Today's offering is a clear glass teapot designed specifically for blooming tea varieties. If you have never had one of these blooming teas you are missing out on a wonderful thing! I brewed up some Peach Blooming Tea from Teavana in my beautiful glass teapot (also from Teavana) and thought I would show you a few pictures showing the steps. What a nice combination! Since I know that those cookies look so tempting I will add … [Read more...]
Mar 31, 2012
An Unlikely Combo
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I am always trying new recipes. The problem is that with just Chris and I and half the time, just I, it is hard to cook in appropriate quantities. As a result I end up eating said food for the entire week so hopefully it is a good recipe! This past week have tried a couple of new recipes that I LOVE so I thought I would share. The first is a bit odd---I will admit but we both loved it and it is definitely a keeper. Hang in there with me and give it a chance! Paul Qui's Brussel … [Read more...]
Feb 11, 2012
It’s All Good
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I think I found my mother's twin today! Right in my back yard. Well, actually ---kind of in my front yard diagonally and about half a mile. Still with me? I had to go get some goodies to start preparations for my fabulous lunch of White Bean Swiss Chard soup for my main squeeze so I headed out to HyVee. Now our HyVee has the great practice of giving the customer 5 cents credit for each and every bag that they bring in to use. I have quite a collection of these fabulous bags since … [Read more...]
May 22, 2011
Is That a Butt or a Shoulder??
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I am anxiously awaiting the visit of my nephew and his friend tomorrow---they are on a whirlwind trip from New Mexico and are going to be logging a lot of miles over the next 2 weeks or so. Chris and I were thrilled that he wanted to stop here and the really weird thing is that his mom, my sister, is also here!!! Now we just have not had a lot of visitors here in Iowa since we have been here. I can count them on 2 fingers. Yep, in the 4 years since we have been here we have had a total … [Read more...]
May 5, 2011
Putting On My Sombrero!
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Well, actually I do not have a sombrero but if I did I would wear it today to celebrate Cinco de Mayo!!! Woo hoo!!! I have been to Mexico only once so far--with my family and my brother Mark. We went just across the border to "experience" it and probably the two most memorable events that happened that day included a woman asking for "money for her bambinos" and me falling off of a curb when we were going through the border crossing. Yes, It is true. I misjudged the brightly yellow … [Read more...]
Mar 26, 2011
Sweet Awards, Ramses Horns and Warm Hats
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What the heck? What is going on here??? What kind of crazy title is that? After a couple weeks of not doing much at all housewise we decided today was the day. I hate disorganization and clutter and we are in the midst of both. ARGHHHH! But first--before I start on that rant let me tell you that my sweet blogger friend Bernie at One Mixed Bag gave me an award!!! Woo hoo! Because she was the recipient of said award it was up to her to pass it along to 5 more bloggers and she … [Read more...]
Feb 23, 2011
Epic Food Fail
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I pride myself in thinking that I am a fairly good cook. Oh sure I had some failures as a teenager when I was learning to cook. I mean I know my family will still remember Strawberry Rock and Banana Hunk but those were minor occurrences . But I moved on and felt that I had mastered cooking fairly well. That is until yesterday. Oh sure I have my not so great looking dishes but for the most part they turn out well and taste good. Hence the reason Chris and I are both watching our weight … [Read more...]
A Bit of Me!
Blogging is a funny thing...we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, "who is this person!?" I know them...but yet I don't know them! I want to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great way for all of us to "meet" each other! Every Sunday Never Growing Old will post five get to know you questions that you can copy and paste into your own Monday post and we can all learn a … [Read more...]