As you know, I love the Crockpot. I recently mentioned one of my favorite Crockpot recipe sites and I’ve been keeping up with the author Stephanie’s cleaning, organizing and simplifying blog, Totally Together Journal. Over the past month, I’ve worked at doing the 7 daily chores she recommends and added a couple of my own. [...]
Last weekend we took a trip to the Bandelier National Monument outside of Los Alamos, NM. We usually spend our weekends doing work on the house and hanging out with the family. Mr. Petrie recently read that taking a few short vacations increases happiness more than a long, expensive vacation. I think that enjoying the [...]
Before Miss Petrie Deux was born, I was cleaning, organizing and remodeling like a fiend! This week I have been putting pressure on myself to get some work done. I’m a list girl and if I don’t write something down (then subsequently cross it off), it weighs on me. The way I do the list [...]
I’ve been reading about all the benefits of adding flaxseed to baked goods. I found a recipe for protein balls and thought this would be an easy, tasty way to introduce flaxseed into our diets. I’m also a big fan of having fun food available for breakfast. Protein Balls: 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 3/4 [...]
I love the cooking website “A Year of Slow Cooking“. The author of the site, Stephanie O’Dea, published a cookbook, which I have been recently testing. On a day when the house was low in food, I looked through the cupboards and found risotto rice. I checked the cookbook and sure enough, there was a [...]
Miss Petrie Deux has been enjoying mashed avocado. I’m amazed how much food she gets down. Time to break out the bibs! Have a delicious day.
Mr. Petrie’s mom came to visit us last weekend. She’s a whiz in the kitchen and she had a great idea for using extra garden produce: dehydrate it! She purchased a dehydrator for us. (Thanks, G!!) On my first go with the dehydrator, I made dried apricots, apples and blueberries. The apples and blueberries were [...]
I’ve always taken Miss Petrie for professional photos every few months. I had thought that with Miss Petrie Deux turning 6 months old I would take the girls for another photo shoot. But I just didn’t want to pay big bucks for new pictures, so I decided to take the girls to the park and [...]
Don’t these string bean plants look gorgeous? But where the heck are my string beans?? We have not seen one! Maybe the gargoyles are scaring them off the plants. Enjoy your green veggies.
The garden bounty continues! This past week we got: and I used the basil, eggplant and zuchinni in a Crock Pot pasta sauce. It was delicious! The sunflowers were looking a little top heavy, so I decided to harvest them for the seeds. This guy was enormous. I could not believe how many seeds came [...]