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Some days are just "old fashioned fried potatoes for supper" days. :-)

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Happiness in your hand. :-)

Okay, maybe not but it does taste good. :-) Note: these are the peanut butter ones aka the best ones. :-P

Now off on a weekend trip to visit a friend! Will try to catch up when I get home! I'm bringing my camera so might actually shoot something. :-P

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My mom volunteers at a local thrift store and every now and then she brings home some neat stuff. Today she brought home this neat "old fashioned" milk shake maker!

Isn't it cool! Can't wait to give it a try!

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Today was one of those Saturdays when you hit the floor running. Thankful that I got woken up by the doorbell. ;-) Biggest thing on the agenda today was a baby shower. Those are always fun! Another lady and I are the ones who plan the showers for our church so we get to have all the fun! ;-)

Of course, "Baby Shower" also stands for yummy sweets! :-) Get a load of those beautiful cupcakes! And they were as yummy as they were beautiful! :-) Thanks, Samantha!

PS If you want to order some cupcakes of your own just email me and I'll tell you how. ;-)

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Was desperate for something sweet so I tried this recipe for a "microwave cake". It was actually pretty good! Especially when I topped it with ice cream! ;-)

It actually made a good sized cake. I only ate about half of it. This is what was left of it. lol

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With the amazing Spring like weather we have been having (and maybe because I'm on a "diet"...lol) I have been craving me some Summer squash! Finally bought one and fried it up today. So delicious!!!!

Mmmmm!

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Very random, just snapped a picture, 365 post. :-S

Working on making better food choices which is why I had pizza for supper. lol But! It was homemade and made on a pita. So not too bad actually. ;-)

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I had company this weekend and it was such a wonderful visit! Even my cereal was happy. ;-) Actually meant to get a photo of my friend and I but I forgot to!!!! :-( Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow.

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Ugh!!!!

Thank you to my brother, the diet saboteur. 
I have to confess that I caved. I had 1 1/2 pieces. :-/


On the bright side I got some serious, much needed organizing and de-cluttering done in my bedroom! :-) Time for a little down time now. :-)

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Oh yum. Made glazed ham for supper tonight and it was so delish! (my first time)

   

Before

After

The glaze was just French's spicy brown mustard and brown sugar. Mmm!

Made for an amazing supper experience. :-)

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I made a Pineapple Upside Down cake for the first time today!

It was pretty yummy too!

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Not exactly the bouquet you expect to be handed. :-P

Cauliflower I'm using in tonight's supper. :-)

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Chicken Enchiladas. Oh yes. Heaven on Earth. 

Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration. lol
I made this for the first time tonight and it was amazing. Got the recipe from my friend because I've had it at her house before and thought it was pretty stinkin' good then! Tweaked it a bit to accommodate my pantry but it didn't change it much. Still delish'. :-) 

Now, off to Wednesday night prayer service at church! :-)

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When the day gets rough...

it's time to pull out the cookie dough.

No, not cookies. Not ice cream. Cookie dough.

Maybe it doesn't fix everything but it sure helps. ;-)

P.S. For those who are aware of my new

 healthier lifestyle, don't worry.

I only had a few bites. :-)

12/366

Okay, I have two photos for you today. A before and after. :-) This is the dip I made for the birthday party we're having at church tomorrow(it has to sit overnight). 

Before:

 After:

It's a brand new recipe and I can't wait to try it!

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As part of my effort to become a more healthier (lighter) version of me I've been working out in some manner every day as well as working to create better eating habits. Hence keeping my ear open for new and healthier (but still cheap) foods to make. So when my friend found this recipe and made it and then let me taste it...I was sold. Had to try it for myself and it was pretty good. And good for me! :-)

It consists of bananas, peanut butter, and cocoa (or Nutella) and is as good as ice cream without the calories! :-) Who wouldn't want that in a diet?! 

I Greatly Dislike My Brother

This...

was my brother's lunch today. If you haven't yet realized the point of my irritation, I will point it out to you. There are three sandwiches here. For one meal. Let me also point out that my brother is of the ... slender body type. Even though he regularly eats three sandwiches for one meal. I guess I need to get over it. To realize that it is a fact of life that I can only enjoy one sandwich per meal ... lest I become the size of King Kong. 

Oh, for the record, he also had a Yoo-hoo. 

Soul Smothered Chicken

This is the recipe I recently tried out for the first time. It's not for us though. So as I type this...and look at the very true to life photos...it's cooking on the stove...and I'm smelling it...and my sister is asking if we'll get to take a bit... Oh the agony of cooking yummy meals for other people! Oh well. Rather than continue to go on and on about the hardships of smelling amazing food in the kitchen that you won't be indulging in yourself, I'll begin my timeline. 

