A few recipes from blogland. . .

I love to cook and try new recipes and we rarely eat the same thing twice around here. So I thought I would try a few from the blogs I frequent.

A Year of Slow Cooking had a few I tried out Orange Chicken, which was good but I think I will cut back on the orange juice next time. She also has a recipe forSalsa Chicken and Black Bean Soup, we all enjoyed this. I just wasn't sure why she put mushrooms in, I put them in but probably won't next time. Sweet Mustard Roast, I made this with a beef roast. The flavor was alright but I just don't care for roast, hubby enjoyed it. Sweet and Sour Tofu, I did not make this in the crockpot,I didn't really see the need to. We all enjoyed this too.


I also made Skillet Lasagna from Sister's Stuff. It was yummy and the kids loved it. The same night I decided to try and make bread, remember I am not much of a baker. Gourmet Mom-on-the-Go had a No Fail Quick French Bread. I don't know if I would call it french bread but it was yummy home made bread.


I have a list of other recipes I would like to try out before baby arrives and I don't have as much time.

Baby's Quilt. . . Done

After seeing this tutorial for a rag quilt on Creations by Kara we decided to try it out for the baby's car seat quilt. I had just enough of this snowflake flannel and a solid light blue flannel to make it big enough to snuggle in the car seat.

I think the snowflake fabric is neutral enough and then if we have a girl we will whip up a more girly version.

Stained Glass Snowflakes

These snowflakes look great in our window when the sun is out!

I cut a snowflake out of black construction paper laid it on contact paper and had the kids rip tissue paper and stick it on.

This is the back. . .

and the beautiful fronts!

Marshmallow snowmen.

We needed something to keep us busy yesterday so I thought we would make marshmallow snowmen. We used a cookie sheet and I used gel icing to make an outline of a snowmen. Then the kids used mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, candy corn and Lo Mein noodles ( pretzels sticks would work too, just didn't have any)





Isn't he cute :)

And can you believe the whole time they wanted to eat marshmallows and I made them wait to make sure we had enough. By the time we got to the end no one wanted to eat their snowman.

Mr. P's quilt done.

Here is Mr. P's quilt finished.

I like these small quilt sizes, makes me feel like I am doing something!

A quilt for Mr P

Car quilt take 2. What was I thinking that we could only make Miss A a car quilt.

Once again Miss A helped pick out fabric from the stash, measure and sew. Another great job!

The front. . .




The back. . .


and ready to be quilted.

Miss A's quilt finished. . .

Miss A's car quilt is finished. She is loving it and is very proud of herself!

Now Mr P. has requested one. Miss A has helped pick some fabric out of the "stash" and we have started cutting. We also have in the works a mini car seat quilt for the new baby. We are making one pink and one blue.

And here is a picture for those Pittsburgh people who didn't have school today because they had a couple of inches accumulation.

Come play with us!