My sauce, Jeff’s sauce. Some eggs for coloring.
Jeff’s meatballs.
My sauce, cooking with the Lasagna shells.
Ricotta mixture for Lasagna.
Salmon. Thanks, Cor!
Egg dye all laid out.
Hey, Girl, Hey.
Becca’s egg of stickers.
Final products.
Smile!
5 Ways to Save the Earth every day — from your desk!
1.Turn off your monitor when you leave your desk for more than a few seconds. It saves energy. Also, when you go home for the night, don’t forget to turn your speakers off if they are separate!
2. Use Blackle instead of Google.
3. If you drink a lot of water at your desk, bring a reusable water bottle instead of plastic ones. You may have to search out a bubbler, but Mother Earth will thank you for saving her from the plastic.
4. Use a travel mug to bring tea/coffee to the office, and leave a mug there for tea/coffee at work. I have a few of each, in case I leave a travel mug at work, and I try to use one for tea and one for coffee because coffee smell tends to hang out.
5. Use paperclips instead of staples. I have this paperclip holder on my desk! Or a stapleless stapler!
Bonus: Reuse the paper you use to printer out directions, lists, emails, etc. etc. If you use both side of each piece, think of all the paper that won’t be made into trees.
K, SS, M, and L, from the East coast;
Mom, Nikki, Kel, Laur, B, J, Ness, etc. in the Midwest;
and Cor, Bec, Jen, Kiki, and others on the West coast:
I will always come running.
“We will call and say, “I heard the news.” And whatever the news is, we will come running. Probably with food.”
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A few days ago, I asked my friend El about cookies. Via email. The following is our email convo:
“If you were to eat a cookie, which flavor would you like it to be?”
“Matzah flavored,” he replied, since it is Passover.
“What if it WASN’T Passover? Then what kind of cookie?” I asked.
“That’s tough. I like all cookies! probably snickerdoodle with Reese’s pieces,” he replied.
So I made him some Reese’s pieces Snickerdoodles. On account of it being his birthday week, and all.
I used a recipe from FoodNetwork, since I have never made snickerdoodles before, except ONCE in the 7th grade in my first week of Home Ec when I had first moved to MI. It was a traumatic experience, as I had only ever made chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin, and had never heard of snickerdoodles. What land has my parents brought me to, one where cows and tractors and snickerdoodles are plentiful?? I asked myself this question daily for a few weeks, and since my Home Ec teacher was dramatic and told me I shouldn’t chew gum and had a problem with me from Day 1 (I’m pretty sure my mom got a call or two), I vowed I would hate snickerdoodles forever. Of course, I haven’t eaten any since then, nearly 10 years ago, and had nearly forgotten my hatred until El asked me to make them. Alas, I still don’t really like them. But hopefully he will.
I did not use the “chocolate sticks” mentioned on the recipe page, instead I put Reese’s pieces into the dough (after making some for Jen, on account of her peanut allergy.) They were good plain OR with Reese’s. If, you know, you’re into snickerdoodles.
IN OTHER NEWS…
The only person who reads my blog that may know this is M. OK and maybe a bunch of you, but I had no idea!!
DID YOU KNOW THAT CINNAMON IS TREE BARK? I would like to move to the land of Cinnamon-barked trees. It’s almost as good as Candy Land. Only the place in which Cinnamon-barked trees grow is in Sri Lanka.
Apparently we need “tropical sunshine and abundant rain” and I don’t know if I can recreate it. I might try to, in the bathtub, if Jeff says it’s OK. More to come.
These are the veggies I cut for my chili.
This was a delicious dinner Cor and I made. Pastaroni (those boxed kind) with NO butter, fresh tomatoes, chicken, and some peas.
So good, and so easy!
A close up.
Cherry tomatoes with olive oil and basil. Wait until they lose shape. Eat them. Yum.
Some tuna. Also eaten with Corelyn. Delicious.
Tuna and tomatoes together, on a bed of spinach, on account of Cor’s no-carb diet.