I've just started blogging, but I already have bloggers block, I believe.
Any suggestions for topics are appreciated, as I really do have an opinion on everything.
In the meantime, I think I will go home tonight and make some boiled cookies. Now, my beautiful daughter and my lovely niece both strongly object to me calling boiled cookies "boiled cookies". They think "no-bake" cookies sounds much nicer. But hey, they ARE boiled, and since I am just slightly over 1/2 century old....AND I've been calling them boiled cookies all my life, "Boiled Cookies" they shall remain.
BOILED COOKIES
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. milk
1/3 c. cocoa
1 stick butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. peanut butter
3 c. oats (quick 1 minute type)
Mix sugar, milk, cocoa and butter in pan and bring to rolling boil. Boil 2 1/2 minutes, stirring constantly.
Take off heat and add vanilla, peanut butter and oats; stir.
Using teaspoon or tablespoon, drop cookies on wax paper and let cool. Makes 2 to 4 dozen.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
I got an award!
My beautiful Beantownprepster gave me an "I love your blog" award, but since I have not been able to figure out how to put a picture here, I couldn't put the award. (HINT: Someone needs to give me blog lessons!!)
However, I am supposed to put 10 things that make me happy, so here goes:
1) My little fat chihuahua grandpuppy. He belongs to Beantownprepster, but he loves his granny best.
2) My grumpy old lady Siamese cat, May Ling. She's the equivalent of about 80 years old in people years!
3) Reality TV. What can I say, I love it. American Idol, Survivor, Amazing Race, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, Intervention, Dog the Bounty Hunter, the list goes on and on.
4) Reading. If it was written I will read it.
5) Airports. Wierd, I know, but I love airports. I love traveling in general, but airports are the best part.
6)Hiking by myself. I LOVE hiking, but I'm slow and don't enjoy it if I feel like I'm slowing other people down....but solo hiking makes me very happy.
7) Cookies. With Milk. 'Nuff said
8) Georgia. I want to live there some day.
9) Beaches, but not the ones in New England! Give me a good southern white sand beach, and I'm a happy camper.
10) My beautiful daughter, Miss Beantownprepster herself. I love her beyond anything reasonable, and that makes me very happy!
However, I am supposed to put 10 things that make me happy, so here goes:
1) My little fat chihuahua grandpuppy. He belongs to Beantownprepster, but he loves his granny best.
2) My grumpy old lady Siamese cat, May Ling. She's the equivalent of about 80 years old in people years!
3) Reality TV. What can I say, I love it. American Idol, Survivor, Amazing Race, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, Intervention, Dog the Bounty Hunter, the list goes on and on.
4) Reading. If it was written I will read it.
5) Airports. Wierd, I know, but I love airports. I love traveling in general, but airports are the best part.
6)Hiking by myself. I LOVE hiking, but I'm slow and don't enjoy it if I feel like I'm slowing other people down....but solo hiking makes me very happy.
7) Cookies. With Milk. 'Nuff said
8) Georgia. I want to live there some day.
9) Beaches, but not the ones in New England! Give me a good southern white sand beach, and I'm a happy camper.
10) My beautiful daughter, Miss Beantownprepster herself. I love her beyond anything reasonable, and that makes me very happy!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Cooking...
I love to cook. I don't love to eat what I cook. When it comes to eating, I fall somewhere in the range of a 5-7 year old as far as likes and dislikes. I could happily live on hot dogs and pbj sandwiches, and never touch a vegetable. Thankfully I know people who actually like to eat real food, so I have the opportunity to cook! I have shelves of cookbooks, and pick up every cooking magazine known to man, but for a new recipe to try, I often find myself online.
One great site: Poor Girl Eats Well
This is the website where I discovered quinoa (which, I later found out is pronouced "Keen-wa", rather than the phonetic, garbled way I was pronouncing it).
This is next on the list of quinoa recipies I am going to try:
Quinoa with Mushrooms, Tomatoes & Scallions (makes 2-3 lunch servings; total cost per serving: ~$2)
1 c cooked quinoa
1 large tomato, diced
2-3 scallions, chopped (both greens & whites)
6-8 white mushrooms, sliced
1-2 T butter
Salt & pepper to taste
Melt the butter in a medium skillet. Add the mushrooms with a pinch of salt and pepper and cook over medium heat until they begin to soften. Add the diced tomato and cook for about 2-3 minutes, making sure the tomatoes release their juices but do not turn mushy. Add the quinoa and mix everything together, cooking until everything is heated through. Lastly, add the chopped scallions and mix well. Check for seasoning and adjust accordingly. Serve hot or cold, on its own or on a nice bed of greens. Enjoy!
