TGIF! School starts MONDAY

Dinner tonight: I wanted chicken cordon blue.... but didn't have all of the ingredients. So came up w/stuffed turkey breasts, wild rice and peas. This needs some kind of sauce and the turkey didn't brown like I wanted it to. (Have to post the recipe as it is one that I made up and DH really liked it.)


Stuffing for turkey is: 1/4 c dried prunes and 1 T. golden raisins (which were soaked in 1/3 c boiling water for 5 min). Then chopped the prunes and added them to 1 apple diced and fried and 2 slices of slightly toasted bread cubed. Seasonings: 1/4 t ground cardamom and dash salt.


Put skinless boneless turkey breast between wax paper and gently beat it w/rolling pin to flatten.

This is the flattened turkey breast w/the stuffing on it before rolling and skewering w/toothpick.
Used 1/2 c. stuffing.

This is the stuffed turkey breast rolled in potato flakes. Baked it at 325 degrees for 30 min.







Work has been busy this week. I knew that it would be- last week was dead! Yesterday I counted 35 people in the kiddie pool alone- 70 in the main pool, don't know how many people were sliders, lap swimmers, or in the deep end . Today there was only 20 in the kiddie pool and again I didn't count the others.

Knitting: am almost 2/3 done w/the scarf for my secret sister. Found out that it needs to be done by January 11th. Yikes... and then onto finish DH's scarf for his Bday in January and then Kazul has a Bday in February and wants something made. Bumpkins and Princess both have Bdays in Feb and DH and I have a anniversary in Feb. And some people say December is hard w/gifts. For me it all starts in December, continues all the way through to March.

Movies that I have watched this break: Madame Hotchkiss' Ballroom dancing (sad- strange chick flick), Mona Lisa Smile (excellent- thought provoking chick flick), Fairy Tale: A true story ( so/so children's movie).

And for my 2008 resolutions: obviously Princess or Kazul didn't read them. As I hope to have stash parity not parody. Big difference!

Random Website Monday

Mountains across Kachemak Bay in Homer Alaska. (Last June).

Plan B: was to ship this brown package for the KVVS . Because .........
Plan A: Did you know that it is illegal to ship alcohol/liquor in the mail? And that includes boxes that aren't wrapped- so it got wrapped.
Plan C: no pictures but watch for it at Lynn's. So what happened? After weighing in at 7 lbs. and $18.00 (priority 3 to 5 days - slow boat would have been way cheaper but 3 to 5 WEEKS!). The nice Postal Worker suggested.... the shipping boxes that cost $8.95! and delivery in 3-5 days. WOW!! With Bumpkins terrorizing the fish tank- I proceeded to break into Plan B (I really need to work on my love of packaging tape!) and re- pack it into a little bit smaller box. And it all fit (some of the packaging won't be as pretty- but it is all on it's way). So for those of you that do frequent swaps keep in mind the boxes from the Post Office (saves a lot in postage).

Knitting: another net hanging thing, learned how to read a chart (still doesn't make sense- reading the chart right to left and bottom to top!). Also am now motivated to finish up Bumpkin's tank top.

DH got a hold of my character in Fate (and really tweaked it- so now I don't want to play it).

Good movies: The Last Mizba, Good Will Hunting, FlyBoys,

Random Website: And this says it all.
Weather: Partly cloudy temps 60's

Comfort shopping

Knitting: This is what I am knitting, a seaweed wrap (but in Hufflepuff colors). I had to stop because I was watching a movie and then realized that my yarn went very skinny. Yikes I ran out of yellow/black. I am knitting this in yellow and black fun fur and yellow and black acrylic worsted on 19 needles. I am getting the hang of all of the yos. But sometimes can't remember if the previous lace row was started w/yo or k2tog. Oh well. Off to the LYS if it is open today. I couldn't get there before work yesterday (spent to much time at Fred Meyer's).
Got to the LYS and since the yellow that I was using was discontinued, no one has any. So to the frog pond it goes. To be made into a scarf (same pattern w/fewer stitches co).




So the Hufflepuff shawl became this. It wound up in nicely in 30 min. and it took several hrs. to knit it up. DH said that he was sad.

So onto my comfort shopping:

And I got this at my LYS. Clearance lullaby black to go with Bumpkins fushia Lullaby yarn. Sad news on the lullaby, Berrocco has discontinued that stuff. I also bought Bumpkins a pattern. No yarn for my KVVS pal because the LYS didn't have any local yarn to sell. And I want to send Alaskan yarn to my new friend. I have the land to raise merino's but not the time or money. Someday I will have sheep, spinning wheel, loom, and I will be very happy. So I bought this at JoAnnes for $1.97 gotta love the clearance sales. Just hope that you get enough or else you are doomed for all time.

To update on what is happening here. Thing 2 went to camp. YEAH!!! Thing 1 might have a job at Subway. Princess is trying to utilize Fly Lady routines. I am so proud of her- (I certainly did not teach her how to keep your house from overwhelming you). Bumpkins is getting bigger :( she says refrigerator and it is so cute. Right now she is refusing to go down for her nap, she is tired but since I am running out of milk I can't nurse her as long as she wants. That and she is getting so big. Can't hold both her and laptop and type. I have been working some strange shifts lately. Friday 10:30 am to 4 pm and then Saturday 3 pm till 9 pm. Joey tried to tell me that there was rental and I wouldn't get out of there until almost 11. Yeah right, I read the schedule (sometimes).
I can't believe that this very important info didn't get put in my KVVS questionnaire:

1. My most favorite flower in the whole world is Sunflowers. Ok I collect them, to the extent that the top of my wedding cake was a sunflower. My wedding colors were yellow and cobalt blue. Almost all the flowers were sunflowers. Now try to get fresh sunflowers in February. Now I have lots of silk flowers.
2. I truly love fresh salt water taffy. Not the stale stuff that we get here.
   

Movies watched recently: Willow- excellent, old but still very good. Bridge to Teribithia- excellent, sad but stayed pretty true to book. (I read the book at least 10 times, one of Princess's favs.) Fountain- good, strange and hard to follow. Very deep.
Weather today is rainy. Yesterday was hot and sunny 68.