Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Made it Myself

 I wanted tacos.  No shells

Taught myself to make soft tacos shells/tortillas.  Because I was too lazy to go out and buy some.

Dough is resting





  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt 
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil, vegetable oil or other neutral flavored oil
  • 1 cup warm water

Combine dry ingredients in mixer with dough hook
Add oil and water
Mix to make ball, smooth dough
make 16 balls on floured surface
Cover let rest for 15 min
roll out flat
Cook in hot  skillet 10-15 seconds, for brown spots, flip



Saturday, March 2, 2024

Online Ordering

 In my experience, I have learned if you put something into an online cart, then leave the site, you usually get an email stating you left something and get an extra 20% off coupon.

Now I assume you need to have an account with that site and logged in so they know where to send coupon code.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Thanksgiving leftovers

 We all love the leftovers.

This year I got the carcass.  Yep the bones and stuff.

My family knows me so well.

So today is turkey stock.

Plus I throw in all the leftovers veggies, or veggie scraps.

I also sauté carrots, onion, garlic to put in the actual soup






Monday, November 6, 2023

FB Marketplace

I am a big fan of thrifting, reusing, buying used.

I may (or may not) have a lot of yarn now and need to way to store it.

I got this idea after buying one for my college bound son.

I found closet hanging organizers on FaceBook Marketplace.  I thought I only need 2

The seller wanted to get rid of all of them.  So 4 organizers for $5.00.  Win




Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Wedding Gift

Now a days it is all about the registry.

But I decided to make an afghan for the young couple.  They love to watch movies at home.

Bought yarn on sale and stacked with a coupon.

A couple months later....gift.   It is heavy like a weighted blanket and I am told the couple loves it.

Was it super cheap, no. But it is high quality and paid the least amount possible plus my time.  I still think it is a good price for wedding gift





Monday, October 9, 2023

Forgotten apples

 I put a bag of apples in the crisper drawer of the fridge

The forgot about them

They were wrinkled

BUT, I made apple crisp and saved them from being thrown out.

I saved the peels and made apple jelly



Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Online Wine

 Online wine...Is it worth it?

The price was great.   15 bottles

6.33 per bottle including shipping

Variety

BUT not worth it for me because I did not care for most of the wines. 

However, I had a friend that can use the empty bottles and the box,  so at least it is not going to waste