Category: Christmas

This Overnight Homemade Chicken Stock In A Crockpot Changed My Life

12/13/2014

So remember this post a month or two ago about the
Best Whole Chicken In
A Crockpot?

This chicken in a crockpot always came out spectacular,

and I was incredulous each time!

To top it off, the recipe author, Lisa Leake of 100daysofrealfood.com, takes the carcass and makes an overnight chicken stock out of it!!

YUP!
This de-boned carcass made up to 11 cups of awesome chicken stock for me!

I've made this stock probably TEN times in the last few months.

Just take that carcass in the crockpot up above,
and add a bay leaf,
a carrot,
celery, fresh thyme,
and parsley.

See, easy peasy....

Fill that crockpot up with water...

all the way to the top...

It should look like this...

and you will be sayin' to yourself...
yeah right,
this ain't turnin' out to be anything special.

But let it cook covered, overnight,
on low for ten hours...

And this is what you'll wake up to,

ten hours later!

Look at all that chicken-y flavor!

Now you'll need to take a sieve and sieve out everything but the broth...
this takes several minutes...be patient.

Look what you're left with...
11 cups of pure chicken stock goodness!

I'm usually short on time and have to refrigerate the stock for a day or two,
until I can get time to bagging, marking, and freezing it.

Okay, I just most recently made this stock AGAIN the other night.
In the morning, I freezer-bagged up the stock in 2 cup, 3 cup and 4 cup bags.

I throw the marked bags in the freezer and pull them out when needed for rice, soups (lots of soups!)
and anything else that requires broth.

This stock is so flavorful
and frankly it's basically free since you used the chicken carcass and drippings and a carrot out of the fridge and a celery stick!

Not only have I saved money by making my own stock, but the stock has no additives. This has helped change how I cook, seeing "whole" food in new and exciting, more healthy ways.

Okay, so here's Lisa Leake's recipe...

Overnight Chicken Stock in the Crock Pot
Straight outta www.100daysofrealfood.com website...straight outta
Angie's Note: The 100 days website is the best whole foods website ever.
INGREDIENTS

Leftover chicken bones or carcass roughly equivalent to one small or medium sized chicken
1 onion, peeled and loosely chopped
1 rib of celery, roughly chopped
1 carrot, roughly chopped (no need to peel)
1 bay leaf
1 sprig fresh parsley
1 sprig fresh thyme
Salt, to taste
Note: If you are missing any of these ingredients I wouldn't let that stop you from making it anyway.

INSTRUCTIONS

After removing all edible meat from the chicken put/leave the bones, skin, cooking juices, etc. in the crock pot. If you are using the chicken carcass from the “The Best Whole Chicken in the Crock Pot” recipe just leave every single thing that's leftover (except the good meat of course) in the crock pot including the original onion and spices you used when making the chicken.
Add the onion, celery, carrot and spices on top of the bones and fill the crock pot almost to the top with tap water (leaving about ½” at the top).
Turn the slow cooker onto "low" after dinner and cook all night long or alternatively you could start it in the morning and cook on "low" for 8 – 10 hours during the day.
After the stock is done cooking turn off the heat and, using a soup ladle, pass the stock through a fine sieve to remove all herbs/bones/etc.
Either refrigerate or freeze the stock for future use. I usually freeze some in both 1 and 2-cup portions, and I also sometimes freeze stock in ice cube trays just in case I just “need a little” for making sauce or rice. This stock is great in soups like chicken noodle soup and also in rice like risotto.

And here's the recipe to print
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OR...just click on this and it will take you directly to Lisa's recipe.

In closing, I'll throw some Christmas-y pictures out there from my house.
I used to go over-the-top and this year is quite...minimal.

Okay, this is the only tree in the house and it is a little one too.

I used to put up 13 Christmas trees and a ton of other vintage decorations back in the old farmhouse. Took well over a month to decorate everything.

There's a lot less room in this little cottage style house, so we're keeping it super duper, easy peasy simple this year.