(NOTE: If you're enjoying this cold and prefer a moister quinoa, add a tiny bit of your favorite salad dressing and mix well. Yum!)
One great site: Poor Girl Eats Well
This is the website where I discovered quinoa (which, I later found out is pronouced "Keen-wa", rather than the phonetic, garbled way I was pronouncing it).
This is next on the list of quinoa recipies I am going to try:
Quinoa with Mushrooms, Tomatoes & Scallions (makes 2-3 lunch servings; total cost per serving: ~$2)
1 c cooked quinoa
1 large tomato, diced
2-3 scallions, chopped (both greens & whites)
6-8 white mushrooms, sliced
1-2 T butter
Salt & pepper to taste
Melt the butter in a medium skillet. Add the mushrooms with a pinch of salt and pepper and cook over medium heat until they begin to soften. Add the diced tomato and cook for about 2-3 minutes, making sure the tomatoes release their juices but do not turn mushy. Add the quinoa and mix everything together, cooking until everything is heated through. Lastly, add the chopped scallions and mix well. Check for seasoning and adjust accordingly. Serve hot or cold, on its own or on a nice bed of greens. Enjoy!
(NOTE: If you're enjoying this cold and prefer a moister quinoa, add a tiny bit of your favorite salad dressing and mix well. Yum!)
Monday, April 5, 2010
The need to sleep...
Some people love to sleep. Some people like to go to bed early, some like to sleep in very late. Me, I would love to find a way to never need to sleep. I don't enjoy sleeping. It annoys me greatly that I need to sleep. I have plenty of things to do; I could easily fill 24 hours a day with things besides sleep.
As it is, I don't sleep a lot. It's generally after midnight before I wind down, and my alarm goes off at 5:30. "Sleeping in" for me is staying in bed until 6 or 6:30. But every hour that I spend in bed is spent grudgingly.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is my little grand-dog who lives with me. (He technically belongs to my lovely daughter.) Humphrey is a very fat little chihuahua, who is about the sweetest thing in the world. Humphrey loves to sleep. He sleeps a lot. When I get up in the morning he gets up and wanders around with me, but when I leave for work, he goes back to bed. He greets me at the door when I get home, and his preference would be for me to immediately sit down so he could sleep on my lap. When I watch TV, Humphrey sleeps on my lap, or, if he feels he has been displaced by a cat, he sleeps in his bed. When I turn off the TV, he jumps up and runs to my bed to be picked up and dumped in bed....and within 5 minutes he's snoring...
So are you a sleeper or a non-sleeper?
As it is, I don't sleep a lot. It's generally after midnight before I wind down, and my alarm goes off at 5:30. "Sleeping in" for me is staying in bed until 6 or 6:30. But every hour that I spend in bed is spent grudgingly.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is my little grand-dog who lives with me. (He technically belongs to my lovely daughter.) Humphrey is a very fat little chihuahua, who is about the sweetest thing in the world. Humphrey loves to sleep. He sleeps a lot. When I get up in the morning he gets up and wanders around with me, but when I leave for work, he goes back to bed. He greets me at the door when I get home, and his preference would be for me to immediately sit down so he could sleep on my lap. When I watch TV, Humphrey sleeps on my lap, or, if he feels he has been displaced by a cat, he sleeps in his bed. When I turn off the TV, he jumps up and runs to my bed to be picked up and dumped in bed....and within 5 minutes he's snoring...
So are you a sleeper or a non-sleeper?
And so I enter the world of blogging...
...with some trepedation. "Displaced Southern Mama" is the name my lovely daughter came up with, and it's pretty apt...born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina, I've been living in southern New Hampshire for 15 years now. I haven't lost all my Southern, though, and I expect I never will.
My daughter has a blog of her own ( www.beantownprepsterpartdeux.blogspot.com ) and you should read it as well. She makes me laugh on a regular basis.
I'm not sure yet what I'm going to blog about, but I'm sure there's going to be some reality tv (because I'm obsessed with it), some cooking (because I love to), some thoughts on my pet peeves (I have many), and other things that might either slightly amuse or bore to tears.
If you've found me, welcome!
My daughter has a blog of her own ( www.beantownprepsterpartdeux.blogspot.com ) and you should read it as well. She makes me laugh on a regular basis.
I'm not sure yet what I'm going to blog about, but I'm sure there's going to be some reality tv (because I'm obsessed with it), some cooking (because I love to), some thoughts on my pet peeves (I have many), and other things that might either slightly amuse or bore to tears.
If you've found me, welcome!
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