Showing posts with label crock pot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crock pot. Show all posts

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Just one thing!

Why is it that sometimes just mentioning one thing can change the chain of events?

Hubby came into my office yesterday and said "Why don't you get rid of that old fax machine?. The belt is shot and you don't have any ink for it anyway and haven't used it in so long?"

So this morning I decided to take his advice and went into the office to remove it. As soon as I did, there was a shadow on the shelf, a familiar one.  The kind that show you how long it has been since you dusted. This shadow was screaming months if not years. :)   I decided to clean off that spot, then that shelf, then the floor underneath that area, then the dog bed below that shelf. Suddenly I am on a mission to clean up my whole office!  I didn't plan this!

Here is a pic I just took.  Can you guess which shelf I did? And see all those pink yogurt lids sticking out of that box on the second shelf that I saved to send in for the cancer cause?  Most of them are from last year!  So I have my day or at least rest of the morning cut out for me.

 I initially came out to the office to upload a few pictures I had taken a week ago. So I'll post those before I get back to cleaning the office. Below are some of my wonderful home grown peppers that I harvested. I got quite a few this year They always seem to really multiply after September, maybe because it is slightly cooler at night by then? The red ones are really sweet!


 And below is what I did with them. Yup. I made stuffed peppers in the crock pot.

 Gave some to my folks to have for dinner also. They were awesome and I loved that fact that I was eating peppers that I had personally grown! No chemicals or preservatives. Go me! I also froze some so when my youngest is visiting from college we can have them for lunch one day.


The photo below I give the credit to my hubby who saw this buck from our front window.  Handsome fellow isn't he?  Deer are always roaming the neighborhood grazing. Everyone leaves them alone so they tend to stay and grow their families.  There are a few herds (guess that is the proper term) that have 10 or more deer that tend to stick together. This guy was on his own.
Well back to cleaning my office..

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Ever crock pot?..

I do!  I love using a crock pot and use it whenever I possibly can!

Today I noticed that I had some cauliflower and bok choy that was getting pretty old. It was either have it or chuck it.  So I decided to cut it up and put it in the crock pot to have as my veges with dinner (we were also having tater tots), but I prefer a more healthy vegetable, especially when having breaded shrimp which is already..'breaded'.  My hub asked me what I was making.  Was it caulibok?  Or was it choyflower?  :-)

Frankly I didn't care what it was called, all I knew was I was using up some vegetables and eating something healthy!  Did you know that one of the healthiest vegetables you can eat are Bok Choy with Shitake mushrooms?  I started out with that last week but only had Bok Choy left this week. Bok Choy (which I first heard about on that show Dr Oz), contains cancer fighting compounds and shitake mushrooms are packed with vitamins and minerals and also I've read protect against cardiovascular disease.

I got the cauliflower last week because it was on sale for 99 cents a head and that was too good a price to pass up. So just by chopping them up along with the Bok Choy and throwing them in my crock pot with a little olive oil and a smidgen of water, I got a healthy veggie to eat with my not as healthy breaded shrimp.  Hey at least the shrimp were cooked in the oven and NOT deep fried. :-)

Got some great news last night! The oldest is coming for a visit the end of next month!  WOO HOO! This is the one that moved back east last August. It will be great to see her since we haven't seen her since then.  She has decided she loves being back 'home' (PA), so I wasn't sure when we would see her again. I was hoping for Christmas but she let me know it would be much sooner.  Something to look forward to next month!

Well I think it is a popcorn kind of night!  Something else to look forward to!