Crochet Project Pod Case-Business Case

The pattern went together quickly once I figured out what I was doing. That can be the hard part for me is understanding patterns and the getting them to work.

Day in the life of a cat

Just watching the birds outside....



Nap Time to much bird watching......

Venison Roast

Got a phone call from grandma's house telling me we have lots of deer & elk in the freezer & you need to take some home... ( ME???) I have not had elk or deer in lets say a very long time if I would have to guess how long...I was maybe 15 year old I am ok are you sitting 37 going on 57... some days I feel this way..

Step 1

Pick a piece of meat from freezer.I open door of freezer to find about 25 white packages now to read all the labels and decide.(Pheasant/Elk/Dove/Deer)

Step 2

Pick only deer meat (I didn't want to get to adventurist)

Step 3

Locate a recipe since I have never cooked it before. This should have been step 2 but why think before your pick meat lol.





Step 4 The Recipe players

Venison Roast
Minced Garlic
2 apples
Green onions
Chicken stock- in place of bouillon/water- just in-case needed



Who was I going to Sell it to? Looking around see no-one but.....


Big help you are....:O)I know your wishing for a piece to accidentally drop....



Step 5

Remove the roast from the nice white paper (rinsed blood off) notice when placed in to crock-pot I still had blood issue (rinse again) then I removed the nice white twine holding the happy roast together as well.



Step 6

Added the apples and garlic cloves



Step 7

Green onions- place crockpot lid on and turned on from 9-5 no broth needed plus cooked this on low



Step 8

Used my large 6 qt crockpot was too big ( that is why the edges of pot are brown) since I just purchased the new little crockpot today however when I made this roast it was last week I am behind blogging...


Verdict: LOVED IT!!!

Thift Store Deal

Meet the newest member of my crock-pot family.
Picked up this beauty for only $5.99 at the local goodwill

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

Step 1 The Recipe players are as follows:

1 cup of water
1/4 cup of apple juice= used apple sauce
1 apple diced & cored
2/3 cup of rolled oats
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup milk

Extra= flax seed

Step 2
Cored and diced apple

Step 3

Used a food processor due to I prefer minced apple pieces

Step 4

Small pot w/ 1 cup of water turned high to boil

Step 5

The 1 cup of milk and the 1/4 cup applesauce

Step 6

Drop the diced apple into water to boil



Step 7

Drop in the apple juice= used applesauce




Step 8

When the water mixture boils add the oats





Step 9

Add the cinnamon





Step 10

Watch it boil, it's that fun? When the mixture get thick about 3 mins



Step 11

Remove from heat and place in serving bowls



Step 12

Add in your extras= Flax Seed




Step 13

Add 1/2 cup of milk per bowl and serve

Verdict: The oatmeal was fine however lacking flavor will try recipe again using the apple juice and use applesauce as an extra ingredient..

Brussel sprouts that weird little vegetable that most people skip at the store due to "How the hack do I fix that?" Well that is what I thought as well so I picked up 5 little Brussels sprouts why 5 huh.!! well that is what I grabbed I only wanted a few to try plus since dd was not going to try them I only needed 5.
Now I arrived home w/ 5 little green guys in a huge plastic bag now what? Off to Allrecipe.com to see what I could find to help me cook these little guys up and make them taste!! The search yielded me 67 recipe to pick from I choose Roasted Brussel Sprouts

Verdict: Bitter read more reviews about removing the center stem (which is what cause it to be bitter) to late to fix my issue however minus the stem area which I skipped on the other ones Taste but I would suggest cooking slower on lower heat 350*F since the oil started to splatter all over.

Crochet Project Double Crochet Baby Hats

I found this pattern online for these baby hats..Aren't they just perfect for a new born. They whip up in less the 1 hour while watching TV.

Thrift Store Deal

Great Thrift store deals found this past weekend.

Cookie Scoop w/out a metal assist piece just prefect for scooping out cookies for just 25 cents.

