Bath and Body Works!! #Vanilla

Who doesn't just love this store?

 I needed to replenish my Vanilla spray and lotion and at that moment I went into Bath & Body Works, this beautiful store smelled delightful, they were having a buy 3 get 3.  Soooooo, I found their new scent call Midnight Amber Glow!!  I love the smell of amber so much.  I walked out of the store with these beauties...and also hand sanitizers to match...tee hee.

What are your favorite fragrances? 

 Let me know.  

Happy Falling 

:0)

World Market!! #FALL #AUTUMN

I want to show you my pretties from World Market!!

Beautiful Kitchen towels with mushrooms on them.  They just seemed so fallish to me.  They were so delicately stitched and quite lovely.

Look at the detail

SOUP!!!!!!!
  I am going to make this and let you all know.  It will be  semi homemade soup.  You know I am all about my soups right now.

A new Fall cup, of course!!  Isn't she beautiful.....

Okay, soooooo I made a cup of this tea...it is absolutely delightful, sooooo YUMMY!!! 

SO FALLISH...Tee Hee!!!

 Fall is such a wonderful time of year, it is the start of what's to come of the holidays and the seasons changing.  Warm sweaters, soups, fireplaces, hot chocolate, scarves, gloves, hats, halloween candy, orange, yellow and brown, pumpkin spice latte's, Halloween, Turkey, falling leaves, black Friday, apples, apple picking, chili, cornucopia hay, pumpkin patches, gourds, harvests, cool, happy, love and hugs!


This morning was the first morning, that it is was REALLY cold, I actually wore gloves....lol.  Cute ones though, have to stay cute...even in my 50's I still hang on to cute.  I ran three miles and before I ran, I did a 45 minute Grounded Yoga class from Peloton..It feels so good to stretch.  I have always been a runner but not a very faithful stretcher.  I have missed so much  Stretching gives me life and I think it helps my body stay lean too.  

I hope this fall season you are able to find joy and beauty in the simple things that life has to offer. I hope you are blessed with good health, happiness and a lot of love.

Until next post, I bid you a gentle hug my dear readers.

xo

Dijon Vegetable Stew...Soups For a Great Fall!!!

(Photo Courtesy of my beloved Great American Recipes)

 

Italian Tomato Soup! Soup For A Great Fall!

 

Beef And Barley Vegetable Soup. Soup For A Great Fall Number 2 !

BEEF AND BARLEY VEGETABLE SOUP

(Picture courtesy of my beloved Great American Collection)

For 6 servings you will need:

1 lb. beef shin or shank (about

1½ inches thick)

2 tsp. vegetable oil

¾ cup coarsely chopped onion

¾ cup each diced celery and

carrot

½ tsp. salt

¼ tsp. black pepper

2 whole allspice

1 bay leaf

6 cups water

1 can (16 oz.) whole tomatoes

2 Tbsp. barley

1 cup packed torn fresh greens,

such as dark green Romaine

leaves, escarole or spinach

Preparation:

1 Brown meat in heated oil in 4-

quart Dutch oven about 3 minutes

on each side.

2 Add onions around meat. Cook

over medium heat,

stirring, until

onions are lightly browned, about

5 minutes.

3l Add carrot and celery. Cover and

cook over low heat for 15 minutes.

4 Sprinkle vegetables and meat

with salt and pepper. Add bay leaf,

allspice, water and tomatoes.

5 Cover and simmer 2 hours over

low heat.

16 Remove meat. When cool enough

to handle, cut meat into ½ inch

pieces. Discard fat and bones; return

meat to soup.

7 Add barley and greens. Boil

gently, uncovered, until barley is

tender and soup is thickened, about

25 minutes. Add salt, if needed.

Outfit Of The Day! or OOTD #OOTD Sunday Style :)

I am going to show you my outfit of the day for Sunday!
Sunday is one o my favorite days of the week.  I go to church on Sundays and show God how much I love him and thank him for all the grace he gives me through out my life and each and every minute. 
 I need Jesus Every Single Day!!!!!








My hair I try and give my hair some life with curls.  My hair is baby fine, so I like a little curl to give it some fullness.

