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Happy Homemaker Monday


I'm joining Sandra over at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom today - 1/12/2015.




The weather outside is. . .



On the breakfast plate this morning . . .



I kind of made this up as I went.  I'm out of bacon, so I simply made it with baby kale and beets - breakfast quiche.  I opened a jar of home canned (spiced) beets for this breakfast.  The ingredients I used:  onion, garlic, chopped baby kale, fresh eggs, Greek yogurt, beets (canned spiced beets from this past garden season), and salt and pepper.  It was actually pretty good.  I saved some for Hubby.

As I look outside my window . . . 
~ I see the girls shoveling.  Two helped me for three hours, and I came in and traded with another daughter.  

Right now I am . . .
~ eating a warm bowl of steel cut oats and fruit, posting this, and about to bring in more wood


As I look around the house . . .
~ it needs a good cleaning to tidy it up a bit


On today's to do list . . .
 (in no particular order)
 
laundry
water plants
barn duties
clean up desk area
all floors need swept/vacuumed
mop kitchen
empty wood stove ash pan
shovel snow



*Personal, need to do list. . .
1. exercise(already did it shoveling)
2. write
3. devotional
Currently reading . . .
 ~ many essential oil books from the library


On the TV today . . .
~ food network
On the menu this week . . .
Honestly?  I have no menu plan - simply pull what I have out storage and create.

Breakfast ideas:  spinach/tomato omelets, steel cut oats, oatmeal, veggie hash with eggs

Lunch ideas:  soups and sandwiches, fruit

Dinner ideas:  Pumpkin and Sage Macaroni, Chicken Spaghetti, sauteed swiss chard

I'll have to go check the pantry and freezer.




 I am creating at the moment . . .
~ today I hope to finish a knitted dishcloth


New recipe I tried or want to try this week . . .
 ~custard cake
Favorite photo from the camera . . .

Tiger was so toasty at the wood stove hearth, I didn't have the heart to move him in order to sweep up the wood chips on the carpet.


Prayers, Inspirational Quotes or Devotionals. . .

1 Corinthians 10:31(NIV)

31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
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Pamela said…
I love any kind of quiche! Have a great week.
January 12, 2015 at 3:06 PM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
Pamela, I love beets and this was the first time to try it in a quiche. Delicious!
January 12, 2015 at 3:13 PM
Mama Pea said…
I would never have thought of putting beets in a quiche. Great idea . . . but I think I'd use plain sliced ones I have in the freezer. But then again maybe I could use a little more "spice" in my life and should use some of the 433 jars of pickled beets some crazy person around here made.
January 12, 2015 at 5:16 PM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
Mama Pea, Ha ha ha! That's all I have - pickled spiced beets. I guess in my excitement of canning I forgot to freeze any.
January 13, 2015 at 8:46 AM
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