Frankly, it's nice to focus on other things of the season this year, rather than to wrap oneself up into ribbons and presents and trees and collections of Santas and Christmas plates and churches and nativities and thousands of vintage ornaments and totally tacky vintage 50/60/70s lights....okay, now THOSE I do kind of miss :)

In the narrow entryway is an old 40s record player that gets random stuff thrown on it, of course.
I nailed a few things up that were in the bottom of a box in the garage...

We have candy canes
in a memory ware vase.

And these vintage plastic nativity scenes...
oh my, if you only knew how many actual vintage nativity sets I used to put out...oh my! But for now we have these cute three.

Some close-ups...

Almost forgot about this little elf I found...

The candy canes are on a small pile of Christmas books that were in the bottom of the box too.
Here's a book from 1916...love the cover!

A thin little Christmas songbook from 1950...

With the traditional hymns inside...

And Jingle Bells handwritten in the back...

And my favorite,
a festive looking Christmas Carol booklet from 1954...

I love the graphics too...
We Three Kings of Orient Are

I Saw Three Ships

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Oh Come, All Ye Faithful which apparently is also titled Adeste Fideles

Oh How Joyfully there on the right hand side. I was not familiar with that song.

Christ Was Born on Christmas Day

And of course, Silent Night

Last thing to bore you with,

not vintage,

impulsive buy,

but only paid 70 cents for it,
clearance clearance clearance :)
So I bought six of them.
What?

Okay, that's all I gots for today, folks!
Yes, gots is a word. Look it up. In the Pretend Word Dictionary.

Am going to try baking (this can't be good) one more time this month...we'll see how it goes...Whole Wheat Snickerdoodles...

Have a great Saturday, Guys, and we'll talk at ya soon!

What My Super Cool, Hip, Young Grandma aka Angie Has Been Up To...A Guest Post By Little Boy Blue

1/20/2013

"OH Hi There!"

says the cutie, dimpled
Little Boy Blue.

"Come a little bit closer and I will tell you what my cool, hip, very young Grandma has been up to.
Oh by the way, my Grandma made me say "cool" and "young" and "hip." Hehehe."

so
at Christmastime,

my super young Grandma
pulled out this Christmas tree from the garage
and put it up for me and her to decorate together with kid ornaments....a warm, fuzzy Norman Rockwell experience she was thinking.

Well,

this is as far as we got.

I kept pulling the ornaments off the tree just as quick as Grandma put them on.

And then I got distracted with the kitties and with putting inappropriate stuff in my mouth.

So Grandma finally gave up.

So the kid tree never successfully got decorated.

But my Grandma did manage to get a big tree up with a few ornaments in the living room.

Grandma said she just wasn't into the decorating this year but that next year she will do better.

See, my Grandma loves her ornaments.

My Grandma used to put up
13 trees.

Her favorite tree was the 9 foot tree with vintage ornaments.

She has over a thousand vintage ornaments alone.

At least.

Grandma,
Are you a hoarder?

Gram was modest with layering on her vintage tree tops this year as well.

And all the pets were all snuggled in their beds for the Christmas season too.

And sometimes the pets even had turf wars with the humans for their rightful snuggy spot.

That's my Auntie Sweetness by the way. She was on break from school. I love her. She buys me fun books.

Auntie Sweetness is a literary arts grad student and she bought me this really cool book with animals in it for my birthday in October.

I LOVE this book!!!

The animals in this book have fake fur on them!!!

See my tongue here??

My Grandma and Grandpa had no idea that I was getting geared up to lick this book.

What???!!

So I like to lick the fur on the animals in that book.

Sue me!

My Grandpa sure got a kick out of it...he started yelling
"Angie, he's licking the book, look at this!"

I don't know what the big deal was.

I'm not licking the book Grandpa! I was just......smelling it. Duh.

See, I can look at a zebra without licking it....

...and I can touch a bear without sticking my tongue on it.

NO I CAN'T!!!