I am wearing pumps from Clarks..80's style...tee hee.  You can take the girl out of the 80's but you can't take the 80's out of the girl,,,,

Trying to find a good pose...lol

Mondays are also another favorite day, it's the beginning of a new week and menu plans and school, work etc...but Sundays are so special to me!!

It was chilly. 
Also, my church is huge so it is always seems chilly inside  too...so even in summer I bring a sweater.

My Retro 80's earrings...who had a pair of these earings???

Anyone, anyone, anyone????  LOL

My church also provides coffee and snacks while you worship 

What are you wearing today?

 

*WEEKLY MENU PLAN* #MENUPLAN #DINNER

 

Pork chops smothered in mushrooms

Julienne au gratin potatoes

Steamed peas

Green salad

CLEAN OUT FREEZER DINNER!!
I'll let you know what that was and what I did .

Spaghetti Pie

Bread

Salad

Green 

Roasted Chicken

Rice

Steamed Broccoli and mushrooms

Bread

Cucumber and tomato salad

Sausage Macaroni and cheese

Saluted spinach

Salad

Bread

Friday Family Fun Night...details to come...tee hee

Saturday is left overs or pizza 

Video to go with this post 

Soups For A Great Fall.......Creamy Broccoli soup

The fall is the perfect time for soup. 
 I will be creating a  soup list on my blog of all the beloved soup recipes I have collected and made through the years.  

If you have a recipe you would like to share, I would love that.  I can link to your blog or share it here.  
I will post new soups several times a week for fall.  Keep coming back friends!

(Courtesy of Great American Recipes)

 For 4 servings you will need:

2 lbs. fresh broccoli

4 to 5 green onions, sliced

3 Tbsp.

butter or margarine

2 cans (10½ oz. each) chicken

broth

3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour

1 tsp. salt or to taste

½ tsp. black pepper

⅔ cup half-and-half

4 Tbsp. grated cheese, Cheddar

or Parmesan, optional, for

serving

Preparation:

1 Trim broccoli. Rinse well. Cut

stems into thin slices. Cook broccoli

flowerets separately.

2 In a heavy skillet, sauté green

onions in butter until soft but not

brown.

3 Add broccoli stems and chicken

broth. Bring to a boil.

4 Simmer over medium high heat

for about 15 minutes or until stems

are just barely soft.

5 Place mixture into blender con-

tainer or food processor. Purée.

6 Return to skillet or saucepan

Add flour dissolved in a little water.

Add salt and pepper. Stir in half-

and-half.

7 Cook broccoli flowerets in a little

water separately.

8 Add to soup. Bring to a boil. Heat

and stir until thickened and creamy.

9 Serve with cheese, if desired,

and a sandwich for lunch or dinner

Fancy Fall Feet

I love, love, love polish!! 

I have a wonderful polish collection and love to paint my toes.  I adore getting my nails done, but I usually end up just doing it myself...lol.
I love everything pink, but during the fall or holidays I love to change it up.  The polish I used on my toes was a beautiful very dark, burnt sienna type of color, kind of reminded me of pumpkin spice with the name.

I like my finger nails painted but for the polish to stay, I usually have to do gel, because I am constantly cleaning, scrubbing and taking care of my home, they chip if its normal polish.  Gel nails are such a commitment to color...lol

 Fall is in the air and so are my toes...lol

I took off the pink and put a "SPICE IT UP" nail polish on by Revlon 

Click on the link, it will take you to the polish :)

Happy Fall!

Stuffed Mushrooms

 Stuffed Mushrooms

Ingredients:

15 Mushrooms Button mushrooms with stems
2 green onions
2 slices of white bread, using the ends is good too. (sourdough works great also)
2 healthy splashes of Worcestershire Sauce
2 Cups of cheese..I use cheddar..you can use any yummy cheese you like
1 1/2 stick of  unsalted butter (Melt the half stick of butter in a bowl to use at the end)
Ghee used to butter the bottom of the baking dish

Preheat oven to 375'

Cook time 20 minutes

Clean all the mushrooms with a paper towel and get all the dirt off...snap stems off and put in bowl.
Stems are used for the filling.
Grease the bottom of the baking dish with Ghee and place cleaned up mushroom caps on dish.
Put the stems in a food processor along with two green onions.
Pulse until finely chopped.  No big pieces.
Melt one stick of unsalted butter in saute pan and once butter is melted add the filling from the food processor.  Use a spatula if you need to..
Cook until the filling is all moistened with the yummy butter.  Add the ripped up bread and mix until all is moistened into the the mixture as well.
Add the 2 healthy splashes of the Worcheshire sauce...mix in good
Add the 2 cups of cheese mix until everything is melted and ooey and gooey........

