Another day....another flybaby step down! I'm totally loving the flylady system, my house looks amazing, and I'm not even done with all the cleaning and decluttering. I've been doing the "crisis cleaning," in the last couple of days and it has really made a huge difference! I know how to clean, but this system is helping me keep the house clean. Here's a big shout out to www.flylady.net and all the wonderful people who run the site!
Thanksgiving is fast approaching.....I think it has to be one of my favorite holidays of the whole year! I love that we get to spend it with family and talk about what we're thankful for. I've been slowly working on the menu. We're going to be doing our brined turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes (some with butter, some w/o) with gf, dairy free gravy, gf cornbread stuffing (also dairy free), gf rolls, glutenated rolls, roasted green beans with olive oil and salt and pepper, 3 pies: 1 gf, dairy free pumpkin pie, 1 traditional pumpkin pie, and 1 traditional apple pie. I've also bought some wine and sparkling cider. Hubby also has some homemade hard cider and some sour wine that he made from the grapes growing on the vines in my parents' yard. I still need one or two more side dishes but I don't know what else to add to the list....any ideas?
We are having my mom, dad, and youngest sis over this year! I'm excited to share a mostly gluten free meal with them....my poor mom, she has no idea what gluten is. I've tried explaining it to her and she seems to understand but then just the other day asks me if hubby can eat turkey! How silly! (haha....there's a word I never, ever used before becoming a mom!)
For Xmas gifts in the past, we've always made goodies for our families. But with hubby's and my diet restrictions, I've decided to go a slightly different route. Instead of doing all different kinds of goodies (fudge, cupcakes, cookies, truffles, etc), I'm going to make only 3 things.....and 1 of them isn't even food! I'm excited to get started on making the gifts. I'm also going to finally get back to making cards this year, too. I didn't do it last year because L was only 2 1/2 months old, and I wasn't ready to take on the task and make the goodies. But this year I'm going to do both!
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Risotto and Yakima
Yay for blogger working again!
I made risotto the other night! I used a recipe from my America's Test Kitchen cookbook.....it was really good! I put purple and orange carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, white wine, brown rice, and love into it. The purple cooked out of the carrots and the rice soaked it up, so it kinda had a purple tint overall, but was delicious.....L liked it, too.....in fact we had leftovers of it for dinner tonight. =)
We spent the weekend in Yakima. I took photos for my youngest sister's senior pics.....I hope they turn out great! We had dinner at my grandparents' and the whole fam competed in a pumpkin carving contest.....the winner was a big pumpkin with a cute little dog carved into it! (not mine....I'm not that creative, mine just had a bat carved into it)
My other sis and I ran a bunch of errands over the weekend, too.....we went to a local bookstore over there and I bought a new book for my self The Clutter Cure, we'll see if that gets me anywhere! Haha.....and some blocks for L, she loves them already.....she tries to stack them, then destroys whatever she's stacked....it's pretty funny to watch her. Hubby stacked up a pyramid today with the blocks and L came along a wrecked it and laughed!
Speaking of hubby, he went hunting over the weekend with his dad. Hubby didn't get anything, but his dad did! A deer. Hubby's been hunting twice this year and both times has come up empty handed, but I think he has fun just being in the woods and doing man stuff.....I'm glad he has something to do that he enjoys! After having L, we've both struggled to find time for ourselves.
Tomorrow I work, then L and I will carve her pumpkin....I'm excited to see how she likes the guts!
This year we're doing Thanksgiving at our house! My mom, dad, youngest sister and probably her boyfriend, are coming over and staying the night with us. We did Thanksgiving here a couple of years ago and I think it turned out great, some of our friends and their kids came over that year. But this year will definitely be different. Hubby was diagnosed with Celiac disease in March, so we've got to make an entire comfort-food-dinner with no wheat/gluten! I've already got some ideas for how to change some of our favorite recipes into gluten free goodness, still not sure how to change the green bean casserole, though. We're going to make the stuffing with gf cornbread, the pumpkin pie with gf gingersnap cookie crumb crust (say that 5 times fast!), and some yummy gf rolls. I'm excited to see how it all turns out!
I made risotto the other night! I used a recipe from my America's Test Kitchen cookbook.....it was really good! I put purple and orange carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, white wine, brown rice, and love into it. The purple cooked out of the carrots and the rice soaked it up, so it kinda had a purple tint overall, but was delicious.....L liked it, too.....in fact we had leftovers of it for dinner tonight. =)
We spent the weekend in Yakima. I took photos for my youngest sister's senior pics.....I hope they turn out great! We had dinner at my grandparents' and the whole fam competed in a pumpkin carving contest.....the winner was a big pumpkin with a cute little dog carved into it! (not mine....I'm not that creative, mine just had a bat carved into it)
My other sis and I ran a bunch of errands over the weekend, too.....we went to a local bookstore over there and I bought a new book for my self The Clutter Cure, we'll see if that gets me anywhere! Haha.....and some blocks for L, she loves them already.....she tries to stack them, then destroys whatever she's stacked....it's pretty funny to watch her. Hubby stacked up a pyramid today with the blocks and L came along a wrecked it and laughed!
Speaking of hubby, he went hunting over the weekend with his dad. Hubby didn't get anything, but his dad did! A deer. Hubby's been hunting twice this year and both times has come up empty handed, but I think he has fun just being in the woods and doing man stuff.....I'm glad he has something to do that he enjoys! After having L, we've both struggled to find time for ourselves.
Tomorrow I work, then L and I will carve her pumpkin....I'm excited to see how she likes the guts!
This year we're doing Thanksgiving at our house! My mom, dad, youngest sister and probably her boyfriend, are coming over and staying the night with us. We did Thanksgiving here a couple of years ago and I think it turned out great, some of our friends and their kids came over that year. But this year will definitely be different. Hubby was diagnosed with Celiac disease in March, so we've got to make an entire comfort-food-dinner with no wheat/gluten! I've already got some ideas for how to change some of our favorite recipes into gluten free goodness, still not sure how to change the green bean casserole, though. We're going to make the stuffing with gf cornbread, the pumpkin pie with gf gingersnap cookie crumb crust (say that 5 times fast!), and some yummy gf rolls. I'm excited to see how it all turns out!
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