Snow and Steak Stroganoff

See the little dots in the pic?


See 'em now?


Snow! It snowed here yesterday. Not too happy about that.


I got this cookbook at a garage sale this summer.

And I made this....(if you click on the picture it should make it big enough to read. Or, if I must, I will type it out for you. Just let me know)

I cut up a steak, as the book says, but stew meat would work. BTW-does everyone have a pair of 'meat' scissors in their kitchen? You should. It makes cutting a steak, chicken, whatever...so much easier.

Put the meat in the sauce in the crock pot all day.



Cooked some rice, but noodles would work well too.




YUM! And it's a nice comfort food for this brrrr weather!

Cindy

What I've been up to

So, Jayme the Coop Keeper commented that she thinks "eyes" are my "Number 53". http://talefromthecoopkeeper.blogspot.com/2010/10/inquiring-minds-part-v.html

I thought...naaaaa.....then I saw this post!http://thesearetheplaceswheregraceis.blogspot.com/2010/11/updates-what-nots.html

And that was a day after I saw Mel's post with the crazy eye pic of her son James!

I'm tellin' y'all....I'm done with the eyeball thing!

(will someone please show me how to do the "link" thing so I don't have to cut and paste addresses? I've tried clicking on the link icon and doing it that way, but it doesn't work)

So I'm going to show you what I've been up to lately, besides building a house...

Closing the Community Garden and getting ready for the Harvest Celebration. Lots of work getting ready for this celebration.

I picked a bunch of green tomatoes. Some of them got too frozen and I had to throw them out, but I did keep a few. You do know they will turn red, don't you? And if you cover them with newspaper, that slows down the reddening process...so maybe we'll have sliced tomatoes for Thanksgiving.

Getting my bees ready for winter. What do my feet have to do with my bees? See the right foot? Very swollen. That's because honeybees do not like you messing in their hives in the fall, especially if it's a tad cold out. They stung me right on the backside of my foot. Several of them. Right above the heel, right through my socks, and my entire foot swelled up from the ankle to the toes. This picture was about three days after the sting. Now, having shown you this pic let me explain this is not an allergic reaction. This is a fairly normal reaction to a bee sting. You will swell, you will itch. An allergic reaction is when you cannot breath and go into shock. So stop being babies and telling everyone you're allergic because you swell. Even beekeepers will swell.....and don't tell my Shug that I showed you my swollen foot. His Mom does that all the time and it really makes him mad! He hates it! She insists he look at her swollen ankles. She's 87. It's not because of bee stings. Wow I almost got on a soap box there.....

I made laundry detergent.

I've been doing a little shopping. Have you seen all of these Christmas teas? I'm a little disappointed that they are not individually packaged. I wanted to divide them all up for Christmas presents. Now I'll have to give an entire box, or keep them to myself :)

I start locker hooking a rug. No, I'm not finished with my Sand and Sea blanket. Nor am I done with other works in progress (WIP) So what! I can't help myself. "My name is Cindy and I have a problem finishing things." My excuse is that this is possibly a Christmas present so I had to get it started.

And I've been whipping up a few more of these. They only take me 30-40 minutes each now. I try to make one a day.


And I decided to brighten up the table with these flowers that I got at the grocery store. I didn't decorate for Halloween this year. I missed it. I usually decorate for all of the Holidays, but I was so busy and tired, I just didn't care :(

But I will decorate for Christmas...I think I'll start now!

Cindy

VOTE

REMEMBER TO VOTE TODAY


Cindy