Use a small spoon and stuff those mushroom caps...fill them to over flowing.  Try and use all the stuffing.  Once all the mushroom caps are filled, brush the 1/2 stick of melted butter over all the stuffed mushrooms.

Put them in a preheated oven of 375' for 20 minutes.  Check on them at the 15 minute mark because everyone's oven is different.

Video is attached that follows along with the recipe.

https://youtu.be/jE9Bv9uPE2k

ENJOY!!!!!!

Good Happy Morning!! A little Chit Chat :)

 

I started my day off with waking up, brushing my teeth, doing a Peloton yoga class, starting a load of laundry and putting on my running shoes and running three miles.  Oh, to just run feels amazing.  I want things to be simple.  I want life to be simple and happy.  I want to be with my little family. My precious blog holds so many memories and some memories have not been shared.  Some memories are not always my story, so I hold back a little of those things.  I share my thoughts and shenanigans though.  Something's that are not written may one day be shared.  I do love keeping a running journal of my life.  My daughter especially loves this blog and reads here often.  She is an adult now, and so beautiful and stunning.  She is smart!!!!

It is a beautiful September morning, the first day of Fall. but it felt like a hot summer day running this morning.  I so love the warm sun on my shoulders.  I am always cold so the hotter the better.  Who can relate ?

So, if you happen to meander on by over my little corner on the net, drop me a comment. I always respond and I just love the interaction.  I know I have readers still, my stats say I do, so WAVING!!!!!!!!

I bought this sign at Marshal's awhile back and it had an entirely different saying, so I painted it and made the saying my own.  I just love how this came out.

(I used my Cricut)
Here are a few others things in my home.  Some are semi homemade .

I just Love, Love, Love cows.  Who doesn't.

I don't eat them either.  Personal choice for me :)

(This is in my dining room )

(This is in my foyer)

I am going to make some Pumpkin Bars to celebrate the beginning of fall.
I will share them when I am finished.

Have a Happy Day!!

You are not broken and you are enough!!

PROMISE!!!

Halloween Pizza Masks

 HALLOWEEN CHICKEN MASKS

*Photo Courtesy of Holiday Book

Makes 12 mini-pizzas INGREDIENTS:

1 pound ground chicken( you could use any ground meat). Or none at all

⅓ cup onion, chopped

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon pepper

1 package (6 count) English

muffins, split

2 tablespoons soft margarine, divided

1'½ cups bottled pizza sauce, divided

1 teaspoon oregano

1 large green pepper

4 ounces Cheddar cheese, shredded

4 ounces mozzarella cheese, shredded

3 large pitted ripe olives, each sliced

into 4 rings DIRECTIONS:

Heat frying pan to medium-high temperature. Add ground chicken and onion. Season with salt and pepper; cook, stirring, until all red is gone, about 6 minutes. Set aside.

With aluminum foil, cover 10½ by 15½-inch baking pan. Spread each muffin half

with ½ teaspoon margarine and arrange in single layer on prepared pan. Spread

Heaping tablespoon pizza sauce on each muffin half. Cover generously with ground

chicken and onion; sprinkle with oregano. Cut 12 slivers of green pepper into

smiling"

mouth shapes and set aside; chop remaining pepper and sprinkle on

pizzas. Mix together Cheddar and mozzarella cheese; sprinkle generously on mini-

pizzas. Place in 450 degree oven about 12 minutes. Remove from oven. Make mask Face on each pizza by using 2 ripe olive rings for eyes and pepper slice for mouth. Turn some slices up for smiles and some down for frowns.