MUST LICK
MUST LICK
MUST LICK!!!!!

Anyway, moving on about the holiday season.....

My Grandma and Grandpa's new kitty Giblet Pearl did a lot of lazy sleeping this season too....in my Grandma's arms....

...In my Grandpa's shirt while he was on the phone....

yes, you read that right, I said IN my Grandpa's shirt.

....and with her
big brother
Vinny on the couch.

My Grandma is happy Giblet Pearl finally wore down moody big brother Vinny with love and licks and jumping on Vinny's head and playing with Vinny's tail and constantly bugging Vinny...

Vinny finally just found it easier to give in to the little love bucket and humor her.

Speaking of humoring....
I humored my not old looking at all, cool, young, hip Grandma and Grandpa on
Christmas Day.

All they want to do is love and hug on me.

Geez, a kid's gotta have some room sometime to breathe
ya know.

So I jumped over to my Auntie Sweetness and her nice boyfriend NiceBoyfriend's lap.

By the way, my Grandma wants me to let you know that Auntie Sweetness may look twelve but she is actually of legal drinking age and it is legal for her to have that glass of wine.

And then it was time to open presents and because I was at my Daddy's family the night before with tons of cousins and tons of attention and tons of presents and activity and stimulation, I was a little wired and tired and ornery and
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
WWWHHHAAAAAAAA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
WWWHHHAAAAAAAAA

Do I look like I've been a 24 hour handful here for my Momma and Daddy??!!!
Hehehehehehe
WHAAAAAAAAAA!!!

And then
I crashed and burned on my Grampy's lap who was winding down as well.

Where's my blankie??!!

Well I better get going, I'm a busy toddler boy you know. My Grandma wants you to know she's been cooking a lot of disasters like this though lately...

She can't even remember what this was but it was expensive to make and it was too sweet and are you wondering where the top of the bundt cake is?

Apparently it didn't want to leave the coziness of the pan.

But at least this super easy chicken cordon bleu turned out pretty decent.

She'll be sharing that with you soon cuz she really liked it.

Okay now I'm really out of here....I got things to do like looking cute and hanging out in laundry baskets.

Thanks for checking in and catching up on my youngish, energetic, hip Grandma. She'll be talking at ya soon and if you're a super cute and adorable yittle tiny baby or toddler, she'll be showering you with a ton of kisses and hugs!

See ya later alligator!
Have a good week and remember: always give little boys everything they ask for no matter how outrageous, okay? Goo Goo
Gah Gah. Thanks a lot!

Christmas Elfins and Merry Wishes

12/23/2011

Schnikeys!

It's been a while since I posted last!

I'll bet you're all organized and have everything checked off your To-Do list, yes?

I don't.
I don't have much shopping done at all and I finally threw up some stuff.
Well I didn't throw up that way.
I threw up some Christmas stuff.
That doesn't sound right either although both kids will tell you the house usually looks like someone threw up Christmas this time of year.

I was restrained this year however.
Humour me a bit while I show you some craptastic pictures of this year's decor.

So this vignette is in the dining room.
I LOOOOVVEE that tree that displays hanging vintage bulbs.

Don't even get me started talking about my vintage bulbs. Unless you want to, then I'm happy to share. Interested in furthering discussion with me? No?

And see that black wrought iron wheel thing up above?
I think it's supposed to hold little flower pots.

Hello. Do we look scary? Do we? What? Don't turn your back on us. Just kidding hehehe.

But I put little vintage elfs and elfins in the holders because it looks like a ferris wheel to me.

A ferris wheel for elves.

Tim gets creeped out by elfs. I love them.
Guess who wins out every time?

And look at these two cool vintage Christmas and winter pictures on the wall.

I painted my dining room purple and tan a couple weeks ago and then I found these sweet vintage prints with purple backgrounds at a Mt. Vernon antique shop a week later.

Now seriously, how often do you see Christmas and winter prints with purple backgrounds?

I love these!

