Casa Petrie

I must have been hungry when I hit Walgreens to pick up my free allergy pills.  These items were on clearance and I had a coupon for the cereal (also on clearance).  Total price: $3.74. Have a great day.

Our Saturday night meal was a grilled zucchini, homemade white sauce, shrimp and gorgonzola pizza.  SO good.  I wish I’d made a whole one for myself! Have a great day.

The moms club we’re part of took a tour of Dion’s Pizza.  The kids got to tour the kitchen, help make a pizza, and eat!  It was lots of fun and yummy.  At the end of the tour, each child got a t-shirt and a coloring book. I was impressed to see that Dion’s presses [...]

Frito pie is a favorite in our household.  I make it in the Crockpot.  It consists on pinto beans, red chile from a can, ground beef and garlic powder.  You dress it with Fritos (of course), cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, shredded lettuce, onion, Tabasco sauce, cilantro, and salsa.  I like mine with cheese, sour cream, [...]

That’s what Miss Petrie says to me about her little sister, Miss Petrie Deux.  She really is a toddler now.  She is 16 months old and exhibits all the big toddler traits: she wants what she wants when she wants it.  She throws tantrums.  She loves to make us laugh by tickling us.  She laughs [...]

We save money on produce by growing some of our food in the summer.  But, we don’t live on a farm…so we have to find alternate ways of purchasing fruit and vegetables at a reasonable price.  During farmers market season, we get great deals on local produce.  But, I must admit, I have a new [...]

Steaks purchased on clearance for $4.62/3.  And they were good!  I think grilling makes everything taste better.  We even grill our corn. Enjoy grilling this weekend.

Here is the garden as of this week.  We have some old favorites such as tomatoes, zucchini and Armenian cucumbers.  We planted some new varieties of old favorites such as summer squash, eggplant and lemon cucumbers.  Click on the photos to see the text more clearly. We recycled from other projects around the yard. Last [...]

For a complete list of Casa Petrie garden posts, go here. Here is our garden this year, 2011: This year’s garden deserves a post of its own, so I will post that article in a couple of days.  But I wanted you to see how our garden has evolved over the past few years. In [...]