Category: MISC

Favorite Ingredient Friday ~ Dessert Edition ~ Cheese Danish

4 oz. cream cheese*
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
2 – 8 oz. crescent rolls
1 egg
1 tablespoon butter

  • Combine first 5 ingredients and cream together.
  • On a large greased cookie sheet, roll out the first can of crescent rolls, sealing all the edges.
  • Spread the cream cheese mixture evenly over top of crescent rolls.
  • Top with the other can of crescent rolls and seal all the outside edges top to bottom.
  • Beat together the egg and melted butter.
  • Brush egg mixture over crescent rolls.
  • Bake at 35 degrees for 20 minutes.

*can substitute 4 oz. cream cheese for 2 oz. cream cheese and 2 oz. jam (favorite flavor)

I do the memes: Menu Plan Monday hosted by Laura at I’m an Organizing Junkie, Favorite Ingredient Friday hosted by Kathryn at Overwhelmed with Joy, Freezer Food Friday hosted by MJ at mjpuzzlemom, Scrumptious Sunday hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks and Slow Cooking Thursday hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. Doing them all make great additions to help keeping me on track and finding so new recipes!

T13 #11 Projects accomplished since 2008 began

  • 1) New Plumbing in ~ old plumbing outliterally
  • 2) New kitchen Sink and the cupboards to go under it
  • 3) Painted downstairs bathroom
  • 4) Painted upstairs bathroom
  • 5) Painted Living Room
  • 6) Linen cabinets installed
  • 7) Washer & Dryer moved from basement to 1st floor
  • 8) Office moved upstairs and spare bedroom moved down and then reversed again LOL
  • 9) Rummage sale items boxed and moved to barn
  • 10) Spare bedroom painted
  • 11) Online Organizer completed
  • 12) Bookshelves organized
  • 13) Closet cleaned and downsized

Slow Cooking Thursday & Scrumptious Sunday collide with Chicken Noodle Soup

Slow Cooking Thursday is hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.
Scrumptious Sunday is hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks.

3 boneless, skinless chicken thighs,diced
2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, diced
3 carrots. cleaned and slant cut into slices
2 celery ribs
1 large onion, chopped
3 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
8 cups water
8 teaspoons Wylers chicken granules or 3 tablespoons chicken bouillon base
2/3 cups frozen peas, thawed
1/4 cup barley
1 1/2 cups egg noodles, dry

  • On bottom of slow cooker place chicken pieces, carrots, celery , onion and garlic.
  • Whisk together the water, chicken granules and seasonings.
  • Pour over chicken and vegetables.
  • Cook on low 4 hours.
  • Adjust seasonings to taste.
  • Add noodles, barley and peas.
  • Cook another hour.
I do the memes: Menu Plan Monday hosted by Laura at I’m an Organizing Junkie, Favorite Ingredient Friday hosted by Kathryn at Overwhelmed with Joy, Freezer Food Friday hosted by MJ at mjpuzzlemom, Scrumptious Sunday hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks and Slow Cooking Thursday hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. Doing them all make great additions to help keeping me on track and finding so new recipes!

What Cousins are Made of

I found this quote in a magazine earlier tonight and had to share it
because it is exactly how I feel about my cousin, Jenn.

One part love,
One part Friend,
One part Sister,
That’s what Cousins
are made of…

There are few more parts I would add to the list though.
Words like: therapist, confidant, survivor, advocate, comedian…
After all without a sense of humor none of the rest of it matters.

The great TUB debate comes to an end!

For many months now we have been having a debate in our house about the CLAW FOOT TUB.

DO we keep it or not?

It started as this funky enclosure when we bought the house. I was sure that when I tore away the moldy enclosure that I’d find a tub on cinder blocks, but I found this great claw foot tub that just happened to be this ugly puke green color. We painted it a bronze color and and made all the plans to install the conversion shower kit, but in the end it looks like the claw foot tub will become the newest flower planter after all.

If we install a conventional tub and shower with a sliding door we’ll have 14 inches left over to build a built in towel shelf storage and we won’t have to worry about shower liners that may or may not fit the extra large tub (it’s over 6 feet long), and leaks from upstairs to down which has happened many times from our understanding and we’ll have a few extra square feet to the usable floor space. We’d been waiting to finish this bathroom until the plumbing was done which is what we’re doing now.

We found that parts of the main floor now need replaced. There had never been a proper connector on the toilet connection, just a wax ring between the toilet and the floor around this. We were going to do the floors later, but because of this new glitch along with all the sub floor that had to be cut and repaired when they did the plumbing we just decided that doing the floor now before putting in the new fixtures was the smartest thing to do.

We found this great sale at Menards (like a home depot) on an “exotic oiled teakwood plank” (which just means that the color is oiled teak and the exotic plank means it’s all one board) laminated floor made by Laura Ashley. Yeah, I know a designer floor! BUT, it has SOOOOOOOOOO many positives: It was MADE IN THE USA, it was on sale for the right price (less than the stuff made in china), the underlayment layer is already attached to the back of each plank (which means one less thing to buy or mess with, it was made in the USA, oh and did I mention it was on sale for the right price?

Theme~Out of the mouths of babes~Grandma doesn't Know Everything


“This is a weekly meme for Hump Day – Wednesdays.
Participants will post anything humorous: email forwards, pictures, happenings, or personal stories that go along with the question(s) and/or theme that is posted for that Wednesday.”
hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks

Tony had been playing outside with the other kids for a while when he came into the house and asked her, “Grandma, what’s that called when two people sleep in the same room and one is on top of the other?”

She was a little taken a back, but she decided to just tell him the truth. “It’s called sexual intercourse, darling.” Little Tony just said, “Oh, OK,” and went back outside to play with the other kids.

A few minutes later he came back in and said angrily, “Grandma, it isn’t called sexual intercourse. It’s called bunk beds. And Jimmy’s mom wants to talk to you.”

Tuesday's Romance of Cookery and Housekeeping

Stuffed Tomatoes
  • 2 Large FIRM tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup diced cucumbers
  • 1 bunch chopped green onions, chopped fine
  • 1 celery spear, chopped fine
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup celery seed dressing (see side bar for this recipe)
Thoroughly wash the tomatoes*. Slice off the top of each tomato. Cut out stem area and dice the remaining pieces. Carefully spoon out the seeds. In a mixing bowl mix together your tomato top pieces, seeds (optional – I like them though), cucumbers, green onions, celery and salt. Toss together well. Warm the dressing for a few seconds in the microwave and then toss with the vegetables. This works best if you mix together all the ingredients and chill for 2 hours before stuffing the tomatoes. Serve on a bed of lettuce.

*The original recipe called for peeling the tomatoes.

Recipe (page 180) adapted from ‘A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband’ by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron

I do the memes: Menu Plan Monday hosted by Laura at I’m an Organizing Junkie, Favorite Ingredient Friday hosted by Kathryn at Overwhelmed with Joy, Freezer Food Friday hosted by MJ at mjpuzzlemom, Scrumptious Sunday hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks and Slow Cooking Thursday hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. Doing them all make great additions to help keeping me on track and finding so new recipes!