Another month gone by! I’m excited to be getting into the holidays and to be finally being down to one job. My current plan is to transfer everyone by The end of December. So far I’m on track. My Fridays are going to be Etsy and errand days. And blogging, of course. 🙂
I made two new recipes this week. One was good and was very good.
1- Gershwin’s Greatest Gumbo from Musical Feasts from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
I have no pictures, since we ate this on Halloween. I do have a picture of some of the leftover Halloween candy. We only had about 30 trick or treaters and two Costco bags of candy…
The Gumbo had Cornish hens and smoked gouda chicken sausage. I would switch to smoked turkey sausage instead. The gouda sausage was a little weird. This was delicious though. It had a little kick to it. We will make this again. We had it over rice. It made a perfect meal to have on a cold night.
2- Scalloped Potatoes and Ham from A Quilter’s Christmas by Louise Stoltzfus and Dawn Ranck.
This was eaten while I was at work, so no pictures. I had a few bites when I got home. The Husband said it was a little soupy, but tasted good. It didn’t originally call for that, but I just threw some sliced ham in it. I would make this again.
Now for my monthly review. I made 20 recipes. 9 were new cookbooks or internet recipes.
We had a couple of hits, the gumbo, Fancy’s dog treats, jerk chicken, and the cuban steak.
Misses were Dad’s bread method and the Hungarian Beef Stew.
I tried using Dad’s method for my new technique and will try it again. I made some more frozen meals to keep and they have turned out good so far.
Crafting wise, I made my goal of finishing an item of clothing and my UFO goal on one fell swoop with my flamingo pjs. They are so cozy!
I also made my elephant bag, but couldn’t bring myself to sell it. It needed to be mine.
I also started Nanowrimo this month, so my challenge will be getting my writing done as well as maintaining sewing and cooking. I foresee a lot of crockpot meals this month.
So to explain Nano, the point is to write 50,000 words in the month of November to end up with a short novel. I’ve attempted this before and only “won” once. This year’s novel is a Steampunk novel involving political intrigue and magic. Somehow while writing yesterday, cowboys showed up. It was weird, but it kind of worked out. I think. It’s going to be interesting to see where it goes.
So my goals for this month will be a little smaller, due to Nano. I plan to still keep the 2 new meals per week. I also want to try cooking something familiar with a new recipe.
Sewing goals are to find my serger pedal and to try sewing with knits. Also, to finish one of the quilts that I have tucked away.
Now, I have to go get the dog off the bed. She snuck into our bedroom while I wasn’t looking. She likes to steal blankets and pjs and snuggle them.
Oh, and make word count. Wish me luck!
