Although my fabric cupboards are no where near the 'bare' stage, my husband has proposed a trip to the fabric warehouse with a lunch date included! No worries about the teens wanting to tag along. Lunch out isn't worth their mother's browsing through bolts and bolts of fabric.
I'm finishing a quilt I'm making for a friend's birthday. I just have the border and some applique to finish. I'm still working on a new rail fence scrap project. I have three varieties of colors in this one. Twelve of the squares are in every shade of green I could find in my scrap box; six of them are in pinks and six are in blues.
My trip to the fabric warehouse will have some added interest tomorrow. A friend is going out of town but asked me (trusting my taste!) to get her a yard and a half of six different fabrics. A challenge of tastes AND friendship?!
My husband's one rule about bringing more fabric into the house is that I have room for it. In the middle of my sewing, I realized this might pose a problem. Before I knew it, I had everything out on the table and discovered I had been hanging on to a lot of fabric scraps and lengths that weren't 100% cotton or were really ugly colors that someone gave me. I 'let' go even if there was a slight memory involved and sorted out quite a lot for the charity bag. I feel 'light' and a bit smug when I will be able to put away my new finds within minutes of coming home tomorrow.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Enhancing the Usual . . .
Homemade chicken or beef soup is always a welcoming scent in the kitchen especially when a hungry husband is heading in the door. I've never had much of a fight in getting my children to eat it. While rice or pasta is a great addition to either soup, homemade noodles might get you a mother of the year award . . . at least in your own family! It takes minimal ingredients with a little effort.
Fat, Homemade Noodles
3 eggs, slightly beaten
Enough all-purpose flour stirred in to form a workable dough.
One teaspoon salt (optional)
Thoroughly mix in the dry ingredients until you have a dough you can roll out relatively easily. Divide you dough into three pieces. Take one piece and roll out as thin as you can on a well-floured board. Using a pizza cutter, cut the dough into fat strips and place on a baking sheet, one layer deep. Continue with the rest of the dough.
Bring a large pot of water to a rapid boil. Add a tablespoon of oil and gradually add in your noodles, stirring to keep them from sticking. It shouldn't take more than five minutes or so until they are cooked through depending on how thick you rolled them out. Drain and add to your soup.
It's cheaper than buying enough pasta for a large family and even the children can get involved in rolling out the dough. The noodles can also be thoroughly dried, bagged and kept for a day or two.
One of my college daughters loves these noodles and reduces the recipe to make herself just enough for a one-person meal.
You can also take the fresh noodles, deep fry them and dust them with cinnamon and sugar.
Fat, Homemade Noodles
3 eggs, slightly beaten
Enough all-purpose flour stirred in to form a workable dough.
One teaspoon salt (optional)
Thoroughly mix in the dry ingredients until you have a dough you can roll out relatively easily. Divide you dough into three pieces. Take one piece and roll out as thin as you can on a well-floured board. Using a pizza cutter, cut the dough into fat strips and place on a baking sheet, one layer deep. Continue with the rest of the dough.
Bring a large pot of water to a rapid boil. Add a tablespoon of oil and gradually add in your noodles, stirring to keep them from sticking. It shouldn't take more than five minutes or so until they are cooked through depending on how thick you rolled them out. Drain and add to your soup.
It's cheaper than buying enough pasta for a large family and even the children can get involved in rolling out the dough. The noodles can also be thoroughly dried, bagged and kept for a day or two.
One of my college daughters loves these noodles and reduces the recipe to make herself just enough for a one-person meal.
You can also take the fresh noodles, deep fry them and dust them with cinnamon and sugar.
Ya Got That Right . . .
"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
-- Walter Bagehot
"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."
-- Heywood Broun
-- Walter Bagehot
"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."
-- Heywood Broun
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