I'll write how I made it -- way too simple! :) I get 10 pounds of frozen broccoli from Azure Standard almost every month. It comes in two 5 pound bags and it's cut into fairly small florets with very little stem so they break apart easily. I'm guessing they're flash frozen in individual pieces so they're easy to separate. When I get them, I divide it up into 10 bags but I don't take the time ...
Broccoli & Barley
We love broccoli and rice casserole but with Vince trying to eat low carb, or "lower" carb, white rice is off our menu for a while. The glycemic index (GI) of white rice is 72. The GI of hulled barley is 24 and brown rice is 68. Steel cut oats is around 53. Most sites say those numbers are + or - 4 so . . no matter how you look at it, barley is the best, by far. We actually like cooked barley. For ...
MH 1860 Finished!
Last night I finished MH 1860 by Needlework Press. This project was done on Vikki Clayton's new linen, which I love. It was so easy to stitch and I really like the way it feels. The color is Yamp Up and the floss is Vikki Clayton's silks. This was started on November 9 and finished on November 23. This is the chart: When I first started this project, I talked about some things I was ...
Thanksgiving Lunch
Last Thursday I had gone to my friend's town to meet her to stitch for the day. We alternate - she comes here one week and I go there one week and we're a little over an hour apart. When I got home last week, it was about 4 p.m. and Vince wanted to run to Carthage, eat at the hospital and pick up something he needed from Lowe's. We didn't realize that was the day the hospital was having their ...
MH 1860 Progress
I think I already said that my plan when I started this was just to try Vickie Clayton's linen, stitch a bit, then go back to Love is the Key and finish it but once I got started with MH 1860, I decided . . why leave another WIP not finished so I stuck with it and when it's finished, I'll go back to Love is the Key and get it finished. Here's where I am now on MH 1860. Thee dark spot on ...
Bacon Grease
I grew up with my grandma and mom using bacon grease for pretty much everything except pie crust and then they used lard. My grandma had homemade butter, which as kids, we called "real butter". Mom used margarine in the tubs so real butter at my grandma's was such a treat. For seasoning beans or cooking onions or garlic, it was always bacon grease. I had always saved bacon grease and used it like ...