A Cooler weather food

We have been having some thunder storms lately with just plain cooler days so I decided it was okay to make some soup/stew.  M loves this stuff so much and I don’t blame him cause it is pretty darn good, and easy to make and and and! Can be used for multiple dinners that week, not just one.  Oh yes.  See below please

What you will need:

• 1lb ground beef
• 1 can green beans – your fav type
• 1 small can corn
• 1 can kidney beans (undrained)
• 6 large white mushrooms cubed(about)
• 2 red potatoes diced
• oregano
• basil
• garlic powder (or the real stuff)
• Pepper
• at least 1 carrot (cut into small pieces)
• 1 can tomato sauce
• 1 can tomatoes (I use diced)

Brown the beef and as you brown break it up into small pieces.  Drain the beef and then add to a big 6qt or so pot.  Add to it, everything.  That’s right just start adding all the cans of stuff in.  I let it all cook together for 2 hours so that the flavors can penetrate.  With the spices, I say add to your taste and if you want to add something else go for it.  This is so yummy, I think I will go eat some of it now.  This taste great with Ritz crackers also if you like those things with soup.  M breaks up his Ritz into it.  Mmm.  So freaking yummy.

Baking fool

Not really but you know.  I baked butterscotch cookies last night.  I don’t have the recipe in front of me but should anyone want it I will get off my arse and go get it if you ask.  They are yummy.  I made M take a bag to work and then I left the rest in my cute little bear jar that has a sign you can flip that either says “I’m hungry” or “I’m Full”.  Hah, how cute.  My momma got me that for a moving present. M thinks me the devil for baking such a delicious treat that he feels compelled to eat.  I mean just because his diet has gone down the crapper this month doesn’t mean I can’t bake cookies.  I will be making more cookies too for that matter!  Also cheese cake!  Yes two types of cheese cake.  I made them 2 weeks ago and they were da bomb.  One was a blackberry swirl cheesecake that i had to bake and the other was a black forest cheese cake that required only refrigeration.  Again, recipes out of my reach.  Just ask and I will get em, or who knows in a couple of days I will do it anyways.

Okay so the I had a stupid moment 2 weeks ago.  I covered the cat box to do something and forgot to uncover it for like 2 whole days.  Yes, I am that dumb.  My cat thanked me though.  He held off on shitting until the end of day two, but pissing he couldn’t.  I didn’t realize until after my parents left that it was in the recliner in the spare bedroom where my mother slept (she has a bad back and must sleep in a chair) that it was in the freaking chair that he pissed.  I thanked the heavens that it wasn’t the floor because I didn’t want to loose my deposit.  So now that my parent’s have gone I am trying my hardest to get the smell of cat piss out of that chair.  I think it is a lost cause but it is my moms bed for visiting and I don’t want to toss it.  It isn’t like we are swimming in money with me not working.  So I bough natures miracle and am hoping that stuff will work. I soaked the spot yesterday and today it smelled a bit like it wasn’t as bad but I figured I would soak it again.  So I am crossing my fingers and hoping that I can get that horrible smell out.

So to any of you reading this, how many work from home?  What is that you do from home?  I am trying to plan for when we have a kid.  Here is the thing, we aren’t ready for a kid yet because we need to know where we will be in 9 months which at this time we don’t.  However, as much as i tell him to wrap his tool up I keep thinking I am pregnant, every freaking month for the past 3-4 months.  There is always one day that month that I will say okay, you can go au natural and we do.  This is usually when I “think” I am safe.  We all know that means nothing sometimes so I always think I am.  Then when I get my period I am half relieved and half disappointed.  What is wrong with me?!  I know we can’t have a kid yet, I don’t want a kid yet.  Heck even with the best birth control in the world having come and visit I still kind of want one of those monsters.  Bah.  I just need to save up money and then we will be fine and I will be happy.

Potato Salad & Pasta Salad

This is for all those foodies out there and because I love to share things that taste oh so great.  The two recipes I list below are loved by my husband, the pasta salad more so however.  I don’t actually measure when I make these so please I hope you understand.

Potato Salad:

• 5 large (decent sized) red potatos
• Mayo
• Mustard
• Olives
• Sweet Pickle Relish
• Salt & Pepper
• 4 Eggs

I wash the potatoes, dice them up into bite sizes, and then boil them for 25-30 minutes, until tender and easily speared.  Then I take the eggs and boil those while the potatoes are boiling.  Once both are complete I take the potatoes and drain the water and then place them into a bowl.  I add to the potatoes olives which I have sliced (half a can?) and then maybe 2-3 tablespoons of pickle relish, which ever works for you.  I add just a dash of mustard, lets say 2-3 teaspoons.  Add more for your taste.  Then 1-2 cups mayo until it is the consistency I like.  I add in the hard boiled egg all chopped up. mix this all together and let sit in the fridge for an hour.  Yummy!

Pasta Salad:

• 1 box of whole wheat Rotini pasta
• 1 Can Kidney beans
• 1-2 cans green beans (I use del-monte fancy cut)
• 1-2 cans medium olives
• 1 bottle of Kraft Italian Pesto salad dressing
• 1 package of regular Jimmie dean sausage

I cook the whole box of pasta to my liking.  I slice up the sausage and cook it up.  Once cooked I break it up into bite size pieces.  Once both are cooked I add them together after the pasta is drained.  I then add the kidney beans, olives, and green beans.  To that I add the bottle of Italian Pesto salad dressing and mix.  I let that sit in the fridge at least an hour to allow the flavors to soak in.  M loves this so much.