Also crammed into my little dining room is a white tree chocked full of vintage ornaments, from the 1920's through the 60's...

Does it look like someone threw up Christmas yet?

Well, it will.
Let's keep moving. We're still in the dining room.

Aaaaand this is the hutch that changed color when the room was repainted.

Again.

The hutch turned yellow.

And it holds my collection of jewelry tree pictures.

I think I have a couple more of these but time ran out to dig through more boxes.

For once i would like to completely paint a piece. I see the top of this hutch is not painted, nor is the back and the whole left side is unpainted as well. *sigh*

Below are figurine thingies I found laying on top of a Christmas box and quickly threw up on my cupboard.

Normally I would thoroughly remove everything from this hutch and have it be a full-on Christmas Display-o-rama but again, ran out of time.

Plus, if I don't pick up all those dishes and glasses to move them, I won't feel compelled to wash the greasy grime off them.
Bonus!

And this is the baby tree by the yellow cupboard...for Little Boy Blue's enjoyment.

I love Gram and Gramps house, they're keepers.

Have I mentioned how sweet
Little Boy Blue is?

He is our most favorite-ist Christmas present
ever.

Okay, that's it for the

dining room.

Let's see if Christmas threw

up in the rest of the house....

Holyfield, get out of the picture. I will feed you in a minute!

This is all I

got going on

the kitchen

this year.

Simple. Simple.

The tops of the cupboards still haven't been touched and look like crap.

They need a little of that Spirit o' Christmas
thrown up there.

And things are scaled down in the bathroom...I usually put up a 1950's aluminum tree with vintage shiny brite bulbs.

But this year, I was lazy and grabbed a vintage hanging light from the garage when I was getting folding chairs and threw it on the bathroom counter.

It is very dusty and dirty and I still haven't cleaned it. I did however throw a strand of lights on it. Because I am classy like that.

Also, that picture is titled "Winter In Paris". It is beautiful.

And the entry is totally scaled down this year.

For years, I had my Grandparent's Hoosier cabinet in that tiny space chocked full of vintage Santas, and Mrs. Santas and red boots and sweet vintage sleighs and reindeer.

Wouldn't it be nice to get new flooring in the entry instead of that dated vinyl?

But this year is just this simple little setting.

And that's okay too.

Hey, I love this lamp that hangs on the wall in the entry. We purchased this light just like this from our favorite junk shop ever in Cedarburg Wisconsin named Don's Resale.
We went there for years. One day three years ago, we went there and Don, a crusty old, hard-living 76 year-old was not there. He had passed away a couple weeks prior and his children were left cleaning out his lifetime of junk collecting. I remembered seeing this lamp many times on his old check-out counter (an old general store display piece) and asked if I could buy it. His son said okay. Lucky me but I think the son should have kept it. This light is weird and quirky, just like Don.

Hi Mindy Peaches. Hey, could you vacuum the dog hair up off the couch after you get up?

And finally we come into the living room.

Remember this picture from last week where I talked about selling FOR FREE my two huge honking Christmas trees on Craigslist and I was left with these two sorry looking trees?

Well,
I did put the trees side by side, placing the gaping holes to the wall and began to put lights on these humongous Redwoods.

And then I said enough is enough and just went out and bought a real tree and had it delivered and set up.
For reals and for cheap.
Not free, but it was cheap!

And you can see, I haven't got to decorating the tree yet but with a couple ornaments.

If I wasn't running out of time, this tree would be dripping with 700-800 ornaments at least...gorgeous ones, tacky ones, handmade ones, treasures from the kids like macaroni pictures and anything that glitter and pipe cleaners can be glued on, ribbons and twirly things off packages, Christmas cards from the past, photographs, vintage ornaments, popcorn strung on dental floss, sometimes strung cranberries and homemade gingerbread men and the kitchen sink.

But this year is different. Ran out of time. That's okay. Kind of.
Oh, and the stair railing? Usually has a beautiful garland cascading down. This year I plopped the first wreath I saw up there. Very sylish.

