Slices of Life

While my husband and I ended up at David Burke steakhouse at Foxwoods for our date night again this weekend, we met up with a co-worker of my husband's and his wife for sort of a double date. It was fun and I honestly don't think we've been out with another couple (that wasn't family) since before the boys were born! How was your weekend?  I decided to try something new for picking features this week. Rather than relying on reader favorites or a few of my favorites I used a random number generator to pick 4 features from last week's party.. I'm not sure I'll keep that up going forward but it was fun to see what we'd end up with this way.   A few randomly selected features:    Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies Recipe by Drugstore Divas    Handmade Fall Cards for Small Children by Amy's Creative Pursuits     What I Wore to the Versace Retrospective & Tuesday Twirl by Is This Mutton?   Easy Fudgy Pecan Pie Brownies by Organized Island...

 It's that time of year where I'm always on the hunt for new crock pot dinners and cozy meal ideas. We've been trying out lots of new recipes and so far we've had lots of hits!  It's also the time of year I struggle to get good food photos. With the lighting so dim in the evenings when we eat my camera tries to adjust the lighting automatically and sometimes the end results look very little like the meal I actually made!  We made this roasted turkey breast for dinner one night-- though I only used 1/4 cup of butter and dried herbs since that's what I had on hand. It took a lot longer to cook than 15 minutes a pound but it tasted great.   We tried this recipe for slow cooker apple cider chicken sandwiches ; they were pretty good and oh so easy to make!   I made a double batch of this pineapple teriyaki sauce ; it was delicious!  We made this ground chicken sweet chili noodles  (scroll towards the bottom) for dinner though I did use ground turkey ...

 I know this dish may not look and sound like much but it really was quite tasty. We had some fresh turkey sausage links from a meat CSA (community supported agriculture) box we got this year and I wanted to come up with some way to use it that didn't require cheese since there was already feta in the sausage. I read a few pasta/sausage dish recipes and cobbled together one of my own using my favorite ingredients.    Ingredients: 1 onion; diced 6 small sweet peppers; sliced 1 clove garlic, minced 6 mushrooms; sliced 5 feta spinach turkey sausage links (or sausage links of your choice); sliced 1 box pasta  1 small head of broccoli; cut into florets 2 cups chicken broth    1. Saute the onions, peppers, garlic, mushrooms & sausage together.   2. In a separate pan boil the box of pasta according to package directions and drain.  3. Once the sausage is fully cooked and the vegetables are browned, add in the 2 cups of chicken broth and the...

I decided to document last Tuesday November 4th for A Day in the Life with Joyce at From This Side of the Pond. It was a lovely day with nothing much on my to do list.  5:15-5:30 I woke up, hopped on the computer to check emails and make sure my blog posts were up for the day.   5:30-6:00 I got up, got dressed for the gym, straightened my hair, made the bed, started a load of laundry. photo taken later when it was lighter out 6:00-6:30 I sat to work a bit more on my painting... felt like the corrections I made actually made the painting worse and decided to just walk away and let it dry before tackling it a 3rd time. 6:30- 7:15 I emptied the dishwasher & started loading it again, switched the laundry, then read my book until it was time to head to the gym. Tuesdays I take a yoga class from 8-9. 7:15-9:30 Drove to and from yoga, participated in class and also dropped off library books and got gas while I was out and about and had a car.   9:30- 10:30 checked in wi...