Christmas 2!

Good Evening Internet Friends!!

Quick post this evening as heading out to get doggie walked before bedtime.  Full work week ahead and back to school this week for kiddo.

Super busy the last few days, work, and all the other things that go along with running a household, doggie walks and throw in some Nordic skiing.

Today I prepped dinner so that it would assemble quickly after a trip this afternoon to Hawrelak Park for Nordic Skiing.

Earlier in the week I had not had time to do anything for Ukrainian Christmas.  Today I made a quasi Ukrainian Christmas Dinner.  Not the 12 dishes it should be, but.......

Freezer pyrohy, poached salmon with a sour cream dill sauce, green salad, sour cabbage cabbage rolls that I made when I got back from skiing, homemade dill pickles and an apple crisp!  

SOOOOOOOO full, but super yum!

Hope this inspires your own creativity and wishing you all a BEST Day EVER Monday.  Stay safe out there😷

Kathy

Let's Roll...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Super busy day today so up early to "Roll".

Took the SUV in to Sherwood Park Toyota for a fall tune up and winter tire for all season swap out.

My Bubble Friend picked me up so that I did not have to take the shuttle home.

We stopped for a London Fog and Chocolate Pretzel at Paramo Cafe.  We had a lovely visit out on the patio.

Next up was the Bone & Biscuit where we shopped leisurely and found a few thing that each of us "NEEDED" for our dogs.

Stopped in the for the grand opening of the new hair salon in the village.  

This afternoon I spent time in my kitchen.  

First off I used up one of the three bags of fresh applies I have been gifted.  One plastic grocery bag made 5 bags of apple pie filling.  One of which I used in a Strawberry Apple Crisp for dinner:

Tomorrow I will try and get through the other two grocery bags of apples that I still have.

After the apples I movd on to one of the three pumpkins I have.  As of this evening I have 22 cups of mashed pumpkin for baking and Lentil Pumpkin Chilli.  

The first pumpkin I used up was quite big and did not fit well in the oven whole.  As such I did cut it in half to bake.  That meant I needed to clean out the inside.  Did not want to waste the seeds so I roasted them in EVOOLUTION garlic oil and seasoned with Alpine Touch Seasoning:

 

These turned out really tasty.

Took doggie for a long walk this evening after dinner.  Was going to work on the binding of my quilt but apparently it has become a nest for the cat!!!  

Hope this inspires your own creativity and Wishing you all the BEST Day EVER Sunday tomorrow.  Stay safe out there😷

Kathy

 

And Then...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Busy day as usual around here.

Walked the dog early this morning of course.  After I got back from being out with the dog I made Buttermilk Pancakes for breakfast:

After lunch I made two Apple Cherry Crisps with frozen fruit from the freezer.  One for us and one for the neighbors that I will walk over later today.  

For dinner I made Chicken Yakitori:

After dinner I made another of the Twisted Star blocks so I now have another row complete.  Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to sew it on to the other rows ☺.

TAH DAH!!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity and wishing you all the 

BEST Sunday EVER🎉.

Kathy

It's Back to Work I Go...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Crazy busy day here in Kathyland again as tomorrow is back to work and school.  Kiddo will get a few breaks with semester break, PD days and non instructional days but for the next three months.....I work.

Did lots of cooking/baking/food prep today:

First up....this awesome salad that I used fresh veggies from the refrigerator to make.  Salad dressing is a recipe that I found in the latest edition of Costco Connection.  All veggies except for the green onion are from Costco.  My friends and family all know my mantra..."If you can't buy it at Costco - do you really need it?"

Then it was on to a batch of Rotten Banana Bread as my brother refers to it.  I will only eat bananas just as the green starts to turn yellow.  Any yellow or brown on the banana means it is "rotten" to me and needs to be made into muffins or bread:

For dinner I made a Shepherd's pie with more veggies from the freezer and a package of lean farm ground beef.  Used sweet potatoes for the topping:

For dessert I made an apple crisp using the frozen apple pie filling that I stashed away in the freezer last fall 🍎:

SOOOOOO Yummy.

In addition to housework, laundry, clearing snow off the deck and walking the doggie I did manage a bit of SEW time:

Blocks 17 & 18 of the Red and White 2017 52 Week Block Challenge hosted by a A Needle Pulling Thread Quilt Shop. 

Hope this inspires your own creativity and wish you all
the Best Day EVER Monday.

Kathy