Well I am home sick day 2, nasty cold but I am sure I will live. I have pictures to share……YAY! This weekend Dave made home made beef stew and yesterday he made Justine’s Artisan bread oooo boy I feel the inches going to my hips!
The stew in the slow cooker….Roast beef, onions, tons of seasonings, water, beef broth, celery, carrots, onions and potatoes.
Dave is like stop taking my picture!
The finished product! He cut everything really big so it would be real chunky!
This is a wonderful easy bread recipe, and there was left over dough we put in a zip lock bag in the fridge, it says it will stay good for 2 weeks but I am sure we will make more by then. I am pretty sure the recipe calls for 6 cups of flower, 2 packs of yeast, and water. After mixing you just let the dough rise for 2 hours, then you pull off the grapefruit size section you want to cook put it in the pan you are going to cook it in and let rise and additional 40 minutes. Oh ya be sure to put corn meal or flour on the bottom of the pan so it does not stick. Oh yes you have to score the dough so it does not crack while cooking. It is a heavy wonderful bread that is really filling, again thanks to Justine for this!
Gratuitous kitty head shot while she was snuggled between us on the couch, she has it so hard!
We had a beautiful full moon the other night the sky was so blue and starry.
Well I hope everyone has a good week and hopefully you wont catch any cooties like I did!
Well it is Friday and boy is it Cold!!!!! I have already taken 3 claims today related to the weather and it is not going to get much warmer this weekend. I will have to have Dave make us some cozy fires in the fireplace.
Does anybody have a kindle? I know I wrote about mine before and how much I loved it but I just wanted to tell everybody about a great accesory I got it is called the Kandle. It's a nice clip on led light (led lights) that you clip to the top of your kindle, or ereader, or even a regular book for that matter and it works great. You can get it at Amazon.com.
How many people are chocolate fiends???? I am actually weird and only have a hankering for chocolate every now and then but I love cheese cake. So here is a a recipe for a nice chocolate turtle cheese cake....mmmmm If you should make it let me know how it turns out.
Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake
1 7 ounce package caramels 1/4 cup evaporated milk 3/4 cup chopped pecans, divided 1 9 inch chocolate crumb piecrust 2 3 ounce cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup sour cream 1 1/4 cups milk 1 package chocolate instant pudding 1/2 cup fudge topping
Place caramels and milk in a heavy saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat stirring continually, until smooth, about 5 minutes. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped pecans. Pour into piecrust.
Combine cream cheese, sour cream and milk in a blender. Process until smooth. Add pudding mix: process for about 30 seconds longer. Pour pudding mixture over caramel layer, covering evenly. Chill, loosely covered, until set, about 15 minutes. Drizzle fudge topping over pudding layer in a decorative pattern. Sprinkle top of cake with remaining pecans. Chill, loosely covered until serving time. ************************************************************************************ I am bored today and came across some interesting Free computer applications, games and links check these out they are a bit of everything:
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As the motorcycle officer walked to her car window, flipping open his ticket book, she said,
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There was a moment of silence while she smiled, and he realized what he'd just said.
He then closed his book, got back on his motorcycle and left.
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Wow I really have been a major slacker when it comes to my blog. Yesterday I finally changed my blog layout from HALLOWEEN!
I have been good, wonderful, great if any body is wondering. The holidays have come and gone now we just have to deal with the crappy never ending part of winter that seems to last for a century. I do not know about you but I am ready to sit out on my deck and enjoy a nice warm spring day already. I have a lot of friends in Florida you all know who you are (I hope) and I know this winter has been cold for you too. I was bummed because we did not go on our annual Florida vacation but the week we would of went would of been that cold, cold week and I would of just been pissed I spent thousands of dollars to be cold so in a way it is a good thing.
Not too much is new on the home front we work, and on the weekends we hang out at home as it is too cold to venture out. Dave did work on his bike this weekend in the garage and I did not even ask why he stomped into the house covered from head to toe in oil (tee hee.... shhhhh).
Work has just been work you know long and boring. I have been on a crazy shopping kick lately I may have to seek help soon....I am solely keeping amazon and a few other shopping sites in business. Note I do not go to stores as people bug the crap out of me I do it all online....at work! Lets see since after Christmas I have gotten: 2 more pairs of boots, 2 train cases (see my you tube or face book page for my reviews on those), all kinds of make-up, a nice pair of senshauser (spelling is totally wrong) headphones, jogging pants (for wearing while I lounge on the couch), paw slippers, accesories for my kindle the Ebook reader (I love love love), a jewelry pouch that was 3 sizes smaller than the picture, an over the door organizer for traveling, corel photo shop X2 and the Corel video software too, at CVS I got a $36 wet/dry hair iron for only $19.99!(I know I am forgetting a few this so that is just the stuff I can remember I literally have stuff delivered to my house at least twice a week I am on a first name basis with the UPS and fedex guy. Oh I also got a mini epilator now if you do not know what this is let me tell you it is a little device kind of like a portable shaver that has all these tweezer things on wheels that rips the hair out of your body, it is like medieval torture device, why do I do these things to myself???? I need an intervention!!!! Here are my Sasquatch boots and leather riding boots I got, The Doo was checking them out too.
Now even though I have been buying this stuff, I always pay my bills first and pay for everything in cash, no charge cards in my house. I also set up an ING savings account where I have $25 deposited from my regular checking it may not be much but in a year it will be $1,300 which will be vacation money....I also plan on making extra deposits too.
Me and the Davemiester have really gotten into the HGTV shows like househunters and the international version, and the first time home buyers episodes. We eat our dinner in front of the tv and watch these shows and Dave loves to yell at the people telling them how stupid they are for picking the wrong house. We always guess which house they will buy and I am 90% right all the time and he is usually wrong....yes this pisses him off.....LOL.
I wanted to start doing videos for blogs and you tube and I am so mad as I have 2 perfectly good tripods for my camera's and wouldn't you know it I put them some where when I was on a cleaning kick and can not find one of them. It drives me crazy when I can't find things as I am anal in the sense I have a place for everything in the house.
I wrote on Facebook last week how I was so upset Friday as we where driving home after work a car in front of us hit a kitty! I saw it fly out from the car and it was like in slow motion it was traumatic for me. We stopped the car and went to look for the kitty but it was gone I hope it was not too badly hurt and went home and got help. That just pisses me off to no end when people let their cats out, especially if you live near a very busy street. I was crying the whole way home and I ran in the house to see Delilah and hug and kiss her. I still can't get the image out of my mind....brrrrr it gives me chills!
Well I guess I have babbled enough to make up for the last two months I hope everyone one is just peachy!