Deep Dish Pie Plate for $2.00 I plan to use this to make chicken pot pies in :O) YUMMY!!

Just laying around for my camera shot!!

Thrift Store Deal

Top- Tupperware container dinner plate for $5.99
2 Slowcooker Crockpot Books both were $2.99 each

Crochet Project Baby Hat-Baby booties-Baby Mittens

I just created these two baby sets all in just a few hours while at work.
They were easily whipped up just followed websites. I want to personally thank them for sharing them.

Thumbless Baby Mittens

Baby Hat

10 Step Baby Booties

Apple Sauce Bread Pudding

This is a family recipe my mom always made when I was growing up where she got it I am not sure. This was one of the recipes my mom made a lot when I was growing up as we lived in the middle of no-where 7 miles from town in Michigan. We lived on 1.5 acres surrounded by an 80 acre corn field and acres of the best apples I have ever eaten Michigan apples. We always had homemade applesauce and day old bread even in the winter when we were snowed in for days.



Any kind of plain bread will work this type just happens to be day old sour dough bread used for sandwiches.



5 cups of torn up or diced up bread




Place the bread pieces into a large mixing bowl.



The applesauce bread pudding usually goes into a greased 9 x 13 pan.
Since I didn't want to eat all the bread myself I split it up into 2 (8 x 8 pans) I plan to give one to my mom since she is currently to busy to bake.





3 cups of milk



2nd bowl wet ingredients

1 cup of applesauce
1 cup of sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2tsp. vanilla




Mix the above ingredients in to the 2nd bowl but use a third bowl to scramble those eggs (and check for egg issues) before dropping them into the other wet ingredients




In a medium size pan heat (scaled) the milk & 1/2 cup butter



When the milk/butter is hot pour over the bread pieces.



Allow to soak for 10 minutes.



Mix it up well after it has sit for 10 minutes



Mix the bowl 2 into the bowl with the bread/milk mixture and blend well.



Pour the mixture into the 2 pans and bake 325*F for 1 hour or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
When the applesauce bread pudding is cooled refrigerate it cut and serve cold.

Yummy and I love this bread for breakfast.

Stuffed Green Pepper

This dinner started off as a use up leftover ingredients this and that with an actual recipe I just used as usual what I had on hand or leftover that I assumed would work... and this is the original recipe Stuffed Green Peppers I while playing on my favorite cooking website the was the daily recipe the other day and I thought I could use my leftover meatballs & sauce in this from the dinner we had the night before :O)



2 green bell peppers (use what you prefer)
1 cup of leftover spaghetti sauce
6 turkey meatballs
1 package of mushrooms
1 cup of precooked white rice from the freezer
Green onions
Worcestershire sauce
Shredded Cheese

Bigger Pot-boiling water & salt bring to a boil this is to parboil the green peppers in for (5mins to soften them up).

Smaller Pot- this was to cook the mushroom & filling mix in.

Cut the tops off & remove seeds
Left with some nice top pieces that I could add to the filling no reason to waste good product just because a recipe doesn't call for it :O) got to love recipe that seem to waste things..



I dropped the peppers in the boiling water along w/the pieces of the tops.





In the smaller pot I sauteed in butter the diced mushrooms



Diced the green pepper tops be added to the filling mixture.




After the mushrooms reduced I added the following items spaghetti sauce, diced up meatballs, white rice, green onions, Worcestershire sauce and shredded cheese mixed up well.




In a glass loaf pan I lined it with foil for quicker clean on after dinner. I also sprayed the foil as well and then placed the par-cooked green peppers into it.





Filled the pepper w/ filling & shredded cheese.



Popped the stuffed green peppers into a toaster oven for 30 mins at 350*F


Verdict: I don't like the bell pepper part go figure but I loved the stuffing so I will just create the stuffing part for dinner using the diced up bell peppers next time