I LIKE Thursday. 3-13-25

 

I follow Sweatpants and Coffee on Facebook and she posted this meme from Mona Lisa Nyman. I like it!

I visited the office where I used to work. I help them out occasionally when the owner and the other signer are both gone at the same time. Anyway, a couple of AP checks needed to be signed, so I dropped in.  In 2010 we moved into this office space. It has wrap around windows in the corner of the 7 story building. I brought a golden Pothos from our former office, to live in the office of the boss, the owner. 

This is what that one small plant has become. Some of the leaves are bigger than my hand!

The weather has warmed up quite a lot. Should be near 60°  today, Wednesday. And some sun.  Come on Spring. 

 I made cookies for the neighbor who cleared our driveway and walks last weekend. I didn’t get a photo, but think Preppy Kitchen’s Peanut Butter Cookies.  There were more than the 18 it was supposed to make. So we got to have a few too! Yummy. 

LeeAnna asks:

in honor of St Patrick's day, what is your favorite shade of green? do you have any clothes in that color? accents for the home like pillows, duvets, etc?

Oh gosh! I like all greens. 

I wear dark forest green in the winter. I have a long sleeved t-shirt that I wear underneath a fleece vest. It’s more forest green than this photo shows. 

I wear light green and lime green in summer. I have several green shirts and 2 pair of light olive green capris. 

Our living room is painted 2 shades of sage green. 

Our bedroom has a dark green accent wall. It’s called Bayberry. 

My sewing room is a different sage green! Yup! I like green. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Weekend Cooking Thanksgiving 2015

I normally don't participate in this weekly meme. I cook mostly simple, tried and try dishes. No special ingredients, no special utensils, just 50 years of doing. This Thanksgiving our granddaughter and her husband and 2 yr old son were with us. She is dairy free and gluten free and now newly pregnant again.

This year I tried a recipe I saw on Facebook. An apple cider mimosa. It was posted from Delish.com. The video is here.  The recipe called for cinnamon and sugar with no proportions. I just spooned a teaspoon of each in a saucer. Next time I would cut back  on the cinnamon or blend it better. I used ginger ale in place of the champagne, because our DGD is pregnant. It was really yummy. And easy peasy!

Did you create something different this year for your Thanksgiving?  Did you rely on a tried and try recipe that never fails?  Share a post and link up with Beth Fish Reads.



Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Thanksgiving Dinner Changed Up

Check out all the Weekend Cooking posts Beth Fish Reads. Then join the fun. I don't regularly post to this meme, but every once in awhile I do something "foodie".


I tried a couple of new recipes this year. Our granddaughter is dairy-free and coconut-free and just recently has cut gluten out of her diet. So Thanksgiving was different than usual.

Turkey Breast in the Crock Pot.I saw it on Pinterest, and the pin links to  Jamie Cooks It Up. It is a can of cranberry whole berry sauce, 1/2 cup orange juice and 1 envelope of onion soup mix. Very good. The sauce thickened to make a wonderful, faintly sweet gravy.

We have a family traditional cranberry salad that uses real whipped cream. I made two versions, the regular one for my husband and me, and one without the whipped cream for our granddaughter. Her husband doesn't do jello salad of any kind and the baby(15 months) did not like it either. Oh well, those of us who are original family like it.!

The real winner was a new dessert: I wish I had taken a picture of the delight in our granddaughter's face as she tasted the first bite.  I found the recipe on Pinterest too. You can find the recipe here on my page and then visit the site.  Here are my "tweaks"

2/3 cup honey
1/2 cup melted butter  melted lactose free margarine
1 tbsp vanilla extract
3 eggs but you could substitute 1 cup applesauce
1 cup almond flour   gluten free rice flour with 1 tsp xanthum gum added
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp sea salt
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Whisk honey, melted margarine, vanilla, eggs until smooth. I used a small hand mixer. Add flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Stir to blend. I added it in small batches. Pour into a greased 8x8x2 pan, Bake approximately 25 15-20 minutes until center no longer jiggles and top feels cakey. Cool on a wire rack at least until sides pull away from the pan before cutting. (Cutting with a plastic knife helps)

I frosted them before cutting with regular off-the-box Hershey's chocolate frosting recipe, with a few substitutions. It made more than what I put on the brownies. I'll save it for another recipe, then stored them in the fridge.
1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine, melted (used the lactose -free margarine)
2/3 cup cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup almond milk
1 tsp vanilla
I added 1 pinch of sea salt

They were chocolaty, gooey and I topped each brownie with a scoop of Haagen Daz Raspberry Sorbet. 'heavenly'.  I was lucky to find sorbet at our Walmart. The dairy free options for ice cream are not prevalent in this part of the country, especially because our DGD can't do coconut. Many more options exist in larger markets. Our daughter-in-law lives in Phoenix and she has many option for dairy substitution. Our son does a pumpkin cheesecake that she loves and he says is really awesome too.

Today, our granddaughter and family will be here again, while her husband helps my husband hang more insulation and sheet rock in the garage. We will finish up Thanksgiving leftovers. YUM!


Until next time,
Stay Busy and Stay Happy