What's for Dinner?

I know you all are wondering... What is Cherie and the crew cooking this week?

What's for Dinner?

Monday - Chicken and Rice Casserole - My quick and easy throw it in the oven and let it cook for about 47 minutes or until the recorded episode of Law and Order is over. I will have to put the recipe up for you all.

Tuesday - Chili and corn bread.

Wednesday has been deemed New Recipe night. This week we are going to try Rachel's Texican Hash 

over at A Southern Fairytale  She is sooo stinkin' cute, she cooks up a storm and she looks just like me ( HAHHAHAHAHAA ...I only wish), But I digress. You should really go over and she what she is up to this week.

Thursday - Beans and Rice with Turkey sausage.

Friday is FEND FOR YOURSELF... momma is tired and there is a bunch of leftovers in the fridge night!

Until next time,

Hugs

Cherie

Rainy Rainy Sunday

Here it is Sunday Afternoon, rainy dreary and not able to do my stairs as the little one can't go outside to play.

Listening to some Adele and some new Indie Rock that Lizard is introducing me too. Has any listened to 'The Black Keys'? Awesome!

Today is Mack's birthday. 15 years old and such a sweet emotional girl. Cares soo much about everyone and would give you the shirt off her back.

i do believe that is my fat buttt in the background.

She has requested my special bbq ribs for dinner with mashed potatoes.

Last night, Handsome Man and I got a wild hair up and decided to put up an old mantel in the living for knick knacks or pictures. It was going above the front door, but it just didn't look right.

Soooo, I thought What about behind the couch?? We needed something back there as it was sooo bland.

AND OF COURSE I CAN'T FIND A BEFORE PICTURE!

So cozy now! 

See the mantel?

No?

HAHA hidden... now a place for MonkeyMan and the cats to hide.

Now Paint color? We are installing wainscotting or board and batten in here.

But you know me and paint colors... TOOO MANY DECISIONS!

Well until next time,

Hugs

GONE baby Gone Part 2

Hello my dears,

FINALLY I have done some more work on the stairs.

Sanding, filling holes and caulking has been completed.

A lot of bending over has made my lower start to scream at me. And yes these stairs are loooking mighty ugly right now, but it will be beautiful when I am finished. Whenever that may be ;-)

P.S. I have 5 followers now! Wooot and 2 are from blogland that I read. 

And finally got a good picture of Handsome Man and his kitty, Murphy. She is very skiddish and hates to be picked up.

Until next time,

Hugs

Odds and Ends and the sickies

Hello my dears, 

For the past 2 days I have been home with Monkey Man, who has not been feeling well with a sore throat and running nose. Ran out of medicine yesterday and in the POURING rain had to make a trip to the local pharmacy, I was driving to wally world (WALMART) before I realized that it was just too dark and scary to drive 5 miles.

Of course all of the V-Day candy was on clearance, the medicine trip turned into Medicine, bobby pins ( becuz you can't have too many of those when you have two teenage girls) and candy. All in all, $12. Not bad at all.

Though I forgot how tart sweet tarts are as I haven't had any real candy in a while as I am on a D.I.E.t.  Fun times at 10pm at night, reading other blogs and making faces due to the tartness.

This weekend I picked up some sample paints at the ReStore place, if you haven't gone... GO NOW. $2 for Sherwin Williams Paint to go jars. Bigger than sample paint and I think it is usually $7 a jar at the store. But the formulas are on the side and you can still get it made.

Ok... back to the paint colors. I am desperate to find the perfect blue gray or light blue for my bathroom. Horrible at making those decisions!!! Just ask my family... and I rarely take their suggestions on paint color. And of course I didn't open any of the paints at the ReStore place. I depended on the bad lighting and other people eying the same colors. 

Picked up the following:

Halcyon Green - Tradewind - Lemon Twist - Spun Sugar - Languid Blue - 

Two others I already had on hand were Blue Silk and A beautiful French Gray that I got in Lowe's Oops paint.

OK.. go ahead and laugh.. we did... See this is what happens when I can decide!

And that is what you get. Sorry about the horrible lighting.

Yes, Lizard and I laughed too. See the smiley face, our thoughts on that paint color. 

The flesh color is the Spun sugar... WHY PEOPLE? WHY? Last I looked spun sugar doesn't look like peachy flesh of my grandma!

SOOOooo... I am guessing I am going to chose between the Tradewind and Blue Silk.

In other news I did get to change out the builder grade mirror in my bathroom to this!

Yes, I know it isn't centered... at the mercy of the wall studs. That mirror is HEAVY! Woodbriar by Drexel. Work in progress here though. Still need to get rid of those Hollywood lights.

Until next time

Hugs

Cherie

OOppps Cooking...

Busy day today.

Cleaned the garage, set up my craft area in the garage still the weather is starting to get nice.

Handsome Man continued with his quest of turning the garage into his man cave. Stars wars EVERYWHERE. Just not in my little 7 foot area. ;-)

So I decided that I have frozen overripe bananas that I will take out and make some banana bread for snack over the week... or as Handsome Man likes to eat it for breakfast.

Mixing, mixing, Read the ingredients twice like I always do. Read the instructions.

Ok... good.

While Baking it, I thought to myself, 'this doesn't smell right.' Why is it not turning the beautiful brown that it always turns? Why is it not puffing up?

HHMMMMmmmmm

DING! timer (microwave) goes off.

Not brown, but some weird yellow brown and odd consistency. NOT GOOD LOOKING.

Read the ingredient list again.

REALLY Cherie ( yes, call myself Cherie )... REALLY... as many times as you have made banana bread it should be ingrain. Should be in the back of your mind, like the Rigatoni!

YOU FORGOT THE BROWN SUGAR~!!!!

well there goes that batch. sigh.

Spring!

Hello darlings,

I am sooo ready for Spring. The flowers blooming, the beautiful sun shining down on my white skin. 

Time for capris, skirts and tank tops! 

Here is NC, we have an odd spring. Daffodils start blooming, a note that spring is on the way.

Then there is the rainy, windy part that makes all of the pollen flow. This is what I am not looking forward to. When everything is lime green and I am on allergy medicine just to function.

Time to break out the grill, sit on the porch enjoy the warmer weather, kids playing in the streets and neighbors yards until the street lights come on or just going to the locate pond or lake and enjoying all the sounds and sites.

It is also time to start doing projects again!

What do you have planned for Spring?

What's For Dinner?

It has been such a HECTIC work week, Handsome man and I have not even sat down to prepare one. We are working on the fly this week.

Tonight it seems I saw thinly cut steaks in the fridge defrosting. Hmmmm... looks like someone is going to be doing some marinading as soon as they get home.
My marinade consists of olive oil, salt, seasoning salt, minced garlic, ground pepper cloves, and a pinch or so of red pepper flakes. Now don't ask measurements, because i just eye ball it now that I have been doing it forever.

Now... sides? Smashed potatoes with bacon and Parmesan and brocolli floret.
Of course there will be some sauteed mushroom and onions with it ;-)

Maybe, just maybe I will post a picture of it.

Hugs, Cherie