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What we did last night....: Homemade Chicken Soup for flu season
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Friday, January 18, 2013. Homemade Chicken Soup for flu season. 8 cups of low-sodium chicken broth (I've made my own, and I've also used Better than Bouillon). 4 stalks of celery, chopped. 3 carrots, peeled and chopped. 1 medium-sized yellow onion. 1/2 pound of boiled chicken breasts, shredded. 3/4 cup of uncooked noodles (I like to use mini shells, but whatever is your favorite is fine! Handful of fresh parsley (optional). Salt and pepper to taste.
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What we did last night....: Cooking for an Army of Two?
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Tuesday, December 11, 2012. Cooking for an Army of Two? For the past year of grad school, I've taken advantage of the breaks in between quarters to cook like a madwoman and freeze home-cooked meals so that I don't have to cook during the quarter, and when I'm in class at night, my husband can still have his home-cooked meals that he can just warm up. He's spoiled! So this year.we got a Costco card! 2 pots of marinara and meatballs (around 16 servings).
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What we did last night....: Quilts
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Stacked Coins, 1930's reproduction fabric, quilted long arm. Jelly Roll pattern, Indonesian Batik fabric, quilted free motion (myself). Pieced by a friend, machine quilted by me, cross-hatch pattern. Made this quilt for my sister-in-law from Batik fabrics. 16-patch pattern, long-arm quilted. Made this quilt for our birth mother. It's Bali Pops batiks, jelly roll quilt. Machine quilted in wave pattern by myself. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Film in the Fridge.
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What we did last night....: Cherry Chocolate Wine Cake
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Saturday, February 18, 2012. Cherry Chocolate Wine Cake. I made the most amazing bundt cake for my mom's birthday! It was my first bundt, and I had two go-arounds with it (the first one fell apart as I was taking it out of the bundt pan, and yes, I swore like a sailor). Nonstick vegetable cooking spray. 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate. 1 cup red wine, such as cabernet sauvignon. 1/3 cup whole milk. 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar. 3 large eggs, slightly beaten.
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What we did last night....: WIP's!
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Monday, November 26, 2012. Here are my works in progress as far as quilting goes. Just a bunch of jelly roll quilts. I bought all of these jelly rolls from the Fat Quarter Shop. Here are the backs of the quilts:. They are all crib-sized quilts, and I plan on quilting them myself, except for the last quilt, which I took to my long-arm lady. Finally, I'm finished with these batiks! It only took me a year! My excuse is that I've been in grad school, ha!
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What we did last night....: Our Three-Year Anniversary
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Friday, February 17, 2012. Our third anniversary was January 3. I know, I'm pretty late in posting the pictures of our overnight getaway. I've been busy! Anyway, we went to Carmel and stayed at a cute little bed and breakfast walking distance from the beach. We got a killer deal on the room because we stayed the day after New Year's. So we really celebrated on January 2, but it's okay! We just won't have any money left. Details, details. Not fair, not fair.
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What we did last night....: Shellac!
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Sunday, February 12, 2012. And she was right. I absolutely did. But I watched the manicurist closely, and all shellac really breaks down to is painting your nails with a special polish that cures under the UV light. But that manicure cost me 30 bones. So I told my friend Carrie, "There must a cheaper way I can do this at home," and she looked at me like I was certifiable, since the whole point is to be doted on at a salon! So here are the steps:. 5 Apply to...
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What we did last night....: New Quilt!
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Saturday, November 24, 2012. Thanksgiving was wonderful this year. Daniel and I spent it with my mom and her two beagles. It was a quiet, low-key day of watching movies and playing games. Then yesterday I got a phone call from my long-arm quilter letting me know that I had quilts ready to pick up, yay! I was inspired by this quilt. Which I thought was so lovely, so I improvised a pattern. I can't wait to bind it and wrap it up! November 26, 2012 at 1:28 PM.
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What we did last night....: January 2013
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Friday, January 18, 2013. Homemade Chicken Soup for flu season. 8 cups of low-sodium chicken broth (I've made my own, and I've also used Better than Bouillon). 4 stalks of celery, chopped. 3 carrots, peeled and chopped. 1 medium-sized yellow onion. 1/2 pound of boiled chicken breasts, shredded. 3/4 cup of uncooked noodles (I like to use mini shells, but whatever is your favorite is fine! Handful of fresh parsley (optional). Salt and pepper to taste.
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What we did last night....: On hiatus
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What we did last night. A place for creativity. Wednesday, February 27, 2013. SoI've not been doing much cooking, quilting, knitting or much of anything else lately because of the classes I've been taking this quarter in my grad program. I'm in an "exclusive" creative writing workshop (or at least I like to think it's exclusive); there are just four of us. But that means we each have to bring a new story every week for the whole quarter! Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out. March 1, 2013 at 12:45 PM. So long...
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