The weather outside was again crappy. No surprises here right? Well, it gave me a chance to catch up on some things and to do some baking. I was able to get all the extra stuff out of our bedroom today. I know that I did it to myself, but for some reason I’ve made myself the keeper of everything for everyone. I decided that maybe I should change this. So the other day I bought a couple of totes and had one for Kyle and one for William. Now when I find things that is theirs it’s so much easier to just pop it into the right tote. I’m not saying that I still won’t want to keep some of the things, but maybe just not everything.
Daryl made it home this afternoon even with the bad weather. Even church was cancelled today. So that meant more time for me to get some baking and cooking done. I had mushrooms in the fridge now for some time that needed to be used so I browned a pound of stew beef, put in some of the wine from last night , added some onions, barley and of course the mushrooms, and it really tasted good! It doesn’t look the greatest, but it sure hits the spot today.
Beef , Mushroom, and Barley soup
The next thing was use up some bananas that we had sitting on the counter top for a couple of days. I had good intentions of eating them, but they turned soft and brown so that wasn’t going to happen. I found a recipe for some Crunchy Top Banana Muffins and they turned out excellent. I’ll add the recipe for them next week sometime.
Banana Muffins
Then after the muffins I still had some bananas left so I made some banana bread.
By this time our house is smelling pretty good. The last thing that I wanted to do was to make some energy balls. I had some coconut that was either going to be used or thrown away and this was the perfect recipe to use it on. This recipe is pretty easy and can be made about a million different ways. Once you have the basic recipe down, you just add whatever you like to it. Today’s are made with peanut butter, oats, flax, toasted coconut, honey,vanilla,craisins, sunflower seeds,& mini M&M’s. Yum!
Energy Balls
So you see, it was a good day to use up all that extra stuff around the kitchen. For the rest of the day I made a couple of cards that I needed. I decided to keep track this year on how many cards I make. It’ll be interesting to find out how many that’ll be.
William’s Birthday Card
Thank-you Card
Daryl’s Valentine Card
I still have one left to do and maybe I’ll get it done tomorrow. It’s for my Mom. She ended up having an unexpected surgery yesterday and thankfully everything turned out well. She’ll have to stay in the hospital for a couple of days and hopefully get out the middle of next week.
As for now? Kyle marinated some pork chops with a home made mixture and is just starting to cook them on the stove. I guess sometimes it’s OK that the weather is not so nice outside 🙂