I baked it for 20 mins. at 325, then pulled it out to sprinkle more cheese on top and baked it another 10 mins. There was a perfect amount of bacon, because half the recipe (what I brought home) fit perfectly in an 8x8 dish and the bacon just covered the top. (I had to dig the bacon out of the mess--with clean hands, of course!) Here is a picture of it after I got our three servings out.
This was a freezer meal I made with my mom last week. It was one of the few that was to be baked, not crock potted. I don't remember what ALL went in it, because it made enough to split and I left the recipe with my mom's meal. I do know it called for frozen diced potatoes, but we had a ton of regular potatoes, so we just diced those instead. It also called for bacon, already fried. There was cheese (cheddar) and probably sour cream or something like it in there too.
I baked it for 20 mins. at 325, then pulled it out to sprinkle more cheese on top and baked it another 10 mins. There was a perfect amount of bacon, because half the recipe (what I brought home) fit perfectly in an 8x8 dish and the bacon just covered the top. (I had to dig the bacon out of the mess--with clean hands, of course!) Here is a picture of it after I got our three servings out.
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Bandwagon, here I come! Yes, I have succumbed to the ever-increasingly popular freezer meals. My mom flew across the country to do it with my sister, and when she returned, she made me do them, too. Well, that's what I thought at the beginning. By the time we finished, I was enjoying myself way more than I had imagined possible in the kitchen. Let's just get this picture out of the way first, shall we? :-)
I think my favorite sit-on-the-couch craft is crocheting, but I did go on a cross stitch kick last week. I made these two: I absolutely LOVE the way the house turned out. On the flowers, I miscounted (apparently, that's pretty easy to do when you cross stitch AND watch TV at the same time). I personally don't think it looks too bad, but EJ took one look and asked what went wrong with that top blue petal. I just showed him the house and told him to gush over what a good job I did with it.
You know, instead of "Play it again, Sam". Anyway, it was a bea-U-tiful day, so we went outside for a bit and played. I took three videos and edited them together, added some captions here and there, and now for your enjoyment, EJ and his Skip it:
In addition to the scarf I made with the super soft yarn, I have made several other scarves lately. This one was made with blue and yellow. I crocheted five rows of blue and five rows of yellow and repeated. Then I did a ruffle of blue around the whole thing, and I was going to just leave it, but it looked a little funny, so I did a yellow ruffle. I like it. And it's pretty soft yarn, too.
I had half a zucchini left over from a few days ago, and I had seen recipes for zucchini chips pop up around the internet, so I figured I'd try it. I don't have a mandolin, so I just sliced them as skinny as I could with my knife.
The McWane Center has 4 levels of fun, and to see EVERYthing would take longer than one visit, so with our year-long membership, we've gone quite a few times in the last year. It expires at the end of the month, so I figured we'd get in one last visit. Normally, I tell EJ to pick a floor to explore, and we always explore a little on the first floor, head straight to the top where we spend the majority of our time, and then lollygag on the second floor on our way out the door. (Most of the second floor is evolution, anyway, so EJ doesn't mind missing that.) These are some things we do at every visit, except today he took forEVER because he knew it would be the last visit for a while:
Don't worry, I had to look that up, too. In crochet, I am familiar with a "V" stitch (double crochet, chain one, double crochet--all in the same hole), but had no clue what a "brick repeat" was. I found the pattern here. It made a rather pretty scarf design, if I do say so myself.
By request, I made minion cupcakes for ladies' meeting this month. I had seen large cupcakes with the minion face, but all the ones on Pinterest had fondant frosting. They looked professional--nice, clean lines, but I only had regular "rich and creamy", 99 cent frosting. So I did something completely different from anything I've seen. I made mini cupcakes.
I am all about saving money, but normally the suggestions are things like, don't go out to eat, bake stuff from scratch, don't make needless trips around town. All these are good tips, but sometimes you want to just go out to eat! And with a kitchen as small as mine, I NEVER want to make anything, much less anything from scratch!
So with dwindling income in this ever-increasingly expensive economy, how can I save money? I need a short-cut--obviously less eating out and driving unnecessarily, but I also need something tangible, something I can look at and see: I just saved money here I normally would have spent. I used to coupon. I had a friend who did and we would encourage each other in how much we saved. I "borrowed" the coupon pages out of the newspaper from my in-laws and the savings really did rack up. But then my friend moved away (and took her encouragement with her) and my in-laws stopped getting the paper, so I went back to Walmart grocery shopping. |
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