I used to make fun of my mom when I was younger for wanting to make everything and being so crafty. Now recently I borrowed her sewing machine to make diapers, and suddenly have 75 projects to do. And when surfing the internet, I have stumbled upon the concept of upcycling.. that is, taking old [...]
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Back to Cooking, and How to Occupy a Whiny Six Year Old
So I haven’t cooked much in a few days, as a matter of fact, I was stumped for meals and pointed to leftovers for my family. I also had a several day fight with my breadmaker. I think this was due to me deciding to use 50/50 whole wheat/white flour and Wolfgang Puck did not [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Why Being Green is a Christian Value and What I Intend to Do About It
Pre-warning: I am on my soapbox today and will be expressing my personal religious views. You are welcome to comment and agree or disagree. But if you are going to get offended, you may want to skip this one. Just a warning, I know everyone may/may not agree with me, and I know my connections [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Sloppy Joe Omelets & Baby Food
Once again we owe a special thanks to Mr. Sid for the sauce, for I used the leftover sauce to make sloppy joes the other night. They were incredible, even to M who doesn’t love sloppy joes. And the morning after, I made sloppy joe omelets: Ingrediants: 1/4 lb. sloppy joe meat leftovers 1 cup sauerkraut [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Carnivores, Herbivores, & Lamb Stew
This week’s theme is dinosaurs, so we have been studying plant eaters, meat eaters, and fossils. Bringing out some of my own rock collection, I showed off a few fossils to M. We then mixed up a simple salt dough (4 parts flour, 1 part salt, 1 part water) and made fossils. She rolled it [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Jamaican Night
As my husband’s family is from Jamaica, my mother-in-law and I decided that once a month we should do Jamaican night so that the kids will get more exposure to that part of their heritage. This weekend we made Jamaican oxtail. Although I was a bit skeptical, it actually turned out to be an AWESOME [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mr Sid’s Chicken!
Last night for dinner I decided to use up the fresh veggies lingering in my fridge and also a bottle of Mr. Sid’s barbeque sauce. Sid is a friend of my dad’s, and M calls him Mr. Sid and his wife Mrs. Sid. Anyway, Mr. Sid has a secret recipe barbeque sauce and since it’s [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Falafel and Tzaziki! Yummy yummy!
I must start by saying that although I used to get several “mommy” magazines, I am rarely seduced by the “easy” recipes in them. Usually they don’t appeal to me. But several months ago I came across a recipe for falafel in one (I think Family Fun magazine) and thought, why not? If you are [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Old Ladies and Concrete Don’t Mix, the Art of Kimchi
As I mentioned before, we were out all day on Friday working on building a stone wall. Now I have been known in the past to believe I am She-Ra, Wonder Woman and Super Girl all rolled into one, but typically these days I skip all that. So I was picking up smaller pieces of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Building from Stone (Now THAT’s Traditional)
So my plans for the busted up driveway that is ahem, on top of my driveway were thwarted. Apparently although I had a vision for a large fire pit/grill in the sink hole in the backyard, my husband had a vision for a retaining wall. And as his vision was closer to the driveway and [...]
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