Awful Waffle Sunday!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Today is Sunday and as usual that means I got up a little earlier than everyone else and made WAFFLES!!!

I even tempered some Bernard Callebaut chocolate to drizzle over the waffles!  They were very tasty.

Mid afternoon I decided that we needed cheesecake for dessert.  Why?  Not sure, but I thought we did so I made a cheesecake and strawberry sauce for it:

OMG it is delicious.....I have been back to the fridge a couple of times for "just a bite" since dinner ☺

For dinner I poached Atlantic Salmon with a creamy dill sauce and served with mashed potatoes, broccoli and salad:

While waiting for laundry loads this afternoon I did manage to finish my Thrumb Mittens:

Apparently it is a good thing I finished these today because when we took puppy for his walk this evening this is what I discovered:

Somehow, this is the first snow that we have had this fall.  I should not complain because I cannot remember a time when by November there had at not been at least one snow fall.  My petunias only froze on Wednesday!!!  ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Great Big Fat Day of NOTHING!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I hope your day was as non exciting as mine.

The morning started off with my son annoying the cat:

Hello Kitty sat on the couch for quite a while before he decided to venture out in the house with his decorations.  Eventually he did lose them somewhere. ☺

For lunch I made Salmon Quiche and Caesar Salad:

There is no recipe to go along with this as it is made up as I went.  Somehow the cream froze in the back of the fridge.  Some mouse (you know who you are) ate the last of the Swiss Cheese, and all but one mushroom was gone!

After lunch my son and I walked over to Be A Bella for random amounts of candy.  We stopped at the park to play on the way since the day was beautiful.

When we returned home I sewed the binding on one of my quilts that I finished maybe last summer (maybe earlier) but had not yet put the binding on.  I sewed on the binding and then after dinner this evening hand stitched the binding to the backing.  I wanted to complete it today so that I can take it to the Fifth Wheel tomorrow when I go out to the acreage to plant the garden ☺:

TAH DAH!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Good Friday

Good Evening Internet Friends.

I hope that everyone had a Good Friday.  Today of course was a stay at home day since it is a holiday.  

Yesterday my son and I went to Crock a Doodle and while en route there we went through a blowing snow across the highway kind of storm and then had hail on the way home!  I went to yoga yesterday evening and when I was leaving this was the parking lot:

More SNOW!!!!

My craft for today is actually a card that I made for my student RN.  Last Friday was her last day with me as she moves on to her final practicum.  It was a pleasure to have her and so along with a scarf I knit for her as well I made a quick card from one of the Paper Pumpkin kits that I have sitting in my craft room:

Part of my plan over Spring Break was to get caught up on some of these kits.  However, I found out yesterday that I am all out of glue runner!!!!

  Not sure how that happened, but since I recently had to place my end of quarter Stampin' Up order which included lots of glue runner to keep my hobby demo status current, I will have to wait on completing these projects because I refuse to buy glue!

After lunch my son and I went to the local park to play.  We did not stay as long as planned as it was  still cold out there.

When we got back home we baked a batch of Cheddar biscuits to go along with dinner which of course is fish on Friday:

I poached the salmon and then topped it with my all new favorite product; Pineapple & Habanero Sauce.

I seriously LOVE this stuff and have been putting it on, and in everything this week.

Since it is Good Friday I will close this post with my all time favorite version of  the Old Rugged Cross.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

  

Birthday Party Invitations

My son's birthday falls just after the end of school.  By that time, he and all of his friends are out doing fun summer things, and a birthday party in mid July is really hard to organize.  Therefore, each year I host his birthday party in mid June.  Since this year is his 10th Birthday, a pretty big birthday I think not just in number, but a full decade, and he will never be a single digit again ( : ( - my baby is growing up!!!!!).

Okay, back to my blog post...

We are going to have his birthday this year at the World Water Park!

I made his invitations using some of the new products from the Stampin Up catalogue for Summer 2014.  The Designer Series Paper will be available June 2014 (one of the benefits of being a "hobbyist" demonstrator is that I get to see what's new and get a bit of it before the catalogue is in effect).  There is a matching stamp set for this paper that is super cute too, but unfortunately it is back ordered and I had to get the invitations out.  Thankfully I had an old stamp set that had fish on it, so I used that.

