My body hurts from shoveling manure
in the garden yesterday!
In a couple days when the rain lets
up then I'll be back in the garden
again stringing twine and marking
a grid for plants later on.
Right now I am trying to get an
idea of what to plant and where
with companion planting.
While some plants get along with
other plants there are some you
don't want to plant near them.
Was going to stop at the library
and see about getting some books
on it but I guess they don't open
til 10am. So for now I'll just find
and reserve some books online that are
available. These should be ready
for pick up in 3-5 days. It's
hard finding gardening books this
time of year as they have all been
checked out or have a reserve list.
***The worst books to try and reserve right now
is Square Foot Gardening. They can have anywhere
from 15 to 22 people on the waiting list!!!
__________________________________________________
I got one tray of 72 plants planted.
That was all I could handle for now.
I have carpal tunnel and dealing with
tiny seeds makes my hands go numb.
__________________________________________________
11:30am
Working on getting some lunch in my belly
and getting a menu done up for the week.
Total cost for 7 supper meals $22.42.
Here's what I have planned:
1. Chicken Parmesan
-breaded chicken patty topped with cheese
and served with spaghetti & sauce.
PLUS 3 Bowl cakes.
Now up to 7 Bowl Cakes out of one cake mix.
Still have more cake mix left.
$1.67 breaded chicken patties
$1.20 Spaghetti Sauce
.50 cents Spaghetti
.25 cents Velveeta Cheese
-----------
TOTAL $3.62
SERVES 6 @ .60 cents a serving
2. Teriyaki Stir Fry with Smoked Sausage
-noodles, broccoli, sugar snap peas, mushrooms,
baby cob corn & red bell peppers.
$4.00 bag of stir fry vegetables, noodles & sauce
.75 cents 2 smoked sausages
-----------
TOTAL $4.75
SERVES 6 @ .79 cents a serving
3. Sweet & Sour Chicken
-Rice with pineapple, red bell peppers & chicken
in a sweet & sour sauce.
$1.00 box of La Choy Sweet & Sour Chicken Meal
$1.00 1/2 chicken breast
----------
TOTAL $2.00
SERVES 5 @ .40 cents a serving
4. Cream Chipped Beef over Mashed Potatoes
$1.00 2 packages chipped beef
.50 cents -flour,milk & butter to make sauce
.50 cents Velveeta Cheese
$1.00 boxed mashed potatoes
----------
TOTAL $3.00
SERVES 5 @ .60 cents a serving
5. Tuna & Noodles Creamy Parmesan with Bread & Butter
.50 cents Betty Crocker Creamy Parmesan Tuna Helper
free- box of spiral noodles
.50 can of cream of mushroom soup
$1.00 2 cans of tuna fish
.25 cents 5 slices of bread with butter
.25 cents Velveeta Cheese
.05 cents bread crumbs for topping
----------
TOTAL $2.55
SERVES 8 @ .31 cents a serving
6. Turkey with gravy & Stuffing & Corn
free Turkey- leftover in freezer
.50 cents Stuffing mix
.50 cents canned gravy
.50 cents frozen boxed corn
----------
TOTAL $1.50
SERVES 5 @ .30 cents a serving
7. Broccoli, Potato, Cheese & Sage Sausage Soup
$1.00 5 potatoes
.50 cents frozen boxed broccoli
.50 cents Velveeta cheese
.50 cents milk, butter & flour
$2.00 roll sausage
.50 cents cream of celery soup
-----------
TOTAL $5.00
SERVES 8 @ .62 cents a serving
___________________________________________________
I've been thinking about hauling out the
bread machine and making some pizza dough
for the freezer. Can make bread sticks,
sweet sticks or cinnapies.
You let the machine do the work with all the
kneading then remove before it goes into the
bake cycle.
BREAD MACHINE PIZZA DOUGH
Ingredients:
* 1 cup water
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
* 1 teaspoon salt
* dash garlic powder
* 2 tablespoons sugar
* 2 tablespoons softened butter
* 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
Preparation:
Add ingredients to the bread machine following manufacturer's suggested order. Choose the dough cycle and start.
When the dough is finished, turn out onto a floured surface. Roll out to fit your pizza pan (approximately 12 to 16 inches, depending on the size of the pan and thickness of crust). Fit into the pan and cover with a clean dish towel; let stand for about 10 to 15 minutes. Spread with sauce, toppings, and cheeses of your choice. Bake at 400° for about 25 minutes, or until nicely browned and cheese and toppings are melted and bubbly.
Other bread machine recipes
BREAD MACHINE PIZZA DOUGH
1 pizza dough
Ingredients
* 1 cup flat beer
* 2 tablespoons butter
* 2 tablespoons sugar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast
Directions
1. Put beer, butter, sugar, salt, flour, and yeast in a bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select Dough setting, and press Start.
2. Remove dough from bread machine when cycle is complete. Roll or press dough to cover a prepared pizza pan. Brush lightly with olive oil. Cover and let stand 15 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
4. Spread sauce and toppings on top of dough. Bake until crust is lightly brown and crispy on the outside, about 24 minutes.