But it's all good...just leaves me time for what's really important in life.

Welcome back to the

farmhouse

Little Boy Blue!!!

We've missed you!!

The pets missed you tooooo.........

I'm figuring out quickly my Grandma likes to take blurry pictures.

Little Boy Blue and his super cool,
super hip,
very young Grandma Angie and his cool GrandpaTim wishes you and yours a very Happy Christmas filled all the wonders this season brings!

Warm

Christmas Blessings

To All!!!

Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb Angie

12/9/2011

Hi Guys!!!

So, the cornerstone of my Christmas decor
was always this Christmas tree...

NO, not the cat!! The Christmas tree!

This tree was just a 7 1/2 foot tree but it was super expensive (I'm too embarrassed to say how much),
had a thousand million gazillion (that's a true number, look it up) different tips and came in a box that was like 8 foot long
(no exaggeration)
and required two people to carry it in and out of the garage.

It doesn't look huge here, but it was humongous,
and round and full; it was a BEAST of a tree.
Everyone was wowed by it. I usually mounted it on a large metal pail thing which made it stand 9 foot tall.

I think that's a sleeping teenager over there on the couch.

Here is that same tree in the dining room another year...clearly you can see my photo skills have always lacked!!

Isn't it HUGE!!!!!

Well, the other anchor of my yearly decorating was the 9 footer tree,
typically decorated with 100% vintage ornaments...

Grand, stately and beautiful is what this 9 footer was.

So
pretty
from
a
distance too.

I think the table was set for a ladies luncheon I hosted with chicken salad on buttery croissants and a broccoli and spinach side dish. OH! I need to make that again and post it here :)

One more picture of that big, fat 7 1/2 foot beast from another year.
Clearly I had a red, white and blue love fest going on that year in the dining room.

And then two years ago,

I sold both trees on Craigslist.

For FREE!!!!

I KNOW!!!!
Am I crazy?
The answer is yes. Duh.

Our sweet kitty Jefferson
did not go with the trees though;
we kept him :)

Why did I give away,

FOR FREE,

both trees you ask?

Well, this is the best I can come up with
1. They were humongous and I tended to go a little overboard with the decorating and I thought it would help me scale down where I wouldn't be so obsessive.

2. The older I get, the less I am invested in hauling 35 trillion honking huge trees inside the house.

3. I thought maybe it would be nice to start getting real trees again.

4. I thought I should be concentrating on the real meaning of Christmas instead of focusing on material things; I kind of - sort of put up 13 trees every year.

5. I got a hair up my wazoo one day while cleaning out the barn and put the free ad on Craiglist and those big honkin' boxes were out of my barn within 35 minutes (no kidding, someone read the ad and came out and hauled them both away all within 30 minutes of posting.)

6. Yeah, that about covers it.

So, do I regret giving away those trees?

A. Well last year I didn't.
It was refreshing not being chained to all those trees and decor and time and mess and untangling lights and stepping on bulbs and vacuuming up wires.

This year however, hmmmmm...
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OF COURSE I REGRET IT!!!!

Crap!!!!!! What was I

thinking?!?!

So these are the two trees I am working with in the living room this year.

See that big, gaping hole in that tree, where you can see the dog on the couch?
*sigh*

Boy, these trees are so HUGE I don't know how I will ever have enough ornaments to decorate them. Gosh, it will take me YEARS to do these two ginormous monsters. I don't know if there's enough energy or time in the world to decorate these big California Redwood-like trees. Sheez.

But I can do it.
If Scarlett O'Hara can pull herself back up, by gosh I can too. Wish me luck.

I do have this nice,
sweet white tree going on in the dining room
this year though,
so that's kind of fun.

We snuggie, don't bother us mom.

And I do have the
Titans Of Terror
helping me out with the decorating too.

Uh must add, my mother-in-law June put up and decorated that white tree and two others already up at my house, I actually haven't done a tree yet. Oops.

