to power wash the parts of the house siding I could reach.  Although it was really nice [...]

Baking Time

So when DH has some time off to himself, he sure does love to bake.  We got not one, but two treats.

First a summer fruit pie

and next a lemon pound cake.

My contribution was quiche.

I have been having such a hankering for quiche.  [...]

Cravings Drive Everything

I was having a something fierce craving for chicken piccata today.  I decided to give it a whirl on my own.  Once a again a recipe I found on allrecipes.com.  Pretty simple.  I added the capers and used the suggestions from the first reviewer.  This is definitley a keeper.  Very yummy.

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Dinner

So last night I took the day off to rest and decided to make up a little supper. I found a new fish recipe and decided to pair it with my very favorite potato recipe. Since they turned out well, I thought I would share them with you.

So my tasty super simple potato recipe [...]

Dealing With Leftovers

First let me say Thank You to everyone for the birthday wishes and nice comments about Butterfly.  I haven’t gotten through all my emails yet, but you will all be getting one back from me.  I had a really nice birthday.  Beautiful books for my collection as someone went a teeny bit crazy on my [...]

Baking

My baker was back in business this morning. He used Julie’s recipe and made some delicious Apple Coffee Cake.

Also there was some serious kitty loving on the dog. This one has no shame and can’t seem to resist Poodle top knot.

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