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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Green Onions Forever - My 60 Day Experiment


So somewhere on the internet, in all the Pinners I follow and blogs I subscribe to, I read somewhere about keeping onions growing in a glass of water, and have green onions forever...

Really?  Well, I happen to use a lot of green onions, daily in fact, and they rarely last long - if I didn't use them up, they go soggy and slimy.  So when I bought another few bunches, I thought, why not?

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Make Your Own Tissue Cover


I have been known as the one crazy lady who DOES care what her tissue box looks like, and I will buy the one with the nicest/most coordinating box - irregardless of how much it costs.

Then came baby, and we go through so much tissue, I finally broke down and started buying it based on cost - not colour of box.  And looking at the ugliness of the box littering my house, I knew I had to do something.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Ground Beef and Mushroom Carbonara


I love love love Carbonara dishes!  It's what I order almost every time I'm at any Italian Restaurant.  And when I stumbled across this recipe using ground beef, I had never heard of such a thing and at first I wrinkled my nose.  Then as I thought about it, and decided to give it a whirl.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Chipolte Sloppy Joes with Crunchy Coleslaw


Holly from June Cleaver Nirvana  touted these as "Best. Thing. Ever"  I agree.  Her recipe was the inspiration for this dish!