Dim Sum Sunday ~ Making Mole Poblano

For this week's Dim Sum Sunday theme of Chile Peppers, we thought we would cook up some yummy mole sauce.

This was a very time consuming recipe, (definitely not something you should start at 4 in the afternoon, when you decide that the recipe you had picked out, seems lame) with a whole lot of steps and ingredients, but all the work is worth it. The end result is a yummy complex taste. Spicy, but with a underlying sweetness from the chocolate.


Mole Poblano Enchiladas

Yuuuuuuuuuuummy!

Head on over to the Karmic Kitchen for some more fun with Chile Peppers.

Wordless Wednesday ~ After The Rain

My Nemesis

Wordless Wednesday ~ Critters and Us

(a picture of us to appease the parents :0)

Dim Sum Sunday ~ Creepcakes

For this week's Dim Sum Sunday, Shamu wanted us to bring out our favorite hors d'oeuvres, or special Halloween snacks. And for my little girl this means making some creepy cupcakes.

A little icing tint, an assortment of eyeballs, teeth and tongues and you've got yourself a fun time in the kitchen.

This is also a perfect rainy day activity to keep the kids busy.

For more snack fun head over to the Karmic Kitchen.

Thanks Shamu for another fun DSS!

Fall Blooms in the Garden

Ironweed

Beautyberry

Elephants Foot

Seaside Goldenrod

Must You Torment the Chickens?

(bad shaky arms.....not the best thing to have when you're shooting video.)

I was hangin' out in our screen porch yesterday, when the hawk made a dive into the chicken coop. As you can hear, the chickens were just a tad upset. ;)

Wordless Wednesday: Around Here

Getting the Garden Going

Over the weekend, Hubs worked in the garden emptying the compost bins and building me a new raised bed.

Not the most pleasant of tasks right now, considering it's like a million stinkin' degrees outside!

But in the end, I got a brand new raised bed (you ROCK Hon!) filled with FREE compost.

Woohoo!

I can't wait till my seed order comes in, and I can get out there and start planting for the fall!

Dim Sum Sunday ~ In the Bag

For this week's Dim Sum Sunday, we went with this recipe from Alton Brown.

Salmon Fillet en Papillote with Julienne Vegetables

(sigh...I wish I could find a good indoor setting on my camera)

A nice and light dish of salmon and vegetables wrapped up in parchment. The only thing I did different, was bake the fish in the oven, instead of in the microwave.

Simple, simple, simple!

Head on over to the Karmic Kitchen for more Sunday fun.

Chillin' with Laverne and Yoko

3rd Grade

*sniff* *sniff*

Pass the tissues please.

Sowing Vegetable Seeds for Fall

Seeds planted so far:

Oroma~ Italian Sauce Tomato

Viva Italia Hybrid~ Italian Sauce Tomato

Plum Dandy~ Hybrid Italian Sauce

Scotia~ Ultra- Early Red Tomato

Beaverlodge Plum~ Ultra-Early Tomato

Sun Leaper Hybrid~ Early Tomato

Flame HillBilly~ Striped Tomato (West Virginia heirloom)

Cheddar Hybrid~ Cauliflower

Graffiti Hybrid~ Cauliflower

Brocoverde~ Cauliflower

I still need to order some broccoli, kale and lettuce seeds, but at least I'm off to a good start for the fall planting season. :)

Stormy Weather

Happy Birthday Elizabeth

I can't believe my sweet girl is eight!

It seems like only yesterday that she was my little five pound bundle of joy.

Happy Birthday my love.

May all your birthday wishes come true.

The Girls Turn One

Happy Birthday Cotton, Silky, and Peanut.