Randomness.
- I'm sure a lot of you have seen these, but if you haven't taken a peek at Elena Shumilova's awesome photographs, you should. The ones of the huge dog and the little boy kill me. I saw them a few weeks ago, but a reader just sent me the link yesterday, and I enjoyed scrolling through them again.
- This book: A Beautiful Mess
arrived on my library hold shelf, and I am dying to dig into it. So. Excited.
arrived on my library hold shelf, and I am dying to dig into it. So. Excited.- The mango salsa I shared on instagram the other day is basically like this one from Nom Nom Paleo, except I didn't add any avocado (because mine weren't ripe.)
- While I'm sharing links to stuff I've posted on instagram...here's how to make the turtle rolls (I had to look it up on my blog because I usually only make these once a year, on Sonia's birthday!).
- And here's the recipe for the ice cream crunch cake she requested on her birthday. This photo is a chocolate-vanilla cake, but Sonia had chocolate moose tracks ice cream on the bottom and coffee ice cream on top. You can really pick almost any ice cream flavors you want as long as they go with peanut butter and chocolate.
- I've been slowly working on adding some little clickable graphics on the sidebar so that you guys can find things like recipes more easily.
- I've been so good at using up my bananas, I haven't had to make any banana chocolate chip muffins in ages. But I currently have three bananas that are prime candidates for becoming muffins.
- I tried this tortilla soup, and it was ok, but not as good as my standby Chicken Tortilla Soup recipe.
- Lisey and I need to make this, I think. It's beautiful and it involves Nutella, so...
- I've made these sweet potatoes several times, and I think they're really tasty. The sweet potato haters in my family still kind of dislike them, but feel this recipe is the most palatable way I've found to serve them. So, you know, high praise.
- I'm embarrassed because I just saw a typo at the bottom of my post about the best food containers (I wrote "you" instead of "your".)
- You know how I had a happy meltdown over daylight during dinner-cooking? I'm really gonna love life next week, since daylight savings time starts this weekend.
(Ok, it does stink to lose an hour, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I might as well enjoy the upsides.)
I think that's all the randomness that I've got for you this Friday morning. Have a lovely weekend, dear readers.
And don't forget to change your clocks!
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P.S. FWF is at Simply Being Mum.
You need to add an instagram link!!
You mean in my sidebar? I should look into getting some social media buttons or somethin'....
My instagram handle is thefrugalgirl and the link is this: http://instagram.com/thefrugalgirl#
Kristen, you're so awesome. I'll try to make ice cream crunch cake, looks yummylicious!
Hi Kristen - That Nutella bread looks amazning. Please do try it and let us see the results. As for Chicken Tortilla soup, this one is my go-to: http://bakedbree.com/creamy-chicken-tortilla-soup . And on the Food Waste front, an epic save of grass fed London Broil - original dinner was meh, not much flavor. Enter this for the save of 1.5 lbs of beef: http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/05/pf-changs-mongolian-beef-copycat-recipe/ (Sorry about the title of the blog! 🙁 ) Disappeared in record time!
Oooh, creamy! I love all of the creamy things in the world, so I'm gonna have to give that a try.
I have really got to try that ice cream cake, it looks amazing. I make one the kids like that is sort of a cheater one, it uses ice cream sandwiches, and then the middle is made with whipping creme, pudding, and crushed oreos.
I love A Beautiful Mess! Their book is great and their website is even better.
Nom Nom Paleo is another favorite of mine, can't go wrong with her recipes.
I haven't seen those photos before. Thanks for sharing!
I have to go out of my way to get bananas suitable for bread or smoothies. Last shopping trip I combined many virtues in my quest for such bananas: not only did I buy the oldest-looking ones, but I bought the singles so they wouldn't go bad and get thrown out. As it happens, the singles are more likely to be older anyway.
And ... virtue was rewarded. The cashier charged me only 1/3 of the usual price, because such distressed bananas should be discounted.
I bow to your awesomeness.
Kristen, it wasn't until I read your earlier post that I learned that single bananas are usually discarded. I had no idea. Now that's all I buy. I LOVE bananas!
Your blog has the best grammar and spelling of all that I read. Most of the bloggers have a real problem with homophones. Have a great weekend. I'm going to try those sweet potatoes!
A typo? How could yuo? 😉
Those photos are truly magical. I had seen them before, but I loved seeing them again. I think I hold my breath as I scroll through them, I feel a bit lightheaded.
I hadn't seen Elsie's new book, thanks for sharing that. I first saw her in scrapbooking, and that was very inspiring, I'm sure this book will be fantastic.
Thanks for the assortment of randomness, always love these posts!
The Elena Shumilova photos are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
I like to mix up the root vegetables in my casserole/gratin recipes. This time around, I used about 1:1 sweet to regular potatoes, layering them like a 'lasagna' with mushrooms and ham between potato slice layers. A little cream, baked for a while... then add some cheese to get all melty toward the end. Delicious!
(Sometimes I'll use parsnip and carrot, too.)
I really enjoy your blog! To too enjoy all things and the to be as frugal as possible!!! Thank you for posting the links to your recipes, that is on my "to do" list this weekend is to get in the kitchen and try something new!
I am new to the blogging world and you can view my blog Sweet Tea N' Sunshine on Facebook or at http://www.sweetteansunshine.com
Looking forward to reading more posts!
Your Chicken Tortilla Soup recipe is the best! The sweet potato recipe looks good. My favorite sweet potato recipe is this one for oven fries: http://www.instructables.com/id/Perfect-Oven-Sweet-Potato-Fries/
Do you ever put bananas in oatmeal? I'm not much of a
Baker but my favorite think to do with slightly overripe bananas is to cook them with oatmeal. I use one small banana for every cup of uncooked oats.
Its actually daylight SAVING time. We're saving daylight, not savings daylight.
In my area, the phrase "daylight savings" is very common and I wondered if it might be a regional thing. I was curious, so I looked it on Wikipedia, and it just said that "daylight savings" is a commonly used variation. 🙂
"Although daylight saving time is considered to be correct, daylight savings time (with an "s") is commonly used.[128] The form daylight saving time uses the present participle saving as an adjective, as in labour saving device; the first two words are sometimes hyphenated, as in daylight-saving time. The common variants daylight savings time and daylight savings use savings by analogy to savings account. Daylight time is also common.[129]"