First, set out the ingredients. Ok, I don't actually do this as a habit but for the sake of a picture I did. 

Then you brown the chicken on all sides...which I forgot to take a picture of. Yeah, I'm on the ball here. 

The already browned chicken.

Then you take the chicken out and saute the vegetables. 

(I did not know how amazing fresh garlic smells as you saute it! Wowza!)

Add some S&P to that and some flour then add the broth and drop the chicken back in. (So I'm not following the recipe to a "T"; but that's why I'm putting the recipe up too. So you can. :-) )

Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or so and Presto! You have a delicious (Yes, we tasted it. What?!?! You wouldn't have???) chicken dinner in seconds! Well, unless you're cooking it and not reading it on a blog. :-)

Now comes the fun part.

 

Clean up. :-/

(For the full recipe check out my recipe blog, Sarah's Recipe Cards)

Hello, my name is Sarah.

It's been so long I wasn't sure if you'd remember who I was so I thought I'd start by introducing myself. My name is Sarah, I "own" this blog, I love photography (among many other things), and I blog from time to time. We have met before but it's been quite awhile. You'll remember me soon....hopefully. 

Anyway, as I've done my best by way of a short a sweet introduction I'll get on with my blog as if everything was normal. :-) It has been forever since I blogged last! I've been watching the months pass and with each one I thought, "There's goes another blogless month." Then tonight I spent a wonderful hour and a half chatting on the phone with a good friend and she even mentioned that it had been awhile. Then (that's a lot of "thens"...) I discovered tonight that our wireless connection was back up! So, here I am! :-) By way of a "quickie blog" I'm just going to share with you a few of the "ornamental" photographs I took on Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful day of just us. Cooked, and bantered, and teased all day then had our big dinner just before 8 PM. It was a very pleasant day all around. :-)

This is the tablecloth that my sister bought Mama and the center piece that I put together. It was the first year we had a centerpiece and it was a lot of fun. Hey, it's the little things that count, right? :-)

Here's the table just set before we piled it with food. 

An "artistic" shot of the table. 

And the table laden with our bounty. Not all of it though. We also had a side table full of goodies. 

So, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving surrounded by family and loved ones and I hope this is the first of many more frequent blogs. :-)

Happy Fall!!!

It's my favorite season! The smell of baking apples is in the air and the sound of the leaves blowing through the neighborhood fills my ears. I love all of the colors and the smells of Fall should be available year round!

I feel the urge deep within me to wax poetic but being incapable of such things I will wax normal. :-) 

The small of apples that I spoke of aren't actually baking apples but apples on the stove. Last weekend we went on a short road trip and brought along some sliced apples. As expected, no one was interested in them and they weren't even touched. (We are apple lovers but sliced apples have been the snack of trips for years and we're...burnt out.) So yesterday, feeling industrious and a little like little Suzy homemaker, I decided I wasn't going to let the browned apples that now no one was going to eat go to waste. I was going to make applesauce. :-) Or at least something close to it. (Last Thanksgiving my Mom "accidentally" make applesauce when cooking the apples for our apple pie so I knew it couldn't be that hard :-) ) So I peeled and diced the slices and set them to simmering. They cooked along fine and were soon getting soft so I added the cinnamon, sugar, and brown sugar as well (as a little more water which I had been adding a little bit at a time). I kept a close eye on it...but not close enough. :-S Soon I realized I wasn't hearing the sounds of simmering apples anymore so I went in to check. I wasn't hearing such sounds because now I was burning caramelizing the apples. End of said "Suzy homemaker" project. But! Today is another day and we had some Red Delicious apples that I knew no one was going to eat (not our favorite kind) so..... "Suzy Homemake" attempts #2! :-D

As of right now they are still on one piece as is the bottom of the pan. :-) I've been jumping up every couple of minutes to stir and sometimes add a little more water.

On to another subject for a bit while we wait for the apples to finish. :-) Fall has been "threatening" for quite some time now but hasn't really "hit" our yard yet. Well this morning it did. I walked outside this morning and saw that our lawn was covered in leaves (from our neighbor's tree, I might add :-P). So much fun! So of course I had to go out and take a few pictures...but of what? Just the leaves? Okay, got a few of those...

Aha! The cat! :-) She makes a very good model. :-)

 

Back to the apples. They are so yummy!!!!! I think I'll put the recipe on my other blog. You'll have to give it a try! If nothing else, it will fill your house with wonderful Fall scents. :-) Happy Fall everybody!!!