House number pots

I love these house number pots! If my house number wasn't 5 numbers long, I would definitely do this. Check out the tutorial on this at Evangeline's Vine.

Headband

I love this DIY headband. I can't wait to try one!

Cute Ideas

So, I haven't been doing anything new lately. No new recipes. No new projects. So, I thought I would link to others that I love.

• Bag of jelly beans @ Purlbee
• A rainbow cake @ Omnomicon
• Roman shades from miniblinds @ Little Green Notebook
• The buttercup bag @ Made by Rae
• Crooked coasters @ the long thread
• Pita bread @ Coconut & Lime

I am also going to make a denim picnic quilt with Little Birdie Secrets.

Salisbury Steaks

So, Rodney LOVES Salisbury steaks. I am quiet fond of them myself. So, since we both liked them, I decided to make some for supper the other night, and I am so glad I did! They were so delicious. I found this recipe.

Salisbury Steaks

Ingredients:

• 1 (10.5 ounce) can French onion soup
• 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
• 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder (I just used regular mustard)
  

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, mix together 1/3 cup French onion soup with ground beef, bread crumbs, egg, salt and black pepper. Shape into 6 oval patties.
2. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, brown both sides of patties. Pour off excess fat.
3. In a small bowl, blend flour and remaining soup until smooth. Mix in ketchup, water, Worcestershire sauce and mustard. Pour over meat in skillet. Cover, and cook for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Notes: Next time I will cook the meat in a cast iron skillet and when I pour the soup mixture over the meat, pop the skillet into the oven to cook.

It turned out excellent and the gravy it made was good over the mashed potatoes.

I am bad

I haven't been posting much. To tell you the truth, I really haven't felt like it. But, 2009 is a new year, and I am feeling cheery and good. So, I will definitely start posting again. I have a lot of new things planned to make and bake and I'm really excited about it. This is going to be a good year.

Another cake

So, for some unknown reason, I volunteered myself to make the cake for my sister-in-law's baby shower. I've only ever decorated one cake, and it wasn't that pretty...I have no idea what I was thinking. So, I searched the internet for baby shower cakes (with SIL's help) and finally came across one we liked. We happened to find it the day of the shower, while the cake was cooling (I'm such a procrastinator). Realizing I could not do it with just icing because my cake decorating skills are just not that great, I decided to make homemade fondant. I wish I had gotten a picture. Anyway, here it is in all its mediocre glory.

I guess it's not too bad for cake #2.

A closer look.

The baby's head is made from fondant...kind of orange fondant.

And here's the beautiful mommy!

She was very pleased with the cake, and it sure was tasty!

Another Giveaway!

So, I haven't posted in a while. Mostly because my camera batteries are dead and I can't seem to find the charger, but lots of other things are going on as well. My sink broke, ran out of butane (which pretty much everything in this house runs off of), ER visits, moving Rodney's mom, trying to find somewhere new to live, and the list goes on. Well, I decided to make a new post that has some giveaways! Who doesn't like a good giveaway? Anyway, without further adieu...

• Make and Takes has a list of giveaways and other neat links.
• Natalie over at natalie's sentiments is hosting a fall giveaway, so check there often!
• Others to come!