WHAT??!!
She LIKES to put up trees!

I've been too busy,

you know,

listening to these old vinyl
Christmas albums...

On this...

And reading

these...

A gal's gotta have a little down time ya know :):):)

I'd love to see pictures of all ya'll's trees...

email me at [email protected]

HOHOHO...MERRY CHRISTMAS SEASON!
See ya soon!

Gone Out Of Town To Buy A Car And Drool Over Christmas Ornaments

11/17/2011

Oh!

The luscious Cole Slaw, Cheeseburger and Fried Zucchini will have to wait for this weekend.

Went out of town spur of the moment this week to buy a hot looking Impala SS.

Initially was not too thrilled about driving three hours one way but lookey-look what Angie discovered was located just a couple miles away from the dealership where we were supposed to go to...Notice I said SUPPOSED to go to...

TA-DA!!!!!!!!!

Photos courtesy of Kightlingers Antiques off their Facebook page.

And this...

According to the Peoria website, Kightlinger's Antiques is filled with 80 trees and 65,000 Christmas decorations.
They are an antiques, home decor, furniture re-purposing and lamp shop as well.
I looove this sock monkey tree below!

I was so looking forward to visiting that shop,

and never leaving for like 8 million days.

But

we didn't go there.

Instead we picked up a hot Impala SS in a town much closer; there was antiquing and cute shops but certainly not 65,000 ornaments on 80 thousand trees.

It's for the best anyway, because I picked up these adorable vintage Christmas candle rings there. Love them. LOVE!

Here's a close-up.

I know they don't look that spectacularly stunning but I LOVE that kind of Christmas look.

By the way, I am a total Christmas geek.

And because we were away from the shop for a good share of a day,
we are working extra hard to catch up on the sales and service.

So I'll blog at ya this weekend!!

Hey, is it Christmas time yet?!?!

Has Anyone Seen My Creative Mojo?

9/25/2011

Hey!

Has anyone seen my

CREATIVE MOJO?!?!

I thought I left it on the counter by my car keys.

Come to think of it, has anyone seen my car keys?

Uh yeah.

So I can DECORATE SEASONALLY

with the best of them.
My decor skills aren't too bad really. In fact, I was pretty okay.
Or at least I USED to be.

You just had to have the ideas and the stuff
to decorate with.

Oh, let me tell ya, I have the stuff.

Stuff

Um, by the way, this picture and the next are of just my Christmas stuff; mostly vintage.

Lots

Of

Stuff.

Lots!!

I AM A SICK SICK PERSON! I KNOW THAT! ENOUGH ALREADY!

Fall, Spring, Easter, Christmas, Winter, St. Patrick's Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Halloween, New Years, Summer, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Graduations.
I got tons of stuff. That's not the problem.

I even have stuff left in my antique barn I can use for decorating any season or holiday of the year.
The stuff may not look real pretty in these pictures but everything cleans up nice with a little
soap and water. And disinfectant.

I have little creativity left in me; that's the problem.

And the small amount of decor talent I have left is rather, uh, open for interpretation.

It wasn't always like this.

Last Fall I had no problem putting together seasonal vignettes in the house.

In fact, last year this fall vignette was kind of cute on top of the radiator cover,
wasn't it?

My mom took away my favorite spot to bask in the warmth of the fall sun.

And it became even more cuter when Vinny made himself part of the display on a daily basis.

One problem though.

For days, I kept having to pick that orange box on the left up off the floor.

I could not figure out why that box kept falling off five times a day.

And then one day
I caught Vinny red-handed.

I saw Vinny take his paw and swipe that box right off that register cover.

And then look down at the fallen object like,

"I hope you're REALLY dead
THIS time
Box."

*sigh*

Well, wanna know what that same display on the register cover looks like THIS YEAR?
Look below but don't be jealous.

Seriously, most two year olds would do a way better job than this!

Holy crap,

it looks like a two year old put this together!

My decorating mojo is off;

I just can't get it together.

