lazy lunch

too busy snowboarding to actually pour my soup into a bowl… like how long would that actually take? talk about a real time saver! yes vegemite does come in a tube, well it does in nz, like black toothpaste.  It’s the travel version and there’s usually a hasty supermarket run for this stuff to shove [...]

granola

This is my new favorite thing to make, move aside crock pot oatmeal, hello homemade granola. This time I will endeavor to pay attention to what I’m doing when making this for accuracy’s sake–so you all can follow–rather than throwing things in willy-nilly and guestimating basically everything. Once you’ve made your own granola you will [...]

everything but the kitchen sink pizza

So continuing with my Trader Joes pizza dough obsession, I thought I’d actually better post evidence to the fact…so here goes, this was dinner last night. ingredients used. 1 fresh pizza dough (use your hands and stretch this sucker, no pin needed, just pull it to fit a 17 x 12 sheet pan, or thereabouts [...]

Nate’s recession soup

Nate made this soup last night.  I called it recession soup (its lentil with spinach) after we were scratching around in the cupboard looking for something to throw together. I figure it’ll cost you about $5 bucks and will make a huge pot. In the wee household of 2 this will go a long way… [...]

shrimp & broccoli

So I’m about to jump on the Melissa Clark bandwagon and be the umpteenth person to post about this recipe. When I first saw this on The Wednesday Chef’s blog, I immediately thought, now I’m being brutally honest here,  “how disgusting” and “that sounds terrible” but talk about don’t judge a book by its cover…..since [...]

I heart my vacuum cleaner

The cornerstone to any good cleaning job is the vacuum cleaner. So when my beloved Sharp finally bit the dust the search was on and I mean on, to find a good replacement. Believe me its a lot harder than you think. #1 priority has got to be suction, I mean who gives a crap [...]

blizzard = pantry

yesterday we had a blizzard! , the universe pitched a serious hissy fit with howling winds and sideways snow.  To me anything short of sunshine in winter is a potential “blizzard situation” but it was confirmed by our farmer neighbor this morning when he asked us “how did you get on in the blizzard?” I [...]

snowshoes

For those of you who think that snowshoes are not all they’re cracked up to be, this picture is for you….

sauce

I have gone on before about how much I hate waste so when I noticed some heirloom tomatoes leftover from a job looking decidedly sad, instead of depositing them into the compost bin, I thought I would throw together a quick and easy fresh tomato sauce to be used in or on something at a [...]

overnight oatmeal

My new favorite thing to eat for breakfast is…. overnight crock pot oatmeal, chuck everything into a crock pot, switch it on low and 8 hours later breakfast is ready, like the elves made it during the night… its a no brainer,  anything can go into it, well ….. within reason. 2 cups steel cut [...]