OMG! Have you ever wished for something for a long time and it finally happens? That for me is the house being finished. Well, I am finishing my last task this week before the final cleaning at the end of the week. I installed the final floor this past weekend and Tony is finishing up [...]
What a difference a week makes. We are so close that I am running out of things to do until the last room will come together. I expect that the last things that Tony has to do will finish in the next couple of weeks. I finished shower doors in one bathroom. Now it looks [...]
There is progress being made at the house. Trim is up and I have the unenviable task of making sure the nails are set, filling holes, sanding the wood putty and caulking. It's a bit of a pain. However, I found a tool that made my life easier. Behold the pneumatic palm nailer. If you [...]
Can you believe it? I still have beets to use up. Going through this journey of beet recipes, I am very surprised at what a beet can be used in. This recipe I am modifying is a Sri Lanken Beetroot Curry from the Flavor Blender. Who would have thought of using a beet in a [...]
Michigan is warming up, kinda. Well, we seem to have one day that feels almost like Summer, then the next a bit of frost. Tony says Mother Nature got April and May mixed up this year. I agree. Things are moving along around here. Tony is starting work on a documentary project. He has been [...]
Another week and another day to work on our house. I spent last week cleaning out one corner of a shed. Typically, one corner should not take all that long, but stuffed in a small space were: several bags of chewed up foam padding, two large carpets, two jackets, a tarp, a rusty fold up [...]
This week I'm letting the slow cooker do the work. I'm going to be busy cleaning out some metal in our new to us house for recycling. We have a house that is kind of new to us. It's the house Tony grew up in. It was given to us after my father-in-law died and [...]
Here in Michigan, we are still closed down until the through part of June. You may have also heard in the news there have been high infection rates at meat processing plants. This makes eating meat a dangerous prospect. It is a good time to work on new vegetarian recipe. I am using dry kidney [...]
This recipe is from the America's Test Kitchen Complete Vegetarian Cookbook. As you have heard me say before, I love lentils. Lentils cook quickly and are a great source of protein. I now have 50 pounds of lentils because dry beans have been hard to come by. With a lot of people hoarding dry beans, [...]
No rest for the wicked! I am putting in a floor in one of our small rooms this weekend, so I needed a recipe that would not take too much time to prep and cook. I had a recipe from Jamie Oliver for Mushroom Curry that fit the bill. It's based off of mushrooms with [...]
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