Amount Per Serving Calories: 262 | Total Fat: 4.4g | Cholesterol: 10mg
---------------------------------------------------
BREAD MACHINE BANANA NUT BREAD
Ingredients
* 1/2 cup margarine, softened (or applesauce)
* 2/3 cup milk
* 2 eggs
* 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 cup white sugar
* 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2/3 cup mashed bananas
* 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
1. Spray bread machine pan with vegetable oil spray.
2. Premix ingredients in order listed. Place mixture in bread machine pan.
3. Select the Quick Bread/Cake cycle. Press Start. Check after 1 minute to see if mixture is well blended.
4. Cook until cake cycle stops. Remove pan, and cool completely before removing bread from pan.
Amount Per Serving Calories: 349 | Total Fat: 14.7g | Cholesterol: 44mg
---------------------------------------------------
BREAD MACHINE AMISH BREAD
Ingredients
* 2 3/4 cups bread flour
* 1/4 cup canola oil
* 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
* 1/4 cup white sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons warm water
Directions
1. Place ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select White Bread cycle; press Start.
2. When the dough has raised once and second cycle of kneading begins, turn machine off. Reset by pressing Start once again. This gives the dough two full raising cycles before the final raising cycle prior to baking.
Amount Per Serving Calories: 172 | Total Fat: 5.2g | Cholesterol: 0mg
----------------------------------------------------
BREAD MACHINE SOFT GIANT PRETZELS
makes 8
Ingredients
* 1 1/8 cups water (70 to 80 degrees F)
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 3 tablespoons brown sugar
* 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
* 2 quarts water
* 1/2 cup baking soda
* coarse salt
Directions
1. In bread machine pan, place the first four ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select dough setting (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1 to 2 tablespoons water or flour if needed).
2. When cycle is completed, turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough into eight balls. Roll each into a 20-in. rope; form into pretzel shape. In a saucepan, bring water and baking soda to a boil. Drop pretzels into boiling water, two at a time; boil for 10-15 seconds. Remove with a slotted spoon; drain on paper towels.
3. Place pretzels on greased baking sheets. Bake at 425 degrees F for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Spritz or lightly brush with water. Sprinkle with salt.
---------------------------------------------------
CINNAMON DESSERT PIZZA
* Pizza Dough:
use store-bought or homemade dough rolled out onto oiled pizza pan.
Streusel:
* 1 cup flour
* ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
* 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
* 6 tablespoons butter or margarine (NOT light!)
Sugar Glaze:
* 1 cup powdered sugar
* 1-2 tablespoons water or milk
Mix flour, sugar and cinnamon in bowl.
Dice up CHILLED butter/margarine and add to dry mix.
Mix with hands until you can form a sort of "snow ball" with mixture.
Crumble mixture, leaving crumbles big, and spread over pizza dough.
Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes until dough bottom is golden.
Combine powdered sugar & milk to make a glaze. Drizzle glaze on cooked pizza when fresh from the oven.
Let sit for 5 minutes, then cut & serve warm.
---------------------------------------------------
BUTTERY BREAD MACHINE ROLLS
makes 24 rolls
Ingredients
* 1 cup warm milk (70 to 80 degrees F.)
* 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
* 1/4 cup sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
* 4 cups bread flour
* 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
Directions
1.
In bread machine pan, put all ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer.
2.
Select dough setting.
3.
When cycle is completed, turn dough onto a lightly floured surface.
4.
Divide dough into 24 portions.
5.
Shape dough into balls.
6.
Place in a greased 13 inch by 9 inch baking pan.
7.
Cover and let rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.
8.
Bake at 375 degrees for 13-16 minutes or until golden brown.
___________________________________________________
Gone the whole day with clouds and rain.
5pm rolls around and we get the first ray
of sunshine. I'm hoping this crap
is moving out!
___________________________________________________
Money saving tip...
BARTERING
If you have specific talents or trades
and your friend or family have some
of their own, that's when you can work
a deal without paying money to trade
for others work for some of your own.
Here is an example which will help us out
a lot!
We have an ongoing transmission leak
on our Trans Am. Anything we do
to repair it does not stop the leak.
Transmission work is not cheap and
we all know that!
We have a friend, or Tony does,
that does transmission work and has
had his own transmission shop.
In return to fix the transmission leak
Tony will do drywall work for him.
Everyone saves money this way!
I'm am so glad they worked it out like
this because in my mind I saw hundreds of
dollars to fix this problem!!
___________________________________________________
Sitting here taking it easy. My whole
body is aching so bad! I am waiting for
some Ibuprofen to kick in.
My legs and arms hurt and now my back
feels it should join in with some spasms.
I wouldn't want it to feel neglected, grrr.
Everyone's outside and enjoying the little
bit of sun before it starts going down.
So I'm sitting here watching the squirrels
in the neighbors trees. They have made
a nest in a rotted out hole in one of the
branches. They are so cute to watch especially
in the morning. I think they all decided which
squirrel should go out of the nest first. He'll
run out and around the branch a few times then
return back to the hole. This goes on about
4-5 times before the rest start to peek their
heads out. It's like he told them the coast is
clear. Gotta watch out for that nasty hawk
that likes to visit the neighborhood!
You'll have to enlarge the pic in order to
see the squirrel by the hole.
Oh yeah I didn't tell ya I got the surround working.
It's only taken about a week!
I just started pressing buttons and connecting
and unplugging cables until something worked.
I sure as heck couldn't understand some of the
directions that's for sure. About like the
greenhouse. And do you think the surround would
come with some cables? Heck no, they need to make
even more money off ya by having you have to
go back to the store to buy them. HDMI cables
aren't cheap starting at $17 on up.
___________________________________________________
