Saturday, March 29, 2014

Food is DELISH, But Just Not Fish...Chicken is Better:)


Soooooo ya, I made this last week for Roommate dinner and to take to the Bishopric Sunday night. 
They were indeed DELISH. 
The End. 

Springtimes-a-Comin!

Little Seeds Lie Fast Asleep
Little seeds lie fast asleep In a row, in a row. 
“Wake up, wake up,” calls the sun, “Wake up now and grow."
Little seeds wake one by one In a row, in a row.
Then they stretch up t’ward the sun And be - gin to grow.

YAY FOR: 
Roommates who drive me to Walmart for Seeds, 
Bishop's who give me Cow Poop, 
Egg-cartons, "pop"bottles, Gatorade bottles, 
Strawberry containers, and diced Jalapenos :) 

I made Egg-carton planters and thought it would be even cooler to make them into greenhouses! I taped and stapled a gallon bag to the cut-out top of the lid. Boom Greenhouse. In the big on I planed carrot seeds(the one with the eggshells for later transplanting) and the smaller one I planted lettuce seeds. We'll see if they work...

 In the toilet paper rolls that I collected from our trash like every day!! I cut and folded the bottoms so I can later transplant them to pots. And what am I growing?? Peas!! YAY I want them to grow fast so I can move them outside when the weather gets warm and grow up the railing outside my apartment. 







I also decided to try regrowing food from leftover scraps. I so far have a romaine lettuce and a celery. They just started to sprout!! 



I am also getting way too excited for spring and to see my family so soon I am counting down the days until school is over and I have a much needed break. 

Monday, March 17, 2014

Lucky Ducky!

Well maybe it's because of my mom or maybe because I grew up in a drinking, party, college town, but I CELEBRATE Saint Patrick's Day! Why wouldn't you want to? You get to decorate your house with rainbows and clovers, eat green cookies in green milk, and when I was growing up the leprechauns would come and mess up our house and leave behind chocolate gold coins.


 I remember waking up in the morning to find my room a mess! toys and blankets thrown all over the floor, the family room couch cushions were all thrown off and amidst all of this was a trail of coins leading to the kitchen table where that sneaky leprechaun had died our milk green! Mom would make sure we all had a green shirt and for the girls green hair-ties for school so we didn't get pinched! For dinner we would have an all green meal. Green jello, broccoli, noodles, apples, and of course green kool-aid!

This year being at college I couldn't just do nothing! I decorated our wall with shamrocks and rainbows, painted green nails, Wore a green shirt with gold earrings, dyed MY milk green, and even the toilet water! It was a monday so we had FHE (Family Home Evening) with our new group of kids. Two of the girls went to pick up something for the treat for after. They came back with a cookie mix and put green food coloring in. Then they kinda forgot about the cookies and it wasn't until we noticed smoke coming from the stove top did anyone remember the cookies. They were not exactly green but.....BLACK! Haha it made for a good laugh and a lingering smell for a couple of hours.