To Live is to Learn

Hey all, So hubby has been really sick for about two weeks and I thought some homemade chicken noodle soup and bread would be nourishing for him. This is the latest HPOW. Veggies cut up ready for the pot Homemade noodles ready to go Simmer veggies until soft, then add noodles Homemade french bread with the soup :) I personally loved this recipe and since I'm back blogging, I remember the hubby wasn't crazy about it but I don't remember why. Oh well, it was quite tasty. Again, there seems to be a trend with my noodle making and needing to make them thinner. Guess I'll have to put more muscle into flattening them next time. 

Hey guys, Had some extra marinara sauce in the fridge and thought I could use it up making raviolis. Here is this weeks HPOW. Mix ingredients, then allow to rest for 30 minutes Roll out dough or use a pasta maker, cut into circles Cheese mixture is just ricotta and parsley, place about 1 tsp on each put raviolis together, use cooking spray to help stick if needed, press sides together with a fork Carefully add to boiling water, watch closely, fresh pasta cooks fast  :) Finito! Well, let me preface this with, my poor husband. He is my little lab rat for learning to cook. While I thought these tasted good, the hubby thought they were similar to dumplings. Next time, I will try to roll the dough out a lot thinner or use a pasta machine. Also, I think I over cooked them as they were slightly rubbery. It was my first time, I can only get better right ;) Until next time  : p.

Oh boy, as some of you know, I am just getting into sewing. With my mom, some books and youtube I hope I am learning something. Anywho, when I was 19 my mom and I had planned to start sewing together. Well that didn't happen, however; I did realize after my last sewing project, that I still had the pattern and material and thought, the packaging says "it's so easy" surely I can do this....HAHAHAHAHA! First of all, I think if you don't know much about patterns such as myself, they might as well be in Greek because that is how I felt reading it. Anyway, after some very frustrating times and many phone calls to my mom, I finally finished it! Things I learned with this project, well first sewing techniques I knew nothing about that was the root of many of my frustrations. 1. Gathering 2. Lining and 3. zippers.  Though, there may be a few of you who think this doesn't look bad, you should see it in person. At certain points I just stopped attempting to underst...

Hey guys, Not that I proclaim to be an uber healthy cook, I do like to think I try. I hadn't realized until recently that cream o soups like campbell have MSG in them. This is not the end of the world by any means but it made me think, I'll bet that isn't very hard to make. The first one I attempted was cream of chicken soup, the recipe was so easy and fast. Add spices, milk and chicken broth, bring to boil Whisk in flour, continue to stir Incorporate flour until slightly thickened, allow to cool and you're done. This was so simple, it had a much more rich chicken flavor than canned cream of chicken soup. You can also throw in little bits of chicken but I didn't do that this time. I had recently come across this recipe on how to make cream of mushroom soup in a microwave in 5 minutes. I got the recipe here . It was indeed very simple, I did discover I'm not overly fond of the smell of raw fresh mushrooms but that is beside the point. ingre...