Good evening!
We had a busy day today…
- Dropped Sketchie at the vet/picked him up ($155!!!!!!! For a urine analysis!)
- Bought cat food
- Organized/paid bills [phone, internet, water heater rental etc], changed phone plan
- Office stuff: Paid property taxes, faxed in warranty for car, discontinued tenant insurance
- Took car in to have transmission checked
- Transferred insurance companies on my engagement ring
- Wal-Mart (see photos below)
- Glo Bakery business stuff [research, phone calls, applications, etc]
- COOKING, clean up etc
- Blogging
- Post office
- etc!
I still have to organize all of my files! When we moved in this house my mini filing cabinet BROKE and I haven’t gotten a new one until today…I got this one below at Wal Mart for 10 bucks:
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I need to move the two on the right, into the new one on the left…plus add in tons of bills and files that I haven’t been filing since we moved in end of November!
Our Wal-Mart Shopping trip:
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Eric stuff on the left:
- garbage bags (he is our sanitary engineer, lol)
- 1% cow’s milk
- Raisin Bran
- margarine
- Dad’s Oatmeal Cookies
My stuff on the right:
- Icing color paste (!!!)
- Piping bags (50)
- 3 sweet potatoes
- 3 bunches of bananas on sale for 30 cents/lb.
- Organic carrots
- organic garlic puree (the whole jar only $1.29- it was cheaper than buying whole garlic cloves)
- Nature’s Path Spelt Cereal
- Bulk honey
- Europe’s Best Frozen Pineapple (sooo sweet!) for smoothies
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i can’t wait to decorate and mix all kinds of wonderful icing colours!
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Sweet Potato Spelt Perogies
I was in wal-mart tonight and passed the perogies in the frozen section, and this idea for dinner just came into my mind! It turned out pretty darn fantastic if you ask us!
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Ingredients:
- Spelt dough
- Sweet potatoes, boiled and mashed
- paprika
Directions: Boil sweet potatoes until tender, drain, and mash. Sprinkle with lots of paprika. Set aside. Cook other veggies if desired. In retrospect, I would have added some mixed veggies to the sweet potatoes and mixed together. Roll out spelt dough as if you were making a tortilla, Cut into the size you want to make perogie. Spoon 1-2 tbsp. of sweet potato puree on each piece of dough. Fold together as shown and pinch at sides to secure. Cook in a skillet for 4-5 mins. each side on medium heat until firm to touch.
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Ta-da!!!!
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We dined with another couple in the window! tee hee
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Beautiful house warming gift from my brother and sis in law:
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Dessert was a small bowl of spelt cereal + Almond breeze and 3/4 cup of unsweetened apple sauce with a handful of raisins.
Tonight I was really craving sugar– specifically my pumpkin bread!!!! I still haven’t had any yet since I made it and I was watched Eric eat it everyday. oye. Day 6 complete….but damn I want some pumpkin bread!!!!!
See you tomorrow for the next contest announcement!
Off to file…
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Which celebrity said this quote:
““I have a chocolate drawer in my desk where I keep treats at all times,” she admits. “As long as I can have one or two pieces, I’m fine. But my biggest food vice is bacon. And no, I don’t have a bacon drawer. In fact, I don’t keep bacon in my house—that would be way too tempting.”
Those are some tasty looking perogies!
I LOVE PIEROGIES!!!! My favorites are the potato/cheese ones :)
What a fun dinner idea!
what a great idea for the pierogies!
You had a very productive day – must be those green monsters, huh? :)
That dinner looks so yummy! What a great idea :)
You were quite a busy bee today…that’s good you got it all done!
Have a fabulous night, love.
Great idea with the pierogies. Hope everything is ok with Sketchie.
OH my gosh those look wonderful!
Oh yum the perogies look so goood. I wish I could pick one up from the picture. BTW the other couple look friendly too!lol!
Your perogies are so cute! I want some…! And wow, I didn’t realize Walmart carried all that great stuff! I underestimated the power of Walmart, haha.
I am impressed with your dinner idea!
Strangely I have been thinking about perogies lately, haha, which is not a common craving! I may have to give it a try, you make it look so easy!
YYaaahh!!!! I loved your idea with the homemade almond butter, that I went out and bought the SAME food processor as you and made my OWN BUTTER!! It actually worked. I went to Bulk Barn and bought some type or flavoured almonds and it worked. I posted on my blog to show you!..
Lonely Diet Girl :) :)
good call with the perogies. man 3 sweet potatoes or yams will not last very long in our kitchen, hehe
One more day and the pumpkin bread’s yours! haha you’re doing great! I’ve never had perogies before – I’ll have to try that. I’m dying to make your tortillas – definitely cheaper than the ezekiel tortillas I normally buy.
Night!
Kaneil, balanceisbest
I love sweet potatoes (as you saw!). They are so great.. and I love perogies! Great combo!
Can’t wait for the next contest!
angela
perogies = my childhood.
i am 100% ukrainian!
one secret about the dough-
roll it out and then take a cup and make a circle cut
-then place the filling in the middle and just pinch the corners
– that is how you get the half-moon beauties!!!
i can’t wait to try these— peas would be a perfect addition.
happy weekend
xx
SWEET POTATOES!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. – be sure to watch episode 6 on VeggieGirl TV tonight ;-)
Wow, what an idea for pierogies! And with the mother of all awesome fillings! On the to-try list.
Happy Friday! :)
Sweet potato sounds like an interesting filling for perogies. I wonder how it would work with my grandparents’ perogie dough recipe.