LAST FALL, I prettied up the top of my kitchen cupboards...

Nothing that's gonna blow your socks off, but still, pretty, fallish and festive.

Now let me introduce you to this year's vignette on top of the kitchen cupboards

Me look pretty again one day when Angie gets her mojo back.

And then we have the dining room table LAST YEAR
with the step-back cupboard display.

Clean, simple, bold colors of a pretty
Fall season in Iowa.

Simple is good. Except when it's boring. But this was pretty.

Now we come to THIS YEAR'S
dining room table....
ta-daaaa.....drum roll please...

Wow.

Stunning, isn't it?

Told ya I lost my mojo.

Gobble gobble

But I do love love love this super sweet turkey salt and pepper shaker set my
mother-in-law found at the Rug Cottage And Barntiques. Love them.

Now brace yourself for THIS YEAR'S fall gorgeousness of the step-back cupboard (which was repainted and moved since last year.....)

Simply breathtaking.

This turquoise and white scheme just SCREAMS Fall this year, doesn't it??!!!

I'm especially diggin' the work shirt and belt hanging out of the candy bowl in this picture.

Good Golly Miss Molly, I NEED HELP!

There is some hope for me though.

See, I'm usually always one season ahead of the calender.
This predilection must go back to the antique shop I ran out of my barn and my need to set up seasonal displays well before the season approached.

So, really, I've bypassed Fall this year. :(

Wanna know the reason for my lack of mojo with Fall decorating this year?

I'll give ya one guesshohoho
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Yup!

That's right........

Oh Christmas tree,

I've

missed

you!

Christmas!

YAY!

Gosh, it seems like for-ever!

I'm looking forward to your snowy snow-capped......ways
and
your warm snuggly-ness snuggle .....things
and stained glass windows
and people in prayer at church celebrating the birth of The Son
and candy canes
and hot chocolate
and decorating a tree or two
and big dinners that make you want to never eat again or until the next morning comes
and jigsaw puzzles
and having the heat go off on Christmas Eve two years ago but having it come back on again two hours later
and shiny sparkly things
and nice smelling Christmas candles
and vintage Christmas albums playing on a 1940's turntable and it feels like you're really listening back in 1950 because the sound is so scratchy and frankly quite tin-ny
and don't play Elvis Presley's "I'll Be Home For Christmas" because your mother-in-law will get weepy
and soft, warm quilts made by your mother
and asking your sister to make up a variety plate of Christmas treats because you're too lazy and she'll do it because you guilt her into it by reminding her you saved her life six years ago with a bone marrow donation. Sheeez, I have to do EVERYTHING around here!

Merry Christmas!!!

Ooops, I mean have a happy fall Sunday!
Only 90 days till Christmas :)

This Overnight Homemade Chicken Stock In A Crockpot Changed My Life

Okay, I just most recently made this stock AGAIN the other night.
In the morning, I freezer-bagged up the stock in 2 cup, 3 cup and 4 cup bags.

I throw the marked bags in the freezer and pull them out when needed for rice, soups (lots of soups!)
and anything else that requires broth.

In the narrow entryway is an old 40s record player that gets random stuff thrown on it, of course.
I nailed a few things up that were in the bottom of a box in the garage...

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This Overnight Homemade Chicken Stock In A Crockpot Changed My Life

Okay, I just most recently made this stock AGAIN the other night. In the morning, I freezer-bagged up the stock in 2 cup, 3 cup and 4 cup bags.

I throw the marked bags in the freezer and pull them out when needed for rice, soups (lots of soups!) and anything else that requires broth.

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Okay, I just most recently made this stock AGAIN the other night.
In the morning, I freezer-bagged up the stock in 2 cup, 3 cup and 4 cup bags.

I throw the marked bags in the freezer and pull them out when needed for rice, soups (lots of soups!)
and anything else that requires broth.

In the narrow entryway is an old 40s record player that gets random stuff thrown on it, of course.
I nailed a few things up that were in the bottom of a box in the garage...