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I've been making this for years and it can be a side dish or add a salad and you have a quick all in one dinner.  Yummy!




1 pound ground beef (I used turkey) 

1 onion chopped 

one garlic clove minced (optional) 

2 Tbsp Oil 

2 Tbsp butter 

1 cup long grain rice 

8 ounces angel hair pasta~  broken up in small pieces about an inch long 

4 cups chicken broth.
Chopped almonds or pecans

I know this might seem like quite a silly post, but I've seen some things and thought, "Why in the world didn't I think of THAT?"  ;)  So... I'm posting it anyways~! 

 

When I buy milk I purchase the gallon since it's only 1.88- 1.99 depending on pricing in my area.  Half Gallons run around 1.65.   We don't normally drink that much milk and I'd hate to let it spoil in the refrigerator.  

A few months ago I purchased a 25 pound bag of flour since it was more economical than purchasing the smaller 5 pound bags of flour individually.  It's definitely about the savings since we would eventually use up the flour anyway~ so it definitely works for me. 



I tried writing everything down in keeping a tally of what I baked/made using the 25 pound bag and here is my list~   



24 loaves

This officially, isn't a puff pastry but whatever you call it... it's good!  ;)   Technically it's a cream puff dough topped with a chicken/spinach/sour cream mixture and rolled up all pretty like!  



2 cups of chicken~ deboned and seasoned to your preference

1 cup of sour cream  

1 cube butter (1/2 cup) 

dash of salt

1 cup water

1 cup flour 

4 eggs 

Spinach (optional~ squeeze out as

I found the original recipe over at Greek Food and Greek Life and tweeked it to my own liking.  



Quick and Easy with minimal ingredients~  



In large bowl mix together~ 

1 cup of flour~  heaping 

1/3 cup sugar 

1 tsp baking powder 

dash of salt 

1 tsp cinnamon



In seperate bowl combine wet ingredients~   

1/2 tsp vanilla 

1 Tbsp butter melted 

1 egg 

1/3 cup milk (plus

Its been a while since I've posted anything decor related.  With the coming of spring and Easter I saw so many other blogs featuring Egg Vignettes and I really wanted to try my hand at it too!  I scoured the Target dollar bins since I had seen some premade nests but I would have to dissassemble them and would have only gotten 3 eggs with holes in them where they were wired into the nest.  In the

We've been traveling all this week and just arrived back home~  and how good it is to be sleeping in my own bed!  Yay!  



I also wanted to thank you for taking the time to being a follower on blogger or google friend connect.  I don't use those options and prefer to follow by an RSS feed or I would gladly follow you back.  But I wanted to take the time to say thank you! 



What a great pound

I've been wanting to get some new kitchen towels to match my Sweetheart Kitchen and I happened upon these at the thrift store last week for .50 cents each.



  I believe they were still new since it felt like the sizing was still on them.  



Love them!





And I also happened upon a milk glass candy dish or 2 dollars











Mondays~ 


I Should be Mopping the Floor 

Homemade Mondays

I love photography and am always trying to improve my craft.  I'm blowing my own horn when I say that I take all of the photos posted on my blog.  ;)   







The lens covers I use now are not padded and I throw alot of stuff in my camera bag along with my lenses.  My lenses need a bit more padding.  



I saw similar lens padding at a well known photo site and decided to do my own.  The name

Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey~!  

That recitation has been going through my mind all week since I made my first batch of farmers cheese!  I never really knew exactly what curds or whey was but I do now~ and it was OH SO easy!  



I've been watching videos on youtube gleaning tecnique and recipes.  Some add cream and some don't but I'm sure it would be much

    




















Ingredients 



4 cups of Milk~  for thicker yogurt use whole milk 



1/2 cup dry (powdered milk but I used 3/4 cup) 



1/4 cup plain yogurt with live yogurt cultures as a starter.  I used Greek Yogurt







Step One~  Place milk in pot and heat up till milk is almost boiling which is 180 degrees.  You don't neccesarily need a thermometer for this part but I like to

These are so good!

 I love the texture of these and they are so much more healthier than ordinary pancakes with the addition of oats.  Good with or without syrup~ and now that I am thinking
about it~ they would be good with some pecans or walnuts thrown in to make them crunchy.



2 cups quick cooking oatmeal

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 cup milk

2
eggs

dash of salt

1 tsp baking powder

1/4

Last week I mixed up some orange peels together with some vinegar and let it sit in a mason jar on the counter to steep.  I originally made this to add to my all purpose cleaner to use on my floors but I found that it left my floors sticky.  I'll just continue on using the original solution plain since it works so well for me.  

Not wanting to throw this great smelling stuff away I decided to