Why is the oven still preheating after an hour and a hlf?!?!?!?!?!?!

Yep..an hour and a hlf dinner was in the oven....before i realised...that my oven was still "pre" heating....thank goodness it was just carrots that had been sitting in there!?! I opened the door and it was stone COLD! After much screaming and yelling and a phone call to the boys......i realised OH crap! What am i gunna do without an oven?!?! Yea yea i know "use those nice pots and pans you got the other day girl!!!" BUT that would mean more dishes for me to deal with...i know i was being lazy! But i had been sick the last couple of days with that nasty puking bug that was goin around and i just didnt wanna deal with dishes! I know im lazy :P Anyway being that i wasnt feeling the greatest i decided hmm ok lets check and make sure the whole entire stove isnt dead... not the case the stove top burners all worked fine....then i wondered hmm wonder if the broiler works??? Turned it on low and what did i do??? Yep i put my hand on it to see if it got hot.......i so had a blonde moment!?! (sorry for the blondes who follow/read this!) yup i burnt my hand...so while i was jumpin around from the burn and cussing myself out i thought well shoot im gunna go ahead n cook in the oven but with the broiler! Mumma came threw! Dinner cooked just fine and tasted delish! Heres the end results and the recipes will follow in the next blog!

Oh My Chives!

Nothing to exciting :) just look at how big the Chives and BokChoy are getting in my garden!

Hmmm Savers?

So thursday i ventured to a store called SAVERS its like good will i guess? It was my first visit and i wanna say it was a great experience? But it wasnt that great BUT i did get some good bargins! So as you all know we got a new table its marble... I know more work for myself BUT its so PRETTY! :) Ive decided we need place mats and coasters so i thought id have a look and see what i could find right? Whether or not it was a real place mat or not i figured if i found a nice curtain or a nice table cloth i could cut it up and make me some unique placemats! But the curtains they had were awful and the table cloths were COVERED in stains..and i had no plans in dyin the material and then cuttin them up! So i moved on and found me a good deal on green apple coloured cloth napkins! Ive been wanting to switch to cloth but just have been to lazy... but they had 9 of these nice napkins and i couldnt pass them up! Not at 60 cents a piece! And then i found a nice well i guess it was a place mat of some sorts but there was only one of then and i was looking for something to place in the middle of the table to place the bread, salt n pepper and what not in the centre of the table with out scratchin up the marble! It was only 90 cents!

So while i was out today i popped into walmart to see what was in their clearance section and i came across this really cute baseket! It was on clearance because one small piece on the bottom was snapped a lil and heck ive been looking for a bread basket! And this would do a perfect job of that! Its the same colour as our chairs and the green napkins look great with the basket!

So i hope uve all had a great wk :) And sorry i havent blogged every single day :) I hate not having my camera! Anyway im sitting here waiting for a loaf of bread to bake and all the boys are off up stairs im down stairs listening to music and enjoying a cup of peppermint tea MMM I hope everyone has a good wkend!

My evening!

So like mentioned before we were over at Joe and Ang's! She grilled tonight which was pretty good (even if the chicken was a lil black *GRIN* i think we all enjoyed it!) But our local icecream place called "HoneyBear" opened up this wk and we can NOT be happier! As you will see from the pics Angie snapped earlier this evening! But a great night was had by all we may have not have played games this wk but the boys watched movies and us gals caught up on girl chat! Which we both need sometimes :)

Spring has Sprung!

:) So we were over at Angie and Joe's for our ritual dinner and games this evening and seeing ive been with out a camera these last few days..... I have MUMMY brains! Ive been loosing things lately! My mum says its what happens when you have kids! (ITS SO TRUE! that and 2 grown men to look after a dog 3 cats a guinea pig and a 5 yr old!) So anyway she took some pics of the newly sprung seedlings that are growing in her basement!


Here i have BokChoy, PakChoy, Leeks, Lettuce of all sorts!, And Lime Basil and Parsely! Woohoo im so excited! Any body else doing a veggie garden this yr?

MeatLoaf Maddness!

So last sunday we had Joey and Angie over for dinner seeing we resheduled our ritual friday dinner and games night :) And i decided to make meatlloaf potato bake asparagas and fresh baked bread! My meatloaf turned out to be a MOUNTAIN! :) But i was feeding 3 grown men who love their meat so i wanted to make sure i had enough meatloaf to fill them up and have left overs for lunches! Heres what it looked like!

