Antique spices

This is the tin of cloves I was having trouble with here. It’s so cute though! There’s a little handwritten label on top, and my mom told me she put that on for my grandmother in high school. Yikes!

 

She told me Red Owl is long gone. I’d never heard of it, anyway.

As of last night, this is no longer in our spice drawer – thank goodness. It has found a new home with some decorative jars above the stove.

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Asian Stir Fry… mmmmm :-)

We had some easy Asian stir-fry dinner in the freezer, and I’d been wanting to make it forever, so I finally cooked it up last night! I added ground ginger like the package suggested, and canned turkey (it would have been wayyyy too much work to thaw out chicken, y’know) and chopped up cabbage and made instant rice to go with it. It was great!

It also suggested putting shredded coconut on top. I did.
OBSESSION!!!
It was divine!

And I am totally having the leftovers for supper tonight.

Anyway, after supper last night I ran to Walmart, since I have money again… and this little book had jumped out at me when I was there earlier this week with Abby. Isn’t it beautiful??? It’s the called the Ideal Book – cleverest of clever! I’m in love!

I’m SO excited to fill this up with a million notes and lists and plans!

It was only about $3, in case you were wondering. And there are matching folders and notebooks, too. I checked. :-D

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My kinda burger :-D

I love boca burgers. Love love love. But I’m not always good at cooking them. Either they are burnt, or by the time I get ketchup and mustard on they are cold. But THIS ONE! This one was muy perfecto! (I may be mixing languages there… or making words up. Who knows.) Add on a slice of American rice cheese, organic ketchup, play connect the dots with mustard, slap a flat bun on top (I’m obsessed with flat buns – I think we get Sara Lee and one other brand around here. Whole grain, of course, because multigrain is evil and corn-bearing) and you have got a MEAL!

I was going to have this yummy-looking spinach, too… until I realized it did not smell so yummy. Sick. 

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Chicken a la Lexi

I used to eat Chicken a la King at Bible school, and I LOVED it. Favorite meal hands down. I was SO excited when I found a recipe for it in Fitness! I tweaked it (read: totally changed it) and it was mmmmmmmmmmmmmm… really good.

My mess… :-)

The recipe, sort of.

YUMMY red bell peppers!

  First sautéing the onions…

 

Then lots more veggies! I threw in everything I could find in the fridge – broccoli, one lonely potato, carrots, and later beans and peas.

 
Then I realized I had forgotten to cook the chicken before (or else I just didn’t, who knows) and fried it fast as I could.

With some flour and the chicken – now it looks right!

The delicious spread!

 

  

Foodz as of late

Supa-scrumptious raspberry rhubarb pie. Sorry, this is not a very appetizing picture. My sister deleted the yummy ones. *angry face*

Mmm… pigout with MASH. rice milk, 2 grilled cheese sandwiches (made with rice cheese and soy butter), grapes, a Jennie O turkey dog, AND two Dove bliss chocolates for dessert! (naughty me!)

 

Another lunch… tuna with various nummy things on a flat bun, with a layer of spinach on either side, and carrots, berries and milk.
 

SO, SO, SO good! This is plain old minute rice with chicken flavoring, tilapia fried in salt and oil, and an amazing salsa – as usual, I don’t have the recipe handy, but it’s made with blueberries, mango, lime juice, cilantro, red onion and red bell pepper. It was HEAVENLY!

This is what most of my lunches look like. Whether it’s a bad or good thing, I’m not sure. Mango, peach (?), red pepper, hot dog, and a tortilla with brown sugar melted inside.
 

Love my coffee, granola, yogurt and blueberries :-)