Cheesy Hashbrowns

Another meal I can't really take credit for - Cheesy Hashbrowns. This was a Hamburger Helper meal I doctored up:


I added a 15-oz can of diced tomatoes; half a green pepper, diced; one 4.5-oz can of green chiles; chopped scallions and shredded Mexican cheese blend. SP ate one forkful and asked me to buy a hundred boxes of this so we could have it once a week. That's pretty high praise for convenience food!

Creamy Pasta with Mushrooms and Warm Spinach Salad

I had planned to make this meal during the week but it actually ended up being our Valentine's Day dinner - Creamy Pasta with Mushrooms:


... and Warm Spinach Salad:


The gorgonzola in the pasta was intense, a little too intense for our liking. This time I actually used a combination of mushrooms (since SP loves them so much) - shitakke, oyster and button mushrooms. This salad is one of our favorites. You really can't go wrong with spinach slightly wilted with bacon dressing, eggs, bacon bits and red onion. There was barely any leftover for lunches the next day.

Finally it’s Friday!

Good morning all my blogging buddies I hope your week went well.
Mine did but it was rather busy with my wholesale order and other orders in between…gotta keep everyone happy so it’s a fine line…but I love the challenge.

Yesterday was a running around day looking for fabric to cover the backs of my Ivory Penny Runners…I’m very particular what I use and last week I found this wonderful fabric at JoAnn’s that works PERFECTLY with my Ivory Wool Felt and I purchased all they had and wouldn’t you know I loved it! So yesterday we were on a mission to find more.

THREE JOANN’S later and no fabric. NOW WHAT!

The fabric is a QUILTER’S FLANNEL and the name on my sales slip says: Tan Scrolls and the number next to it is 400015394444.
The girls all said to me if I had that number they could have helped me further to find it but I didn’t have last weeks sales slip with me.  On the salvage edge it says it is designed for JoAnn Fabrics.

Here’s a picture of it – this is a Cream and Tanish Gold swirl design. So if anyone sees this in their JoAnn’s please let me know and I’ll send you money to buy it…I’M SERIOUS!
E-mail me at kmprimitives@yahoo.com
 

Now, onto the business at hand…I have a few pictures of my stoneware/jugs and some more Salt Glaze Pottery to show you.
I will save the rest of my Salt Glaze for a future post…still haven’t unpacked the rest to take pictures.

The following pictures you might have seen before…our son uncovered these old beer bottles and ink bottles and jugs at a landfill. They date back to the early 1800’s.

SALT GLAZE BEER BOTTLES FROM A MILWAUKEE BREWERY

 

SALT GLAZE AND GLAZED INK BOTTLES AND JUGS FROM A MILWAUKEE PRINTING COMPANY OF THE 1800’S

When our first Grandson, Jesse, was born we bought him this bank which measures 9 inches across and 13 inches tall – he’s now 20 years old
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Now just more of my treasures

 

The next two are the only two antiques crocks I own

Today is grocery shopping and cleaning plus getting more of my wholesale order finished and mailed.

Tomorrow Darren and Dan and their families are coming over for the day and evening to help get Darren and MaryAnn’s grill assembled.
We gave it to them as a Christmas gift but it’s still in our garage…WAY TOO HEAVY FOR THEM TO GET THE BOX HOME…especially with Darren not being able to lift….so we’re making a party out of it! All the guys will be working on getting it put together which will make it easier to get it to Darren’s house in Dan’s truck.

What’s going on with all of you out there??? Keeping warm, busy and happy I hope. I’ll be checking in on all of you soon.

OMGosh I just saw I’m one away from having 400 followers! Wowzer!!!

Hmmmm, wonder what that will bring here…Keep watching…you never know!

Hugs, Karen