MeatLoaf Maddnesssss!

(i dont do measurements remember!)

(Your meatloaf will be made up of 80% turkey 20%beef)

Turkey Mince

Lean Beef Mince

1 Large Onion

6 Cloves of garlic

Fresh Ground Sea Salt(to taste)

Fresh Ground Black Pepper(to taste)

A1 Cracked Peppercorn Suace

Rosemary(to taste)

Panko Bread Crumbs

Ketchup

Unsalted Butter

Olive Oil

Eggs

Where to start?!

Take your mince toss it into a LARGE bowl for mixing!

Get your chopping board out and and diced our onion up,

Crush and peel the garlic then mince it up!

Heat your pan up with the oil and butter, when the butter has melted and gotten happy with the oil!

Toss your onions and garlic in! MMM

Now turn the heat down to meduim you dont want the onions to burn!

Sautee the onions n garlic till well cooked n mushie! Halfway to that point sprinkle the rosemary in!

(the mixture smells devine!)

Set aside when all cooked up and let cook you will be adding this mixture to the meat AND you want it to be cool enough that when your mixing your mince it dont burn u!

This is what it will look like when the mixture is cool enough to mix in with the meat! Once this mixture is mixed in added your eggs (depending on how much mince u used depends on how many eggs ull need in all my meatloaf had about 6-7pounds of mince all up so i added 2 eggs!) Mush your egs threw nicely add your bread crumbs mix threw well add your ketchup mix mix :) your goin to add the pepper and salt to the rw meat as well n mix throughly. Toss your mound of meat into a cassarole dish that is big enough to hold your meatloaf! Shape it then take your A1 sauce and spread over the meatloaf. Preheat your oven to 350'F and bake this baby for about 1-2 hours!

~Asparagas Done Easy~

Cuts the ends off your asparagus wash em u know how to pre em right? :)

Get a glass dish out drizzle it with olive oil

Toss your asparagus in and coat with the oil in the dish :)

Sprinkle some garlic powder over them and some onion powder

Crack some sea salt on em and some fresh cracked black pepper

Toss em about and throw in the oven cook until bright green and tender!

You can get the recipe for this Potato Bake in a past Blog Post!

MMM Another version of my Chewy Tasty Yummy (this time pretty dang healthy!) Oatmeal ChocChip Cookies!

So this wk i decided to make the boys cookies even healthier! Ive cut the sugars almost completely out! And i used some honey for a different taste of sweet! As for the choc chips i only added one cup of choc chips as well as 1 cup of cut up dried berries i used blue berries, cranberries strawberries and raspberries! They turned out very nicely and the boys have been enjoying them! Heres some pics of the revamped cookies! (and yes i still added the flaxseed meal to the cookies!)

Check out my older blog posts for this recipe!

Its Spring! Its Spring!

Woohoo! Spring has sprung! The grass is ris? I wonder where the birdiez is?!? Yea or something like that the saying goes :P Anyway on Monday i went over to plant some more seeds at Angies, I planted red peppers and yellow peppers and becuz the critters dug up all my bok choy seeds outside.......i planted some more but this time they will start under the lights at Angies place! So far i have lettuce coming up! Parsely! Leeks and i dont know what the others are lol bcuz the labels have run from watering but i dont care as long as they sproute!

OWIE?!?! But its in a good way!

So Sara let me borrow TurBo Jam and i have become a turbo jam junkie and i am feeling it in my thighs abs and arms! It hurts so good! ok so it doesnt hurt im just a lil sore and ache! But im noticing a difference seeing ive been crankin up my work outs! I am so focused on gettin into the jeans Sara passed onto me! Anyway i have some other logs to post and to end this one i thought id end it with a few of my fav things in the world!!

KittyButt! KittyWhat?!?!

So on the wkend my hubby cleaned up the laundry room and relocated the cats dinning area!

And its so cute! To see them lined up at dinner time hehehe!

BYOB! MMMM The smell of fresh Baked Bread!

Yet another lovely loaf of bread! This recipe is exactly the same as the 100% whole wheat sandwhich bread BUT i did not add the honey to this loaf for a more savory loaf of bread rather then sweet! I just sliced a few pieces for my son to have a PBJ sandwhich and he has not stopped mmm'ing since he took a bite! (He thinks i made white bread little does he know bwahaha!)