Here are the invitations:

Front and Back.

And, since I had lots of the treat cups from another time left over, I made the envelopes fun and filled them with Fish chewy candies (no gelatin):

My son thought that these were just "Top Drawer"!

I did too! ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Still Playing in PEI!!!

Today we spent most of the day with our son at the Sandspit Amusement park with our son.  The line ups were minimal, so he took most of the rides several times before the day was out and thoroughly enjoyed himself!

Then, because it was Friday and it is PEI we had dinner at a little place called "Little Skippers" (there is no web page for it : (  , but here is my halibut dinner with of course fresh baby potatoes (what else would one get in PEI:

It was DELICIOUS!!!

Hope this inspires you to visit my favorite little island...

Kathy

Friday is Fish Day...

Traffic is terrible in Edmonton this spring.  Every road I use to get home is under construction.  Seriously!!!  To top that off, the road that was under construction all of last summer was apparently done wrong, and so it has to be done over!  Are you kidding me (close your eyes for a moment $%^&*(@#%$^&), okay I'm done.

Now, what to make for dinner?

Since it's Friday, it has to be fish......, so I made something I call rice bowls:

In the base of the bowl is about 1/3 cup of cooked rice (still warm), various salad greens from the refrigerator and cut up candied salmon.  Put what ever salad dressing you like over it, and Enjoy!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

What's For Dinner????

Well, it's Friday so that of course means fish.  I was asked the other day what the significance of fish on Friday is, and honestly, I really don't know.......you just do it, and it's a great way to get in that fish the Dietitians want you to three times a week.  I think I might have to investigate what the fish on Friday deal is.....

Anyways, I was out of rice tonight, so I needed something fairly quick to go with the fish and after starring into the refrigerator for a while, I realized I have left over mashed potatoes!

My mother in law makes this wonderful potato casserole with left over mashed potatoes and so that is what I made: Potato Puff!

Potato Puff:

3 cups mashed potatoes

1 cup warm milk

2 egg yolks

1 cup grated cheese (what ever kind you have, some of the spicy cheese make this extra "Top Drawer")

- mix all of these together

2 egg whites - beat until stiff

-fold the egg whites into the above mixture 

Bake in 350F uncovered in oven for about 30 minutes (til baked through and liquid is all absorbed).

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

On Friday We Eat Fish

and on Sunday, and Tuesday, and anytime we need a quick dinner.  

Growing up on the prairies I hated fish.  It always tasted like swamp!  Now that my husband has tried it, he agrees.

The first time I traveled to Nova Scotia with my husband to visit his family, my mother in law cooked salmon for me, and since I had already not eaten her roast beef, for which she then cooked a ham (even a worse choice), I had not much choice but to eat "the fish". It was awesome!!  Ever since then I am able to eat fresh fish (not canned) three times a week.

I buy the large piece of Atlantic Salmon at Costco twice a month.  Once home I cut it into thirds, and freeze between sheets of parchment paper.

On nights such as Friday's when we need a quick dinner I take a piece out of the freezer.  Place in a Corningware baking dish.  Top the fish with something - tonight I used a bit of mayonnaise and mustard and added some dill weed.  Baked on high for 10 minutes in the microwave and TAH DAH!

Dinner is served along with rice, vegetables, and a side salad.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Goin' Fishin'

I bought this Gillian Roberts Fishing fun stamp set at Scrapbook Memories & More the other night because for the past week since the snow has melted (? almost - and dependent on how big a dump we get tonight) my son and his dog sit in the boat in the back yard waiting to go fishing with Daddy.

The base of the card is Early Espresso with Frostwood Lodge Designer Series Paper (YES! It's left over's from Christmas), Garden Green for the scallop edge and Whisper White for the stamped image surface.  The image is stamped on with black Memento ink, and colored with my Copic markers (son helped with coloring).

The knot, is something I tied (not scout worthy), using the hemp twine from Stampin'Up.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy