Sausage Rolls Recipe

 I love pork sausage in recipes.  I found this one online from Food Wishes and it sounds mighty good so I will post the video.  With some sausage and frozen puff pastry, it's nice to serve at a party.

This certainly looks tasty and it's not difficult to make.  I may just tweak it a bit when I try it with regular pie pastry.  Or even as little pork pies in a large-size muffin tin.

My Winter Warbler is Coming Along, But Far From Finished.

I am still working on my Winter Warbler.

 At least it's all tacked down.  I will soon be satin-stitching it all in place but not today.

 

I Am Finally Back To Sewing Art Quilts

Sorry to be missing in action for so long.  With Christmas and prepping and cooking and company, I just did not have the energy to get things ready to post here as well.

Now that I am back on a fairly normal schedule, I am back to sewing.  I have 3 art quilts in the works.  Two I have started on already.  At least I have tacked some of the pieces down which is the early stages.

This is my Gnome Village in the winter.  I thought I would start sewing some gnomes this year.  I bought a gnome water gauge for my garden last year and loved the little guy.  I thought that this year, its gnomes on the schedule.

This one is Winter Warbler.  I found this on a coloring page a few years ago and kept it.  I think it's time to work it.  I see a bluebird in my future.  

I have pulled the fabrics and just started the tacking.  One has to do them in order, back to front like normal applique so they do not overlap.  

My third art piece is a colorful Unicorn.

I have a vision of a white unicorn with colorful mane in different colors, mostly blues, but a strip of green and pink as well.   I love the fullness of the mane.  

With winter only a few more months, I thought it best to finish the Gnome Village and Winter Warbler so they can hang on my front door when they are done before spring.

As for spring, I am planning my garden already.  I have chosen my tomato plants and pepper plants already and placed my order with Territorial Seed on the west coast.  I have always been happy with plants from them.  And the shipping is not overcharged like some places, nor the started plants.  They are bought and paid for and will arrive when they are needed by me in southern Maine, the middle of May for shipping arrival.

If any of you are planning to buy plants or seeds this year, best do so now.  Last year those that waited lost out since seeds were sold out quickly.  You can always keep your seed packets in the refrigerator to keep the seed fresh.  Buying early will not hurt your seeds.

In fact, I have some of last year's seed packets in my fridge and they will be fine for this year.  Most seeds can keep safe for at least 3 years if kept cool.  It's the heat that destroys the seeds so store them in your refrigerator.

As for plants, Territorial Seed will save your plants and ship them when they are needed in your area.  You just have to place that info with your order as I did.

I hope to post here more often now.  I am feeling better health-wise and getting more done these days since December. It feels good to feel good.

Ground Beef and Pasty Dough Recipes

 I personally love ground beef it many recipes and found this on youtube and I just want to keep these recipes handy for future use.  They seem easy enough to make and should be tasty.  I think I will enjoy them.

CHRISTMAS ANGEL WINGS/BOW TIE COOKIES

 For years I bought bow tie cookies from the little Jewish family bakery on the corner of our street.  I loved those best.  I have a hankering for having bow ties again.

Our Jewish Bakery is gone.  No one wanted to carry on the family business.  All those recipes gone forever.  So I went on the hunt and this recipe looks pretty darn close to my memories.  The biggest change is that the ones I remembered had a coating of clear sugar over their tops, not powdered. 

I think I will be trying these this Christmas season to see how they measure up to my memories....

They are known as both Angel Wings and Bow Ties.  They sure look appetizing.

No-Break Over Easy Eggs

 If you are like me, you like your morning eggs once over lighty.  But they're not easy to do.  Flip them, and 9 times out of 10 you crack one of them and the yolks run all over your pan.  Try this method instead.....

Now why didn't I ever think of that.  So simple.

How To Get Up and Down from The Floor

 As I get older, my body seems to make things harder to do.  One is getting up from a floor.  That seems to be impossible for me these days.  I found this video with some answers.  I hope it is helpful to you as well.

Not long ago, I slipped and fell between my sofa and coffee table.  I felt like a flopping trout out of water.  It took me over 10 minutes to get myself up off the floor.  I was exhausted from the effort needed.

I hope, with this information logged in my brain, that another time I will get up without trouble.

I hope this is helpful to everyone.