#CHILI #How to make Chili :)

 VEGETARIAN CHILI

Serves 8 to 10

1 tablespoon oil

1 cup celery, chopped (leaves too)

1 cup onion, chopped

½ teaspoon garlic salt

½ teaspoon celery salt

1 (1 pound 12 ounce) can tomatoes

2 teaspoons chili powder

½ teaspoon salt

cayenne pepper to taste

1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce

2 (1 pound 1 ounce) can kidney or

chili beans, undrained

In the oil, sauté celery and onion until tender. Add the rest of the ingredients in the

order given. Simmer for 2 hours. If it needs to be thicker, thicken with 1 to 2

tablespoons cornstarch.

Note: Can also add ½ cup green pepper, chopped, while sautéing onions and celery

I have been making this recipe for DECADES!!!! Especially when my kids were little, it was so fun to make this on Halloween and after a fun night of trick or treating, they would have a nice hot bowl of chili. A family favorite for sure!!!!

* Weekly Menu Plan *

Steak on the grill
Loaded Baked Potatoes
Steamed Broccoli and Mushrooms with garlic

Bread

Tomato and cucumber salad


Steak Tacos with leftover steak made on homemade taco shells

with cheese, onions, tomatoes, jalapenos,

sour cream and guacamole

Meatloaf

Mashed Potatoes <---homemade!!
Steamed veggies <--- most likely Broccoli, because I got a huge bag at Costco

Salad and Bread

Teriyaki Chicken Thighs 
Steamed Rice

Green Beans
Bread and Salad

Chicken Bwak Bwak
Grilled Cheese

Beautiful yummy green salad with all the fixings

Friday Family Fun Night!!
Someone picks where we go for dinner :)

Saturday Pizza

 

Saturday and Sunday

 So, this Saturday we went to breakfast at Golden Corral early.  I had a nice cup of black coffee.  They have such good coffee and my husband loves the breakfast bar especially the omelet station. 

After breakfast we headed to Costco. 

 

We usually do Costco every Saturday to stock up on essentials.  Every list every week can be different.  We don't need the same things every week.  Sometimes it is water, sometimes it is cheese and sometimes it is vitamins.  I bought some produce while I was there, I got English cucumbers, tomatoes, celery,  We got hamburger and steaks too.

After Costco we went to Kroger to replace my soda stream, they were out at that Kroger.  We then went to Ingle's grocer and got a few things there that no other store carry's.

We then came home with our groceries.  I happily worked in the kitchen, cleaning and cutting and using my vacuum sealer on some things.

After that, I put on my running shoes and ran 3 miles straight.  Came home and did a peloton yoga class.

I love my Peloton.  GREATEST BIKE EVER!!!!

Made Dinner which was Little Cheddar Meatloaves with Roasted Rutabagas in my ninja foodie
I cut the rutabagas in cubes, put them in a bowl, with oil and garlic salt and roasted them in the ninja for 16 minutes!!  MMMM MMMMM
GOOD!! 

Cleaned the kitchen sparkling clean!

Sunday Morning comes and it was one of my favorite morning of all..

CHURCH TIME!!

I go to the best church ever.

I always try and get dressed up and look nice.  I think Church deserves the effort. I love Jesus!

After church we went to another Kroger and replaced my soda stream bottle..yaya, this one had it !!

I changed out of my clothes and put my running shoes on  again....I did another 3 miles..whoop whoop!!

It is supposed to be really hot this coming week and I am super excited.  I love to run in the heat, and I know winter is coming...so I am taking advantage of as many hot days coming up as I can.

After my run, I made lunch.

I food prepped quite a bit and made Chocolatey Brownies...

Made hardboiled eggs.

Prepped veggies.

Made a pasta salad

Laundry is always a go.

I found these laundry boosters, that I really like.  The smell is really beautiful

Sunday Dinner
Steak

Baked Potatoes

steamed broccoli and mushrooms

salad

and bread :)

I am going to put together my menu plan and share that as well, probably in the next blog post.  I am also going to keep posting holiday recipes that I have cooked or I am going to make a again. The holidays are coming!!!

This year I am going to get a skinny tree.  I want a tree that goes up more then it is wide...

I am super excited for the months to come and I hope I am able to share everything I am doing on my beloved blog.   need to keep it going.  I love my blog.

If by chance you made it this far, can you leave a comment.  I would love to know I f I have readers.  I respond to all who comment here :)